JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development Using ES6/7, create-react-app, and Electron!
Jun 1, 2017
01:05:05
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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Show Notes:
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)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!