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Mutable state, Electron 7.0, Node 13, and TypeScript 3.7 RC1

#460 — October 25, 2019

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JavaScript Weekly

The Problems of Shared Mutable State and How to Avoid Them — A deep dive from JavaScript maven Dr. Axel on mutable state, how it can cause problems when multiple entities wish to rely upon it, and how techniques like copying, non-destructive updates, and immutability can help. A lot to digest here, including plenty of advanced bits.

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

Electron 7.0 Released — Another major release for the popular cross platform Chrome and JavaScript-powered desktop app platform. 7.0 brings Electron up to Chrome 78, V8 7.8, and Node 12.8.1 standards, and there’s a new nativeTheme API for working with changes to the OS’s theming/color scheme.

Electron Team

Explore the Code[ish] Podcast — A podcast from the team at Heroku, exploring code, technology, tools, tips, and the life of the developer. New episodes weekly.

Heroku sponsorpodcast

▶  27 Talks from Nordic.js 2019 — Nordic.js is a JavaScript event that took place in Stockholm two weeks ago and the talks are ready for you to enjoy. Some highlights:

Mark Volkmann on building apps with Svelte.

Monica Wojciechowska on creating animated charts with D3 and React.

Katie Fenn on memory management and garbage collection.

Godfrey Chan on thinking in TypeScript.

NordicJS on YouTube

Node.js 13 Released; Node.js 12 Becomes Active LTS — Node 13 becomes the new ‘current’ version of Node (that gets all the new features first) and Node 12 joins 10 and 8 as an LTS (Long Term Support) release.

Node.js Foundation

Puppeteer 2.0 Released: Control Headless Chrome from Node — The popular ‘remote control’ for Chrome now uses Chromium 79, requires Node 8+, and includes new APIs for emulating timezones and media types. Screenshotting has also been improved.

Google Chrome Team

Quick bytes:

The first release candidate of TypeScript 3.7 is out.

React now has official pre-release channels if you like to live on the edge.

The OpenJS Foundation has launched two new Node.js certifications.

The creator of the JS13KGames contest shares the tale of how they got entrants to try out the Web Monetization API this year.

💻 Jobs

Software Engineer Frontend (f/m/d) — We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer Frontend (React) (f/m/d) to join our international team.

collect Artificial Intelligence GmbH

Senior Web Developer at Dr. Bill — Dr. Bill helps Canadian doctors save time by streamlining their billing. Help lead our team into the next phase of growth.

Dr.Bill

Have You Tried Vettery? — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started.

Vettery

📘 Articles & Tutorials

Writing Asynchronous Tasks in Modern JavaScript — A good introduction to the idea of asynchronous execution (a fundamental concept in JavaScript) working through from legacy approaches through to modern examples with promises and async/await.

Jeremias Menichelli

Building a Typing Game with MelonJS — A cute look at using melonJS, a Canvas-based game engine, to build a simple game. We used to link to a lot of fun tutorials like this in the early days but they seem less common now.

Fernando Doglio

Build Video in Just Two API Calls — Mux Video is an API-first platform, powered by data and designed by video experts to make beautiful video possible for every development team.

Mux sponsor

Formatting JavaScript Dates with Moment.js

Valeri Karpov

How to Implement Redux in 24 Lines of JavaScript — Redux itself started as a very small library so it’s reasonably trivial to recreate its basic features quickly as a way to learn more about what’s involved.

Yazeed Bzadough

How to Build a Tic Tac Toe Game with Svelte — You don’t just get one game building tutorial this week, you get two!

Akshay Kadam

Free Download: Results from Our Video Developer Survey 2019

Bitmovin sponsor

Svelte vs React: Some First Impressions

Murat Catal

Cascading Cache Invalidation

Philip Walton

🔧 Code & Tools

Peaks.js: Interact with Audio Waveforms — A client-side JavaScript component to display and interact with audio waveforms in the browser. Here’s the repo.

Indrek Lasn

μPlot.js: A Fast, Tiny Time Series Chart Library — This is for when you have a lot of data to plot quickly: “from a cold start it can create an interactive chart containing 150,000 data points in 40ms.”

Leon Sorokin

The Most Complete Spreadsheet Solution for JavaScript Apps - SpreadJS — Fast enterprise JavaScript spreadsheet for delivering true Excel-like spreadsheet experiences. Download free eval.

SpreadJS by GrapeCity sponsor

Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts From Text — Write out your diagrams and flowcharts in a plain text, Markdown-esque way, and get nice graphics out.

