JavaScript Jabber

Testing JavaScript Applications by Lucas da Costa (Coupon for 40% off: podjsjabber19)Lucas da Costa literally wrote the book on testing JavaScript. He's also maintainer on ChaiJS and Sinon. The podcast follows a three part structure for testing: Entrance tests, integration tests, and structural tests. These form a pyramid of testing that has the entrance tests at the base and the structural and system tests at the top. The episode also covers TDD and approaches to different kinds of JavaScript testing.Panel

• AJ O’Neal
• Aimee Knight
• Steve Edwards

Guest

• Lucas da Costa

Sponsors

• Audible.com
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Links

• Testing JavaScript Applications book
• Lucas' Website
• Lucas' Terminal Guide
• Why Flat Earthers are Bad at QA

Picks

• Lucas - HiDPI (Retina) on any display
• Lucas - RDM:
• Lucas - Quartz Debug (XCode Additional Tools)
• Aimee - Vanilla-todo
• AJ - iTerm2
• AJ - Fish Shell
• AJ - Cloud Encabulator link
• Steve - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRupqYXNUVw
• Lucas - The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker (Audiobook)
• Lucas - On Writing Well
• Lucas - Actionable Agile Metrics For Predictability: An Introduction
• Lucas - https://github.com/neovim/neovim

Testing JavaScript Applications by Lucas da Costa (Coupon for 40% off: podjsjabber19)
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Go Check Out ButterCMS to Add Content to Your Apps!Do you need to add a content engine like a blog or podcast to your product’s website? Don’t want to maintain a separate WordPress installation? Why not use a Headless CMS?Jake Lumetta from ButterCMS joins Charles Max Wood to discuss how Headless CMS’s work and how they can add functionality to your application with a minimum of effort and very little maintenance. They also compare Headless CMS’s to the alternatives and explain when one choice is better for a team than the other.Go Check Out ButterCMS to Add Content to Your Apps!

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The panel continues its discussion of various JavaScript programming topics, and whether or not they are required knowledge for JavaScript programmers. This time the debate gets even more heated with topics such as promises and async / await, regular expressions (regex), the DOM and Service Workers. Ultimately we conclude that some you must indeed know to be successful at JavaScript development, but some you just need to know enough about to know to stay away from them.Panel

• AJ O’Neal
• Aimee Knight
• Steve Edwards
• Dan Shappir
• Charles Max Wood

Links

• JSJ 449: The Things Every JavaScript Developer Must Know
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/151312

Picks

• Aimee - The Markup
• Aimee - Yasso Frozen Yogurt
• Dan - picks Steve Edwards (volunteer firefighter) for his service and saving lives
• AJ - XKCD Dependency
• AJ - YC’s How to Start a Startup
• AJ - https://webinstall.dev/arc
• AJ - https://webinstall.dev/un7z (still not working)
• AJ - Haraka
• AJ - Emkei
• AJ - Mxtoolbox
• AJ - Mail-tester.com
• AJ - https://blog.codinghorror.com/so-youd-like-to-send-some-email-through-code/
• Steve - https://blog.logrocket.com/new-features-in-vue-3-and-how-to-use-them/
• Charles - https://brendon.com/podcast/
• Charles - https://stimulusjs.org/
• Charles - https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine

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Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discountMani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how that inspired him to figure out what the other guy was doing differently. He learned that he needed to get more done with the time he was spending on his projects.The trick? Deep Work!Deep Work is the ability to spend uninterrupted, focused time on a task to bend your entire mind toward the goal.Other developers call it "Flow" or "the Zone."Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal
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Imagine a world in which your editor / IDE can actually write some of your code for you. Where you're able to produce software faster and more efficiently because your development environment "knows" what you want to do, based on code you've written before. Turns out you can start experiencing this in the present using the free TabNine editor extension by Codata. In this episode Kyle Simpson, Codata's Lead of Developer Empowerment, joins the panel to describe how they use Machine Learning to enhance and accelerate software development. Kyle explains what's already possible in the present, and what ML technology promises to enable in the future for developer experience.PicksAimee

• Terraform cost estimation: https://github.com/antonbabenko/terraform-cost-estimation

Dan

• https://www.se.rit.edu/~tabeec/RIT_441/Resources_files/How To Write Unmaintainable Code.pdf

Kyle

• https://medium.com/nmc-techblog/introducing-the-async-cookie-store-api-89cbecf401f

AJ

• 3-Wolf Moon: https://amzn.to/3dGkRE6
• Watchexec: https://webinstall.dev/watchexec
• Dotenv: https://webinstall.dev/dotenv

Special Guest: Kyle Simpson.

