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Introducing the Ionic 6 Component Framework
Ionic, a UI framework for cross-platform application development, is out in its 6th iteration, offering a set of new components and better UI integration for Android, iOS, and Desktop applications.
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Component Explorer Storybook for Svelte Auto-Generates Playground and Documentation
Storybook for Svelte, the Svelte version of the Storybook component explorer, recently announced major upgrades that strive to improve the developer experience around authoring, maintaining, and documenting components’ stories. The new beta release auto-generates controls and documentation from a new Svelte-native story format that captures component states.
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New Svelte NodeGui Allows Creating Native Desktop Applications with Qt and Svelte
Jamie Birch recently announced Svelte NodeGui, a framework for developing desktop applications on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. A lighter alternative to Electron, Svelte NodeGui lets developers write their applications with the Svelte front-end framework and compiler, the Qt widget toolkit, and a subset of HTML and CSS.
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Micro-Frontends with single-spa
Micro-frontend extends the concept of Micro-services to the frontend. The goal is to break down large SPA into smaller independent applications that can use different technologies and be developed and managed by separate teams. single-spa is a framework that helps developers achieve that goal by simplifying the composition of multiple front-end applications into a single product.
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Inertia.JS Lets Developers Write API-Free Monolithic React/Vue/Svelte Applications in PHP or Ruby
Inertia.js allows developers to write single-page applications using classic server-side routing and controllers. Inertia tightly couples the backend to the frontend so developers need not write APIs. Developers can use battle-tested server-side frameworks (e.g., Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Django, AspNetCore). On the client, developers can use React, Svelte, or Vue to implement the user interface.
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Svelte at the Edge - Luke Edwards at Svelte Summit
Luke Edwards recently gave a talk at Svelte Summit 2020 in which he discussed running Svelte application at the edge. Edwards demoed building and running a simple Svelte application with CloudFlare Workers and Google Cloud.
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The Next Svelte May Be Serverless-First -- Rich Harris at Svelte Summit
Rich Harris, the creator of Svelte, lifted the curtain over the experiments that have been taking place around Svelte (the UI framework and compiler) and Sapper (Svelte’s application framework). Harris gave a glimpse of a potential future in which Svelte is a serverless-first framework.
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REPLicant, a Super Simple Svelte REPL - Peter Allen at Svelte Summit 2020
Peter Allen recently gave a talk at Svelte Summit 2020 in which he explained the benefits of REPL (Read-Print-Eval-Loop) playgrounds. While the Svelte REPL is complex due to the handling of many edge cases, the principles underlying code playground implementations are simple. Allen progressively led the viewer into the implementation of the simplest possible version of the Svelte REPL.
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Animated, Responsive, and Reactive Data Visualization with Svelte
Tom Fevrier and Matthias Stahl recently gave the Svelte community an overview of the techniques that can be used to achieve responsive, interactive, and animated data visualization with Svelte.
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JavaScript Open Source Awards 2020 Distinguishes Six Impactful Projects
Since 2018, the JavaScript Open Source Awards distinguishes impactful open-source projects across four categories every year— Breakthrough of the Year, The Most Exciting Use of Technology, Fun Side Project of the Year, and The Most Impactful Contribution to the Community. The 2020 batch rewarded six open-source projects.
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Ionic Introduces Improved Customization with Shadow Parts
The Ionic Framework recently adopted an upcoming W3C specification titled CSS Shadow Parts that addresses the current limitations with CSS modifications within Web Components.
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Svelte Adds Official TypeScript Support
The Svelte JavaScript framework leverages TypeScript, but until recently, it was challenging to use TypeScript to create Svelte web apps. The latest Svelte updates add official TypeScript support to Svelte.
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Ionic Capacitor 2 Improves Mobile Authentication and Cross-Domain HTTPS
The recent Ionic Capacitor 2 release updates the underlying Swift, XCode, and Android versions, adds Face Unlock and Iris Unlock, improves the core Capacitor plugins, and simplifies cross-domain HTTPS requests.
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Fastify 3.0 Improves Performance, Logging, Schema, and TypeScript Support
Fastify is an open-source, low-performance overhead Node.js web framework. Fastify version 3 introduces support for running Express applications inside Fastify, adds improvements to logging serialization and schema substitution, and provides better TypeScript definition support.
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2nd Generation JavaScript Frameworks & Libraries: beyond Angular, React, and Vue!
In recent years, large enterprises have been open sourcing their internal JavaScript technology stacks, with an emphasis on reliability, stability, and maintainability. Geertjan Wielenga explained at FOSDEM’20 the drivers behind that move and how that benefits developers.