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.

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 – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAmal Hussein – Twitter, GitHubKevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteNick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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!

Twitter Mentions