Included with [email protected] is an extra binary named npx: npx is a tool intended to help round out the experience of using packages from the NPM registry — the same way npm makes it super easy to install and manage dependencies hosted on the registry, npx makes it easy to use CLI tools and other executables hosted …
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😎 Emoji Compositions
In succession to Split emoji text effect with CSS (which has received an update by now BTW), PixelAmbacht has created a nice Emoji composition using the U+1F60E Smiling Face With Sunglasses emoji (😎) as the key modifier. Note: For some mysterious reason the original demo yielded a blank page for me. Changing the font-size to …
WTF is The Blockchain?
Mohit Mamoria has written a 3500-word guide in plain English to understanding Blockchain. Unlike every other post on the internet, instead of first defining the Blockchain, we’ll understand the problem it solves. Best explanation I’ve read so far. WTF is The Blockchain? → Speaking of Blockchain, things could go very wrong for Bitcoin on August …
LogRocket: Logging and Session Replay for JavaScript Apps
LogRocket is a front-end logging tool that lets you replay problems as if they happened in your own browser. Instead of guessing why errors happen, or asking users for screenshots and log dumps, LogRocket lets you replay the session to quickly understand what went wrong. It works perfectly with any app, regardless of framework, and …
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Webpack Academy
Sean Larkin, one of the maintainers of Webpack, has started a video series to working with Webpack. The first course, entitled “The Core Concepts” is available for free: One of the biggest mysteries about webpack is how it works. As one of the maintainers of webpack, Sean Larkin is going to take you down a …
An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2017
This short guide is intended to catch you up with the most important reasoning, terms, tools, and approaches to JavaScript testing. It combines many great recently written articles about some aspects discussed here and adds a little more from our experience. That first sentence is a lie though, nothing “short” about this grand overview ;). …
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Improve the GitHub Website with “Refined GitHub”
Refined GitHub is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox “that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features”. The nice list of additions includes URL Condensing (pictured above) and Markdown preservation when copying comments (pictured below). The extension is also able to add a few extra views, filters, and links (such as linking to …
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Apollo Launchpad – The GraphQL Server Demo Platform
Full-stack React + GraphQL Tutorial
An extensive 5-part tutorial by the Apollo folks, using their own Apollo Client to communicate with the GraphQL Server: Despite the great advantages of using GraphQL [over REST], the first step can be a bit daunting. That’s why I’ve started writing a series of tutorials that take you step by step through building a full-stack …