JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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KBall, Jerod, and Nick break down some recent events in the JavaScript world. Take a dive into the recent event-stream malware attack, breaking down the State of JavaScript 2018 survey, and sharing pro tips to make your life better.

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  • Featuring:

    • Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
    • Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
    • Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    The event-stream incident
    • FallingSnow’s initial issue that made it public
    • npm yanked the package and reported on the attack
    • Listen to Dominic Tarr discuss it on The Changelog (broken link until 2018-12-5)
    • Could this be a copy-cat of this Hackernoon article from earlier this year?
    • The State of JS survey
      • Check out the survey (and rad website) right here
      • KBall recommends Mel Summer’s talk from EmberFest 2018
      • Pro Tips
        • Jerod cites Eugen Kiss’s Lean Testing post (More commentary here)
        • Nick recommends some handy git aliases from Cory Frang
        • KBall’s tip is a .clone() of Nick’s debugging trip from episode 46
        • Never forgot to trust.js but verify. 😉

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