BxJS Weekly Episode 51 - javascript news podcast
Tags: javascript, node, podcast, news
Published: 2019-02-24 11:28:53

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title: BxJS Weekly Episode 51 - javascript news podcast
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description: Listen to the best javascript news of the week in a podcast form
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Hey dev.to community!

BxJS Weekly Episode 51 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/19-08-Episode-51.md)):

## Articles & News:

- [ES5 to ESNext — here’s every feature added to JavaScript since 2015](https://morioh.com/p/807e6d460f82/es5-to-esnext-here-s-every-feature-added-to-javascript-since-2015)
- [Why I prefer objects over switch statements](https://enmascript.com/articles/2018/10/22/why-I-prefer-objects-over-switch-statements)
- [Fastify and Preact for quick web app prototyping](https://loige.co/fastify-and-preact-for-quick-web-app-prototyping/?no-cache=1)
- [React animation libraries](https://areknawo.com/react-animation-libraries/)
- [PWA Checklist 2019](https://dev.to/uyouthe/pwa-checklist-2019-25j4)
- [Next.js 8 Webpack Memory Improvements](https://nextjs.org/blog/webpack-memory)
- [Divide and conquer: Scale your Node.js app using distributed queues](https://blog.logrocket.com/divide-and-conquer-scale-your-node-js-app-using-distributed-queues-8231a9486d3a)
- [TSLint in 2019](https://medium.com/palantir/tslint-in-2019-1a144c2317a9)
- [We migrated to Next.js to serve our home page 7.5× faster](https://www.manifold.co/blog/we-migrated-to-next-js-to-serve-our-home-page-7-5-faster-559443219c84)
- [Build your own radio streaming app with Howler.js 🔊](https://medium.com/crowdbotics/build-your-own-radio-streaming-app-with-howler-js-637f929decc0)
- [Avoid Nightmares — NSFW JS](https://shift.infinite.red/avoid-nightmares-nsfw-js-ab7b176978b1)
- [The Language Server Index Format (LSIF)](https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/02/19/lsif)
- [React Portals with Hooks](https://www.jayfreestone.com/writing/react-portals-with-hooks/)
- [Building a React Autocomplete Component from scratch](https://blog.bitsrc.io/building-a-react-autocomplete-component-from-scratch-3f4d5618aa14)
- [How to get started with internationalization in JavaScript](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-get-started-with-internationalization-in-javascript-c09a0d2cd834)
- [12 Concepts That Will Level Up Your JavaScript Skills](https://hackernoon.com/12-javascript-concepts-that-will-level-up-your-development-skills-b37d16ad7104)
- [Under-the-hood of Apollo](https://itnext.io/under-the-hood-of-apollo-6d8642066b28)
- [Happy Little Accidents - Debugging Javascript](https://dev.to/hamatti/happy-little-accidents---debugging-javascript-48ak)
- [Performance measurement of JavaScript solutions to common algorithmic questions (part 1)](https://dev.to/detunized/performance-measurement-of-javascript-solutions-to-common-algorithmic-questions-part-1-3ig5)
- [10 npm Security Best Practices](https://snyk.io/blog/ten-npm-security-best-practices/)
- [Using Node 11.7 Worker Threads with RxJS Observable](https://briandesousa.net/2019/02/16/using-node-11-worker-threads-with-rxjs-observable/)
- [Progressive react](https://houssein.me/progressive-react)

## Tips, tricks & bit-sized awesomeness:

- [Back-off and retry using JavaScript arrays and promises](https://philbooth.me/blog/back-off-and-retry-using-javascript-arrays-and-promises)
- [Why I Write CSS in JavaScript](https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/css-in-js/)
- [React DevTools (rewrite) supports editable props and state](https://twitter.com/brian_d_vaughn/status/1097233758606962688?s=09)
- [Coming soon to the DevTools rewrite: editable (useState) hooks](https://twitter.com/brian_d_vaughn/status/1098347140890292229?s=09)
- [New Eslint RFC: Config File Simplification](https://github.com/eslint/rfcs/pull/9)
- [Preact X alpha coming March 4th](https://twitter.com/marvinhagemeist/status/1097973028426788864?s=09)
- [npm will get an interactive updater](https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/1097590721706569728?s=09)
- [Finally, Chrome to allow users to see Extension Activity](https://techdows.com/2019/02/chrome-extension-activity-log-page.html)
- [Chrome Canary now has SIMD in WebAssembly (behind the flag)](https://twitter.com/DasSurma/status/1098915542608609280)
- [Announcing the Ionic React Beta](https://blog.ionicframework.com/announcing-the-ionic-react-beta/)
- [Node.js team considers dropping ARMv6 support for v12+](https://github.com/nodejs/build/issues/1677#issuecomment-465326568)

## Releases:

- [Node v11.10.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v11.10.0/)
- [deno v0.3.0](https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/master/Releases.md#v030--20190218)
- [npm@6.9.0-next.0](https://npm.community/t/release-npm-6-9-0-next-0/5553?u=zkat)
- [microbundle 0.10](https://github.com/developit/microbundle/releases/tag/0.10.1)

## Libs & demos:

- [winmine-exe](https://github.com/1000hz/winmine-exe)
- [enigma-simulator](https://github.com/miandoli/enigma-simulator)
- [cryption](https://github.com/lagmoellertim/cryption)
- [nodejs.dev](https://nodejs.dev/)
- [file-drop](https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/file-drop)
- [isolated-vm](https://github.com/laverdet/isolated-vm)
- [cleave.js](https://nosir.github.io/cleave.js/)
- [simple-fs](https://github.com/fagbokforlaget/simple-fs)
- [bull](https://github.com/OptimalBits/bull)
- [fast-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/fast-cli)
- [Navi](https://frontarm.com/navi/en/)
- [100-days-of-code-frontend](https://github.com/nas5w/100-days-of-code-frontend)
- [WorldWideWeb browser](https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/)

## Interesting & silly stuff:

- [deepfakes/faceswap repo on github is only accessible when logged in](https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap/issues/392)
- [Google partially backtracks on Chrome changes that would break ad blockers](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/google-partially-backtracks-on-chrome-changes-that-would-break-ad-blockers/)
- [Node.js is 10 years old](https://twitter.com/hashseed/status/1097583046365204481?s=09)
- [Explaining Code using ASCII Art](https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653)

## Related links

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- [Castbox](https://castbox.fm/episode/BxJS-Weekly-Ep.-51-Feb-23%2C-2019-(javascript-news-podcast)-id1378315-id131454873?country=us)
- [iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/bxjs-weekly/id1441956525)

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