BxJS Weekly Episode 62 - javascript news podcast
Tags: javascript, node, podcast, news
Published: 2019-05-12 10:36:12

Hey dev.to community!

BxJS Weekly Episode 62 is now out! 🚀
Listen to the best javascript news of the week in a podcast form right here.

Unfortunately dev.to is still having problems with video processing, so if you want to watch this episode - you can do this here [on youtube](https://youtu.be/52KW7Q9X4Vk).

Here's all the mentioned links (also found [on github](https://github.com/BuildingXwithJS/bxjs-weekly/blob/master/links/19-19-Episode-62.md)):

## Getting started:

- [Tips to use VSCode more efficiently](https://sudolabs.io/blog/tips-to-use-VSCode-more-efficiently/)
- [Combination of React and D3](https://medium.com/@icrosil/combination-of-react-and-d3-1fb07b00fb55)
- [How I use Vue.js on GitHub Pages](https://dev.to/tiim/how-i-use-vue-js-on-github-pages-45np)
- [Building a static blog with NuxtJs and Markdown as a beginner](https://dev.to/nirebu/building-a-static-blog-with-nuxtjs-and-markdown-as-a-beginner-pkf)
- [Introduction to React Hooks](https://dev.to/christopherkade/introduction-to-react-hooks-1e0l)
- [A guide to setting up Vim for JavaScript development](https://freshman.tech/vim-javascript/)
- [Build a React Application using RxJS](https://auth0.com/blog/build-a-react-application-using-rxjs/)
- [A Guide to Node.js Logging](https://www.twilio.com/blog/guide-node-js-logging)
- [Persisting your React state in 9 lines](https://dev.to/selbekk/persisting-your-react-state-in-9-lines-of-code-9go)

## Articles & News:

- [Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/intelligent-productivity-and-collaboration-from-anywhere/)
- [Open source collaborative text editors](https://juretriglav.si/open-source-collaborative-text-editors/)
- [Vuex showdown: Mutations vs. actions](https://blog.logrocket.com/vuex-showdown-mutations-vs-actions-f48f2f7df54b)
- [Building a JavaScript guitar pedalboard](https://www.trysmudford.com/blog/pedalboard/)
- [How to Build a Multiplayer (.io) Web Game](https://victorzhou.com/blog/build-an-io-game-part-1/)

## Tips, tricks & bit-sized awesomeness:

- [Automate NPM packages security fixes with recurring tasks on CI](https://dev.to/alex_barashkov/automate-npm-packages-security-fixes-with-recurring-tasks-on-ci-pi1)
- [The Intl.ListFormat API](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/12/intl-listformat)
- [Array.from has a second argument](https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/array-from-has-a-second-argument/)
- [The new evergreen Googlebot](https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/05/the-new-evergreen-googlebot.html)
- [Launching Lightwallet - performance budgets tracking in Lighthouse](https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev/status/1125886010565357569?s=09)
- [Dan Abramov found an approach that seems to work well for hot reloading Hooks](https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1125846420949434368)
- [Paint Holding - reducing the flash of white on same-origin navigations](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/05/paint-holding)
- [New Portals API, now in Chrome Canary](https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev/status/1125886955542106112?s=09)
- [web.dev now includes a collection of articles to help build fast and performant React applications ⚡️](https://twitter.com/ChromiumDev/status/1125893811668840448?s=09)
- [Google Fonts will soon support setting `font-display` via a new query parameter](https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/1126370518347608065?s=09)
- [React DevTools can now simulate suspending any arbitrary component](https://twitter.com/brian_d_vaughn/status/1126182658864599040?s=09)
- [Breakdown of Kenken flutter web app from NYTimes](https://twitter.com/samccone/status/1126601836524449792?s=09)
- [Suspense and lazy() have landed in master for Preactjs](https://twitter.com/marvinhagemeist/status/1126544233094107136)
- [The future of Next.js is looking amazing!](https://twitter.com/JessTelford/status/1126971953053437952?s=09)
- [Github introduces package registry](https://github.com/features/package-registry)

## Releases:

- [Hyper 3](https://twitter.com/zeithq/status/1125303531890593792?s=09)
- [Preact X Beta](https://twitter.com/marvinhagemeist/status/1124321178775183366?s=17)
- [Node v12.2.0](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.2.0/)

## Libs & demos:

- [the-owl](https://github.com/leonardosarmentocastro/the-owl)
- [snackbar](https://github.com/egoist/snackbar)
- [React Formik UI](https://kaihotz.github.io/react-formik-ui/)
- [licia](https://github.com/liriliri/licia)
- [fabula](https://github.com/nuxt/fabula)
- [react-native-windows](https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows)
- [gridsome](https://github.com/gridsome/gridsome)
- [blueprintjs](https://blueprintjs.com/)
- [tippyjs](https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/)
- [cash](https://github.com/kenwheeler/cash)
- [node-recorder](https://github.com/ericclemmons/node-recorder)
- [travis-size-report](https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/travis-size-report)
- [shaka-player](https://github.com/google/shaka-player)
- [reaviz](https://github.com/jask-oss/reaviz)
- [progressive-rendering-frameworks-samples](https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/progressive-rendering-frameworks-samples)
- [vue-lazy-hydration](https://github.com/maoberlehner/vue-lazy-hydration)
- [styled-system](https://styled-system.com/)
- [node-convict](https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict)
- [wasm-micro-runtime](https://github.com/intel/wasm-micro-runtime)
- [Minecraft classic](https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/embrace-past-minecraft-classic)
- [Bi-directional CSS-only async chat](https://twitter.com/kkuchta/status/1125789539530956801?s=09)

## Interesting & silly stuff:

- [Much Assembly Required](https://muchassemblyrequired.com/)
- [npm isntall thatgreat](https://www.npmjs.com/package/thatgreat)

Any feedback is appreciated 😁

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