It’s just JavaScript®️ (JS Party #77)

Jerod, Kball, Divya, and Nick share their initial impressions of GitHub’s recently announced package registry, what JS skills are trending in job listings, and shout outs!

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

GitHub’s package registry

• Our “coverage” of GitHub’s Friday afternoon announcement


• GitHub’s official package registry feature page


• Remember when we had Jeff Lembeck on JS Party?


• Something strange is going on at npm


• Nobody Predicted Microsoft 😬


• FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

JS job trends

• Game of Frameworks: JavaScript trends of 2019


• Engineering & design progression maps: progression.fyi


• KBall’s megatrends post

Shout outs

• Stefan Kaltenegger


• Ryan Singer


• Halfstack Conf


• NEJS Conf


• All Things Open


• Quokka.js


• Blotter.js


• The Recurse Center


• Rene Rubalcava


• Learn Dojo


• Vim Fugitive (tpope!)


• Go Time is back!


• Hardware hacking with TinyGo and Gopherbot

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!