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BxJS Weekly Episode 53 is now out! 🚀
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Here's all the mentioned links (also found on github):

Articles & News:

• Hooks for React.js - the new ketchup?
• Higher order functions and some great applications in javascript
• Writing Unit Tests For A Rewrite: A Case Study
• How Are Function Components Different from Classes?
• Gopher meet Plasma: A WebAssembly Experiment
• Understanding a Performance Issue with “Polymorphic” JSON Data
• React Hooks: Compound Components
• How to Enable React Strict Mode
• Using CSS Selectors In Javascript
• Maintaining global state in AWS Lambda functions with Async Hooks
• JavaScript Fundamentals: Master the DOM! (Part 1)
• JavaScript Performance Pitfalls in V8
• useTypescript — A Complete Guide to React Hooks and TypeScript
• Handtrack.js: Hand Tracking Interactions in the Browser using Tensorflow.js and 3 lines of code.
• Building rich command-line interfaces with Ink and React
• Tutorial: How to share code between iOS, Android & Web using React Native, react-native-web and monorepo
• How to render 3D in 2D canvas
• Scheduling in React
• JavaScript Symbols: But Why?

Tips, tricks & bit-sized awesomeness:

• Fast string concatenation in JavaScript
• JavaScript "loose" comparison step by step
• Demo for how useReducer + useContext for dispatch can improve perf compared to just useState and passing down callbacks
• W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins
• The Node.js modules team just reached consensus on what we plan to upstream
• I just made this diagram of modern React lifecycle methods. Hope you’ll find it helpful!
• Hey folks! I am soliciting feedback for the tc39 website.

Releases:

• Storybook 5.0
• Preact X alpha
• Marble.js 2.0
• Unfetch 4.1
• Node v11.11.0
• eslint-plugin-react-hooks v1.5.0

Libs & demos:

• deno.land
• maps-journey-replay
• unavatar
• frenchkiss.js
• vectorious
• eslint-config-react-native-community
• femtoJS
• code-server
• cherow
• autocannon
• iro.js

Interesting & silly stuff:

• Coping with Feedback
• Researchers uncover ring of GitHub accounts promoting 300+ backdoored apps
• Facebook Is Allowing Anyone to Look You Up Using Your Two-Factor Authentication Phone Number
• JavaScript considered harmful. For real, according to JP police.
• Researchers asked 43 freelance developers to code the user registration for a web app and assessed how they implemented password storage. 26 devs initially chose to leave passwords as plaintext.

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