Update: All of the Stage 3 proposals below have advanced to Stage 4! 🎉 This week, the TC39, the standards body behind the JavaScript language, will be meeting at Google this week, January 23-25, for their first meeting of 2018. They’ll be discussing several proposals to add new features to ECMAScript, the JavaScript standard. Their […]

Status: Withdrawn We’re attempting to implement an API like this on top of React, instead of in a separate library. brookjs was originally designed to be backed with a Handlebars-based templating engine, providing a clean separation between what constitutes structure (HTML in the Handlebars template), interaction (JavaScript component declaration), & style (CSS files). Using Handlebars […]

It’s been more than 2 years in the making, but I’ve finally got WP-Gistpen, my code snippet WordPress plugin, into a state where I feel comfortable putting it out into the world, and I’m looking for beta testers. If you’re interested and have a WordPress site you can use it on, check out and comment […]

I’ve been working on brookjs for the better part of a year, and it’s maturing into a solid framework. In order to help make brookjs real for people, I started building a realworld.io app with it. The intention is to make this a testbed for brookjs, hammering on all the features and hitting as many […]

Alex Standiford: I have been reluctant to learn a modern JS framework because the network has felt too volatile for me to make a jump, and I really don’t see a point in learning something until I decide to use it in my daily workflow. I invest my time in getting really good at the […]

When I talk to other developers about Observables, it’s often hard to explain their benefits because on the surface, they just look like glorified event emitters, but it’s how they compose that make handling dependencies between async events such a breeze. While working on the code snippet editor in WP-Gistpen, I came across an example […]