JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Aug 5, 2021

The Essential JavaScript Spreadsheet, also known as the JavaScript Excel viewer, is a feature-rich control for organizing and analyzing data in tabular format. It supports all the common Excel features, including data binding, selection, editing, formatting, resizing, sorting,...

Syncfusion

Run your Node apps faster and safer than Linux. 2X as fast on GCP and 3X as fast on AWS using open source unikernels. Deploy to the cloud in tens of seconds with no docker, k8s or other complex ops work....

NanoVMs

Safari Technology Preview Release 129 is now available for download for macOS Big Sur and betas of macOS Monterey....

WebKit

There will come a point at least once in your career as a JavaScript developer where you'll run into a memory leak issue (usually on production) and you'd be surprised to know that such a thing exists (and you've to take care of it). Lol....

Vijay Pagare

What is the `useRef` hook? How do you use it? When should you use `useRef` vs `useState`? What caveats should you be aware of when using `useRef`? This hook is often a tricky one to get right but can be very powerful. Read on to learn how to `useRef` like a pro!...

Upmostly

As I mentioned in my previous post, I wrote a JavaScript program to download files from Google Drive even if they have restricted download access. Read my previous post to know more about this. You can find the code in that post and also at the bottom of this post....

You know who

In this article, we'll discuss and learn about the use case of iterating over React `children` and the ways to do it. In particular, we will deep dive into one of the utility methods, `React.Children.toArray`, that React gives us, which helps to iterate over the children in a ...

Smashing Magazine

This week, Adam talks about his "obnoxious optimism": his general tendency to believe that all problems can be solved and that everything will just sort of work itself out. This optimism allows him to take action and make decisions quickly. However, it also means that he may n...

Ben Nadel

Happy Work Like A Dog Day everyone! Depending on what kind of dog you have, that could either mean hard working, lazing around all day or just simply playing in the sun all day but which ever it is, enjoy! Speaking of play though ... let's kick off this week with by "Explor...

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