Beating the JavaScript drum

July 30, 2021 By Mark Otto Off

Using console.log() Debugging in Visual Studio Code — Using the JavaScript debugger in VS Code you can access the browser developer tools console right inside the editor. Ideal if you’re in that happy majority of console.log debuggers? 🙂

Christian Heilmann

Learn the Fundamentals of Redux — Add scalable, production-ready state management into your React app and extend Redux’s abilities with tools like Reselect, Immer, and Redux Toolkit.

Frontend Masters

🥁  Drum Synthesis in JavaScript — The creator of Elementary, a system for building audio apps in JavaScript, shows off how he went about creating a drum synth on top of it.

Nick Thompson

QUICK BITS:
RELEASES:

prettier-eslint 13.0 – Format using Prettier then eslint --fix
ws 8.0 – Node.js WebSocket client and server library.
Plotly.js 2.3 – JS data visualization library.
date-fns 2.23.0 – Modern JavaScript date utility library.
Recoil 0.4.0 – Experimental state management for React apps.

Full Stack Utviklere — Visma søker utvikler i Norge eller Sverige. Avansert javascriptutvikling som minner mer om spillprogrammering enn tradisjonell koding.
Visma

Find JavaScript Jobs with Hired — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It’s free for job-seekers.
Hired

📖 Articles, Opinions & Tutorials

JavaScript’s ‘Forgotten’ Keyword: with — I’m linking to this because it’s an interesting appendage from JavaScript’s history that’s worth knowing about in case you see it, but that you should avoid using yourself.

Randall X

NFC Comes to the Web — NFC functionality is now widely available on the hardware side, with browser support slowly gaining (for example: Chrome for Android 91 now supports WebNFC). As such, Sven has been experimenting with the technology and captured his thoughts here (along with a few code examples).

Sven Haiges

🛠 Code & Tools

Quickly See Logs in LogDNA — The Node.js library lets you send logs from your Node.js and JavaScript apps to LogDNA, where they’re automatically parsed.

LogDNA