Changelog

Panelists Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Kevin Ball chat about the perceived Great Divide in front end development, why 2019 is the year of TypeScript, and shout outs to inspirational members of the community.

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Kent C. Dodds shares the backstory of paypal-scripts, a tool that encapsulates all the tools common to PayPal applications and published modules and why TypeScript was a fit. Kent took a poll in their #paypal-scripts Slack channel and 100% of respondents said they wanted the change. Here’s what happened next… About a week later, I had totally migrated paypal-scripts from supporting Flow to supporting TypeScript (most of that time was making all the tools recognize .ts and .tsx files 🙄 and allowing paypal-scripts to dogfood itself which is kinda tricky 🐶). … Then we had Christmas break 🎄 and the week we got back after the new year 🎆, it was merged and now every new project starts off with modern tools that will stay updated by default and will be statically typed with TypeScript.

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Nick, KBall, and Chris respond to follow up on the State of JavaScript survey, discuss Chromium, Edge, and the future of the web, and reminisce about the past year in the final JS Party of 2018!

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DevHub helps you take back control of your GitHub workflow and stay on top of everything important going on. Available on the web, iOS, and Android (thanks to React Native).

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I put Terminus’ tagline in scare quotes because while it’s intriguing, I do not know for sure whether it delivers on that promise. In more of its own words, Terminus is: …heavily inspired by Hyper. It is, however, designed for people who need to get things done. Them sound like fighting words. But what does “designed for people who need to get things done” mean, exactly? From the feature list in the README, I think maybe it means that it takes Windows more seriously than Hyper and handles printing output more quickly. But that’s just a guess… I’d love to see a roundup and comparison of this new breed of Electron-based terminals. Anybody game?

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The motivation behind NearDB: While working on building edge applications for higher performance and lower latency there is a need store persistent data also on edge. There are multiple distributed database solutions but they are very involved and costly while having a much lower global footprint than a CDN. The idea came up to leverage ubiquitous and mature infrastructure like cloud storage and CDNs to deliver a persistent data solution from the edge.

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Covers both client-side and server-side development. Available in Chinese and English.

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You can use this web app as a boilerplate for building your own SaaS product. The app has many common SaaS features, so you can focus on the features that differentiate your product. As with most boilerplates, this is opinionated about its stack, which features: React, Material-UI, Next, MobX, Express, Mongoose, MongoDB, Typescript Here’s the full list of features and the live demo.

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KBall and Tim are on location at O’Reilly’s Fluent and Velocity conference and had the chance to talk with Brian Douglas about GraphQL and GitHub’s recent changes, Aimee Knight about knowing when to use JavaScript over CSS, and Bryan Hughes about his start and robotics with JavaScript.

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If you need a JS runtime that supports TypeScript out of the box and has security as a top-most priority, star this repo and come back when it’s no longer “Segfaulty”. Feature bullets! 👇 No package.json, no npm. Not backwards compatible with Node Single executable Defaults to read-only file system access Always dies on uncaught errors Supports top-level await EDIT: it’s worth noting that this project is by Ryan Dahl, inventor of Node.js.

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Jerod Santo, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller talk about what TypeScript is and why we should care, who’s using TypeScript, and thoughts on developer titles.

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Pipe some JSON to the quicktype CLI and it will spit out types and code to read/write/validate the data in your language of choice. Currently supports 10 target languages. There’s also a web-based version so you can kick the tires.

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