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It’s here! Livestream the opening keynotes from the International JavaScript Conference 2018 from the comfort of your own home!

WebAssembly has been met with much fanfare with some even claiming it as a much needed match for JavaScript. Is there really a competition between the two? Or is it more like a partnership?

In order to optimize your webpage, you have to understand the workflows a browser performs in order to display a page on the screen. Nobody likes to wait for web pages to load in the browser so take out your pen and get ready to take some notes from Sebastian Springer on how to use some tools and best practices that will make your life, in terms of performance, easier.

It’s time to take another pick at what’s going on in the developer world! The 15th edition of the Developer Economics: State of the Developer Nation report has been released and it has some interesting insights into current developer trends.

After GitHub announced their decision to decouple from jQuery, we had a discussion on whether the museum is calling for this legendary tool. In the poll attached to that article, 429 of you voted and the decision is final: jQuery is here to stay!

Want to learn more about SonarJS and how you can use it to prevent bugs? In this session, Carlo Bottiglieri and Elena Vilchik will give you the perfect introduction!

Are your calendars marked for the International JavaScript Conference 2018? If you would like to dive deeper into topics such as DevOps, Angular, React, Node.js, web development and more, you shouldn’t miss the opportunity to meet top JavaScript experts. Hurry up, save up to 299€ and get a free tablet; Early Bird offer expires Thursday, September 13.

Babel 7 is here! Today, we’re taking a look at the fundamentals of this JavaScript compiler as well as the shiny new bells and whistles that are a part of the latest release like backwards compatibility, syntax transformation, and more!

The V8 JavaScript engine has a new baseline compiler. The new compilation pipeline is Liftoff, and it has some seriously fast results.

Is enterprise JavaScript really that hard? Or is it really usable in the context of enterprise applications and as the basis of front-end browser-based applications? Watch Geertjan Wielenga’s JAX London 2017 session and find out all the answers you need.

Everyone knows Uber for their ride-sharing app, but what about frameworks? Meet Fusion.js, a new open source web framework from Uber. Focused on building lightweight apps, this framework uses plugin-based architecture to get the job done.

Introducing Pax, a bundler that lets you handle code at warp speed. Developers can spend less time waiting and more time actually developing with this lightweight JavaScript bundler.

The question of JavaScript’s continued relevance, having first appeared in 1995, finds an answer in its continued popularity, its ease of access, and of course adaptability as a programming language. In this article, Shusetsu Toda explains why JavaScript is alive and well and what role it has in blockchain’s journey into the mainstream.

More npm news, as the popular package manager announces that they are joining TC39, the working group responsible for defining the standard for JavaScript.