Issue 166

Must Read

7 Ways to Make Your Angular App More Accessible

Chris Ward teaches 7 ways to make your Angular app more accessible.

Learn

What the Functor? Functional Terminology Explained with JS

An introduction to some of the jargon! Functors, categories, endofunctors, monoids, and monads are deftly explained here.

Building a JavaScript Guitar Pedalboard

This is really fun! You can play with the pedalboard for yourself (no guitar needed, there’s a musical sample available) or just learn how the whole thing was set up.

An Introduction to Memoization in JavaScript

Memoization is an optimization technique used in many programming languages to reduce the number of redundant, expensive function calls. In this post, you'll learn more about it.

Tools & Code

Majestic: A Zero Config GUI for Jest

An interesting tool to help make your JavaScript testing life a little easier. Try it now by running npx majestic in the folder of any project that uses Jest for testing (assuming you have npm installed).

Pika/Pack: A New Approach to npm Package Building

Pack connects pre-configured plugins (e.g. Babel and Rollup) to build and optimize your package for you. It’s a bit like a webpack or Parcel but specifically for building npm packages.

Watch

Why I Was Wrong About TypeScript

Sure, this sounds like an opinion-driven talk, but it actually covers the history behind compile-to-JS languages, how we got to a point where interest in TypeScript is growing strongly, and why it’s worth taking seriously.

This Dot State of Frameworks- August 2019

Watch Tracy Lee's (Co-Founder, This Dot) discussion on recent events, updates, and news about the present state of Javascript Frameworks!