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Imagine a world in which your editor / IDE can actually write some of your code for you. Where you’re able to produce software faster and more efficiently because your development environment “knows” what you want to do, based on code you’ve written before. Turns out you can start experiencing this in the present using the free TabNine editor extension by Codata. In this episode Kyle Simpson, Codata’s Lead of Developer Empowerment, joins the panel to describe how they use Machine Learning to enhance and accelerate software development. Kyle explains what’s already possible in the present, and what ML technology promises to enable in the future for developer experience.Sponsors

• Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial
• Audible.com
• CacheFly

Panel

• AJ ONeal
• Aimee Knight
• Dan Shappir

Special Guest

• Kyle Simpson

Links

• tabnine AI autocomplete with Vim (REACTION)
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code

PicksAimee

• Terraform cost estimation

AJ

• 3-Wolf Moon
• Watchexec
• Dotenv

Kyle Simpson

• Introducing: The Async Cookie Store API

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This week the panel talks with a UK boot camp student about her decision to switch careers and learn to program. They discuss unique challenges such as being part of an underrepresented group and entering the field during a pandemic. Additionally, they discuss technology choices and overall, seek to gain a deeper understanding of the state of JavaScript for new developers.Sponsors

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Panel

• Aimee Knight
• Dan Shappir
• Steve Edwards

Special Guest

• Laura Harvey

PicksAimee

• GoReleaser
• https://www.purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-tech-jobs-has-increased-in-midwestern-cities

Dan

• Technical Tweets
• twitter.com/kentcdodds/status

Laura Harvey

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/lauracharvey
• https://dev.to/lauracharvey

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Liran Tal and Brian Vermeer from Snyk join the panel to discuss development of secure software in general, and secure JavaScript and web dev in particular. They explain what developer-first security actually means, and the types of security vulnerabilities to watch out for when using modern tools to develop websites and web apps. They also present several Open Source tools that developers can use to improve their code right from within their favorite development environments and IDEs.Sponsors

• Audible.com
• CacheFly

Panel

• AJ ONeal
• Aimee Knight
• Dan Shappir

Special Guests

• Liran Tal
• Brian Vermeer

Links

• Https://www.webpagetest.org
• https://snyk.io/security-scanner-vuln-cost/
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wix.vscode-import-cost

PicksDan

• add Alt Texts when tweeting code on twitter as an image,
• https://www.goodreads.com/series/46817-demon-cycle

AJ

• Zalgo
• https://www.cnet.com/news/the-shirt-with-the-most-incredible-amazon-reviews/
• The Friendly, Interactive Shell
• Tomorrow Night Theme (Terminal, iTerm2, VSCode, vim, etc)
• Dracula Theme
• https://github.com/JacksonGariety/toy-chest-theme
• Jeff Bezos

Liran Tal

• https://starship.rs/
• https://vuetifyjs.com/en/
• Pact framework
• https://docs.pact.io/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RemoteAccess

Brian

• https://carbon.now.sh/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Umbrella_Academy_(TV_series)

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This week the panel is joined by Mark Volkmann to discuss Svelte and how it compares and differs from front-end frameworks such as React and Angular. Mark has written a book and has given talks about Svelte and also about Sapper, an application framework built on top of Svelte. He explains to the panel how Svelte components are defined differently than other JavaScript frameworks, and how they are actually compiled into the production code, which isn’t dependent on any external libraries. He also explains why and how Svelte forgoes the use of a virtual DOM, using direct DOM manipulations instead. Finally he describes Sapper and explains how it can be used to quickly and easily create Web-apps that use SSR, static pages generation and dynamic routing.Sponsors

• Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers
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Panel

• Aimee Knight
• Dan Shappir
• Steve Edwards

Special Guest

• Mark Volkmann

Links

• https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/2546
• https://mvolkmann.github.io/blog/
• https://objectcomputing.com/resources/publications/mark-volkmann
• https://www.manning.com/books/svelte-and-sapper-in-action

PicksSteve

• Key Largo
• https://gbdeclaration.org/

Aimee

• Low Level Academy
• Terraform Up and Running

Dan

• My daughter enlisting in the Israeli Military
• www.amazon.com/The-Boys-Season-1

Mark Volkmann

• https://www.meteor.com/
• https://mvolkmann.github.io/blog/

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We talk about the Pros and Cons of using a database directly vs using an abstraction layer, common mistakes, optimistic concurrency, and a nice tangent into programming concurrency models to top it off.Sponsors

• Faithlife | Now Hiring Software Developers
• Audible.com
• CacheFly

Panel

• AJ ONeal
• Aimee Knight
• Charles Max Wood
• Steve Edwards

Special Guest

• Valeri Karpov

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming
• https://mongoosejs.com/

PicksSteve

• https://cesf.us/

Aimee

• The Cloud Girl Sketch Notes

AJ

• GraphQurl
• APC UPS with USB
• CyberPower UPS
• Google Lighthouse overstep
• Frog Chess
• WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Chuck

• http://podcastgrowthsummit.co/
• http://podcastplaybook.co/
• mostvaluable.dev
• Stormlight Archive

Valeri Karpov

• https://masteringjs.io/ebooks/mastering-mongoose-javascript-jabber
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/archetype
• amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson

Follow JavaScript Jabber on Twitter: @JSJabber Special Guest: Valeri Karpov.

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