Knut Sveidqvist

RxDB: A Realtime Database for JavaScript Applications — You can query the current state but also subscribe to state changes, making it useful for UI-based apps where you want live/real-time updates. It’s not new but it’s had a solid stream of releases recently.

pubkey

Mitt: A Tiny 200 Byte Functional Event Emitter / PubSub

Jason Miller

⚡️ Quick Releases

React 16.11.0

Ghost 3.0 — Node-powered blog platform.

Relay 7.0 — Declarative GraphQL data fetching for React.

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Favorite tweets: Excited (and terrified) to speak to 1200 people at @nordicjs in *one hour* (plus several hundred on the livestream through @funfunfunction) 🇸🇪— Isabela Moreira @NordicJS (@isabelacmor) October 10, 2019

http://twitter.com/isabelacmor

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RT @bitandbang: AAAAaaAaaAaaaAAA! @nordicjs is only a week away 😱 If you’ll be there, be sure to say hi! I’m super excited to meet everyone there and share my experiences with the @nodejs Community Committee ✨

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Day 2 @nordicjs 👌🏻#awesome #JavaScript #conference http://pic.twitter.com/P0R9GrC6mL

— Alma Developers (@AlmaDevelopers) September 8, 2017

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Artipelag near Stockholm (@Nordic.js)

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#NordicJS (ved Trädgården)

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Nordic.js

Nordic.js kicks off on Thursday (September 18th) with a boat ride to the beautiful archipelago of Stockholm. The following two days will be packed with 14 talks - all about JavaScript - from great international speakers. It's time to inspire and to get inspired, to meet and learn from others!

Goo will be there, represented by Martin, Rikard, Victor, Adrian, Hugo, Stefan, Viktor and Hedvig. They will take care of you on the boats and show you Create. Right now we're preparing the breakfast bags for you!

If you can't make it to Nordic.js, you can still take part in the presentations and speaker interviews via the live stream. Sign up for the live stream here: https://nordicjs.com/tickets.

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We’ve asked all of our speakers to put together a Spotify playlist for Nordic.js, here’s Tom Dale’s:

Music Playlist - Tom Dale

Happy Tuesday and enjoy!

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#NordicJS (ved Arkipelag)

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#NordicJS (ved Artipelag)

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Kø til båten. Den er så lang at den svinger seg langs kaia. #NordicJS (ved Djurgårdsfärjan)

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Announcing the Winner of the Nordic.js Ticket!

The jury have chosen a winner of the Nordic.js competition! The winner is Ruben Teijeiro! He won because of his passion for communities, but also for his passion for Goo Create. Here's his motivation:

"I'm really interested in attend Nordic.js because I'm an active contributor in the Drupal community as part of the Front-end team. Also I'm going to lead the Core Sprint during DrupalCon Amsterdam so it will be awesome if I can attend previously to Nordic.js to get some cool ideas to share with Drupal fellows. 

You can get more information about me in the following links: 

https://www.drupal.org/u/rteijeiro - My Drupal.org user profile. 

http://drewpull.com - My personal Blog where I blog about Drupal. 

https://amsterdam2014.drupal.org/mentored-core-sprint - Drupal Core Sprint info where you can find me as Sprint Leader. 

http://blog.loadimpact.com/author/rteijeiro - Blog where I'm collaboration writing about cool Javascript stuff. 

https://github.com/rteijeiro - My Github stuff ;) 

I'm also planning to blog about Game development with Javascript, using Goo Create and http://fuffr.com 

Hope you can figure out why it's really important to me to attend Nordic.js 

Thanks for your time and have a great day :)"

Congratulations Ruben!

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Win a Ticket to Nordic.js!

Nordic.js (https://nordicjs.com/) is a conference taking place on September 18 and September 19 in Stockholm, Sweden. 

"Nordic.js is a two-day conference all about Javascript. We aim to inspire and to get inspired, to meet and learn from others and to to bring our community closer together. The conference will take place on an island in the middle of the beautiful archipelago of Stockholm."

The tickets to Nordic.js are sold out, but as a diamond sponsor Goo will give you a last chance to attend the conference. 

To participate in the competition, fill out this form: http://blog.goocreate.com/nordicjs before Friday September 12th 8AM(CEST). The winner will get a ticket to Nordic.js*. The ticket includes:

Two full days of conference with 14 talks from great international speakers

Breakfast and lunch both days as well as a dinner on the first day

Plenty of Swedish fika

Boat and bus trips to and from Artipelag both days

A FANTASTIC after party

A Goo Technologies traveling kit

We hope to see you at Nordic.js!

* Goo Technologies does not cover any trips to or from Stockholm, Sweden. 

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We’ve asked all of our speakers to put together a Spotify playlist for Nordic.js, here’s Douglas Crockford's - it’s called The good parts.

Music Playlist - Douglas Crockford 

Happy Monday and enjoy!