Web Design: Writing your own promise library, and what's new in Angular 6?

Friday, April 13, 2018

Writing your own promise library, and what's new in Angular 6?

#381 — April 13, 2018

The Front-End Developer Handbook 2018 Edition — An online guide that outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering, how to learn it and what tools are used in the practice, as of 2018.

Cody Lindley

Write Your Own Promise Library from Scratch — Async/await is based on promises, so understanding this popular async primitive is a must.

Valeri Karpov

Understanding TypeScript's Type Notation — Dr. Axel presents a handy guide to the static type notation used in TypeScript, the optionally typed JavaScript superset, and promises you'll understand an initially cryptic code example by the end of his post.

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

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Optimizing React: The Virtual DOM Explained — A beginner-friendly intro to React's internals that attempts to demystify JSX and explain how React makes rendering decisions.

Alexey Ivanov and Andy Barnov

How to Escape async/await 'Hell' — Take care you don't escape from 'callback hell' only to fall into bad practices using async/await instead.

Aditya Agarwal

Why React Needs Yet Another Animation Library — react-spring is a set of physics-based UI animation 'building blocks'. GitHub repo.

Paul Henschel

Demo: Object Detection in the Browser with TensorFlow.js — Take care as a 40MB machine learning model gets downloaded, but this is a neat browser-based demo of TensorFlow.js that leans on YOLO for object recognition.

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What's New in Angular 6? — Angular 6 RC4 is out with the final Angular 6 due any moment, but what's new?

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📖 Articles and Tutorials

Abusing Proxies for DSLs — Be sure to read the disclaimer, but it's interesting stuff to think about.

Mike Cluck

List Processing with map, filter, and reduce

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A Practical Guide to Angular Elements

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How to Build a Server-Side Rendered App with Preact, Unistore and Preact Router — Preact is a lighter alternative to React but with the same API.

Yomi Eluwande

Using Async Iteration Natively in Node — How async iteration over streams will work in Node 10.x.

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

▶ Vue in Motion — A 35 minute talk on using UI animation in Vue apps.

Rachel Nabors

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Redux 4.0.0-rc1 Released — The final 4.0 is due next week but you can experiment now.

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The Microsoft JavaScript API Browser — Bill itself as your 'one-stop shop' for all of Microsoft's JavaScript-based APIs (e.g. for Azure and SharePoint).

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Cytoscape.js: Graph/Network Visualization and Analysis Library

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shallow-render: Angular 5 Testing Made Easy with Shallow Rendering and Easy Mocking

Brandon Domingue

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JavaScript State Machine: A Finite State Machine Library

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virtual-audio-graph: Declaratively Manipulate the Web Audio API — The documentation and examples here may help you understand this.

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