Modules and Custom Symbols in the Next JavaScript Version - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 66

Summary Transcript

First we will discuss the proposal for using decorators for JavaScript, what they are and are they coming to JavaScript or not.

In the next topic we will discuss this new feature in ES6 symbols, what they are, how use them, honestly I have no idea if this is for ourselves, but this article is pretty descriptive.

Next topic is a modules coming to the Web platform, described by the standards, how are they create and they would be, and what to expect.

Then there is an interesting post, what if we had a great standard library in JavaScript, and by library it does not mean a package or class that you would use but a real library with books, so it's an analogy that.. author and books, and why we also still ... but basically this describes the old system of JavaScript and depending on many other modules, packages and stuff like that.

We also have a blog post by npm, which is node package manager, and they share their statistics, how many there are packages and users are using or downloading them. So it's also really interesting, and you will see that the numbers are really great.

Then we can have a moment of fun, viewing a couple of comics about from JavaScript ComicStrip. They are usually making fun of tedious developer work, and maybe you like and want to check it out more.

Then if you are older than 20 years, you could probably remember Clippy, from old Microsoft, which was a helper and there's a library that add it to your Web site or App, so we will discuss it more too.

Then there is a library Expounder which allows you to expand text in your paragraph that would for example describe specific definition or term that you used in your text.

Then there is a blog post about Visual Studio, specifically Salsa, a language service that is static analysis for JavaScript that you might use.

Then there is an article about style sheets in JavaScript, specifically CSSX, which would allow you to create CSS style sheets programatically.

Then there is a package, library called ScrollBear, which would allow you to preserve your scroll position while loading images, so if you have a Web site that has a lot of images while they load you can jump with the scroll bar and you can come directly to the same image, and this library would help you with that.

In the end, probably Manuel will discuss new additions to PHP and JS Classes Web site, a new award certificate and many other things that you really want to hear.

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