Hey, folks! By tradition, we start our weekly digest with an interesting fact. This time, we’ll talk about one of the oldest inhabitants of our planet, whom you probably met when swimming in the ocean — jellyfish. These guys have been in the ocean for about 650 million years and existed long before the dinosaurs.

One of the special abilities of these amazing creatures is the ability to clone themselves. If you cut a jellyfish in two, the pieces of the jellyfish may generate two new organisms. At the same time, if a jellyfish is injured, it may clone itself and produce hundreds of offsprings.

Despite cloning, jellyfishes are great at shutting down nuclear reactors. A few nuclear reactors in Japan have been shut down thanks to jellyfishes, which swarms stuck in the intake pipes.

Alright, that’s enough to talk about jellyfishes and now let’s turn to our weekly digest.

1. Elixir: A New Way Of Coding or Who Said Magic Doesn’t Exist. In this post, you’ll find out about a magical technology Elixir as well as our experience of using it in one of our projects.
2. The definitive Node.js handbook. Are you a fan of Node.js? Or maybe it’s your first time working with it? In both cases, you’ll find this post useful. By Flavio Copes.
3. A Complete Beginner’s Guide to React. Do you have an experience with JavaScript and HTML? Do you want to try a new powerful technology? If you positively answered on one of these questions, Ali Spittel wrote this article for you!
4. What I learned going from Twitter intern to full-time Twitter software engineer. Jordan D. Jackson, wrote his success story, where he tells about his path of becoming a full-time Twitter software engineer. Very inspiring!
5. How to conditionally build an object in JavaScript with ES6. As the saying goes: “The title speaks for itself.” Knut Melvær wrote an outstanding article, which is definitely worth your time.
6. What To Tidy. Before reading this post, take a look at The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Code article, written by the same author, where he described the general approach to code cleaning. In What To Tidy, Kent Beck describes what actually needs to be tidied when cleaning your code.
7. Finding The Most Important Sentences Using NLP & TF-IDF. Using Term Frequency — Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF), Brandon Skerritt finds the most important sentences in a BBC news article. Hereafter, he implements an algorithm into a quick & easy Firefox extension.
8. Vue.js (and Vuex) bug squasher cheatsheet. Based on his own experience, Maximilian Øystå Lloyd made a cheatsheet, which will help you avoid various mistakes.
9. React.js: a better introduction to the most powerful UI library ever created. lya Suzdalnitski made a tutorial, where he goes over the basics of React, and the most common bad practices that you might encounter.
10. Designing notifications for apps. Notification feature is not the simplest feature to deal with. However, thanks to Shashank Sahay, it becomes much easier to find the right notification model for your application.

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