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2017 Node.js User Survey and Beaker Browser Aug 18, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Paul Frazee talk about the 2017 Node.js user survey and Beaker Browser - an experimental peer-to-peer web browser that uses the Dat protocol to host sites from a user’s device.

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Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

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Node.js Emerging as the Universal Development Framework for a Diversity of Applications - Hackernoon

2017 Node.js User Survey (PDF)
Globalize - A JavaScript library for internationalization and localization that leverages the official Unicode CLDR JSON data
Beaker Browser - Rethink the Web browser

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AMA — BasicAttentionToken, Robotics, IDE's and Stuff Aug 18, 2017

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This is an AMA show with live questions from the #jsparty Slack channel. We cover everything from BasicAttentionToken, Robotics, Microsoft, IDE’s, and other fun stuff.

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Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Rachel White – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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BasicAttentionToken - A new token to value user attention on the internet.
Basic Attention Token (BAT)
$35 Million in 30 Seconds: Token Sale for Internet Browser Brave Sells Out
Go Time #49: Adventures in VS Code with Ramya Rao
Request For Commits #11: Funding the Web with Brendan Eich
Johnny-Five: The JavaScript Robotics & IoT Platform
Version Lens - Visual Studio Marketplace
Dracula (also discussed on The Changelog #248) - a dark theme for Atom, Alfred, Brackets, Emacs, iTerm, Mintty, Notepad++, Slack, Sequel Pro, Sublime Text, Telegram, Textmate, Terminal.app, Ulysses, Vim, Visual Studio Code, Wox, Xcode, and Zsh
Buy Surface Laptop
On the Rise of Kotlin

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ES Modules and ESM Loader Jul 26, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and John-David Dalton talk about ES Modules history and current status, and JDD’s ESM loader.

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John-David Dalton – Website, GitHub, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

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Async control flow and threats to the open web Jul 07, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Kyle Simpson talk about Async Control Flow and Threats to the Open Web, plus our project of the week Blake2b-WASM.

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Kyle Simpson – GitHub, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

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Inside Node 8, Glitch, Building a Community Around Education Jun 23, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Jessica Lord talk with James Snell (Node.js TSC Director) about the release of Node.js version 8. Then, in the second half of the show, we discuss Glitch and their new “raise your hand” feature and building a community around education. Our project of the week is Tad!

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James Snell – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
Jessica Lord – Website, GitHub, X

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Node v8.0.0

Glitch - “raise your hand” feature

Just raise your hand: How Glitch helps

Project of the Week

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Inside the Release of npm@5 and Sheetsee Jun 13, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton talk with Rebecca Turner and Kat Marchán about npm@5 and Jessica Lord about Sheetsee.

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Rebecca Turner – Website, GitHub, X
Kat Marchán – GitHub, X
Jessica Lord – Website, GitHub, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Rachel White – GitHub, X
Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

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npm@5

npm v5.0.0
cacache - a Node.js library for managing local key and content address caches. It’s really fast.

Sheetsee

Sheetsee - a client-side library for connecting Google Spreadsheets to a website and visualizing the information in tables and maps.
Sheetsee on Glitch - a sample Sheetsee site with data backup

Picks!

chaosbot/chaos - a social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically.
babel/babili - ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain.
zeit/pkg - package your Node.js project into an executabl
Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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Using ES6/7, create-react-app, and Electron! Jun 01, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton discuss how they’re using ES6/7 with and without a compiler, updates to create-react-app, and the beloved Electron.

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Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Rachel White – GitHub, X
Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

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Topics

Using new JavaScript language features in ES6 and ES7 with and without a compiler
Updates to create-react-app
Electron - Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Picks

Webpack 2 (Alex Sexton)
Immutable data structures for functional JS by Anjana Vakil at JSConf EU 2017 (Rachel White)
(Book) Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Mikeal Rogers)

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Web Standards, ECMAScript Modules in Browsers, and Learning JS May 26, 2017

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Wes Bos and Mike Taylor joined Alex Sexton this week to talk about Web Standards stuff, compileTo CSS libraries, ECMAScript Modules in Browsers, and Learning JS.

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Wes Bos – Website, GitHub, X
Mike Taylor – Website, GitHub, X
Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

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P2P Web, WebRTC, WebTorrent, IPFS, and React VR Apr 25, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss the P2P web — including WebRTC, WebTorrent, and IPFS. They also get into React and React VR and the project of the week, PouchDB.

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Rachel White – GitHub, X
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The P2P Web

React VR

React VR - Build VR websites and interactive 360 experiences with React

PouchDB

PouchDB - the JavaScript Database that Syncs!

Picks!

Rachel: tiny-care-terminal - a little dashboard that tries to take care of you when you’re using your terminal
Alex: pwmetrics - Progressive web metrics at your fingertipz
Mikeal: Request For Commits - Season 2 is coming soon!

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