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Good Documentation, Non-blocking UI Rendering, Node Community Updates Apr 23, 2017

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Tracy Hinds, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss good documentation, API docs, playbooks, Non-blocking UI Rendering, ember-concurrency, React Fiber and updates from Tracy on the Node.js Foundation and Node community.

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Featuring:

Tracy Hinds – Website, GitHub, X
Rachel White – GitHub, X
Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Docs! What makes good documentation?

Where are you sending your community if the docs aren’t good (hint: you don’t get to decide then)?
How to’s, getting started, API docs, playbooks
DevDocs
Read the Docs
Request For Commits #5: Documentation and the Value of Non-Code Contributions with Eric Holscher
Spotlight #7: Focused on a Safe and Inclusive Node Community with Tracy Hinds

Non-blocking UI Rendering

Fastboot/isomorphic rendering
ember-concurrency
React Fiber

Node.js Community

Picks!

Alex: Prettier
Rachel: increment.com
Tracy: …

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VM Neutrality in Node (N-API), Learning JavaScript, Mastodon Apr 14, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss VM Neutrality in Node.js, learning JavaScript, and Mastodon - the open source friendly alternative to Twitter, et al.

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Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction.

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

VM Neutrality in Node.js

Node.js API (N-API)
GeoIP-lite - A native NodeJS API for the GeoLite data
Go Time #37: Gobot, Hardware, and Gatekeeping with Ron Evans
Realtime Conf Soundtrack

Learning JavaScript

javaScript 30 from Wes Bos — a 30 day Vanilla JavaScript coding challenge
The Changelog #244: Learning JavaScript and Bringing People Together with Tracy Lee
JavaScript basics
JS Assessment - a test-driven approach to assessing JS skills
Creating cheats for games to get into programming

Project of the Week

Mastodon
Mastodon instance for JavaScripters from Nolan Lawson
Mastodon instances
Mastodon guidelines

Picks!

Rachel: - Nolan Lawson’s Mastodon
Alex: Keybase
Mikeal: WebTorrent and The Changelog #227: Mad Science, WebTorrent, & WebRTC with Feross Aboukhadijeh

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Web Components and WTF is Shadow DOM? Apr 11, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss Web Components and questions like — “WTF is Shadow DOM?” and “Are custom elements ready?” We also discuss the JavaScript conference scene as well as attending, speaking and organizing conferences. Plus, the project of the week — p5.js.

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

Show Notes:

Web Components and WTF is Shadow DOM?

In part 1 of the show we talked about Web Components and we discussed questions like — “WTF is Shadow DOM?” and “Are custom elements ready?”

Shadow DOM v1: Self-Contained Web Components by Eric Bidelman — Engineer @ Google working on Lighthouse, Web Components, Chrome, and the web

Conferences: Attending, Speaking, and Organizing

In part 2 of the show we talked about attending, speaking and organizing conferences.

Thunder Plains Conf

Project of the Week

p5.js

Picks!

Mikeal - Slideless
Alex - Mike West ~ @mikewest + Web App Sec mailing list
Rachel - Sarah Drasner and her new book SVG Animations: From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation

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JavaScript in Latin America Mar 31, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and special guest Juan Pablo Buritica discuss all things JavaScript in Latin America. The conferences, the communities, the meetups, JavaScript tooling, and more.

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Featuring:

Juan Pablo Buritica – GitHub, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Hacking your Front-End Apps by Alex Sexton at JSConf Colombia
Check out JSConf Colombia + their CFP is now open
Ask Juan Pablo Buritica about his Empanada Fund

Project

Guidelines for Effective Collaboration

Picks

Alex - CSS Grid — Check out the Complete Guide to CSS Grid at CSS Tricks, Grid by Example a collection of usage examples for the CSS Grid Layout specification, Learning CSS Grid Layout by Rachel Andrew, and Learn CSS Grid by Jen Simmons
Mikeal - Google Chrome will no longer trust Symantec certificates, 30% of the web will need to switch Certificate Authorities and Attacking the Windows NVIDIA Driver
Juan - Next.js and The Changelog #213: ZEIT, HyperTerm, and now with Guillermo Rauch

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PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), Service Workers, Time, Glitch Mar 24, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), Service Workers, and Time in JavaScript. Jenn Schiffer also joined the show to talk about Glitch, our project of the week.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Prep notes for this show: https://github.com/thechangelog/jsparty/blob/master/shows/2017-03-17.md

If you haven’t yet, join the community and Slack with us in real time in the #jsparty channel during the show. Head to https://changelog.com/community

PWAs (Progressive Web Apps)

Progressive Web Apps - https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

PWA Builder - http://preview.pwabuilder.com/

PWA Directory (a directory of Progressive Web Apps) - https://pwa-directory.appspot.com/

Essential Reading List for Getting Started With Service Workers

Time

Talking with Jenn Schiffer about Glitch

Glitch
Glitch For Your API - From zero to working code in one minute
Best Buy Remix API

Picks

Mikeal Rogers: ild Fermentation
Rachel White: Hiring Without Whiteboards - Companies that don’t have a broken hiring process
Jenn Schiffer: Greek Yogurt, this tweet, and jQuery 3.2.0

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JavaScript Fatigue, AMP, Paths.js Mar 17, 2017

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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss JavaScript Fatigue, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), and the project of the week Paths.js

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Join the community to Slack with us about this show and the topics we cover. You can also suggest topics and guest panelist at our GitHub repo. Follow us on Twitter ~> we’re @JSPartyFM

JS Fatigue

AMP

Project of the Week

Paths.js

Picks

Rachel: tracery
Mikeal: Lemonade Stand
Alex: Intl.js

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Security on the web, Node async/await, AR.js Mar 03, 2017

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In this first episode of JS Party, Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss security on the web and how SHA-1 is broken, Node.js v7.6 and async/await, and this week’s featured project AR.js.

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Featuring:

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

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The topics covered in today’s show:

Security on the web
SHA-1 is broken
Node.js v7.6 gets async/await

Featured Project — AR.js.

Stop using SHA-1
The effects of SHA-1 on Git
Multiformats
Multihash and JS Multihash
Observatory by Mozilla - a project designed to help developers, system administrators, and security professionals configure their sites safely and securely
The PCI Security Standards Council - a global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection.
Node.js v7.6 gets async/await
Experimenting with async/await
co - Generator based control flow goodness for nodejs and the browser, using promises, letting you write non-blocking code in a nicer way.
AR.js

Picks from the panel

Mikeal:

regl - Declarative stateless rendering for WebG
bits.coop

Alex:

Observatory by Mozilla

Rachel:

How Computers Read Pixels (Drawing on Canvas) — Mariko Kosaka

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Meet Rachel White Feb 24, 2017

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In this show we meet Rachel White, front-end engineer, Tech Evangelist on the DX team at Microsoft, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Rachel shares her fun attitude, her backstory, topics she’s excited to discuss, and who she hopes listens to this show.

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Featuring:

Rachel White – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Meet Alex Sexton Feb 24, 2017

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In this show we meet Alex Sexton, a front-end infrastructure engineer at Stripe, Modernizr core team member, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Alex shares his backstory, where he’s coming from, topics he’s excited to discuss, and more.

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