Babel 7.14.0 Released — Here's what's new with everyone's favorite JavaScript compiler/transpiler:

• Class fields and private methods enabled by default.
• async do expression support (currently stage 1).
• importInterop: node setting to produce dual modules (ESM and CommonJS).

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Redux 4.1 Released — It’s not a huge release for the popular state container but the bundle size is down almost 40% and error messages are improved. You may also be intrigued in the first 1.6.0 alpha of Redux Toolkit which integrates RTK Query, a data fetching and caching library built for Redux.

Mark Erikson

The Lazy-Loading Property Pattern in JavaScript — Deferring computationally expensive operations until needed is (nearly) always a win. Plus, it’s always a pleasure to see one of the longest standing names in the JavaScript space blogging.

Nicholas C. Zakas

Building Portable Apps with Go(lang) and Next.js — It’s not often we get to see Go and JavaScript come together, but the idea here is that you can use Go’s new static embedding functionality to build a self-contained Go app that serves a Next-powered app all in one.

David Stotijn

How to Securely Implement OAuth in Vue.js- Up and Running in < 1 Hour — In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use an OAuth server (FusionAuth) to securely authenticate and authorize users.

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How to Use ECMAScript Modules in Node — Even the Node docs note that ES modules are the ‘official standard format’ for packaging and reusing JavaScript code, and with more developers switching from CommonJS to ESM, it’s time to look at what’s involved.

Dmitri Pavlutin

Using Asynchronous Web APIs from WebAssembly — Learn how to invoke asynchronous web APIs when compiling traditionally synchronous languages to WebAssembly.

Ingvar Stepanyan

A webpack Tutorial for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide — If you’ve tried other bundler options but haven’t looked into webpack (maybe because of the bigger learning curve), this introductory tutorial might be a good starting point.

Louis Lazaris

Techniques for Modeling Permissions as Types in Typescript — TypeScript makes it easy to eliminate potential sources of error. Here’s how a developer has been doing this with permissions checking.

Drew Colthorp

From JavaScript to Paper: A Linocut Adventure — Few articles combine JavaScript with ‘murderous little knives’ but Monica delivers with this fun look at how she uses code to create art (which you can buy).

Monica Dinculescu

Observability Won’t Replace Monitoring (Because It Shouldn’t)

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You Can Label a JavaScript if Statement — Labels are a longstanding JS feature that tend to be forgotten (for good reason) and even the author says “you can lead a very fulfilling career without ever knowing that this exists.” Nonetheless..

Alex Riviere

21 Best Practices for a Clean React Project — Specific techniques, each illustrated with a code snippet, all intended to improve the quality of your code.

Mohammad Faisal

QuickSnippets: Categorized Code Snippets Sourced from Tweets — Nicely laid out, searchable, and categorized for easy filtering. Note that the snippets are generally in images, so not very accessible, but it’s a nice selection.

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Scribbletune 4.0: Use Strings and Arrays to Create Rhythms and Musical Patterns — Then export your creations as MIDI files.

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js-tokens 7.0: A Tiny JavaScript Tokenizer — A regex powered ‘almost spec-compliant’ JS tokenizer.

Simon Lydell

Slide Element: Async Functions for Hiding and Showing Elements — GitHub repo.

Alex MacArthur