--- title: "#330: Prettier 1.0, What is GraphQL, and Crockford's Post JavaScript Apocalypse" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 330 published_at: "2017-04-14" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/330" --- #330: Prettier 1.0, What is GraphQL, and Crockford's Post JavaScript Apocalypse This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/330) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 330 — April 14, 2017[Debugging Tips and Tricks for Front-End Developers](https://css-tricks.com/debugging-tips-tricks/)A fantastic round-up of concepts, tools, and things to consider when doing one of a developer’s most important tasks: debugging. Sarah Drasner [Prettier 1.0: The JavaScript Code Formatter](http://jlongster.com/prettier-1.0)Just 3 months old, Prettier is already [heavily used](https://twitter.com/jlongster/status/852532847252566017) in the industry for standardizing code style/formatting. With 1.0, the creators are putting their ‘safe for production’ stamp on it. Christopher Chedeau [So What’s This 'GraphQL' Thing We Keep Hearing About?](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/so-whats-this-graphql-thing-i-keep-hearing-about-baf4d36c20cf)If GraphQL is yet another buzzword flying past, this is a great introduction to what the declarative data querying approach could be doing for you. Sacha Greif [![Lob.com\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/8260adb7.png)](https://dashboard.lob.com/#/register?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=sponsored&utm_campaign=go-newsletter-01122016)[Lob - Direct Mail for Developers](https://dashboard.lob.com/#/register?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=sponsored&utm_campaign=go-newsletter-01122016)Lob provides an API that enables developers to send postcards, letters, checks, and more as effortlessly as sending emails. Lob is based in San Francisco, CA and is venture backed with over 6000 customers including Amazon, Square, and Counsyl. Lob.comSponsor [Why Slack Uses TypeScript](https://slack.engineering/typescript-at-slack-a81307fa288d)Slack recently ported their desktop app over to using TypeScript, here Felix Rieseberg reflects on the experience. Also this week, Ember’s Tom Dale [explained why Glimmer uses TypeScript](https://medium.com/@tomdale/glimmer-js-whats-the-deal-with-typescript-f666d1a3aad0), with examples. Slack [The Post JavaScript Apocalypse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPB34lDZj3E)Doug Crockford (author of _JavaScript: The Good Parts_) has been speculating on what should come _after_ JavaScript while sharing his love and distaste for various languages over the years. _(46 minutes)_ Douglas Crockford [PhantomJS Maintainer Steps Down Citing Headless Chrome As Future](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/phantomjs/9aI5d-LDuNE/5Z3SMZrqAQAJ)[PhantomJS](http://phantomjs.org/) is a popular, scriptable headless Webkit implementation often used for testing. 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