Plus more JavaScript links, tutorials, and projects.
| webpack 5 Released — webpack is arguably the most popular bundler right now and this is the first major release in over two years. We get big improvements to caching (and therefore performance), reduced bundle sizes with better tree shaking, and a variety of breaking changes to prepare for the future (automatic Node polyfills are gone, for one). webpack |
| Tania Rascia has a fantastic How to Set Up webpack 5 from Scratch tutorial to get you up and running ASAP. She also has a useful webpack boilerplate project. |
| Monitor Frontend Performance With User-Centric Metrics — Page load time isn't enough to guarantee you're providing a solid user experience; your users care about perceived performance. Learn to track interactivity metrics like `firstInteraction` so you can build for impact. Your users will thank you. New Relic |
| Rust Meets the Web - A Clash of Programming Paradigms? — There’s a lot to enjoy here about how Rust is taking steps into the browser via WebAssembly and how its approaches ‘clash’ with the Web and JS ways of doing things: “JavaScript was not built in one day. And just like JavaScript evolved to fit the browser, Rust will need to grow, too. I am optimistic that we, the communities of Rust and JavaScript, will come up with great solutions.” Jakob Meier |
| Find Your Next Job Through Vettery — Create a profile on Vettery to connect with hiring managers at startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers. Vettery |
📚 Tutorials, Opinions and Stories |
| ▶ Microsoft's Node.js for Beginners Series — If you or someone you know needs to step onto the Node.js train or just revise what you already know, this up to date series of brief screencasts from Microsoft could fit the bill. Microsoft |
| Don't Copy Paste Into A Shell – Here's Why — As well as being merely good advice, this demo shows how the Clipboard API can be used to maliciously change what users copy and paste from a page. (Luckily some terminals – such as Windows Terminal – can mitigate the problem.) Brian Tracy |
| A Webpack 5 Headache — Node’s most prolific module creator reflects on the issues webpack 5 raises for Node module maintainers after its decision to remove automatic Node API polyfills. Sindre Sorhus |
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