Friday, August 31, 2018

Babel 7.0 Released

#401 — August 31, 2018

Babel 7.0 Released: The JavaScript Transpiler — A significant release for the popular JavaScript compiler. Some links to help you navigate your way:

If you need just one reason to upgrade, 7.0 is a lot faster.
There's a new upgrade tool to help you migrate.
TypeScript support is now baked in.
Stage presets were removed. Here's why and how to deal with it.
Planning for 7.0 and Nearing the 7.0 Release will bring you up to date with what it's taken to get this far.

Cheat Sheet: Functional Programming with JavaScript — JavaScript developers, here's a handy resource for your reference stack. This cheat sheet structures some of the language features most commonly used by JavaScript developers interested in writing functional style code. Check it out.

Progress Kendo UI sponsor

shimport: Use JavaScript Modules in All Browsers — Allows you to use JS modules in all browsers, including dynamic import(). Currently experimental - the creator says "Don't rush into production with this; it's not battle-tested".

Rich Harris

What's Coming Up in 'JavaScript 2018' — The latest annual ECMAScript update, published in June 2018, is the largest yearly release so far, although still far smaller than ECMAScript 6 with its backlog of already common features.

Mary Branscombe

v86: x86 Virtualization in JavaScript — Works in both the browser and Node. Check out the demos running Windows 98, Linux, and other operating systems.

Fabian Hemmer

Lerna Added (Then Removed) A License Term Blocking Some Companies From Using It — If you're not on social media, you may have missed this story which has since concluded. Lerna, a popular tool for working with monorepos, relicensed itself to block its use at a variety of companies (including Microsoft) but after a lot of discussion and community feedback, this was reverted.

Lerna

This Week's Node Weekly Newsletter — If you've ever wondered why there isn't a lot of Node stuff in JavaScript Weekly, it's because we have a separate newsletter for that! This week we covered a V8 vulnerability and how to use Docker for Node.js development.

Cooperpress

💻 Jobs

Senior Front End Engineer at External Data Systems, Netflix — Help build a world class user interface for the platform that collects data to drive business insights for our teams.

Netflix

Find A JavaScript Job Through Vettery — Create a profile to connect with inspiring companies seeking JavaScript devs.

Vettery

Place your own job listing in a future issue

📘 Tutorials and Opinions

▶ Creating Electronic Dance Music with JavaScript

Walmik Deshpande

Serverless Machine Learning with TensorFlow.js — A thorough look at getting Tensorflow, a flexible machine learning framework, to work properly in a serverless environment.

James Thomas

Building a Serverless App with MongoDB Stitch — MongoDB Stitch is a MongoDB-based serverless platform that can make it quicker to build apps in the cloud. This tutorial is a practical demonstration of using it to build a stock price monitoring app.

Valeri Karpov

Build a Netflix Style Video Delivery Platform — SDKs for all platforms - Play videos at the same quality & speed as Netflix & YouTube.

Bitmovin sponsor

An Introduction to React and How To Build Your First App — Not just a 'Hello World' example but an app that uses a router, components, and even does auth with Auth0's service. Subscribe to our React newsletter if you get a taste for React after this ;-)

Bruno Krebs

Using Cloudflare Workers To Make Static Sites Dynamic — Cloudflare Workers places a serverless JS environment in front of your ordinary site so you can perform various tasks before a request even hits your server.

Paddy Sherry

Dynamic App Themes with CSS Variables and JavaScript

Mike Wilcox

▶ Through the Open Source Looking Glass — A non-technical talk by Babel maintainer Henry Zhu about what it's like and what it means to be the maintainer of popular open source projects.

Henry Zhu

Why is a 'Java Guy' So Excited About Node.js? — Interesting to hear from someone who worked on the Java team at Sun wax lyrical about JavaScript.

David Herron

Create A Short Digital Address for Any Location w/ AngularJS

DigitalOcean sponsor

Why You Should Replace forEach with 'map' and 'filter'

Roope Hakulinen

🔧 Code and Tools

Making a Progressive Web App with Webpack Just Got Easier — webpack-web-app-manifest-plugins generates a PWA manifest and integrates with the assets JSON.

Tumblr

babel-upgrade: A New Tool for Automtically Upgrading Projects to Babel 7 — In case you missed it at the top of the issue!

Babel

Catch JavaScript Errors Before Users Do — Detect JavaScript errors in real-time, then debug them in minutes. Works with Node, React, Angular, and more.

ROLLBAR sponsor

goodshare.js: A Vue.js Component for Social Sharing Buttons — Full example here.

