khalidx

The experience of using Node.JS with TypeScript, ts-node, and ESM is horrible.

There are countless guides of how to integrate them, but none of them seem to work.

Here's what worked for me.

Just add the following files and run npm run dev. You'll be good to go!

package.json

1Marc

// Credit Ryan Carniato https://frontendmasters.com/courses/reactivity-solidjs/

let context = [];

export function untrack(fn) {
    const prevContext = context;
    context = [];
    const res = fn();
    context = prevContext;
    return res;

noamr

function parseHTML(getNextElement) {
  let doneParsing = null;
  const whenDoneParsing = new Promise(resolve => { doneParsing = resolve; });

  while (const element = getNextElement()) {
    if (element.tagName !== "SCRIPT") {
      // parse everything else...
      continue;
    }

getify

In defense of blocks for local scopes (Part 1)

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[EDIT: I've added a part 2 to this blog post, to address some of the feedback that has come up: https://gist.github.com/getify/706e5e10822a298375da40f9cc1fa295]

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Recently, this article on "The JavaScript Block Statement" came out, and it received some good discussion in a reddit thread. But the general reaction seems to be against this approach. That saddens me.

rauschma

Cheat sheet: JavaScript Array methods

Deriving a new Array from an existing Array:

['■','●','▲'].slice(1, 3)          ⟼ ['●','▲']
['■','●','■'].filter(x => x==='■') ⟼ ['■','■']
    ['▲','●'].map(x => x+x)        ⟼ ['▲▲','●●']
    ['▲','●'].flatMap(x => [x,x])  ⟼ ['▲','▲','●','●']

sindresorhus

Pure ESM package

The package that linked you here is now pure ESM. It cannot be require()'d from CommonJS.

This means you have the following choices:

1. Use ESM yourself. (preferred)
   Use import foo from 'foo' instead of const foo = require('foo') to import the package. You also need to put "type": "module" in your package.json and more. Follow the below guide.
2. If the package is used in an async context, you could use await import(…) from CommonJS instead of require(…).
3. Stay on the existing version of the package until you can move to ESM.

m-radzikowski

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -Eeuo pipefail
trap cleanup SIGINT SIGTERM ERR EXIT

script_dir=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &>/dev/null && pwd -P)

usage() {
  cat <<EOF
Usage: $(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}") [-h] [-v] [-f] -p param_value arg1 [arg2...]

getify

What Hiring Should Look Like

This is definitely not the first time I've written about this topic, but I haven't written formally about it in quite awhile. So I want to revisit why I think technical-position interviewing is so poorly designed, and lay out what I think would be a better process.

I'm just one guy, with a bunch of strong opinions and a bunch of flaws. So take these suggestions with a grain of salt. I'm sure there's a lot of talented, passionate folks with other thoughts, and some are probably a lot more interesting and useful than my own.

But at the same time, I hope you'll set aside the assumptions and status quo of how interviewing is always done. Just because you were hired a certain way, and even if you liked it, doesn't mean that it's a good interview process to repeat.

If you're happy with the way technical interviewing currently works at your company, fine. Just stop, don't read any further. I'm not going to spend any effort trying to convince you otherwise.

tomhicks

/*
Copy this into the console of any web page that is interactive and doesn't
do hard reloads. You will hear your DOM changes as different pitches of
audio.

I have found this interesting for debugging, but also fun to hear web pages
render like UIs do in movies.
*/

const audioCtx = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)()

cmcculloh

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Element

Box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent
• elem.clientLeft, elem.clientTop, elem.clientWidth, elem.clientHeight
• elem.getClientRects(), elem.getBoundingClientRect()