Jun 3, 2020

Open Source Software Brothers community newsletter - Issue #3

By Wojciech Krysiak • Issue #3 • View online

May was the month of small improvements in open-source SoftwareBrothers repositories. But small doesn’t mean not important. Apart from the updates we are moving monthly meet.js meetup to the online world so let’s start with that news.

Meet.js online #3

Next Monday (June 8th) we start with another episode of the meet.js event. Participation is 100% free, just sign up here:

https://bit.ly/2BtYSkR

our speakers are:

Paul Lessing - City Pantry (UK):

How to make a @types/xyz declarations for raw javascript packages.

Ever come across a node package with no type declarations? Wondered who writes the @types packages? Wanted to contribute to open source? This informative and fun talk shows how to write type definitions for an untyped third party node package and publish them so others can use them as @types.

Przemek Spaczek - Divante (PL):

A new way to make a more customizable component!

I’ll speak about a few ways to make customizable components. I’ll focus on styles part and take you on a short journey from old CSS to new CSS with Custom Properties. Along the way, I will talk about preprocessors and tell you why CSS variables are so awesome. I will also share with you my experience from our open source project called Storefront UI.

Our OpenSource repositories

semantic-release: Fully automated version management and package publishing

We’ve migrated almost all our repositories to use semantic-release. So if you want to contribute, make sure to read their docs because based on the commits it builds release changelog and links it with issues.

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AdminBro Release v2.4

The biggest improvement is the update of AdminBro.bundle method - now it takes additional (optional) argument which can be the name of one of AdminBro’s core components like: LoggedIn, NoRecords or SidebarFooter (this list will grow). This way you can override how core components look.

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Current AdminBro Release v2.4.3-beta

Currently we are working on better handling of different data types when values are transferred between the fronted and the backend.

You can check it out right now by installing admin-bro@2.4.3-beta.1

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Other JavaScript news and libraries

Deno 1.0

Deno 1.0 (aka new Node) has been released and all the world is thinking about rewriting the apps to this new runtime to see how it works (we are no exception). Check it out - it might gain popularity in the next couple of months.

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Strapi Community Edition 3.0 released

I believe that strapi is one of the most interesting alternatives to AdminBro. It solves quite different problems but still - you might find this interesting. They recently released version 3.0 along with the new website - it is worth checking out.

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Avoiding Memory Leaks in NodeJS: Best Practices for Performance | AppSignal Blog

I sometimes ask candidates on job interviews this question: “what are memory leaks in javascript and how to prevent them?”. So when I spotted this article I couldn’t resist putting it here. This is a dedication to all the people who didn’t know that :)

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