Vic Shóstak

Wexond: A 'Web Browser' Built on Electron and React — An interesting idea. Being Electron-based, it's using Chromium for rendering, but the UI/chrome is React and styled-components.

Wexond

Code Surfer: A React Component for Scrolling, Zooming and Highlighting Code Samples

Rodrigo Pombo

size-plugin: Track Compressed Webpack Asset Sizes Over Time

Google Chrome Labs

📅 Upcoming JavaScript Events

JSCamp 2018 (Sep 22 in Chicago, IL) — A one day single track event.
Framework Summit 2018 (Oct 2-3 in Park City, UT) — A new 2 day conference focused on all front end frameworks with keynotes from the teams of the most popular ones.
Node+JS Interactive (Oct 10-12 in Vancouver, Canada) — One of the largest JavaScript events. Organized by the Linux Foundation.
CascadiaJS (Nov 15-16 in Seattle, WA)

2 new book collections, 3 learning hubs

Hi there!

Woah, what a month! In case you missed it, we’ve had a busy August; with the launches of two book collections and three learning hubs!

Our latest book collections include:

Learn Ethereum: The Collection

This set includes:

Learn Bootstrap: The Collection

Including:

They’re available on Amazon, but if you’d like to save money, you can get these collections and much more with a SitePoint Premium Membership!

But we're not done, we've also released more of our learning hubs this month, including:

Learn JavaScript Hub - The most in-demand programming language.
Learn UX Analytics Hub - Performance improvements & optimization.
Learn Node.js Hub - Fast, scalable and server side.

Coming up:

We’ve got a solid month of releases coming to you in September, including some React content, so keep an eye on your inbox!

Happy learning!
Angela at SitePoint

Litetree, an experimental way to bring Git-like branching to SQLite

#219 — August 31, 2018

Read on the Web

▶ PayPal's ML Data Pipelines for Real-Time Fraud Prevention — A look at the approach PayPal takes with its internal machine learning powered tools which make real-time decisions about transactions for fraud protection purposes.

Mikhail Kourjanski

LiteTree: SQLite with Branches — An interesting modification of the SQLite engine to support Git-like branching.

Aergo

Got SQL Skills? Transfer Them to MongoDB, with SQL Joins from Studio 3T — Read "How to Create MongoDB Joins Using SQL", to see how you too can be a MongoDB master, using Studio 3T.

Studio 3T sponsor

It's Time for the Open Source Community to Get Real — An interesting piece by Paul Dix, of InfluxDB fame, reflecting on last week's Redis news around RedisLabs relicensing certain Redis modules – "if a company like RedisLabs happens to be commercializing some part of Redis while still contributing a significant amount to freely available permissive BSD Redis, they should be commended, not attacked."

Paul Dix

CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) to Host TiKV in the Sandbox — TiKV is an open source distributed transactional key-value database (inspired by Google Spanner) and it's being taken under the wing of the CNCF.

Kristen Evans

We Need to Resurrect Desktop Databases — "The time is ripe for desktop database engines to not just be resurrected, but also remembered by users who need to run analytics on slowly changing or informal datasets."

Rahul Batra

Cloudian, an Object Storage System Provider, Raises $94M — The largest ever funding round for an object storage company and Cloudian thinks this shows object storage is coming of age.

Datanami

Valeri Karpov

Creating JSON Changelogs with SQLite — A way to add change tracking to a SQLite database using triggers.

Buckets Blog

How to Write Multiset Conditions With Oracle VARRAY Types — Oracle is one of the few databases that implement the SQL standard ORDBMS extension.

Lukas Eder

From Big Data to Micro-Services: How to Serve Spark-Trained Models Through AWS Lambdas — A quick and Pythonic way to power endpoints with pre-trained Spark models.

Jacopo Tagliabue

▶ Building Chat Bots to Monitor and Manage MongoDB Deployments — Free the DBA! by harnessing the power of chat bots to assist with the triage and management of MongoDB related issues.

Mike LaSpina (MongoDB, Inc.)

The Most Complete Open Source Database Platform — Enterprise proven, multi-model, with rapid deployment in the cloud and on-premises. Learn more today.

EnterpriseDB sponsor

IBM Cloud SQL Query Now Generally Available — A managed service to query numerous datatypes (stored on IBM Cloud Object Storage) with SQL, a la Amazon's Athena.

Chris Glew

Couchbase Launches First NoSQL Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes

Couchbase

Announcing Public Preview Availability of MySQL Online Migration in Azure Database Migration Service

Microsoft Data Migration Blog