Weekly Digest 08/2022
Welcome to my Weekly Digest #8 of this year.
This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, podcasts, and designs I consumed during this week.
Interesting articles to read
Explain the First 10 Lines of Twitter’s Source Code to Me
A question Anand always likes to ask when interviewing a front-end candidate is: “Explain the first ten or so lines of the Twitter source code to me.”
A few methods to check if all values in the JavaScript array are the same
There are many solutions to the same problem in programming, and that’s one of my favorite things about it. Checking if all the items in an array are the same is an interesting exercise, so let’s look at a few options.
Testing Pipeline 101 For Frontend Testing
Automated testing can give you much confidence in merging your changes, especially in extensive refactoring or working with your teammates. As a result, you might have thought about including testing as part of your build routine to get the most value out of it. Don’t know where to start?
Some great videos I watched this week
Create the Coinbase QR Code Commercial in React
Let’s recreate the Coinbase commercial with bouncing and color-changing QR code.
Clean Up Your Explorer With File Nesting
Vite in 100 Seconds
Vite is a JavaScript build tool that makes it faster and easier to build web applications. It’s similar to tools like Webpack but relies on modern browser features like ES Modules to simplify and speed up the build process.
Useful GitHub repositories
Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph is a fast and featureful code search and navigation engine.
Release Drafter
Drafts your next release notes as pull requests are merged into master. Built with Probot.
dribbble shots
Travel Mobile App
Expense & Income Manager
Ticket UI for Natural Desktop
Tweets
Podcasts worth listening
Syntax — JavaScript in 2022 — New, Coming and Proposed Features
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about new proposed features coming to JavaScript in 2022.
CodePen Radio — Amit Sheen
Chris got to talk with Amit Sheen this week about his journey into creative coding. Even his early work is incredibly interesting and recent work is downright stunning.
Thank you for reading, talk to you next week, and stay safe! 👋
