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Mock Service Worker Library Enables Resilient REST and GraphQL API Testing
The Mock Service Worker (MSW) API mocking library allows developers to test web applications without using an actual back-end, setting up a mocking server, or stubbing native http/https/fetch implementations. MSW mocks both Rest and GraphQL APIs. MSW received the JavaScript Open Source Awards this year.
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Facebook.com Redesign: Stack and Strategies for Sustainable Performance
Facebook detailed in a blog post the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the latest iteration of the facebook.com website. Facebook rearchitected its website and standardized its technological stack around React, GraphQL, Relay, and its custom CSS-in-JS library. The goal of the rewrite was to increase performance and make it easy to add new features.
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Common Challenges Facing Angular Enterprises - Stephen Fluin at Ngconf
Stephen Fluin, developer advocate for Angular, discussed at ngconf the common challenges facing Angular teams that are building applications at scale.
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UX Patterns: Stale-While-Revalidate
Stale-while-revalidate (SWR) caching strategies provide faster feedback to the user of web applications, while still allowing eventual consistency. Faster feedback reduces the necessity to show spinners and may result in better-perceived user experience.
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Redwood - Bringing the Ruby on Rails Experience to JavaScript
Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub, released RedwoodJS, a new fullstack, edge-ready JavaScript web framework. Redwood is highly opinionated and integrates pre-determined back-end and front-end stacks. Redwood follows convention-over-configuration principles and strives to provide a Ruby on Rails-like developer experience.
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Svelte at the Edge - Luke Edwards at Svelte Summit
Luke Edwards recently gave a talk at Svelte Summit 2020 in which he discussed running Svelte application at the edge. Edwards demoed building and running a simple Svelte application with CloudFlare Workers and Google Cloud.
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Bytecode Alliance Lays out Plans for WebAssembly on the Server-Side
Bytecode Alliance laid out a concrete vision for wasm-on-the-server. At the same time, the Wasm open-source community is now far larger than the corporations in Bytecode Alliance. There are multiple Wasm VM implementations, complier toolchains for programming languages, as well as host Operating Systems and environments (e.g., Node.js, Deno, or blockchains).
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The Next Svelte May Be Serverless-First -- Rich Harris at Svelte Summit
Rich Harris, the creator of Svelte, lifted the curtain over the experiments that have been taking place around Svelte (the UI framework and compiler) and Sapper (Svelte’s application framework). Harris gave a glimpse of a potential future in which Svelte is a serverless-first framework.
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10 Reasons Why You Can’t Miss QCon Plus This Nov 4-20
As software developers ourselves, we designed QCon Plus to be practical, actionable, and software-focused. This is not just another virtual conference; it's an online experience where senior software engineers, architects, and team leads connect, gather new ideas, and hear from software leaders who are constantly pushing the boundaries.
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REPLicant, a Super Simple Svelte REPL - Peter Allen at Svelte Summit 2020
Peter Allen recently gave a talk at Svelte Summit 2020 in which he explained the benefits of REPL (Read-Print-Eval-Loop) playgrounds. While the Svelte REPL is complex due to the handling of many edge cases, the principles underlying code playground implementations are simple. Allen progressively led the viewer into the implementation of the simplest possible version of the Svelte REPL.
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Join Gene Kim, Michael Nygard, Elisabeth Hendrickson, and 54 Other Software Leaders at QCon Plus
QCon Plus, the virtual conference for senior software engineers and architects that covers the trends, best practices, and solutions leveraged by the world's most innovative software organizations, is less than two weeks away.
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Animated, Responsive, and Reactive Data Visualization with Svelte
Tom Fevrier and Matthias Stahl recently gave the Svelte community an overview of the techniques that can be used to achieve responsive, interactive, and animated data visualization with Svelte.
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Introducing Webpack 5
Version 5.0 of Webpack, the most popular JavaScript module bundler, is finally out offering a slew of improvements, including faster build times, decreased bundle sizes, and many breaking changes.
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JavaScript Open Source Awards 2020 Distinguishes Six Impactful Projects
Since 2018, the JavaScript Open Source Awards distinguishes impactful open-source projects across four categories every year— Breakthrough of the Year, The Most Exciting Use of Technology, Fun Side Project of the Year, and The Most Impactful Contribution to the Community. The 2020 batch rewarded six open-source projects.
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Mobx Reactive State Management Library Released Version 6
Michel Weststrate, author of the reactive state management library MobX, recently released MobX 6. MobX6 now supports Internet Explorer and React Native and updates its decorator-based API to reflect the new JavaScript decorators proposal (currently in Stage 2). Important pieces of the MobX ecosystem are also updated to support the latest version of MobX.