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Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Paul Frazee talk about the 2017 Node.js user survey and Beaker Browser - an experimental peer-to-peer web browser that uses the Dat protocol to host sites from a user’s device. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Toptal – Freelance with top companies. Travel the world. Easily scale your team. Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Featuring:Paul Frazee✌️ – GitHub, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Node.js Emerging as the Universal Development Framework for a Diversity of Applications - Hackernoon 2017 Node.js User Survey (PDF) Globalize - A JavaScript library for internationalization and localization that leverages the official Unicode CLDR JSON data Beaker Browser - Rethink the Web browser Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This is an AMA show with live questions from the #jsparty Slack channel. We cover everything from BasicAttentionToken, Robotics, Microsoft, IDE’s, and other fun stuff. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Toptal – Freelance with top companies. Travel the world. Easily scale your team. Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Featuring:Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, XRachel White – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: BasicAttentionToken - A new token to value user attention on the internet. Basic Attention Token (BAT) $35 Million in 30 Seconds: Token Sale for Internet Browser Brave Sells Out Go Time #49: Adventures in VS Code with Ramya Rao Request For Commits #11: Funding the Web with Brendan Eich Johnny-Five: The JavaScript Robotics & IoT Platform Version Lens - Visual Studio Marketplace Dracula (also discussed on The Changelog #248) - a dark theme for Atom, Alfred, Brackets, Emacs, iTerm, Mintty, Notepad++, Slack, Sequel Pro, Sublime Text, Telegram, Textmate, Terminal.app, Ulysses, Vim, Visual Studio Code, Wox, Xcode, and Zsh Buy Surface Laptop On the Rise of Kotlin Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and John-David Dalton talk about ES Modules history and current status, and JDD’s ESM loader. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Toptal – Freelance with top companies. Travel the world. Easily scale your team. Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Featuring:John-David Dalton – Website, GitHub, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: standard-things/esm lodash/lodash Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Kyle Simpson talk about Async Control Flow and Threats to the Open Web, plus our project of the week Blake2b-WASM. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Toptal – Easily scale your team — hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Featuring:Kyle Simpson – GitHub, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Chapter 4: Async Flow Control from You Don’t Know JS: ES6 & Beyond by Kyle Simpson Javascript Async Control Flow The Hidden Power of ES6 Generators: Observable Async Flow Control Fluent Conference mafintosh/blake2b-wasm Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Jessica Lord talk with James Snell (Node.js TSC Director) about the release of Node.js version 8. Then, in the second half of the show, we discuss Glitch and their new “raise your hand” feature and building a community around education. Our project of the week is Tad! Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Toptal – Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Featuring:James Snell – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XJessica Lord – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Node v8.0.0 Node v8.0.0 (Current) What’s New in Node 8 Node.js 8: Big Improvements for the Debugging and Native Module Ecosystem Upgrading from Node 6 to Node 8: a real-world performance comparison Node.js 8: The First Week Glitch - “raise your hand” feature Just raise your hand: How Glitch helps Project of the Week Tad Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal Rogers, Rachel White, and Alex Sexton talk with Rebecca Turner and Kat Marchán about npm@5 and Jessica Lord about Sheetsee. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Fastly – Our bandwidth partner! Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Featuring:Rebecca Turner – Website, GitHub, XKat Marchán – GitHub, XJessica Lord – Website, GitHub, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XRachel White – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:npm@5 npm v5.0.0 cacache - a Node.js library for managing local key and content address caches. It’s really fast. Sheetsee Sheetsee - a client-side library for connecting Google Spreadsheets to a website and visualizing the information in tables and maps. Sheetsee on Glitch - a sample Sheetsee site with data backup Picks! chaosbot/chaos - a social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically. babel/babili - ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain. zeit/pkg - package your Node.js project into an executabl Medieval Fantasy City Generator Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Toptal – Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Fastly – Our bandwidth partner! Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Featuring:Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, XRachel White – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow 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!

Wes Bos and Mike Taylor joined Alex Sexton this week to talk about Web Standards stuff, compileTo CSS libraries, ECMAScript Modules in Browsers, and Learning JS. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Featuring:Wes Bos – Website, GitHub, XMike Taylor – Website, GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: ECMAScript Modules in Browsers Wes Bos tutorials Interface Lovers Prettier Node.js V8 –inspector Manager Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this special episode, it’s a yayQuery podcast reunion. Alex Sexton, Paul Irish, Rebecca Murphey, and Adam Sontag are back for a takeover episode here on JS Party where they catch up on the latest happenings in JavaScript, share JavaScript predictions, thoughts on TypeScript, React, PWAs, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XPaul Irish – Website, GitHub, XRebecca Murphey – Website, GitHub, XAdam Sontag – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:** If we missed any links let us know. yayQuery podcast Buy the yayQuery soundtrack on Bandcamp Lighthouse — an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. You can run it against any page on the web. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, and more. Getting Started with Redux by Dan Abramov You Might Not Need Redux by Dan Abramov W3Fools The Most Explosive Modal on the Web Progressive Web Apps Training Webpack: It’s Not Magic Picks The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier (Rebecca Murphey) Paul Irish shared this image as his pick. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss the P2P web — including WebRTC, WebTorrent, and IPFS. They also get into React and React VR and the project of the week, PouchDB. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code jsparty. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Featuring:Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, XRachel White – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:The P2P Web WebRTC WebTorrent IPFS The Changelog #160: Ampersand.js, SPAs, and WebRTC with Henrik Joreteg The Changelog #227: Mad Science, WebTorrent, & WebRTC with Feross Aboukhadijeh React VR React VR - Build VR websites and interactive 360 experiences with React PouchDB PouchDB - the JavaScript Database that Syncs! Picks! Rachel: tiny-care-terminal - a little dashboard that tries to take care of you when you’re using your terminal Alex: pwmetrics - Progressive web metrics at your fingertipz Mikeal: Request For Commits - Season 2 is coming soon! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!