WASM in Node.js, Scaling React Apps, Alexa Streaming Skills, Design Systems, and Style Guides! 🧩

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Pony Foo Weekly Issue #169 — May 30, 2019

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Scaling React

Facebook React with Dan Abramov

Podcast

Dan hops on a podcast to talk React, Facebook, and refactoring at scale.

Dan Abramov

Better Apps with React Server-Side Rendering

Deep Dive

Try out this tutorial on using React server-side rendering with data store injection to make your web apps more responsive, easier to test, and better at scale.

Matthew Drake

Getting Fancy

Building an Alexa Streaming Skill

Tutorial

Yi demonstrates how to write a custom skill for Amazon Echo using the Alexa Skills Kit for Node.

Yi Ai

Node v12.3.0 released

News

Notably, you can now import WebAssembly modules — using the --experimental-wasm-modules flag.

`...rest`

Pillars of a Design System

Deep Dive

Design systems are beasts that want to get tamed. With the right preparation, diligence and perseverance we can get it done.

Tim Schoch

Front-End Documentation, Style Guides and the Rise of MDX

Article

How to use Array#reduce beyond maths

Deep Dive

Using Array#reduce with anything other than numbers starts to get really confusing, James argues. In the article, he looks at some of the more interesting things you can do with Array#reduce.

James Sinclair