JSter - JSter #170 - Libraries and more

React Finland 2021 will take place online 30.08-03.09 and we'll do live satellite events where possible. The main content will be freely available and we have a variety of workshops (most commercial) to choose from.

Resources

• ES2021 features list

Tools

• GraphQL Modules - Tooling for GraphQL servers
• micromark - The smallest commonmark compliant markdown parser that exists; new basis for @unifiedjs (hundreds of projects w/ billions of downloads for dealing w/ content)
• Packup - Packup is web application bundler for Deno, inspired by parcel
• Nextra - Nextra is a Next.js based static site generator. 0 lines of code needed.
• ToolJet - An open-source no-code platform for building and deploying internal tools.
• Modern Web - Guides, tools and libraries for modern web development.

Libraries

• flopflip - Flip or flop features in your React application in real-time backed by flag provider of your choice
• fwouts/react-screenshot-test - A dead simple library to screenshot test React components
• kevglass/gute - Gute is a simple web games library
• enquirer - Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts, for Node.js. Used by eslint, webpack, Generate, lint-staged, pm2, gluegun, hygen, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and many others!
• Konva - HTML5 2d canvas js library for desktop and mobile applications
• TuSimple/naive-ui - A Vue 3 Component Library. Fairly Complete. Customizable Themes. Uses TypeScript. Not too Slow.
• sindresorhus/ow - Function argument validation for humans
• Swiper - The Most Modern Mobile Touch Slider
• tajo/react-range - Range input with a slider. Accessible. Bring your own styles and markup.
• country-code-emoji - Convert country codes to corresponding emojis
• open-draft/until - Better async/await

Typescript

• Announcing TypeScript 4.3
• 3 Design Patterns in TypeScript for Frontend Developers
• Bundling TypeScript with Esbuild for NPM

Techniques

• Introducing the Memory Inspector
• How to Delegate your React Dialogs
• Testing Next.js with Playwright. My favourite new testing setup
• Half the size of images by optimising for high density displays

Articles

• The Plan for React 18
• Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS
• Pipeable APIs
• Building a JavaScript Testing Framework

Interviews

• iHateReading - Where knowledge is shared - Interview with Shrey Vijayvargiya

Frameworks

• Remastered: a full-stack React framework