The digest of fresh materials from the world of the frontend for the last week №246 (January 16 - 22, 2017)

We offer to your attention a selection with links to useful resources and interesting materials from the frontend area.

Web development

CSS

Javascript

Browsers

Entertaining

Web development

• WebAssembly - the path to new performance horizons .
  Introduction to WebAssembly
• What to fix in the layout before release in production?
• The first official release of Webpack 2. What's new compared to Webpack 1?
• Web standards podcast, Release №51 : ES6 and global modules, PhantomJS, web manifesto, VK frontend, CSS methodologies, SVG icons.
• 14 main stages of web development over the past 20 years
• Using the aria-current attribute
• The complexity of the element input type = date
• Defining a site page structure template
• Building modules and Webpack in plain language
• Large collection of public APIs
• Adventures with NPM or: How I stopped using npm shrinkwrap and fell in love with Yarn
• Problem with amp
• Stylized components: we use the best practices in the systems of components
• Simple radial charts with SVG (A simple pie chart in SVG)
• Responsive, multi-color SVG icons
• WebSlides - a simple tool for creating HTML presentations.
• Little Fragments: creating creative effects for posters

CSS

• CSS evolution: from CSS, SASS, BEM and CSS modules to styled-components
• Theme using CSS variables
• Ack for CSS developers
• Align the SVG icons in the text and say goodbye iconic fonts
• Understanding the Critical Rendering Path
• Animate various end states with a single set of CSS Keyframes
• Creative CSS Loader inspired by Elite Dangerous
• Writing Element Queries Today with EQCSS
• Examples of proper animation for motion effects.
• Color scheme generator
• Complete guide to non-rectangular headers (part 1)

Javascript

• JS optimization killers are no longer so scary
• Pure javascript. Objects and data structures. Asynchrony. Error processing
• Native ECMAScript Native Modules - First Review
• Rising Stars JavaScript 2016
• Five of the best JS frameworks in 2017
• 5 great ways to implement Lazy Load images to speed page loading
• Everything you need to know about JavaScript Source Maps
• Parsing absolutely everything in JavaScript using the Earley algorithm
• Chatting with Brendan Eich (javascript creator)
• Short history of javascript language
• Functional programming in javascript
• Asynchronous JavaScript Generators
• Clean the code with Eslint - Spacedojo Code Kata
• Angular vs React - a stumbling block
• Angular:
  
  
  • Angular 2: why on TypeScript?
  • Angular vs Angular 2: key differences
  • What is Angular?
  • Should you teach Angular 1.x or 2?
  • Progressive Web Apps with angular 2+
  • The taste of the fourth version of Angular
  • Angular 2 in production
  • Angular 2: what is already working, what needs to be improved and what is it going
  
  
• React:
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  • 60fps React
  • Internationalization React Application
  • Creating PWA using React, Webpack, and the rest
  • JavaScript immutability using Redux (Immutability in JavaScript using Redux)
  • Tic-tac-toe on React and Redux
  • Think in terms of Redux (if all you know is MVC)
  • React Table - working with tables for React
  
  
• Vue:
  
  
  • Vue.js 2.0 in less than 30 minutes for beginners [2017]
  • Getting started with Vue + Vuex
  • RxJS integration with Vue.js
  • vue-weather-notifier - a small weather app on Vue with SVG animation
  
  
• Plugins & Libs:
  
  
  • swarm-numberformat - formatting large numbers in human-readable formats
  • when-dom-ready - analogue of $ (document) .ready () on promises
  • Mitt - small 200b functional event emitter

Browsers

• The creators of Firefox presented a new logo and corporate identity of the company.
• Chrome will support FLAC
• In Firefox, new themes will be offered by default.
• Consideration is being given to the removal of Firefox Developer Tools into the system supplement.
• First Jubilee Chakra Engine
• In the assembly Edge nightly added full-color Emoji

Entertaining

• Software AI learns how to do AI: scientists report on the progress in self-learning artificial intelligence
• Satya Nadella believes that AI should help people, not take their work away from them.
• The cost of evolution: the benefits of procrastination
• Future or new type of fraud: what we know about algorithmic trading
• "Followers of Mavrodi" launched their own cryptocurrency Mavro
• My worst mistakes in PR for 25 years at Apple, PayPal and Visa
• Google has begun to lower the rating of pages with intrusive advertising in mobile search
• The list of the most popular words in source codes is published - the author analyzed 2 TB of data
• Created a robot that communicates using gifs
• The war is changing: how the first domestic MMORPG works on the basis of Telegram
• How does sex with robots in the movie and in reality
• How is the protection of films and TV shows from pirates
• Viva Las-Vegas: the life of gambling internet
• Forerunners of success: the dead predecessors of great startups
• The country of dreamers, the country of scientists. What discoveries did the Soviet mathematicians, engineers and biologists in the GULAG

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