Kid Pix as a JavaScript App — Kid Pix was a drawing program for children released on the Mac in 1989 (here’s a full story about it, if you hadn’t heard of it before). Here’s a JavaScript reimplementation. It saves your work if you go away, and the source is pretty neat. JS Kid Pix |
How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs — An exploration of how graceful degradation, defensive coding, observability, and a healthy attitude towards failures puts you in a better position as a JavaScript developer. Callum Hart |
We’re Giving Away Free T-Shirts. Just Download FusionAuth — FusionAuth provides authentication, authorization, and user management for any app: deploy anywhere, integrate with anything, in minutes. It’s always free for unlimited users (no CC required). Download and Install today and we’ll send you a t-shirt. FusionAuth |
Wikimedia Selects Vue.js As Its New Frontend Framework — This process began years ago (we even covered it at the time) but finally the folks behind Wikipedia have made an announcement concerning the future of their JavaScript oriented development and it’s a win for Vue.js. Wikimedia Foundation |
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40+ Node.js Integration Test Best Practices — Component and integration tests are increasingly popular testing techniques for backends. This repository digs into a variety of quick-fire patterns and practices for creating good component tests. There’s also a demo app and examples using Jest, Mocha, Express, Fastify and Nest.js. Yoni Goldberg, Michael Solomon, and Daniel Gluskin |
▶ NestJS Explained in 100 Seconds — The high-level concepts of Nest, a framework for building scalable Node.js applications that offers more beyond what you might get with something like Express or Fastify alone, presented in around two minutes. Fireship |
Auth Without Complexity — Here is a much simpler way to build authentication and access control, with examples for React, Vue, Node.js & more. Userfront |
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React Hot Toast 2.0 — React Hot Toast is a popular React on-page notifications system. Although the opportunity to customize the notifications in the new release chips away at the original ‘toast’ metaphor, there’s a lot of configurability in the new version that will prove valuable for many. It also has better accessability and a custom renderer. GitHub repo. Timo Lins |