JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Tracy Hinds, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss good documentation, API docs, playbooks, Non-blocking UI Rendering, ember-concurrency, React Fiber and updates from Tracy on the Node.js Foundation and Node community. 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:Tracy Hinds – Website, GitHub, XRachel White – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Docs! What makes good documentation? Where are you sending your community if the docs aren’t good (hint: you don’t get to decide then)? How to’s, getting started, API docs, playbooks DevDocs Read the Docs Request For Commits #5: Documentation and the Value of Non-Code Contributions with Eric Holscher Spotlight #7: Focused on a Safe and Inclusive Node Community with Tracy Hinds Non-blocking UI Rendering Fastboot/isomorphic rendering ember-concurrency React Fiber Node.js Community Node.js Foundation Node.js Collection Node.js Foundation on Medium Picks! Alex: Prettier Rachel: increment.com Tracy: … Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss VM Neutrality in Node.js, learning JavaScript, and Mastodon - the open source friendly alternative to Twitter, et al. 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:Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, XRachel White – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:VM Neutrality in Node.js Node.js API (N-API) GeoIP-lite - A native NodeJS API for the GeoLite data Go Time #37: Gobot, Hardware, and Gatekeeping with Ron Evans Realtime Conf Soundtrack Learning JavaScript javaScript 30 from Wes Bos — a 30 day Vanilla JavaScript coding challenge The Changelog #244: Learning JavaScript and Bringing People Together with Tracy Lee JavaScript basics JS Assessment - a test-driven approach to assessing JS skills Creating cheats for games to get into programming Project of the Week Mastodon Mastodon instance for JavaScripters from Nolan Lawson Mastodon instances Mastodon guidelines Picks! Rachel: - Nolan Lawson’s Mastodon Alex: Keybase Mikeal: WebTorrent and The Changelog #227: Mad Science, WebTorrent, & WebRTC with Feross Aboukhadijeh Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss Web Components and questions like — “WTF is Shadow DOM?” and “Are custom elements ready?” We also discuss the JavaScript conference scene as well as attending, speaking and organizing conferences. Plus, the project of the week — p5.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:Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, XRachel White – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Web Components and WTF is Shadow DOM? In part 1 of the show we talked about Web Components and we discussed questions like — “WTF is Shadow DOM?” and “Are custom elements ready?” Shadow DOM v1: Self-Contained Web Components by Eric Bidelman — Engineer @ Google working on Lighthouse, Web Components, Chrome, and the web Conferences: Attending, Speaking, and Organizing In part 2 of the show we talked about attending, speaking and organizing conferences. Thunder Plains Conf Project of the Week p5.js Picks! Mikeal - Slideless Alex - Mike West ~ @mikewest + Web App Sec mailing list Rachel - Sarah Drasner and her new book SVG Animations: From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and special guest Juan Pablo Buritica discuss all things JavaScript in Latin America. The conferences, the communities, the meetups, JavaScript tooling, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – 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:Juan Pablo Buritica – GitHub, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Hacking your Front-End Apps by Alex Sexton at JSConf Colombia Check out JSConf Colombia + their CFP is now open Ask Juan Pablo Buritica about his Empanada Fund Project Guidelines for Effective Collaboration Picks Alex - CSS Grid — Check out the Complete Guide to CSS Grid at CSS Tricks, Grid by Example a collection of usage examples for the CSS Grid Layout specification, Learning CSS Grid Layout by Rachel Andrew, and Learn CSS Grid by Jen Simmons Mikeal - Google Chrome will no longer trust Symantec certificates, 30% of the web will need to switch Certificate Authorities and Attacking the Windows NVIDIA Driver Juan - Next.js and The Changelog #213: ZEIT, HyperTerm, and now with Guillermo Rauch Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), Service Workers, and Time in JavaScript. Jenn Schiffer also joined the show to talk about Glitch, our project of the week. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – Put errors in their place! npm install --save rollbar for error tracking in your Node.js apps. Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $2,000. Featuring:Jenn Schiffer – GitHub, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XRachel White – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Prep notes for this show: https://github.com/thechangelog/jsparty/blob/master/shows/2017-03-17.md If you haven’t yet, join the community and Slack with us in real time in the #jsparty channel during the show. Head to https://changelog.com/community PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) Progressive Web Apps - https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/ PWA Builder - http://preview.pwabuilder.com/ PWA Directory (a directory of Progressive Web Apps) - https://pwa-directory.appspot.com/ Essential Reading List for Getting Started With Service Workers Time MDN / Date Moment.js Talking with Jenn Schiffer about Glitch Glitch Glitch For Your API - From zero to working code in one minute Best Buy Remix API Picks Mikeal Rogers: ild Fermentation Rachel White: Hiring Without Whiteboards - Companies that don’t have a broken hiring process Jenn Schiffer: Greek Yogurt, this tweet, and jQuery 3.2.0 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss JavaScript Fatigue, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), and the project of the week Paths.js Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – Put errors in their place! npm install --save rollbar for error tracking in your Node.js apps. Toptal – Scale your team and hire from the top 3% of developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Featuring:Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, XRachel White – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Join the community to Slack with us about this show and the topics we cover. You can also suggest topics and guest panelist at our GitHub repo. Follow us on Twitter ~> we’re @JSPartyFM JS Fatigue What is JavaScript Fatigue The deep roots of JavaScript Fatigue @substack thinks you’re overcomplicating it Is “Start with React” a viable solution? Tools for Radicals by Justin Falcone AMP Overview AMP Promises faster load times The problem with AMP Criticism: AMP and the Web Pros and Cons Bug in AMP inflates traffic metrics How to get past AMP to a regular site Project of the Week Paths.js Picks Rachel: tracery Mikeal: Lemonade Stand Alex: Intl.js Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss all the details around Web Assembly, and the effects of higher education and JavaScript, and JS Standards. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – Put errors in their place! npm install --save rollbar for error tracking in your Node.js apps. Toptal – Scale your team and hire from the top 3% of developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Featuring:Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, XRachel White – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:The topics covered in today’s show: Web Assembly and higher education with JavaScript, and JS Standards Project(s) of the Week: Lesser known JS standards — Abstract Blob Store, Abstract Chunk Store Web Assembly is ready. What kind of impact will it have on the ecosystem? Brendan is worried vendors will mess this up Cartoon intro to Web Assembly Getting Started with Web Assembly in Node.js Stanford is Migrating from Java to JavaScript Project(s) of the Week Lesser Known JS Standards Abstract Blob Store Abstract Chunk Store Picks Mikeal: Offline Camp, JSConf EU, csv,conf, and OpenVis Conf Alex: flow-typed Rachel: Data Sketches Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this first episode of JS Party, Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss security on the web and how SHA-1 is broken, Node.js v7.6 and async/await, and this week’s featured project AR.js. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – Put errors in their place! npm install --save rollbar for error tracking in your Node.js apps. Toptal – Scale your team and hire from the top 3% of developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Featuring:Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, XRachel White – GitHub, XAlex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:The topics covered in today’s show: Security on the web SHA-1 is broken Node.js v7.6 gets async/await Featured Project — AR.js. Stop using SHA-1 The effects of SHA-1 on Git Multiformats Multihash and JS Multihash Observatory by Mozilla - a project designed to help developers, system administrators, and security professionals configure their sites safely and securely The PCI Security Standards Council - a global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection. Node.js v7.6 gets async/await Experimenting with async/await co - Generator based control flow goodness for nodejs and the browser, using promises, letting you write non-blocking code in a nicer way. AR.js Picks from the panel Mikeal: regl - Declarative stateless rendering for WebG bits.coop Alex: Observatory by Mozilla Rachel: How Computers Read Pixels (Drawing on Canvas) — Mariko Kosaka Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this show we meet Rachel White, front-end engineer, Tech Evangelist on the DX team at Microsoft, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Rachel shares her fun attitude, her backstory, topics she’s excited to discuss, and who she hopes listens to this show. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Rachel White – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Spotlight #11: Node, IoT, and RoboticS with Rachel White at Node.js Interactive 2016 robokitty BuzzFeed: Everything You Need To Know About Japan’s Amazing Photo Booths Web Bos and his courses — React for Beginners and JavaScript 30 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this show we meet Alex Sexton, a front-end infrastructure engineer at Stripe, Modernizr core team member, and panelist on this show — JS Party. Alex shares his backstory, where he’s coming from, topics he’s excited to discuss, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: yayQuery jQuery Foundation JS Foundation Modernizr YepNopeJS Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!