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Introducing React Concurrent Mode
React's "Concurrent Mode" refers to a set of newly-released experimental features in React that aim to increase the responsiveness of applications by using interruptible rendering.
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Preact X Adds Features, Remains Lean
The Preact team announced Preact X, adding significant updates such as fragments and hooks to their React alternative, while retaining their lean size of less than 4KB, gzipped.
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Web Components Reaching Mainstream Maturity
For years web components have been a standard that was almost ready. With the recent Apple Music web client release, Apple shipped over 45 web components to drive the Apple Music experience. Others, including Amazon, Porsche, arm, Panera, and Microsoft, are leveraging Stencil to create design systems and cross-framework web components.
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Facebook Releases Relay 7 for Building Data-Driven React Apps with GraphQL
Relay, a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications with GraphQL, recently released version 7, with improvements to error handling and Relay hooks.
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Immer JavaScript Immutable State Management Framework Releases V4
Alec Larson released a few days ago the fourth major iteration of award winner JavaScript library Immer, thereby patching an important edge case. Immer is a JavaScript package which allows developers to work with immutable state as it was mutable, by implementing a copy-on-write mechanism.
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Ionic CLI V5 Now with Ionic React Beta Support
The Ionic Framework team recently released the fifth major iteration of the Ionic CLI. Ionic CLI v5 features Ionic React support (beta), thus allowing developers to write Ionic applications with the React JavaScript framework and Ionic UI components. Ionic CLI v5 also comes with features aiming at a better developer experience and miscellaneous bug fixes.
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Next.js 9 Released: Q&A with Co-Author Tim Neutkens
The Next.js team recently released Next.js 9, featuring improved developer and user experience. The new Next brings built-in zero-config TypeScript support, file system-based dynamic routing, automatic static optimization, API routes, important production optimizations, and miscellaneous developer-oriented productivity features. InfoQ interviews Next.js co-author Tim Neutkens.
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Microsoft Announces React Native for Windows, with Focus on Performance
Microsoft recently announced at Microsoft Build 2019 a MIT-licensed, performance-oriented re-implementation of React Native for Windows. The new React Native for Windows will enable React Native developers to build native Windows apps with React. With the Windows 10 SDK support, developers may target a large variety of Windows devices such as PCs, tablets, laplets, Xbox, or Mixed Reality devices.
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React 16.8 Releases React Hooks: Reusable and Composable Logic in React Components
The React team recently released React 16.8 featuring React Hooks. Hooks encapsulate impure logic (such as state, or effects) with a functional syntax that allow hooks to be reused, composed, and tested independently. Developers may additionally define their own Hooks by composition with the predefined Hooks shipped with React 16.8.
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React Native Team Surveys Developers' Pain Points
The React Native team recently surveyed React Native developers with a single question: "What do you dislike about React Native?" Developers overwhelmingly mentioned developer experience, including debugging, as their first grievance. Community handling, and documentation were also prominently featured as pain points.
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Jest 24 Improves TypeScript Support, Plans Migration to TypeScript
The Jest team recently released version 24 of their JavaScript testing framework which improves its support for TypeScript test authoring. The Jest team also announced plans to migrate their codebase from Flow to TypeScript in the near future.
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TNG-Hooks: Reuse and Compose Stateful, Effectful Logic within Regular Functions
With the new TNG-Hooks library, developers can now decorate regular, standalone functions with useful and frequent stateful and effectful logic, such as querying a remote database or accessing out-of-scope contextual data. The code reuse and composition enabled by Hooks potentially contributes to a smaller, more maintainable and more robust code base.
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Ionic Version 4: from Angular to React, Vue, and Web Components
Version 4 of Ionic represents a substantial change, moving from a mobile framework for Angular users to a framework-agnostic approach that adds support for React, Vue.js, and web components.
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Prettier 1.15 Code Formatter Adds Angular and Vue.js Support
The Prettier 1.15 release adds code formatter support for HTML, Vue.js, Angular, and MDX, as well as adding a variety of syntax refinements and improvements.
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React Suspense Provides Redux Alternative
React 16.6 introduces Suspense, the ability to suspend rendering and display a loading indicator while waiting for something such as data from an API call.