april.md

April 2019

• In memory of Joe Armstrong (@joeerl), creator of erlang

  • Why do we need modules at all? - http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/058768.html
  • [video] The Mess We're In - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

• Dave Sullivan, Agile Lite - https://github.com/davebs/AgileLite

• Cody Lindley, JavaScript Enlightenment updated for ES-2015+ - https://frontendmasters.com/books/javascript-enlightenment/

• Accessibility

  • Adrian Roselli, Avoid Messages Under Fields - http://adrianroselli.com/2017/01/avoid-messages-under-fields.html
  • Matt Reyer, Developing a JavaScript-free Frontend - https://javascript.works-hub.com/learn/a-javascript-free-frontend-61275
  • Brad Frost, Enforcing Accessibility Best Practices with Automatically-Generated IDs - http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/enforcing-accessibility-best-practices-with-automatically-generated-ids/

• Other good stuff

  • Sebastiano Guerriero, Theme-switching with CSS custom properties (variables) - https://codyhouse.co/blog/post/dark-light-switch-css-javascript
  • Avik Das, A graphical introduction to dynamic programming - https://avikdas.com/2019/04/15/a-graphical-introduction-to-dynamic-programming.html
  • Iven Marquardt, Taming the DOM - https://medium.com/@iquardt/taming-the-dom-50c8f1a6e892
    • (gist) Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) implemented with a couple rules, types and combinators - https://gist.github.com/ivenmarquardt/9f9d53e2469b3df438f3628297e2dc9f
  • Bret Cameron, Useful tips for writing more concise and performant JavaScript - https://medium.com/@bretcameron/12-javascript-tricks-you-wont-find-in-most-tutorials-a9c9331f169d

• Monorepos

  • Michal Zalecki, Solve code sharing and setup project with Lerna and monorepo - https://michalzalecki.com/solve-code-sharing-and-setup-project-with-lerna-and-monorepo/ - this one uses lerna and create-react-app - good, fast, and cheap
  • Markus Oberlehner, Monorepos in the Wild - https://medium.com/@maoberlehner/monorepos-in-the-wild-33c6eb246cb9
  • John Tucker, Monorepos by Example:
    • Part 1 - https://codeburst.io/monorepos-by-example-part-1-3a883b49047e
    • Part 2 - https://codeburst.io/monorepos-by-example-part-2-4153712cfa31
    • Part 3 - https://codeburst.io/monorepos-by-example-part-3-1ebdea7ccbea
  • Lerna, A tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages - https://github.com/lerna/lerna
    • sidebar on npm-scope - https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scope
  • Andrico Karoulla, Develop and Deploy your own React monorepo app in under 2 hours, using Lerna, Travis and Now. - https://codeburst.io/develop-and-deploy-your-own-react-monorepo-app-in-under-2-hours-using-lerna-travis-and-now-2b140d647238
    • git repo: Lerna Monorepo Article (Starter) - https://github.com/andrico1234/lerna-monorepo-finisher

• M.J. Parnell, The use of “science” (or "best practices" or "it's a standard") as a superficial lacquer designed to impress (or silence), with scant regard for truth, has only one description: bullshit. - http://mjparnell.com/bullshit_science_ux_design/ - fire the pretentious dilettante charlatans who know they can't bullshit you but still do it anyway, hoping you'll shut up and do as you're told.

• Examples of Bullshit with Harmful Consequences

  • Liferay 7 + React (JS)

    • Portlet API - http://portals.apache.org/pluto/portlet-1.0-apidocs/
    • Deploy jar files into running docker instance of liferay - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46434606/how-to-deploy-the-jar-files-into-liferay-running-on-docker-from-local-machine
    • Sharing session data across portlets - https://community.liferay.com/blogs/-/blogs/how-can-i-share-session-data-across-portlets-in-liferay-
    • Search for "map LDAP" - https://liferay4all.blogspot.com/
    • Customize liferay navigation (persist) - https://community.liferay.com/forums/-/message_boards/message/94612790
    • A Liferay JavaScript portlet to speed up development - https://github.com/hannikkala/liferay-javascript-portlet
    • Alexander Konovalov, Liferay 7 + React JS (or anyone other JS framework) - https://medium.com/@s2dent/liferay-7-react-js-or-anyone-other-js-framework-cb7193f6dbfa
    • Liferay npm bundler - https://community.liferay.com/it/blogs/-/blogs/why-we-need-a-new-liferay-npm-bundler-2-of-3-

  • React/JSX, Redux...:

    • Anton Lavrenov (@lavrton), Optimizing react-redux store for high performance updates - https://lavrton.com/optimizing-react-redux-store-for-high-performance-updates-3ae6f7f1e4c1/
    • Alex Gilleran, JSX Control Statements - https://github.com/AlexGilleran/jsx-control-statements - (JSTL/XSLT tags but for the browser, so it's "cool" now)
    • Matt Crowder, mapToDispatchProps - https://dev.to/mcrowder65/you-ve-been-doing-mapdispatchtoprops-wrong-this-entire-time-582m
    • Koen Bok, ES6 / React Cheatsheet - https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/ES6-React-Cheatsheet-Th7joG9fFSSiyZgOFYqj6

  • JSX alternatives:

    • react-hyperscript - https://github.com/mlmorg/react-hyperscript
    • htm by Jason Miller (@_developit) - https://github.com/developit/htm - do it at build time, or on the server...
    • ijk - https://github.com/lukejacksonn/ijk

  • React alternatives:

    • preact by @_developit - https://preactjs.com/
    • hyperapp (version coming soon) - https://github.com/jorgebucaran/hyperapp

  • React application testing

    • @Raathigesh, Majestic, Zero Config desktop UI for Jest - https://majestic.debuggable.io/ - electron app, pretty snazzy
    • Dominic Frazer, Testing React with Jest and Enzyme:
      • Part I - https://medium.com/codeclan/testing-react-with-jest-and-enzyme-20505fec4675
      • Part II - https://codeburst.io/testing-react-events-with-jest-and-enzyme-ii-46fbe4b8b589
    • Dominic Frazer, Mocking HTTP requests with Nock - https://codeburst.io/testing-mocking-http-requests-with-nock-480e3f164851
    • Vijay Thirugnanam, Unit Testing React Components: Jest or Enzyme? - https://www.codementor.io/vijayst/unit-testing-react-components-jest-or-enzyme-du1087lh8
    • Kent C. Dodds, react-testing-library - https://github.com/kentcdodds/react-testing-library
    • Matt Crowder, How to test implementation details with react-testing-library - https://dev.to/mcrowder65/how-to-test-implementation-details-with-react-testing-library-4bln