It’s just JavaScript®️

Jerod, Kball, Divya, and Nick share their initial impressions of GitHub’s recently announced package registry, what JS skills are trending in job listings, and shout outs!

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

GitHub’s package registry

• Our “coverage” of GitHub’s Friday afternoon announcement
• GitHub’s official package registry feature page
• Remember when we had Jeff Lembeck on JS Party?
• Something strange is going on at npm
• Nobody Predicted Microsoft 😬
• FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

JS job trends

• Game of Frameworks: JavaScript trends of 2019
• Engineering & design progression maps: progression.fyi
• KBall’s megatrends post

Shout outs

• Stefan Kaltenegger
• Ryan Singer
• Halfstack Conf
• NEJS Conf
• All Things Open
• Quokka.js
• Blotter.js
• The Recurse Center
• Rene Rubalcava
• Learn Dojo
• Vim Fugitive (tpope!)
• Go Time is back!
• Hardware hacking with TinyGo and Gopherbot

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!