Hey dev.to community!

BxJS Weekly Episode 77 is now out! 🚀
Listen to the best javascript news of the week in a podcast form right here.

Here's all the mentioned links (also found on github):

Getting started:

• Why I like JavaScript Optional Chaining
• Build a Command-Line Real-Time Chat App using SocketIO
• Text to speech in the browser with the Web Speech API
• JavaScript to Know for React
• Using requestAnimationFrame with React Hooks
• A Guide for Refs in React
• Functors from first principle - explained with JS

Articles & News:

• Symbiotic Definitely Typed
• Recursion optimization in JS - where is it? PTC, TCO and FUD
• Using Native JavaScript Modules in Production Today
• Modern React testing, part 1: best practices
• Metaprogramming in JS: Write your first codemod!
• The Native File System API: Simplifying access to local files
• How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night
• WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things!

Tips, tricks & bit-sized awesomeness:

• A black hole simulation in 140 bytes of JavaScript
• Flood fill - image transition effect
• WebView2Browser: A rich sample for WebView2
• GitHub supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for security keys
• PSA: Promise.race() will execute the side effects of "losing" promises, because promises cannot be cancelled
• 32-bit support for JS's BigInt<>Wasm's i64 has now landed in v8
• StandardJS: npm install funding (ads in CLI)

Releases:

• Standard 14
• date-fns v2.0.0
• Node v12.9.0
• AdminBro v1.0.0
• Microsoft Web Template Studio v2.0
• Microsoft Edge Beta

Libs & demos:

• react-nodegui
• ruffle
• React-Discord-Clone
• thunderclap
• airframe-react
• PyNode
• Chonky
• nact
• input-knob
• spring.js
• postwoman
• fusionjs
• throttles
• create-react-library
• chart.xkcd

Interesting & silly stuff:

• 💤

Any feedback is appreciated 😁

Additional stuff:

• Youtube channel
• Twitch channel
• Discord server
• BxJS Weekly github repo

Social media links:

• Twitter
• Github

If you enjoy my content, please consider supporting me 😉