Responsible JavaScript, Diagnostic Reports, Integrity Policy, React Hooks for Routing & CSS Blur 🆒

Below, you can find the Pony Foo Weekly newsletter issue #161 — Responsible JavaScript, Diagnostic Reports, Integrity Policy, React Hooks for Routing & CSS Blur
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Pony Foo Weekly Issue #161 — April 4, 2019

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The Thought Piece

Responsible JavaScript

Deep Dive

Jeremy plots a course to avoid the unnecessary bloat and inaccessible patterns of current JavaScript trends.

Jeremy Wagner

Simple & Boring

Deep Dive

What is simple? A deep rabbit hole.

Chris Coyier

Northwestern Online MS in Information Design and Strategy

Choose from specializations in content strategy, data science and analytics, and learning design.

Cool Stuff

Disguise-Driven Testing: Jest Mocks in Depth

Article

Testing can be simple. In fact, it is simple. Well, it is simple until impurities slip in. Code that would be easy to test becomes a nightmare as soon as you get impure.

Joe Morgan

Debug Node.js Applications with Diagnostic Report

Introductory

Learn why Diagnostic Report is important, how to interpret the report data, and walk you through some example use cases of using the tool.

Gireesh Punathil — IBM

Core: a free front-end feature kit for React and HTML

Free from Mason—get Core, an essential feature kit that actually works, and quit building the same front-end experiences over and over!

merge-release

Code

Any merges to master get automatically published to npm.

Mikeal Rogers

Blurred Borders in CSS

Deep Dive

“Say we want to target an element and just visually blur the border of it. There is no simple, single built-in web platform feature we can reach for. But we can get it done with a little CSS trickery.”

Ana Tudor

Security

Experimental Integrity Policies in Node.js

security

An experimental feature for introducing integrity policies landed in Node.js 11.8.0. This capability provides integrity checks for a Node.js runtime when modules are being loaded, in order to verify that the modules code haven’t been tampered with.

Liran Tal