Elevenses #17

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News & Opinion

• Google Maps is now officially a gaming platform
• Weekly most popular JS repositories. The grass is green
• Principles of Chaos Engineering - Chaos Engineering manifesto. Basically turn stuff off and your system should handle it
• What Can Bike Sharing Apps Teach Us About Mobile On-boarding Design?
• How the EU made our website slow - bloomin’ VATMOSS - see also JSON vat
• When 7 KB Equals 7 MB - Cloud Four

Development

• Learn to combine RxJs sequences with super intuitive interactive diagrams

DotNet Core / Azure

• .NET Core Plugins

Accessibility

• Designing for accessibility is not that hard

JavaScript / Angular2+ / Ionic2+ / ReactJS

• WebAssembly - Binary format for browsers, supported by all the main modern browsers.
• Hyperapp - 1 kB JavaScript framework for building web applications.
• Angular: NGXS - State management library
• Angular How-to: Call a REST API while bootstrapping angular 2 app
• Angular How-to: Editable Config Files

Libraries / Plugins / Components

• An Easy to Understand Webpack 4+ Configuration
• Weex - A framework for building Mobile, cross-platform UIs

Data / APIs

• JSON vat, see also JSON vat feed
• kepler.gl - Powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets

UI & UX

• Solved by Flexbox — Cleaner, hack-free CSS - common flex box patterns

Tools

• VS Code Can Do That?
• Google Shopping List really useful when combined with OK Google
• reveal.js – The HTML Presentation Framework
• Hyper-V Android emulator support
• garris/BackstopJS: Catch CSS curve balls. - BackstopJS automates visual regression testing of your responsive web UI by comparing DOM screenshots over time
• Netlify: Build, deploy, and manage modern web projects - CI for GitHhub
• Does it mutate? - Does a given JavaScript method mutate?
• Brush Ninja | A FREE Hand-drawn Animated Gif editor - useful for creating animated gifs
• The whole of WordPress compiled to .NET Core and a NuGet Package with PeachPie

Testing

• Angular Tests Made Easy With Spectator
• Headless mode - Mozilla | MDN - Firefox headless testing
• End to End Testing Framework | Cypress.io - All encompassing unit test runner

Security

• NPM - How to run a security audit with “npm audit”
• The npm Blog — The Node Security Platform is shutting down - nsp is now “npm audit”
• Dependabot - Assesses your github projects for vulnerabilities, and can create a pull request with the updates.

Misc

• Know You Traffic Signs

Social / Fun / Cool

• Famous Places - Guess where in the world you are, based on a Street View location
• Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows - Windows 95 as an Electron app … why? Dunno, but it’s cool!
• BASIC Engine - Kind of like a raspberry pi, but different … and with a BASIC interpreter .. think ZX Spectrum, in pi world ..

Funky code things

• Playable Mario Kart in CSS
• Let there be light

Lifestyle

• Paul Lewis Money: Claim £200 to £500 for flight delays
• Have your say on transport in Leeds
• Armley Gyratory - improvement plans

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