Your weekly celebration of JavaScript and the web. This show records LIVE on Thursdays at 1pm US/Eastern time. Panelists include Jerod Santo, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Kevin Ball, Amelia Wattenberger, Nick Nisi, Divya Sasidharan, Mikeal Rogers, Chris Hiller, and Amal Hussein. Topics discussed include the web platform (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave, etc), front-end frameworks (React, Ember, Angular, Vue, etc), Node.js, web animation, SVG, robotics, IoT, and much more. If JavaScript and/or the web touch your life, this show’s for you. Some people search for JSParty and can’t find the show, so now the string JSParty is in our description too.
trust.js but verify
KBall, Jerod, and Nick break down some recent events in the JavaScript world. Take a dive into the recent event-stream malware attack, breaking down the State of JavaScript 2018 survey, and sharing pro tips to make your life better.
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Featuring
- Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub
Notes and Links
The event-stream incident
- FallingSnow’s initial issue that made it public
- npm yanked the package and reported on the attack
- Listen to Dominic Tarr discuss it on The Changelog (broken link until 2018-12-5)
- Could this be a copy-cat of this Hackernoon article from earlier this year?
The State of JS survey
- Check out the survey (and rad website) right here
- KBall recommends Mel Summer’s talk from EmberFest 2018
Pro Tips
- Jerod cites Eugen Kiss’s Lean Testing post (More commentary here)
- Nick recommends some handy git aliases from Cory Frang
- KBall’s tip is a
.clone()of Nick’s debugging trip from episode 46
Never forgot to trust.js but verify. 😉