Issue 34

Must Read

JavaScript Will Finally Get Proper Asynchronous Programming

TC39’s Brian Terlson and Naveed Ihsanullah of Mozilla explain why ‘async’ are a big deal for both JavaScript and TypeScript developers.

Learn

Javascript Error Tracking with Sentry

Sentry is an open source crash reporting and notifications for JavaScript and its major frameworks, as well as the rest of your stack.

Voca: The Ultimate Javascript String Library

The Voca library offers helpful functions to make string manipulations comfortable: change case, trim, pad, slugify, latinise, sprintf'y, truncate, escape and much more. The modular design allows to load the entire library, or individual functions to minimize the application builds. The library is fully tested, well documented and long-term supported.

When everything's important, nothing is!

Do libraries and frameworks prioritize components on boot? If so, how, and if not what can we do? In exploring that question Paul Lewis considers that Server-Side Rendering isn’t a silver bullet.

Tools & Code

Mithril 1.0 Released: A Compact Framework for SPAs

Mithril is a modern client-side Javascript framework for building Single Page Applications. It's small (< 8kb gzip), fast and provides routing and XHR utilities out of the box.

Service Mocker: An API Mocking Framework for Frontend Developers

Service Mocker is an API mocking framework for frontend developers. With the power of service workers, we can easily set up mocking services without any real servers. It sets developers free from intricate workflows, complex documentations and endless proxies from server to server.

Hyper 1.0: A Terminal Built on JavaScript and HTML

Built using Electron, Hyper is a powerful JavaScript-backed terminal emulator. Version 1 brings Windows support and a better Linux version.

Vuetify: A Vue.js 2.0 Component Framework

Vuetify.js is a component framework for Vue.js 2. It aims to provide clean, semantic and reusable components that make building your application a breeze. Vuetify.js utilizes Google's Material Design design pattern, taking cues from other popular frameworks such as Materialize.css, Material Design Lite, Semantic UI and Bootstrap 4.