JavaScript Top 10 Articles for the Past Month (v.Dec 2017)

“The first time I saw JavaScript in 1995 I thought this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen”, Douglas Crockford continued,

“Nobody expected this, but JavaScript has become the world’s most important programming language today” —Douglas Crockford, JavaScript Architect at PayPal

Douglas at OSCON in Amsterdam

• 10 stories picked out of 1,200 JavaScript articles from the past month (0.9% chance)
• Topics: Cost of JavaScript, Async/Await, Interview, Chatbot, Unit Testing, Express.js, Neural Networks, Functional Programming, Metaprogramming
• JavaScript (v.Nov 2017): Here
• React, Node, Vue, Angular are posted separately: Here
• Open source of the month is included at the end.

Mybridge AI ranks articles based on the quality measured by our machine and a variety of human factors including engagement and popularity. This is a competitive list and you’ll find the experience and techniques shared by JavaScript leaders useful.

Rank 1

JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition. Courtesy of Dmitry Soshnikov

Rank 2

The Cost Of JavaScript. Courtesy of Addy Osmani, Engineering Manager at Google

Rank 3

The Definitive JavaScript Handbook for a developer interview. Courtesy of Gustavo Azevedo and freeCodeCamp

Rank 4

How we built AI Chatbot Using JavaScript and ChatScript. Courtesy of Yurii Vlasiuk and WebbyLab

Rank 5

Unit testing in JavaScript [Part 1]: Why unit testing? Courtesy of Mattias Petter Johansson at Fun Fun Function.

……….. [ Part 2: Your first tests ]

……….. [ Part 3: Test Runners ]

Rank 6

Going out to eat and understanding the basics of Express.js. Courtesy of Kevin Kononenko

Rank 7

Javascript and Functional Programming [Part I]: An Introduction. Courtesy of Omer Goldberg and Hackernoon

……….. [ Part 2: First Class Functions ]

Rank 8

Neural Networks in JavaScript with deeplearn.js. Courtesy of Robin Wieruch

Rank 9

JavaScript ES 2017: Learn Async/Await by Example. Courtesy of Brandon Morelli

Rank 10

JavaScript Metaprogramming: ES6 Proxy Use and Abuse. Courtesy of Eirik Vullum at JSConf Budapest 2017.

<Course of the Month>

No 1) JavaScript Advanced

Understanding the Weird Parts of JavaScript: Learn advanced JS concepts and build your own frameworks.

[94,736 recommends, 4.8/5 stars]

No 2) JavaScript Beginner

Learn Modern JavaScript for Beginners with ES6

[15,391 recommends]

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No 3) JS Data Structure

Learning Data Structures in JavaScript from Scratch: Write more efficient code by learning data structures.

[5,816 recommends, 4.6/5 stars]

<Open Source of the Month>

No 1) OCaml

Reason: Simple, fast & type safe code that leverages the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems — Facebook Engineering

[3,980 stars on Github]

No 2) Dates

Luxon: A library for working with dates and times in JS

[4,703 stars on Github]

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No 3) Validate Data

Superstruct: A simple and composable way to validate data in Javascript.

[2,466 stars on Github]

No 4) Scroll

Scrollama: A JavaScript library for scrollytelling using IntersectionObserver in favor of scroll events.

[2,605 stars on Github]

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