Net Neutrality, Clean Code, Prepack, dat, pkg and infinite state composition! 🌏

Below, you can find the Pony Foo Weekly newsletter issue #62 — Net Neutrality, Clean Code, Prepack, dat, pkg and infinite state composition!
. It was sent to our subscribers on May 11, 2017.

Pony Foo Weekly Issue #62 — May 11, 2017

Net Neutrality Needs Our Help!

Equal access to online information is under serious threat, with the FCC chair looking to roll back the vote made 2 years ago.

Visit gofccyourself.com and leave your comments* with the FCC before the May 18th vote. It’ll only take a minute to convey your support for Net Neutrality.

_{*: It doesn’t matter if you’re a US resident or not! Just check “International” below your address.}

Curiosity Avenue

Energizing Atom with V8’s custom start-up snapshot

performance

Yang examines V8 snapshots in the context of Atom, and how they could futher improve their snapshotting experience with the latest advancements of the V8 API.

Yang Guo

Learn Node with Wes!

Course

Wes has just come out with a premium training course to learn to build apps with Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and friends. Highly recommended!

Wes Bos

Distributed Dataset Synchronization and Versioning

paper

A whitepaper explaining how the dat protocol works to ensure secure transmissions of data folders, even when those folders are large in size or very frequently updated.

Maxwell Ogden

JavaScript frameworks & libs fade and die, great tools and acquired skills don’t.

tooling

Wallaby.js provides instant feedback from your tests and realtime code coverage right in your editor, no more context switching. Now with test analytics and coverage reports.

Wallaby.js

Avatar Design That Makes Sense

Michelle inspired me to come up with new default avatars for Pony Foo comments — I’m calling them “Ponytars”.

I purchased a small pack of monster icons on Shutterstock, and then wrote some code to serve them as default gravatars, which used to be identicons.

Read any article on Pony Foo and find the new Ponytars in the comments!

Michelle Venetucci Harvey

JavaScript Patterns

“Is Prepack like Svelte?”

Article

Rich weighs the differences and similarities between Prepack and the Svelte framework.

Rich Harris

Infinite State Composition with Freactal

Article

“Freactal’s fractal architecture, combined with its consolidated toolbelt for managing state, renews the component contract and embraces the true promise of React.”

Looks nice, fixes one of the biggest problems of Redux – it’s ever-growing massiveness as a single state container.

Tyler Thompson

Online Master’s in Information Design and Strategy

An online, part-time program at Northwestern University that’s taught by industry leaders and top professors.

Northwestern

Asynchronous JavaScript with async/await

Course

In this course Marius teaches how to use async/await to write easier to follow and more readable code than the equivalent based on long promise chains or deeply nested callbacks.

Marius Schulz

Open-Source World

zeit/pkg

tools

Package your Node.js project into a single executable file that doesn’t depend on the system having Node.js installed.

React Riot

events

React Riot is a 48-hour hackathon featuring React.js. It’s an online, virtual competition with contestants worldwide, starting on June 24th, 2017. Sign up now at reactriot.com! It’s free to participate and you can win some seriously awesome prizes!

chroma.js — JavaScript library for dealing with colors

Code

It has a thoroughly extensive API to work with colors.

Gregor Aisch

clean-code-javascript