Fantastic bugs and how to squash them

Safia, Suz, KBall and Nick get together to talk about bugs! Not those pesky things you’re scared to squash because they might suddenly jump on you — this is all about JavaScript bugs; how you prevent some of the common ones, what tools you can use to reduce bugs in your code, and a panel group therapy session where they discuss the most difficult bug they’ve had to fix.

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Featuring:

• Safia Abdalla – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Suz Hinton – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Topics covered in today’s show:

• Most common JavaScript bugs
• Hardest JavaScript bugs tackled by the hosts
• Tools to reduce the number of bugs in your code

Links mentioned in the show:

• Top 10 JavaScript errors from 1000+ projects (and how to avoid them)
• TypeScript
• A Year of Other’s Bugs: the sad state of error handling (by Brittany Storoz)
• Flow
• Nuxt
• Angular
• Zone.js
• Visual Studio Code
• w0rp/ale: Asynchronous linting/fixing for Vim and Language Server Protocol (LSP) integration
• Code Lauren

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