Issue 441 - We should be using Web Workers a lot more than we are.. (28)

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An Overview of Promise Combinators — Since ES6 / ES2015, the Promise.all (short-circuits when any promise is rejected) and Promise.race (short-circuits when any promise is settled) have provided two ways to work with groups of promises, but Promise.allSettled and Promise.any are on the way to add extra flexibility. Here’s how to use them all.

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When Should You Be Using Web Workers? — Web Workers provide a way to run JavaScript in background threads in the browser and you’d think using them as much as possible would be a good thing.. right? Current frameworks make this tough, says Surma, who shows us why we should be working to change this ASAP.

Pika CDN: A CDN for Modern JavaScript — An interesting idea, this. It’s a proxy that serves up npm packages that use the ES Module syntax so you can use them directly on the Web using import.

Lebab 3.1: Turn Your ES5 Code Into Readable ES6 / ES2015 — An interesting project that follows a variety of rules to convert traditional JavaScript into a more modern variant. You can try it live here. It’s been a couple of years since we’ve linked to it, but it’s continued to get updates.

An Early Stage Proposal for Immutable Data Structures — A proposal for introducing immutable value types natively to JavaScript. It’s at an early stage but there are some interesting ideas.

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Using Array.prototype.flat and Array.prototype.flatMap — A quick look at two methods which are now supported in the latest versions of Node, Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

▶  Porting Your Node.js Web App to Serverless in 30 Minutes(ish..) — This live-coding session will guide you through the process of migrating an existing Express application to AWS Lambda.

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Widening the Web with ECMA-402: Our Work on the Internationalization Extension to JavaScript — ECMA-402 is a separate standard (to ECMAScript itself) defining an internationalization API for ECMAScript. It’s supported to a certain extent by most browsers but there is still a lot of work to be done.

How One Team of Freelancers Writes Full Stack JavaScript Apps — Some simple principles one distributed agency uses.

A Guide to Angular 8's Differential Loading — Angular 8 now sends different bundles of code to different clients. Here’s the how and why, plus an Angular Auth0 tutorial tacked onto the end for some reason 😄

readme-md-generator: A CLI That Generates Good-Looking README.md Files — It’s pretty simple but the results are nice. Answer some questions and get a good starter template for your project’s README.md file.

VuePress 1.0 Released: A Vue.js-Powered Static Site Generator — There’s also a writeup of a talk which covered what’s new in 1.x.

ChessBoard.js 1.0: A JavaScript Chessboard Component — Happy 1.0! Note that jQuery is a dependency. Examples here.

Gauge + Taiko = No More Flaky Tests. Everything You Need for Reliable End-to-End Testing — Gauge and Taiko are open source tools created by ThoughtWorks for end-to-end test automation.

React-Leaflet 2.4: React Components for Leaflet Maps — Leaflet is a popular JavaScript library for creating interactive maps. This library brings support direct to React and has recently added React 16.8 and Flow 0.100 support.

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