An Absurd Future for SQL on the Web? — absurd-sql is a project aiming to provide a persistent backend for SQLite on the web. It uses IndexedDB but with sql.js in front so you can use SQLite in a natural but persisted way from webapps. Some interesting thoughts here.
James Long
Learn the Fundamentals of TypeScript — Use TypeScript to add strong typing to large JavaScript apps helps reduce bugs and keeps code performant and maintainable. This course covers all you need to know including how to migrate your codebase to TypeScript and improve productivity while building large-scale apps with ease.
Frontend Masters
Announcing React Native 0.65 — The VM within React Native has had an upgrade and now has ES i18n API (Intl) suport, supports M1 Macs and Mac Catalyst, has a much faster garbage collector, and more, including accessibility improvements.
Luna Wei and Facebook
QUICK BITS:
RELEASES:
Mocha 9.1.0 – Testing framework. svgo 2.4.0 – Node tool for optimizing SVG files. Node 16.7.0 – Experimentally adds a recursive cp method. Capacitor 3.2.0 – Build native PWAs for iOS, Android, and the Web. WebTorrent 1.5.0 – Streaming torrent client for the web. Cypress 8.3.0 – Testing for anything that runs in a browser.
Find JavaScript Jobs with Hired — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It’s free for job-seekers. Hired
📖 Articles, Opinions & Tutorials
Creating an Interactive Gantt Chart Component with Vanilla JS — Coding a Gantt chart (commonly used as a way to visualize schedules) as a reusable Web component, covering the architecture of the component, rendering the calendar with CSS Grid, and managing the state of the draggable tasks with proxy objects.
Anna Prenzel
Loading Third-Party JavaScript — This isn’t new, but recently popped up on our radar again and remains a solid resource — learn how to optimize the loading of third-party scripts to reduce their impact on performance.
Addy Osmani & Arthur Evans
🛠 Code & Tools
Pyodide: Python Compiled to WebAssembly for the Web — Python continues its ascent in the worlds of programming education and data science, so if you have a use case for interoperating with it in the browser from JavaScript, this is what you need. It is just one of numerous ways to use Python in the browser, though.
Pyodide contributors and Mozilla
🕰 ICYMI(Some older stuff that may catch your eye…)
