BxJS Weekly Episode 57 - javascript news podcast

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BxJS Weekly Episode 57 is now out! 🚀
Listen to the best javascript news of the week in a podcast form right here.

Unfortunately, dev.to video uploads are currently broken, so no video here today.
You can still watch it on youtube or listen to it on castbox!

Here's all the mentioned links (also found on github):

Articles & News:

• Benchmarking WebAssembly Runtimes
• A New React and the Old Cache
• I Used The Web For A Day On Internet Explorer 8
• How We Used WebAssembly To Speed Up Our Web App By 20X (Case Study)
• Web Components will replace your frontend framework
• How to Use the useContext Hook in React
• Cypress: Making E2E testing easy
• Node.js Readable streams distilled
• Creating A Spotify-Powered App Using Nuxt.js
• An intro to Zero Server, a new tool to simplify web development
• Add Authentication and Authorization to Next.js 8 Serverless Apps using JWT and GraphQL
• Why I Publish and Manage Shared JavaScript Code with Bit
• Node.js inside-out - Modules API rediscovery
• How to use Axios with JavaScript
• Getting creative with the Console API!
• Functional Programming with JavaScript in 3 Steps

Tips, tricks & bit-sized awesomeness:

• Request.js is going into maintenance mode
• Alternative libraries to request.js
• Serial Promises vs Parallel Promises
• Quick Debug using || with console.log
• Faster WebGL/Three.js 3D graphics with OffscreenCanvas and Web Workers
• Extend React's event system to include high-level events that allow for consistent cross-device and cross-platform behavior

Releases:

• Next.js 8.0.4
• Safari 12.1
• Visual Studio Live Share is now GA

Libs & demos:

• openttd-wasm
• peerjs
• vexchords
• jekpack
• pill
• wade
• editor.js
• mprove
• log-process-errors
• pizzaql
• formol
• Trool
• griffith
• heroku-cra-node
• water.css
• react-have-i-been-pwned
• is-online
• hyper-editor
• solid
• react-native-carplay
• stepper
• You-Dont-Need-jQuery
• Repl.it chrome extension
• Show HN: 300k lines of Java UI code running native in browser at desktop speed
• useJquery
• nofux

Interesting & silly stuff:

• Simple & Boring
• You Are Not Google
• How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong

Any feedback is appreciated 😁

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• Youtube channel
• Twitch channel
• Discord server
• BxJS Weekly github repo

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• Twitter
• Medium
• Github

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