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Why You Should Use PureScript

Purescript is a functional language that compiles to JavaScript. In this article, Phil Freeman outlines the reasons why you should use it.

Learn

json-api-normalizer: An Easy Way To Integrate The JSON API And Redux

This article is all about consuming data from JSON, the JSON API and GraphQL back ends, and it gives practical recommendations on how to manage front-end application data.

Introducing Strudel.js

What problem Strudel.js tries to solve then? Here’s the answer — making interactive websites in more maintainable and organised way.

Tools & Code

GraphicsJS: An Elegant Browser Graphics Library

Anychart is a lightweight and elegant JavaScript graphics library with the intuitive API, based on SVG/VML technology.

Using Preact as a React Alternative

Preact is an implementation of the virtual DOM component paradigm just like React and many other similar libraries. Unlike React, it’s only 3KB in size, and it also outperforms it in terms of speed.

Napa.js: An Alternative Multi-Threaded JS Runtime

An interesting Microsoft project that offers a V8 JavaScript runtime oriented around multiple V8 instances running at the same time and the communications between them.

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Network layer in React Native

Kureev Alexey talks about network layer during the React Native Europe conference.

Interesting Links

Experimenting with the Background Fetch API

The background fetch API allows a developer to perform and control fetches to large files or lists of files outside the context of a single page. This article explores the process on how to experiment with it.