BxJS Weekly Episode 55 - javascript news podcast
Tags: javascript, node, podcast, news
Published: 2019-03-24 13:37:45

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title: BxJS Weekly Episode 55 - javascript news podcast
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description: Listen to the best javascript news of the week in a podcast form
tags: javascript, node, podcast, news
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Hey dev.to community!

BxJS Weekly Episode 55 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/19-12-Episode-55.md)):

## Articles & News:

- [Using Google Closure Compiler to deliver better JavaScript](https://blog.logrocket.com/using-google-closure-compiler-to-deliver-better-javascript-3059a8343445)
- [Using React’s useCallback hook to preserve identity of partially-applied callbacks in collections](https://medium.com/@0utoftime/using-reacts-usecallback-hook-to-preserve-identity-of-partially-applied-callbacks-in-collections-3dbac35371ea)
- [Writing Resilient Components](https://overreacted.io/writing-resilient-components/)
- [Roll Your Own Analytics](https://www.pcmaffey.com/roll-your-own-analytics/)
- [Why Transducers Are Cool](https://medium.com/@copperwall/why-transducers-are-cool-c894555f09a2)
- [React State: Choose Wisely](https://ponyfoo.com/articles/react-state-choose-wisely)
- [Painless React Animations via CSS Transitions](https://ozmoroz.com/2019/03/react-css-transitions/)
- [A guide to useState in React](https://blog.logrocket.com/a-guide-to-usestate-in-react-ecb9952e406c)
- [A complete guide to threads in Node.js](https://blog.logrocket.com/a-complete-guide-to-threads-in-node-js-4fa3898fe74f)
- [The Definitive Guide to Web Scraping with NodeJs & Puppeteer](https://learnscraping.com/nodejs-web-scraping-with-puppeteer/)
- [Redux in 27 lines](https://dev.to/selbekk/redux-in-27-lines-2i92)
- [How to think and type in TypeScript](https://areknawo.com/how-to-think-and-type-in-typescript/)
- [How to build a CLI with Node.js](https://www.twilio.com/blog/how-to-build-a-cli-with-node-js)
- [Modern and clean routing with hooks](https://parastudios.de/modern-and-clean-routing-with-hooks/)
- [I Don’t Hate Arrow Functions](https://davidwalsh.name/i-dont-hate-arrow-functions)
- [How to manipulate CSS colors with JavaScript](https://blog.logrocket.com/how-to-manipulate-css-colors-with-javascript-fb547113a1b8)

## Tips, tricks & bit-sized awesomeness:

- [A Future Without Webpack](https://www.pikapkg.com/blog/pika-web-a-future-without-webpack/)
- [Learn C and its lower level interactively, in your browser.](https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/aoskao/learn_c_and_its_lower_level_interactively_in_your/)
- [New PR to update the ESM implementation in Node](https://twitter.com/MylesBorins/status/1107671102417969152?s=09)
- [Google is interested in bringing JS as a programming language to Fuchsia](https://twitter.com/hashseed/status/1108002539050549248?s=09)
- [Experimenting with the Streams API](https://deanhume.com/experimenting-with-the-streams-api/)
- [Intro to RxJS Concepts with Vanilla JavaScript](https://dev.to/creeland/intro-to-rxjs-concepts-with-vanilla-javascript-4aji)
- [JavaScript's new #private class fields](https://jamie.build/javascripts-new-private-class-fields.html)
- [Rome - new JavaScript toolchain project from Sebastian McKenzie](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1108407803545214977.html)
- [With LLVM 8 releas, WebAssembly target is no longer "experimental"](http://releases.llvm.org/8.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#changes-to-the-webassembly-target)
- [Henry Zhu: Open Source Is About One’s Soul Searching and Moving the Whole Community](https://medium.com/@amsterdamjs/henry-zhu-open-source-is-about-ones-soul-searching-and-moving-the-whole-community-6a087cf3d003)
- [Humble Book Bundle: Web Programming by O'Reilly](https://www.humblebundle.com/books/web-programming-oreilly-books)

## Releases:

- [CodeSandbox v3](https://twitter.com/CompuIves/status/1108020133321031681?s=09)
- [NestJS 6](https://medium.com/@kammysliwiec/announcing-nestjs-6-whats-new-38959d94221f)
- [React Router v5](https://twitter.com/mjackson/status/1108488901243490305?s=09)
- [V8 v7.4](https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-74)
- [TypeScript 3.4 RC](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-4-rc/)
- [React-Redux v7.0.0-beta](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/releases/tag/v7.0.0-beta.0)

## Libs & demos:

- [buster](https://github.com/dessant/buster)
- [construct-js](https://github.com/francisrstokes/construct-js)
- [react-keyframes](https://github.com/zeit/react-keyframes)
- [merkletreejs](https://github.com/miguelmota/merkletreejs)
- [pwr](https://github.com/jesusprubio/pwr)
- [mk.js](https://github.com/mgechev/mk.js)
- [react-border-wrapper](https://github.com/Metroxe/react-border-wrapper)
- [dropcss](https://github.com/leeoniya/dropcss)
- [rrh](https://github.com/brn/rrh)
- [crumbsjs](https://github.com/nirtz89/crumbsjs)
- [0x](https://github.com/davidmarkclements/0x)
- [typeless.js](https://typeless.js.org/)
- [npm-gui](https://github.com/q-nick/npm-gui)
- [aprx](https://github.com/brn/aprx)
- [fromfrom](https://github.com/tomi/fromfrom)
- [log-update](https://github.com/sindresorhus/log-update)
- [multrin](https://github.com/sentialx/multrin)
- [binjs-ref](https://github.com/binast/binjs-ref)

## Interesting & silly stuff:

- [Facebook admits it stored ‘hundreds of millions’ of account passwords in plaintext](https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/21/facebook-plaintext-passwords/)

Any feedback is appreciated 😁

Additional stuff:
- [Youtube channel](https://youtube.com/c/TimErmilov)
- [Twitch channel](https://www.twitch.tv/yamalight)
- [Discord server](https://discord.gg/hnKCXqQ)
- [BxJS Weekly github repo](https://github.com/BuildingXwithJS/bxjs-weekly)

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- [Twitter](http://twitter.com/yamalight)
- [Medium](https://medium.com/@yamalight)
- [Github](http://github.com/yamalight)

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