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5 Articles every WebDev should read this week (#45)

Towards an animation smoothness metric

Learn about measuring animations, how to think about animation frames, and overall page smoothness.
https://web.dev/smoothness/


Developer Tools secrets that shouldn’t be secrets

Christian Heilmann: This is a talk that I’ve given at CityJS this September. I am a principal product manager for developer tools in Microsoft Edge and these are things I encountered during working on the tools, documenting them and going through user feedback.
https://christianheilmann.com/2021/11/01/developer-tools-secrets-that-shouldnt-be-secrets/?ref=sidebar&fbclid=IwAR3nUhkdzWDm6gdbtf0nWDdgImcyxpj22WRqSK2J4X5RmYI_vHv_stgZSDM


A Guide to Load Testing Node.js APIs

Artillery is an open-source command-line tool purpose-built for load testing and smoke testing web applications. It is written in JavaScript and it supports testing HTTP, Socket.io, and WebSockets APIs.
https://blog.appsignal.com/2021/11/10/a-guide-to-load-testing-nodejs-apis-with-artillery.html


Announcing TypeScript 4.5 RC

Today we’re excited to announce our Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 4.5! Between now and the stable release of TypeScript 4.5, we expect no further changes apart from critical bug fixes.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-4-5-rc/


Angular v13 is now Available

We’re back with the brand new release of Angular v13 to share with all of you! This latest release brings all sorts of updates and features to help your teams build great apps.
https://blog.angular.io/angular-v13-is-now-available-cce66f7bc296


PLUS one video: What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU

A good explanations of how JavaScript actually works with some handy visualisations, and fun hacks for an intuitive understanding of what happens when JavaScript runs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ


MODERN FULL STACK DEVELOPMENT by Martin Krause - ISBN-13: <br>
9781718503281


Read "MODERN FULL STACK DEVELOPMENT" to kickstart your career as a full-stack developer.

It's a hands-on introduction to creating web applications with today's full-stack developers' most popular tools, libraries, and frameworks. It covers Modern JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, MongoDB, Mongoose, REST APIs, GraphQL, OAuth, Docker and JEST.


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