BxJS Weekly Episode 69 - javascript news podcast
Tags: javascript, node, podcast, news
Published: 2019-06-30 13:27:29

Hey dev.to community!

BxJS Weekly Episode 69 is now out! 🚀
Listen to the best javascript news of the week in a podcast form right here.

Here's all the mentioned links (also found [on github](https://github.com/BuildingXwithJS/bxjs-weekly/blob/master/links/19-26-Episode-69.md)):

## Getting started:

- [What Is Electron and Why Is It So Polarizing?](https://www.kirupa.com/apps/what_is_electron.htm)
- [An Introduction to Stencil.js](https://medium.com/dailyjs/an-introduction-into-stencil-js-a08e41e2102)
- [Anomalies in JavaScript arrow functions](https://blog.logrocket.com/anomalies-in-javascript-arrow-functions/)
- [Call me maybe? Callbacks for beginners](https://dev.to/shimphillip/call-me-maybe-callbacks-for-beginners-k60)
- [Next.js vs. Create React App: Whose apps are more performant?](https://blog.logrocket.com/next-js-vs-create-react-app/)
- [A simple explanation of functional pipe in JavaScript](https://dev.to/benlesh/a-simple-explanation-of-functional-pipe-in-javascript-2hbj)
- [Building better React forms with Formik](https://blog.logrocket.com/building-better-react-forms-with-formik/)
- [Deploy a Node.js Application to DigitalOcean with HTTPS](https://coderrocketfuel.com/article/deploy-a-nodejs-application-to-digital-ocean-with-https)

## Articles & News:

- [The cost of JavaScript in 2019](https://v8.dev/blog/cost-of-javascript-2019)
- [The secret of good electron apps](https://jlongster.com/secret-of-good-electron-apps)
- [One simple trick to optimize React re-renders](https://kentcdodds.com/blog/optimize-react-re-renders)
- [The 10 Component Commandments](https://dev.to/selbekk/the-10-component-commandments-2a7f)
- [Adding a WebAssembly component to a React App](https://blog.scottlogic.com/2019/06/14/add-webassembly-to-react-app.html)
- [Forget about component lifecycles and start thinking in effects](https://sebastiandedeyne.com/forget-about-component-lifecycles-and-start-thinking-in-effects/)

## Tips, tricks & bit-sized awesomeness:

- [Symbol.prototype.description is available in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Node.js!](https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1143432835665211394?s=09)
- [Perf tip: if your web app ships large JSON-like configuration as JavaScript object literals, consider using JSON.parse instead](https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1143551692732030979)
- [Postman now supports GraphQL](https://blog.graphqleditor.com/graphql-postman/)
- [Introducing tracking prevention, now available in Microsoft Edge preview builds](https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/06/27/tracking-prevention-microsoft-edge-preview/)

## Releases:

- [Node v12.5.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.5.0/)
- [Execa 2](https://codeburst.io/execa-v2-20ffafeedfdf)
- [Preact X beta 3](https://github.com/preactjs/preact/releases/tag/10.0.0-beta.3)
- [Firefox Preview (Android)](https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventing-firefox-for-android-a-preview/)

## Libs & demos:

- [gravitle](https://github.com/loicbourgois/gravitle)
- [firespace](https://github.com/cevr/firespace)
- [unmute-ios-audio](https://github.com/feross/unmute-ios-audio)
- [deepmerge](https://github.com/TehShrike/deepmerge)
- [bigint-serialiser](https://github.com/michaelficarra/bigint-serialiser)
- [svelte-adapter](https://github.com/pngwn/svelte-adapter)
- [hurried](https://github.com/yankouskia/hurried)
- [reactXstarter](https://github.com/spoman007/reactXstarter)
- [password-leak](https://github.com/mathiscode/password-leak)
- [func-farm](https://github.com/func-farm/func-farm)
- [darkmodejs](https://github.com/Assortment/darkmodejs)
- [talquei](https://github.com/luciorubeens/talquei)
- [egjs-flicking](https://github.com/naver/egjs-flicking)
- [sublet](https://github.com/lukeed/sublet)
- [registry-js](https://github.com/desktop/registry-js)
- [bliss.js](https://blissfuljs.com/)
- [mavo](https://mavo.io/)
- [elliptic](https://github.com/indutny/elliptic)
- [twgl](http://twgljs.org/)
- [playclassic.games](https://playclassic.games/)
- [em-dosbox](https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox)
- [proposal-block-params](https://github.com/samuelgoto/proposal-block-params)
- [ops](https://github.com/nanovms/ops)

## Interesting & silly stuff:

- [trackthis.link](https://trackthis.link/)
- [Learning Synths](https://learningsynths.ableton.com/)

Any feedback is appreciated 😁

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- [Youtube channel](https://youtube.com/c/TimErmilov)
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- [BxJS Weekly github repo](https://github.com/BuildingXwithJS/bxjs-weekly)

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