Web Development Reading List #177: Getting Started With Components, CT-Header, And New Regular Expressions
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- The next major release of Angular, Angular 4.0, is now available. It’s smaller and faster than it’s predecessor and ships flat ES modules.
Recommended reading: ECMAScript 6 (ES6): What’s New In The Next Version Of JavaScript
Concept & Design
- Nathan Curtis shares an approach to get your design team started with building components.
Recommended reading: Designing Modular UI Systems Via Style Guide-Driven Development)
Security
- There’s a new security header called
Expect-CT. Scott Helme explains when and how you should use it. - I bet many people here have a Samsung TV. And while there are currently not many phones out there from this vendor that run on Tizen, a lot of TVs do. Now, security researchers have found some quite interesting things about Tizen’s security, including vulnerabilities that can give full access to the device and ways to embed malicious code into the system through the app store.
Privacy
- In the past, we tended to teach people to use a VPN if they wanted to stay secure. But now we know that by far not all VPN services have good intentions. Some even inject advertising and privacy-leaking data into your network requests or sell your history to third parties.
JavaScript
- Nicolás Bevacqua wrote about regular expressions in a post-ES6 world, including the new Unicode flag, the matchAll function, and assertions.
Work & Life
- Eric Karjaluoto shares why we need to slow down, and why taking pride in how busy we are is one of the worst ideas we ever had. What if the best thing you can do for your career — and life — is to press pause, set your number one priority, and then rethink your way of working?
And with that, I’ll close for this week. If you like what I write each week, please support me with a donation or share this resource with other people. You can learn more about the costs of the project here. It’s available via email, RSS and online.
— Anselm
Further Reading
- How Marketing Changed OOP In JavaScript
- Recovering Deleted Files From Your Git Working Tree
- 33 Tempting E-Commerce Icons For Free
- Modern Art Movements To Inspire Your Logo Design
(mrn)
