Good morning, friends. I'm enjoying a lazy Sunday morning before I head out to my first (in-person) conference of the year, THAT Conference Texas. I'll be speaking on web components and can't wait to see the other great sessions as well. If you're a reader and will be there, please tell me hello!

Simpler Node File Handling with FSX

I've made use of Node's fs package for years, and while it's not terribly difficult, Nicholas C. Zakas has come up with an interesting design for a more modern filesystem API, FSX: "Introducing fsx: A modern filesystem API for JavaScript". While the name is most likely going to change, you can check out the project here: https://github.com/humanwhocodes/fsx

As just one example of what he proposes, here's reading a JSON file:

// read JSON
const json = await fsx.json("/path/to/file.json");

He mentions it 'returns a JSON value' but I assume he means, a value parsed as JSON into regular data. (As a JSON string is just a string.)

Deep Promise Education

Promises are an incredibly important part of JavaScript, and something I cover in my "A Beginner's Guide to Wrangling Asynchronicity in JavaScript" presentation. To help developers get a better understanding of how Promises work, Henrique Inonhe has created an excellent learning tool that contains learning exercises a developer can do at their own pace to truly ground themselves in understanding the specification. Head over to the promises-training repository and carefully read the instructions on how to get started using the tutorials. From what I can see, this looks to be really intensive and could be really useful. If any of yall have already given this a shot, please leave a comment below as I'd love to hear about your experiences.

Ending in Beauty

For the last link I'll share today, I won't give any explanation at all, just click for beauty at the drawing.garden. Turn your speakers up a bit as well.