BxJS Weekly Episode 60 - javascript news podcast
Tags: javascript, node, podcast, news
Published: 2019-04-28 11:03:07

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title: BxJS Weekly Episode 60 - 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 60 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/19-17-Episode-60.md)):

## Getting started:

- [Full-blown monorepo setup walkthrough](https://areknawo.com/full-blown-monorepo-setup-walkthrough/)
- [Formatting dates with JavaScript](https://dev.to/jesseskinner/formatting-dates-with-javascript-1e39)
- [Newbie guide: socket.IO](https://dev.to/kauresss/socket-io-guide-for-newbies-5hdm)
- [Application State Management with React](https://kentcdodds.com/blog/application-state-management-with-react)
- [Learning JavaScript With Hedwix](https://github.com/nsebhastian/learn-javascript-with-hedwix)
- [FuseBox - TypeScript-centric code bundler introduction](https://areknawo.com/fusebox-typescript-centric-code-bundler-introduction/)
- [A linguistic introduction to d3.js](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-linguistic-introduction-to-d3-js-7a40a980bf97)
- [Making a Reddit Reply Bot](https://dev.to/seiyria/making-a-reddit-reply-bot-f55)
- [How to avoid this React Hooks performance pitfall](https://medium.com/@_m1010j_/how-to-avoid-this-react-hooks-performance-pitfall-28770ad9abe0)
- [Building awesome CLIs with JavaScript and Oclif](https://dev.to/fedekau/building-awesome-clis-with-javascript-and-oclif-291o)
- [Minimalistic nav menu with Vue.js and GSAP - WotW](https://dev.to/ederchrono/minimalistic-nav-menu-with-vue-js-and-gsap-wotw-1m3k)
- [A Closer Look at React Memoize Hooks: useRef, useCallback, and useMemo](https://www.codebeast.dev/react-memoize-hooks-useRef-useCallback-useMemo/)
- [How I (Accidentally) Made a Game Engine from Scratch with Vanilla JS](https://dev.to/isalevine/how-i-accidentally-made-a-game-engine-from-scratch-with-vanilla-js-4m80)

## Articles & News:

- [Revisiting the rendering tier](https://www.theguardian.com/info/2019/apr/04/revisiting-the-rendering-tier)
- [Disguise Driven Testing: Jest Mocks In Depth — Part 2](https://ponyfoo.com/articles/disguise-driven-testing-jest-mocks-in-depth-part-2)
- [Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo: an absurdly deep dive](https://schneider.dev/blog/elixir-phoenix-absinthe-graphql-react-apollo-absurdly-deep-dive/)
- [A year with Spectre: a V8 perspective](https://v8.dev/blog/spectre)
- [Passing structured data between C++ and JavaScript in Web Assembly](https://dev.to/azure/passing-structured-data-from-c-to-javascript-in-web-assembly-1i0p)
- [You should never ever run directly against Node.js in production. Maybe.](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/you-should-never-ever-run-directly-against-node-js-in-production-maybe-7fdfaed51ec6)
- [Level up command-line playgrounds with WebAssembly](https://opensource.com/article/19/4/command-line-playgrounds-webassembly)
- [Comparing JVM alternatives to JavaScript](https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/comparing-jvm-alternatives-to-js.html)

## Tips, tricks & bit-sized awesomeness:

- [Helper pattern to clean up try/catch noise](https://twitter.com/DavidWells/status/1119729914876284928?s=09)
- [Faster input events with Facebook’s first browser API contribution](https://code.fb.com/developer-tools/isinputpending-api/)
- [Numeric separators shipped in Chrome 75](https://twitter.com/_gsathya/status/1120389255619055616?s=09)
- [Is Concurrent Mode (in React) just a workaround for “virtual DOM diffing” overhead?](https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1120971795425832961)
- [JavaScript Allongé, the "Six" Edition is now also available for free](https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix)
- [Next.js + TypeScript support available soon](https://twitter.com/timneutkens/status/1121762036319440898?s=09)
- [Testing Library Updates: new release, github org, open collective, and twitter account](https://testing-library.com/blog/2019/04/25/new-org)

## Releases:

- [Node.js v12](https://medium.com/@nodejs/introducing-node-js-12-76c41a1b3f3f)
- [Svelte 3](https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-3-rethinking-reactivity)
- [Chrome 74](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/04/nic74)
- [Create React App 3.0](https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/releases/tag/v3.0.0)
- [Uppy 1.0](https://uppy.io/blog/2019/04/1.0/)
- [jspm 2.0 Beta](https://jspm.org/about/introduction)
- [react-redux v7.1.0-alpha](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/releases/tag/v7.1.0-alpha.1)
- [RxJS 6.5.0](https://twitter.com/BenLesh/status/1120522781089837058?s=09)

## Libs & demos:

- [papaparse](https://www.papaparse.com/)
- [gb-studio](https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio)
- [apps-script-starter](https://github.com/labnol/apps-script-starter)
- [reattempt](https://github.com/wsmd/reattempt)
- [tailwindcss](https://tailwindcss.com/)
- [react-esi](https://github.com/dunglas/react-esi)
- [bento-starter](https://github.com/kefranabg/bento-starter)
- [storeon](https://github.com/ai/storeon)
- [instagram-private-api](https://github.com/dilame/instagram-private-api)
- [gluegun](https://github.com/infinitered/gluegun)
- [bent](https://github.com/mikeal/bent)
- [negative-array](https://github.com/sindresorhus/negative-array)
- [faast.js](https://github.com/faastjs/faast.js)
- [Sortable](https://github.com/SortableJS/Sortable)
- [wapm](https://wapm.io/)
- [open-registry](https://open-registry.dev/)
- [Landgrab demo](https://twitter.com/PrtkYdv/status/1120446243090595840?s=09)
- [URL-based graphic eq](https://twitter.com/jake_albaugh/status/1118611365508337665?s=09)

## Interesting & silly stuff:

- [Mozilla Internet Health Report 2019](https://internethealthreport.org/2019/)
- [MuseNet](https://openai.com/blog/musenet/)

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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