3rd issue! If you missed the last two months check them out here and here . If it’s your first time here… Being a web developer is a fantastic career option. You have many job opportunities, you can work around the world, and you get to solve hard problems. One thing that is hard, however, is staying up to date with the constantly evolving ecosystem. You want to be a top performing web developer, coder, programer, software developer, but you don’t have time to select from hundreds of articles, videos and podcasts each day. This monthly newsletter is going to be focused on keeping up to date with the industry, keeping your skills sharp, without wasting your valuable time. I will be sharing the most important articles, podcasts and videos of the month. Think and (80/20 rule) meeting the Software Development world. What’s the 20% that will get you 80% of the results? Tim Ferriss the Pareto Principle If you want to be notified of the next issue with industry news and tips, subscribe below: This month as a web developer… Javascript 2018 A of what is coming up in the new version of Javascript (ECMAScript). It’s a small update so it should be easy to get caught up. nice little recap New Shiny React Things released some plans for the next step in the React ecosystem. You can check out their plan and see how this will modernize and make React DOM better. Dan Abramov here While we are on the topic, Dan also explained how the new (maybe 10). Time Slicing feature will work in a way that a 5 year old could understand While we are still on the topic, has come out making some people very happy, while others just kept going on with their lives. React Proto Oh and there is a you can use. new React Profiler Make it faster A you need to improve anything performance on the web. Built by a past colleague of mine, , now working at Google. great list of tools Houssein Djirdeh Speaking of which: . If you want to build for the modern web, there is no excuse not to spend a very short amount of time making your apps more “progressive”. Progressive Web Apps aren’t going anywhere Processes, threads huh?! Learn how browsers work by following , where you will finally understand the difference between processes and threads and all of the other steps that it takes for you to see that cat picture. this great 4 part series This is how you build things Two months ago, that Github has removed all of their jQuery code. This is how they did it: shows you how a company should migrate/change/update a large code base. So many great insights here that you should take note of. we said This article Everything you wanted to know about Node.js — This is a 95 minute read so unless you are really looking to fill your time or extremely curious (or bored), don’t bother reading it. However, it’s a great resource to keep and read a section every once in a while. A definitive guide to Node.js CSS = Power Button …. I’m just going to leave that there. How to force restart any iOS device with just CSS NPM Weight Watchers Before you add too many 3rd party packages to your codebase, you should run it through that breaks down how this package will affect your codebase. Then ask yourself: Do I really need this extra bloat? this great little tool What are Facebook, Google and Amazon up to? Facebook made a little , also known as exposing 50 million user accounts. They also found a way to make money . oopsie from your phone number Google made people really angry by doing and . Google then went on to say “ ”. Now tools like are popping up. this this hahah we’re just kidding everyone…are we still cool? No More Google Amazon in the meantime j . Google and Facebook better watch out. ust became the 3rd largest digital ad platform Yet another colour picker the 2349103845th colour picker. But hey, it is pretty nice! Here is Firefox Reality Firefox is building a new way to browse the web: With VR. . Would love to hear your thoughts on this in the comments below. What do you think? Their first release just came out Best Thing of the Month . The title sounds like something you would read before bed that will help you go to sleep, but this was actually my favourite resource of the month. Very insightful and you will definitely come out the other end learning something from it. A tour of JavaScript timers on the web Trick of the Month 🌗 <a href="https://medium.com/media/17cec26b3b7b993f8a47c0866fd83ebd/href">https://medium.com/media/17cec26b3b7b993f8a47c0866fd83ebd/href</a> This is how you go to the moon: Programmers are artists. We have to be creative. To produce something beautiful and functional. This means we have a chance to go to the moon. Seriously: . Get your applications ready. SpaceX announced their new moon mission and the person going is taking artists with him What are your thoughts about this month’s events? See you next month! Thank you for reading this far. If you enjoyed this post, please share, comment, and press/hold that 👏 a few times (up to 50 times). . . I will keep doing these if there is enough interest! Follow me on Twitter and Subscribe to the newsletter above. Format may change as I get more feedback. By the way, my full time job is to teach people to code in the most efficient way possible. You can see my two courses below (discounted!): The Complete Web Developer in 2018: Zero to Mastery and the more advanced: The Complete Junior to Senior Web Developer Roadmap (2018)