BxJS Weekly Ep. 89 - Nov 16, 2019 (javascript news podcast)

This is a weekly javascript podcast delivering you all the best javascript news of the week.

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Timestamps for news (huge thanks to SOLVM):

Getting started:

2:33 - Techniques for instantiating classes
3:30 - RxJS with React Hooks for state management
4:12 - The Wise Guide to React useState() Hook
4:55 - Having fun with ES6 proxies
5:40 - Build your own React
7:50 - How Concurrent React changes the game for data-heavy UI :clock:

Articles & News:

8:48 - Algebraic Structures: Things I wish someone had explained about functional programming
10:13 - Scaling WebSocket Connections using Shared Workers
13:32 - Announcing the Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure by default, composable future for WebAssembly
17:37 - No, disabling a button is not app logic.
18:52 - Exceptions in v8


Tips, tricks & bit-sized awesomeness:

19:50 - We just unflagged ESM in Nodejs
21:17 - Neat hack: you can hot reload a Node app on every request by delaying the require in development
22:23 - HTML has native support for autocomplete-style dropdowns
24:00 - Why Suspense matters, a short thread
26:40 - Given the volume of chatter in the dev world, you’d be forgiven for thinking that React is used on the majority of websites today. The real number? 4.6% of websites
29:22 - Moving towards a faster web
32:14 - The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 - Results
32:55 - Announcing CodeSandbox CI
34:12 - Announcing Gatsby Cloud

Releases:

36:10 - GSAP 3
37:10 - Brave v1.0


Libs & demos:

38:48 - babel/preset-modules
40:27 - react-change-highlight
40:52 - faultline
42:12 - tenko
42:55 - animavita
43:54 - react-adaptive-hooks
45:15 - react-screenshot-test
45:$5 - linkinator

Interesting & silly stuff:

46:24 - Brave, Fingerprinting, and Privacy Budgets
48:38 - NodeWatch
54:50 - New GitHub features

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