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Bun Announces Cross-Platform Shell Scripting in JavaScript and TypeScript
Bun recently announced the release of Bun Shell, offering JavaScript and TypeScript developers a cross-platform shell. This release aims to simplify the execution of shell scripts in JavaScript and TypeScript, providing a bash-like environment with features such as globbing, environment variables, redirection, and piping. The release is alpha quality and may undergo breaking changes in the future.
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Typescript 5.4 Beta Released with Noinfer Utility Type and Improved Type Inference
Daniel Rosenwasser, senior program manager for TypeScript, recently announced the beta release of TypeScript 5.4. TypeScript 5.4 features improved type inference, a new NoInfer utility type, and breaking changes.
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Fluid Framework 2.0 Beta: SharedTree Distributed Data Structure and SharePoint Embedded
Microsoft announced, that Fluid Framework 2.0 has entered its Beta phase. The beta introduces the SharedTree Distributed Data Structure (DDS) for an intuitive programming interface supporting various data types, along with support for SharePoint Embedded, enabling developers to retain collaborative data within a Microsoft 365 tenant.
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ASP.NET Core .NET 8 RC 2: Blazor, Identity, SignalR and More
The latest release of .NET 8 Release Candidate 2 brings a lot of additions and changes to ASP.NET Core. This release is planned to be the last one before the final version of .NET 8 is released. The most notable enhancements for this release of ASP.NET Core are related to the Blazor alongside the updates regarding the Identity, API Authoring, SignalR, and new SPA templates for CLI.
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Node.js Alternative Bun Now Generally Available
The release 1.0 of the JavaScript toolkit Bun has been recently announced. Aiming to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js, Bun is garnering attention from the JavaScript and serverless communities for its speed and ease of use.
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Bun Releases Native Bundler and Introduces Macros
Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps that aims to replace Node.js. Bun has recently launched its fast native JavaScript bundler, bringing enhanced bundling capabilities to the Bun ecosystem. The new bundler, now in beta, offers a comprehensive set of features and tools to simplify and accelerate the process of building frontend applications.
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Remult, a Crud Framework for Fullstack Typescript
Remult is a full-stack CRUD library that simplifies development by leveraging TypeScript models, providing a type-safe API client and query builder.
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Deno Improves Node.js Support: Built-in Modules, package.json, Dynamic Import and Worker Compilation
Recent releases of Deno (1.30, 1.31, and 1.32) make it easier for Node.js developers to transition to Deno projects. Deno 1.30 improves support for Node built-in modules and import maps. Deno 1.31 adds package.json support and includes the Node compatibility layer into the Deno runtime. Deno 1.32 adds deno compile support for web workers and dynamic imports.
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TypeScript 5 GA Extends Decorators, Stabilizes New Module Resolution Option, and More
After announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta three months ago, TypeScript 5 has finally reached general availability. Among the most relevant changes are extended support for decorators to enable their placement before or after export and export defaults, the new bundler module resolution option, and more.
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Announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta
Microsoft has released the TypeScript 5.0 beta version, which aims to simplify, speed up and reduce the size of TypeScript. The beta release incorporates new decorators standards that enable users to customize classes and their members in a reusable manner. It also allows developers to write cleaner and more maintainable code.
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Slate 0.82 and Plate 15 Releases Improve Rich-Text Editing Experience
Slate 0.82.0 made significant updates for its support of editing on Android devices and introduces `useSlateSelection` and additionally adds a React hook that triggers whenever the selection changes. Plate 15 improves its Link toolbar, improves paste handling of hyperlinks into an editor page, and provides greater control over rendering within plugins.
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TypeScript 4.7 and 4.8 Beta Releases Add ESM for Node.js and Better Type Inference
TypeScript 4.7 and 4.8 introduce ES Module (ESM) support for Node.js, improved type inference and control flow analysis, and significant performance improvements.
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AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript. The set of utilities for Node.js Lambda functions helps developers follow best practices for tracing, structured logging, and custom metrics.
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Trivago’s Journey from PHP+Melody to Next.js and Typescript
Trivago’s platform was built using PHP and their Melody framework. A small number of engineers at Trivago maintained Melody, which was a continuity risk. Melody’s documentation and examples could not be as rich as desired due to a lack of capacity, making engineer onboarding and support much more difficult. Trivago then decided to rewrite its platform on Typescript using Next.js.
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Vaadin Introduces Hilla to Unify Frontend/Backend Web Development
Vaadin has introduced Hilla, a new framework for Java developers that combines the backend with Spring Boot and the frontend as a mix of TypeScript and Lit. Hilla offers many capabilities to simplify business application development, such as providing a unified project setup for Java and TypeScript that remains in sync.