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Yelp Bento Aims to Simplify Modularized UI Development on Android
Yelp has open-sourced Bento, a framework to build modularized user interface on Android by combining different, reusable components into a single screen.
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Ink: React for Interactive Command-Line Apps
Ink.js, self-described as "React for Command Line Interfaces", recently released its second major iteration. Ink enables to build command-line apps by assembling React components. Developers may then leverage their React knowledge, and the React ecosystem.
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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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Emotion 10: CSS-in-JS with Flexible Scoped and Global Styling, and Server-Side Rendering
Emotion 10.0, a CSS-in-JS library, is a massive, long-awaited release with new features, improvements and bug fixes. Components can now be styled with the CSS property in a larger set of contexts, with a more natural syntax allowing access to the theme properties. A new Global component enables dynamic global styling. Those changes in turn made possible zero-configuration server-side rendering.
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Anime.js 3.0 Released: New Animation Options, New Documentation Website
Julian Garnier recently released Anime 3.0. The third major iteration of Anime features new animation options, ES6 module support together with a new build process, and a new showcasing website which doubles as documentation.
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Xiaoya Wei on Airbnb's Knowledge Graph
Airbnb's knowledge graph encodes information about their inventory and the world in a graph structure. This structure is based on a hierarchical taxonomy. InfoQ caught up with Xiaoya Wei, software engineer at Airbnb, regarding their knowledge graph and how it helps them categorize their inventory and deliver travel context to their users.
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Epoc.js: Open Source JavaScript Brain-Sensor Controller Software
The recent transition from science fiction to reality for the Brain Machine Interface, coupled with Atwood's Law, "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript," had led to Epoc.js, an open source control software for the Emotiv line of brain sensors.
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Building Human Interfaces with Artificial Intelligence
AI helps us to build human interfaces based on speaking and writing, instead of using a keyboard or mouse; it allows humans to stay human. The biggest challenges are finding ways to tell systems what answers are unsatisfactory to help them learn, be transparent in what data is recorded and retained, and ensure that diversity and inclusion is part of our training data to prevent bias in AI systems.
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Chatbots 101 for Developers: Q&A with Anamita Guha
Chatbots are becoming more critical to developers in their daily lives – from understanding how the technology operates, to creating better code. Developers tend to have a natural curiosity about bots and the tech behind it. Artificial intelligence tools exist to address emotional intelligence with chatbots in conversational interfaces.
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Update on the “Fluent UI” Or Ribbon Design
Two weeks ago we reported on the “fluent UI”, or ribbon design, that Microsoft sued Corel over. Since then we have been able to get an update from Microsoft.
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An Early Look at Avalonia, a Cross-Platform UI Toolkit for .NET
An often-cited hole in the .NET Core ecosystem is the lack of any true cross-platform UI toolkit. While there have been attempts at a multi-platform in the past such as Silverlight and Xamarin Forms, no one has yet achieved a full XAML-style cross-platform option. Avalonia is making the attempt with plans to support Windows, Linux (GTK), MacOS, Android and iOS. However, they need your help.
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Bootstrap 4 Released, But It May Be Unnecessary
After three years in development, the front-end framework Bootstrap 4 has been released. But it emerges into a world with a dramatically different web than existed when Mark Otto made the first commit, leading some developers to question if it's even necessary.
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Automated Acceptance Testing Supports Continuous Delivery
Automated acceptance tests are an essential component of a continuous delivery style testing strategy, as they give an important and different insight into the behaviour of our systems. Developers must own the responsibility to keep acceptance tests running and passing, argued Dave Farley; you don't want to have a separate QA team lagging behind a development team.
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Facebook Litho: An Android UI Framework Created for Performance
Facebook has open sourced Litho, a framework for creating user interfaces in Android applications using a React-like declarative style with scrolling performance in mind.
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Developing for the Microsoft Surface Hub
Microsoft has released a series of nine videos to explain how to design and develop applications for the Microsoft Surface Hub. These videos are intended for both developers and designers who are using the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).