Adventures in Javascriptlandia
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Real JavaScript, not too much, stage three and above
KBall and Nick meet up with Jory Burson and Amal Hussein at Node+JS Interactive. Together we open up the black box of the JavaScript standards process, talk about how to get involved, and then dig into the use of ASTs to transform and analyze JavaScript.
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Featuring:
Jory Burson – Website, GitHub, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Standards & Opening the Black Box
TC39 on GitHub
Myles Borins
Daniel Ehrenberg
Maggie Pint
TC39 proposals
The TC39 Process
How to join ECMA
Jory’s talk on Standardizing JavaScript
On the distribution of stakeholders
Representing Web Developers in W3C
On testing the JavaScript spec with JavaScript
Official ECMAScript Conformance Test Suite
Contributing to the Conformance Test Suite
On the Boundaries of the Spec
JS Party episode covering error messages
On using JavaScript Proposals in Production
ASTs
Amal’s talk on ASTs for Refactoring
Esprima
Babel parser
Acorn
Dojo upgrade tool (using ASTs)
Awesome AST
Other
Bocoup
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!