A JavaScript card trick

The Road to Ember 4.0 — The Ember.js framework is ten years old this year and while it’s not often in the headlines, it’s one of the most solid, reliable and battle tested systems out there and a big update is on the way.

Matthew Beale

What If Your Project Management Tool Was Fast and Intuitive? — Imagine how much more you could get done if your project management tools didn’t make you sigh. Clubhouse is the ideal solution for task management, bug tracking, iteration planning, and reporting. Delight the scrum gods and give us a try.

Clubhouse.io

HTM 3.1.0: A JSX Alternative using Standard Tagged Templates — This clever library has been around a few years but sees an update this week. Think JSX-style syntax but in plain JavaScript (using tagged templates) that requires no transpilation but still supports things like rest spread and referencing components.

Jason Miller

Deno 1.12 Released — The ‘server side JavaScript runtime that isn’t Node’ takes some more steps forward with TypeScript support in its REPL, improved Web Crypto support, and you can upgrade incoming HTTP requests on the (unstable) HTTP server to WebSocket connections.

Casonato and Iwańczuk

Building a Dynamic Header with Intersection Observer — Ever needed to have a component respond to elements as they’re scrolled to a certain threshold within the viewport? Attaching an event listener to constantly fire on scroll can be performance intensive, but there’s a better way..

Michelle Barker

The Ultimate Guide to Browser-Side Storage — Does a pretty good job of covering all the options, right from variables through localStorage and on up to non-standard browser APIs you probably don’t want to be using.

Craig Buckler

How To Migrate from jQuery to Next.js — The title put a confused expression on my face when I first saw it, but it’s broadly about going from a jQuery-based approach to a React-based one for common frontend tasks.

Facundo Giuliani

A Checklist for Freelance React Developers — Robin covers a variety of things to think about if you’re an independent React developer who needs to seamlessly get involved with existing teams and projects.

Robin Wieruch

FracturedJson: A Browser-Based JSON Formatter — Produces “human-readable but fairly compact output.” I like this. It’s not your typical linter but turns big lumps of JSON into something that it’s pleasant to look through.

J Brooke

mem 9.0: Simple Memoization Library — Memoization is an optimization technique used to speed up consecutive function calls by caching the result of calls with identical arguments.

Sindre Sorhus

devcert: Development SSL/TLS Certificates Made Easy — Need a certificate for local development when using Node? This package takes an interesting approach of creating its own root authority and issuing certificates automatically against it. It’s so slick though, I was impressed by it in my tests.

Dave Wasmer