Elevenses #11

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Opinion

• A set of best practices for JavaScript projects (from wearehive.co.uk)
• Software development 450 words per minute
• Did React just become more viable?

Development

• GraphQL tutorial
• Service Worker Gotchas
• JavaScript Libraries for Progressive Web Apps
• Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need to know someone may care :)

DotNet Core

• Choosing the right .NET Core technology …
• A few notes on creating Class Libraries for ASP.NET Core
• Handling HTML5 Client Route Fallbacks in ASP.NET Core
• GraphiQL in ASP.NET Core
• Can I port my application to .NET Core?
• Exploring refit, an automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Standard, see also refit
• Debugging into ASP.NET Core 2.0 source code

SQL

• Like jsFiddle, but for SQL Server …
• SQL Code Smells - some good advice here.
• SQL Server UPSERT Patterns and Antipatterns
• Securing your Azure SQL Databases

Cloud

• Google releeases Cloud Firestore beta, Firebase v2? …

JavaScript / Angular2+ / Ionic2 / React

• Stencil JS - this months new framework :) - see also What Is Stencil and How Will It Impact Ionic?
• TypeScript 2.5, see also TypeScript 2.4RC now with string enums!
• Angular 4.2 released
• Angular Material update
• Lazy loading: code splitting NgModules with Webpack - Todd Motto
• Typewriter - Sync your .NET API models with your JavaScript models (at least I think that’s what it does, not played with it yet)
• NgRx 4
• Using NgRx 4 to Manage State in Angular Applications
• How to use https://jwt.ms/ to decode JSON Web Tokens
• New http cilent in Angular 2, 4, 5 … or whatever it’s called this week :) (JSON by default, middleware …)

Libraries / Plugins / Components

• Buffering operators in Rxjs
• Lazy Loading at just over 0.5kb with no dependencies for images

Design

• email template designer - make beautiful email templates
• Hand picked gradients for a bit of inspiration
• Online Visio-esk drawing tool

Tools

• StackBlitz — Online VS Code IDE for Angular & React (awesome body of work)
• Directory of lots of services that have free tiers (e.g. )
• VS 2017, version 15.3 released
• Puppeteer - headless chrome testing without selenium - only chrome
• VS Code september update
• Useful tool for producing image maps #oldSchool

Performance

• Essential Image Optimsation

Security

• 2FA on your mobile phone and why you should stop using it
• Pawned password API
• Certificate Transparency, an introduction
• Let’s Encrypt - Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018
• You lock your phone, but do you lock your SIM?
• Why SMS two-factor authentication puts your bitcoins at risk
• MacOS password hint reveals your password!??! #facepalm
• Yahoo breach new figures announced … 50% of the population OF THE WORLD!

Testing

• Browser automated testing done easy

Misc

• .NET Conf 2017 Videos on Channel 9

Social / Fun / Cool

• How to Create a RetroPie on Raspberry Pi

Codepens

• Comic book style layout with CSS Grid #nice!

Lifestyle

• Free MOT reminder from the DVLA (why they haven’t been doing this for years I have no idea!) - remember you check online at any time too
• Check to see if your vehicle has been subject to a recall
• Cycling stuff (Leeds), including journey planner
• Is that product review genuine?

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