Bookmarks (1748)

1Keys: How I Made a Piano in Only 1KB of JavaScript — A month ago we promoted JS1024, a contest to build the coolest thing possible in just 1024 bytes of JavaScript. It’s well worth looking at all the winners/results, but one winner has put together a fantastic writeup of how he went about the task. If this genius seems familiar, he also did a writeup about implementing a 3D racing game in 2KB of JavaScript recently, and more besides.

Announcing the New TypeScript Website — The official TypeScript site at typescriptlang.org is looking fresh. Learn about the updates here or just go and enjoy it for yourself.

A Roadmap for the Future of Angular — The Angular project now has an official roadmap outlining what they’re looking to bring to future versions of the popular framework.

You May Finally Use JSHint for 'Evil'(!) — JSHint is a long standing tool for detecting errors and problems in JavaScript code (it inspired ESLint). A curious feature of JSHint’s license is that the tool couldn’t be used for “evil” – this has now changed with a switch to the MIT license(!)

How Different Versions of Your Site Can Be 'Running' At The Same Time — You might think that the version of your site or app that’s ‘live’ and in production is the version everyone’s using.. but it’s not necessarily the case and you need to be prepared.

Let's Debug a Node Application — A brief, high level look at some ways to step beyond the console.log approach, by using Node Inspect, ndb, llnode, or other modules.

3 Common Mistakes When Using Promises — Spoiler: Wrapping everything in a Promise constructor, consecutive vs parallel thens, and executing promises immediately after creation.

Matching Accented Letters in Regular Expressions — A quick tip for when a range like A-z doesn’t quite work..

Setting Up Redux For Use in a Real-World Application — For state management there’s Redux in theory and then there is Redux in practice. This is the tutorial you need to get over the hump from one to the other.

Reviewing The 'Worst Piece of Code Ever' — I don’t think it really is but it’s not great and it’s allegedly in production. Hopefully you will read this for entertainment purposes only.

The 10 Best Angular Tips Selected by The Community — Well, the Angular tips by one person that were liked the most on Twitter, at least :-)

Node Modules at 'War': Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Get Along — No, it’s not really a ‘war’, but it’s a worthwhile reflection on the differences between the two module types from the Node perspective.

react-digraph 7.0: A Library for Creating Directed Graph Editors — Create a directed graph editor without implementing SVG drawing or event handling logic yourself.

JSchallenger: Learn JavaScript by Solving Coding Exercises — I like that the home page shows the “most failed” challenges, which can give you an idea of the kind of thing other developers are having trouble with.

WordSafety: Check a Name for Unwanted Meanings in Other Languages — A neat idea. Rather than name your next project something that offends half of a continent, run it through this to pick up any glaring issues.