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Improve Your JavaScript Knowledge By Reading Source Code
Reading other people’s source code is a great way to both learn a language and increase your confidence that your own code isn’t that much different. Indeed, if I get stuck with a language feature, I’ll often look at how other developers use it to work my way out of the problem.
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Why Every Vue Developer Should Be Excited by Quasar 1.0
Quasar is a framework built on top of Vue.js, webpack, and Node for building a wide variety of things like SSR apps, SPAs, and even Electron apps. 1.0 came out just last week.
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How Do JavaScript’s Global Variables Really Work?
Great to see Dr. Axel blogging again. Here he digs into a variety of concepts around global variables and the global object (which is commonly considered ‘a mistake’).
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Tools & Code
26 VS Code Tools for JavaScript Developers
VS Code user? Worried you might be missing yet another useful extension to make your JS development life better? Binge on this list.
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An Overview of What's New in Node 12
The ‘current’ Node 12.x branch is almost three months old but Adam Polak has brought together several features of note in one article with examples.
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I Didn't Know That!' – Random Facts About JavaScript
A 10 minute lightning talk that’s a veritable grab-bag of JavaScript tips. You could probably turn some of these into blog posts of their own!
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Blazor: A Framework for Browser-Based .NET Apps
It’s been fun watching the development of Blazor, a framework from the ASP.NET team that brings .NET into the browser via WebAssembly and can interoperate with JavaScript. It’s worth being aware of this work even if you prefer JavaScript.
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Interesting Links
QuickJS: A New, Small, Embeddable JavaScript Engine
Fabrice Bellard, the genius behind FFMPEG and JSLinux, is back with another project.. a complete JS engine (supporting the ES2019 spec!) built in a relatively tiny amount of C. Will this replace V8? No, it’s a small and relatively slow implementation, but perfect for embedded use or even for compiling down to WebAssembly as demonstrated in this live demo.
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