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Jumping off the Edge into Chromium Dec 21, 2018

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Nick, KBall, and Chris respond to follow up on the State of JavaScript survey, discuss Chromium, Edge, and the future of the web, and reminisce about the past year in the final JS Party of 2018!

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Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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State of JavaScript survey follow up

Sacha Grief responds to our previous discussion on the State of JS survey
JS Party: 52 - Original discussion on the survey
Changelog: 252 - GitHub’s Open Source Survey

Jumping off the Edge into Chromium

It’s official. The future of Microsoft Edge is Chromium
They’re also dropping ChakraCore in favor of V8.

JavaScript in 2018 and Beyond

TypeScript is 🔥🔥🔥
Vue 3.0 and TypeScript
JS Party is back!
Dojo 2 released!
npm: This year in JavaScript
Project Gutenberg from WordPress
The rise of VSCode
Netflix: Our learnings from adopting GraphQL
Deno - JavaScript and TypeScript outside the browser

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We're dependent. See? Dec 14, 2018

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KBall, Chris, Nick, and Safia discuss how they keep a healthy relationship with dependencies in their codebase. Listen to learn how they decide when to use third-party dependencies, how they verify and validate dependencies, and how to support the ecosystem of open source libraries.

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Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

FOSSA is an open source dependency management tool.
This package will analyze the licenses of the node.js modules in your project.
Tidelift is a way for software teams to support open source projects.

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The future of the web is npm, but maybe not JavaScript Dec 07, 2018

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In this special episode of JS Party, KBall and Nick are on location at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver. They talks with Laurie Voss, co-founder and COO of npm Inc. They chat about his talk, “npm and the Future of JavaScript”, JavaScript frameworks, and how the definition of “the fundamentals of the web” is constantly changing.

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Laurie Voss – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Laurie’s Talk:

React Everywhere

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trust.js but verify Nov 30, 2018

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KBall, Jerod, and Nick break down some recent events in the JavaScript world. Take a dive into the recent event-stream malware attack, breaking down the State of JavaScript 2018 survey, and sharing pro tips to make your life better.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

The event-stream incident

FallingSnow’s initial issue that made it public
npm yanked the package and reported on the attack
Listen to Dominic Tarr discuss it on The Changelog (broken link until 2018-12-5)
Could this be a copy-cat of this Hackernoon article from earlier this year?

The State of JS survey

Check out the survey (and rad website) right here
KBall recommends Mel Summer’s talk from EmberFest 2018

Pro Tips

Jerod cites Eugen Kiss’s Lean Testing post (More commentary here)
Nick recommends some handy git aliases from Cory Frang
KBall’s tip is a .clone() of Nick’s debugging trip from episode 46

Never forgot to trust.js but verify. 😉

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VisBug is like DevTools for designers Nov 23, 2018

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Google UX Engineer Adam Argyle joins Jerod and KBall to share all the details on VisBug, his just-released Chrome Extension that “makes any webpage feel like an artboard.” Adam is passionate about doing for designers what Firebug (and later DevTools) did for developers. In this episode, he shares that passion and how it’s driven him to create and open source VisBug.

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Adam Argyle – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

VisBug was demoed live on-stage at ChromeDevSummit
It is open source on GitHub
You can install the Chrome Extension right here

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Nest 'dem loops Nov 16, 2018

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NESTED LOOPS is a JavaScript band that combines music and video with web tech to perform live at JSConf. In this episode, Jerod and Suz are joined by Jan Monschke and Kahlil Lechelt, which comprise 2/3 of the group.

After sampling one of their tracks, we hear the story of how they got the band together, the journey of building a tech stack for their first live performance, and how that stack was then rewritten to be “good” for their second performance. Suz is at awe with the technologies at play. Jerod wonders if there’s room in the world for musicians directly targeting JavaScript devs. A good time is had by all.

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Kahlil Lechelt – Website, GitHub, X
Jan Monschke – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Listen to NESTED LOOPS on SoundCloud
But seriously, you want to see these performances for yourself: 2015, 2017, 2018
People Got Mad JavaScript is the track we sampled on the show
Jan met Kahlil after watching this YouTube video
The bits and bobs they build to pull this together are all open source
The style was inspired by Mark Ronson’s Ted Talk
Kahlil wrote it all up on Medium awhile back
They also did a talk at JSConf about the technical details
You can support the band by buying their merch
Check out Loop Drop for live electronic music performance
Jan suggests Ableton for getting started making music
Also Web Audio School for making music on the web
Looking for some community? There’s a Web Audio Slack

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Come play in the CodeSandbox Nov 09, 2018

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In this episode, Nick talks with Ives van Hoorne about his project CodeSandbox. They chat about Ives deciding to work on it full-time, how CodeSandbox is built, some of its best features, and what lies ahead.

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Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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What up, docs? 🥕 Nov 02, 2018

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Safia, Nick, Jerod, and Chris get together to talk about documentation. Documentation is essential in our work but it can be difficult to get buy-in. The crew talks about how you can get others to care about it in your organization, tools that make documentation easier, and some examples of companies doing it right.

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Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

@kahliltweets on Twitter
Safia loves the React Styleguidist
Read about Literate Programming on Wikipedia
Jeremy Ashkenas’ Literate CoffeeScript
Docco is a tool for literate programming
Stripe’s API docs are 👌
So are Twilio’s
Nick likes Chai’s docs
Jerod mentions UmbrellaJS, everyone is impressed
Dash is 💣 for macOS docs
Maybe Velocity is just as cool for Windows?
In terms of guides, check out Ruby on Rails and GitHub’s Open Source Guides

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Serverless? We don’t need no stinkin’ SERVERS Oct 26, 2018

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Disclaimer: no servers were harmed in the taping of this show. We hosted a special discussion with Jeremy Daly, Kevin Ball, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller on the ideas around serverless, managed services, Functions as a Service (FaaS), micro-services, nano-services, all-the-services!

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LIVE from Node + JS Interactive Oct 19, 2018

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KBall, Nick, and Suz MC’d a live show at Node + JS Interactive in Vancouver with Tierney Cyren (Node Foundation) and Dave Methvin (JS Foundation) to discuss the proposed merger between the JS Foundation and the Node Foundation. What’s happening with the merger? What does this merger mean for everyday JavaScript developers and the ecosystem?

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Tierney Cyren – Website, GitHub, X
Dave Methvin – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

History of conflict on Node side

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