JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development episodes

  • Inside Node 8, Glitch, Building a Community Around Education

    Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Jessica Lord talk with James Snell (Node.js TSC Director) about the release of Node.js version 8. Then, in the second half of the show, we discuss Glitch and their new “raise your hand” feature and building a community around education. Our project of the week is Tad!

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  • Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
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  • Featuring:

    • James Snell – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
    • Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
    • Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
    • Jessica Lord – Website, GitHub, X

    Show Notes:

    Node v8.0.0
    • Node v8.0.0 (Current)
    • What’s New in Node 8
    • Node.js 8: Big Improvements for the Debugging and Native Module Ecosystem
    • Upgrading from Node 6 to Node 8: a real-world performance comparison
    • Node.js 8: The First Week
    • Glitch - “raise your hand” feature
      • Just raise your hand: How Glitch helps
      • Project of the Week
        • Tad
        • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

          47 min
        • Inside Node 8, Glitch, Building a Community Around Education
          Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Jessica Lord talk with James Snell (Node.js TSC Director) about the release of Node.js version 8. Then, in the second half of the show, we discuss Glitch and their new “raise your hand” feature and building a community around education. Our project of the week is Tad!
          47 min
        • Inside the Release of npm@5 and Sheetsee

          Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton talk with Rebecca Turner and Kat Marchán about npm@5 and Jessica Lord about Sheetsee.

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          • Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa.
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        • Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
        • Fastly – Our bandwidth partner! Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
        • Featuring:

          • Rebecca Turner – Website, GitHub, X
          • Kat Marchán – GitHub, X
          • Jessica Lord – Website, GitHub, X
          • Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
          • Rachel White – GitHub, X
          • Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

          Show Notes:

          npm@5
          • npm v5.0.0
          • cacache - a Node.js library for managing local key and content address caches. It’s really fast.
          • Sheetsee
            • Sheetsee - a client-side library for connecting Google Spreadsheets to a website and visualizing the information in tables and maps.
            • Sheetsee on Glitch - a sample Sheetsee site with data backup
            • Picks!
              • chaosbot/chaos - a social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically.
              • babel/babili - ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain.
              • zeit/pkg - package your Node.js project into an executabl
              • Medieval Fantasy City Generator
              • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                55 min
              • Using ES6/7, create-react-app, and Electron!

                Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton discuss how they’re using ES6/7 with and without a compiler, updates to create-react-app, and the beloved Electron.

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                Sponsors:

                • Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa.
              • Toptal – Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email [email protected] for a personal introduction.
              • Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
              • Fastly – Our bandwidth partner! Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
              • Featuring:

                • Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
                • Rachel White – GitHub, X
                • Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

                Show Notes:

                Topics
                • Using new JavaScript language features in ES6 and ES7 with and without a compiler
                • Updates to create-react-app
                • Electron - Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
                • Picks
                  • Webpack 2 (Alex Sexton)
                  • Immutable data structures for functional JS by Anjana Vakil at JSConf EU 2017 (Rachel White)
                  • (Book) Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Mikeal Rogers)
                  • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                    1 hr 6 min
                  • Web Standards, ECMAScript Modules in Browsers, and Learning JS

                    Wes Bos and Mike Taylor joined Alex Sexton this week to talk about Web Standards stuff, compileTo CSS libraries, ECMAScript Modules in Browsers, and Learning JS.

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                    • Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa.
                  • Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email [email protected] for a personal introduction.
                  • Featuring:

                    • Wes Bos – Website, GitHub, X
                    • Mike Taylor – Website, GitHub, X
                    • Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

                    Show Notes:

                    • ECMAScript Modules in Browsers
                    • Wes Bos tutorials
                    • Interface Lovers
                    • Prettier
                    • Node.js V8 –inspector Manager
                    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                      1 hr 4 min
                    • yayQuery Reunion!

                      In this special episode, it’s a yayQuery podcast reunion. Alex Sexton, Paul Irish, Rebecca Murphey, and Adam Sontag are back for a takeover episode here on JS Party where they catch up on the latest happenings in JavaScript, share JavaScript predictions, thoughts on TypeScript, React, PWAs, and more.

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                      Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

                      Sponsors:

                      • Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa.
                    • Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email [email protected] for a personal introduction.
                    • Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
                    • Featuring:

                      • Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
                      • Paul Irish – Website, GitHub, X
                      • Rebecca Murphey – Website, GitHub, X
                      • Adam Sontag – Website, GitHub, X

                      Show Notes:

                      ** If we missed any links let us know.

                      • yayQuery podcast
                      • Buy the yayQuery soundtrack on Bandcamp
                      • Lighthouse — an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. You can run it against any page on the web. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, and more.
                      • Getting Started with Redux by Dan Abramov
                      • You Might Not Need Redux by Dan Abramov
                      • W3Fools
                      • The Most Explosive Modal on the Web
                      • Progressive Web Apps Training
                      • Webpack: It’s Not Magic
                      • Picks
                        • The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier (Rebecca Murphey)
                        • Paul Irish shared this image as his pick.

                          Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

                          1 hr 11 min

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                        Your weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web. Current panelists: Jerod Santo, Kevin Ball (KBall), Nick Nisi, Chris Hiller, Amal Hussein & Amy Dutton.

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