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Cookie Recipes - SameSite and Beyond - Rowan Merewood at web.dev Live
Rowan Merewood explained, in light of the new cookie policies being increasingly adopted, how to create and configure cookies according to the scope and security required by the situation. Merewood also showcased the options available to developers to trace and debug cookies sent in requests.
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Introducing QCon Plus by InfoQ: a Virtual Conference for Senior Software Engineers and Architects
QCon Plus covers the trends, best practices, and solutions leveraged by the world's most innovative software organizations. The conference is built to accelerate your learning with thoughtfully curated, shorter, focused technical sessions over three weeks featuring 54 speakers, 4 keynotes, 18+ facilitated peer sharing sessions, and 6 focused open space sessions.
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New COOP and COEP Cross-Origin Policies for Increased Security in Chrome and Firefox
Eiji Kitamura recently addressed in a talk at Google’s web.dev live the new COOP and COEP policies that dictate how browsers handle cross-origin resources. The new opener (COOP) and embedded (COEP) policies set up a cross-origin isolated environment that protects against Spectre attacks while restoring powerful, previously disabled features (SharedArrayMemoryBuffer and more).
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Cypress 5.x Adds Test Retries and Shadow DOM Support
Cypress, a browser-based test runner and dashboard, recently introduced native support for test retries in the Cypress 5.0 release, helping developers avoid intermittent test failures. Other recent Cypress advances include networking stubbing and shadow DOM support.
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NativeScript 7 Moves from ES5 to ES2017+
NativeScript 7 aligns with modern JavaScript standards by targeting es2017+. Additionally, it streamlines app configuration by consolidating it in a single file and replaces JavaScriptCore with V8 for iOS apps.
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WebAssembly Reference Types Implemented in wasmtime, Lets Wasm Modules Handle Complex Types
Nick Fitzgerald recently announced the implementation of the WebAssembly reference types proposal in wasmtime. With reference types, a WebAssembly runtime can handle references to complex host objects (e,g, DOM nodes) instead of only integer and floating-point values. Reference types pave the way for more WebAssembly features – interface types, garbage collection, module linking, and more.
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Web Storage APIs - Pete Lepage at Google's Web.Dev
New APIs have emerged to answer the need of a web moving from documents to applications. Pete Lepage presented at web.dev LIVE a short but thorough description of the options developers have to store and cache data on the client. The CacheStorage, StorageManager and other APIs help developers create applications with offline capabilities and performance closer to native mobile applications’.
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Jotai, a New Granular State Management Library for React
Paul Henschel recently released jōtai, a new state management library for React. Jōtai claims a minimalistic API (three functions), typescript-readiness, and compatibility with React Suspense and Concurrent Mode.
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Best Practices for Web Developers with Webhint - Rachel Simone Weil at OpenJS World
Rachel Simone Weil, product manager for the new Microsoft Edge’s developer tools, recently gave a talk at OpenJS world addressing how the webhint tool suite supports web developers in implementing best practices.
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Introduction to Mutation Testing - Dave Aronson at JSConf Hawaii
Dave Aronson gave at JSConf Hawaii 2020 an introduction to mutation testing. Aronson presented the rationale behind mutation testing, its benefits, drawbacks and pitfalls, and how it works under the hood.
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RustConf Promotes a More Inclusive Community as Rust Grows
RustConf ws held in August 2020. As Rust grows into a mainstream programming language, it needs to be inclusive with regard to developers of all backgrounds and skill levels. Inclusivity was the theme of this year's RustConf.
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Import Maps - Guy Bedford at ESNEXT 2020
Guy Bedford, core contributor and creator of the dynamic module loader system.js, discussed the workflows enabled by import maps. In his talk at ESNEXT this year, Bedford took a historical view while introducing the motivation behind the import map proposal, and linked the feature with the package entry points used in the latest version of node.
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Web Components at GitHub - Web Component SF Meetup
Kristján Oddsson detailed at the Web Components SF meetup how GitHub uses Web Components and the patterns GitHub identified to foster readable, performant, and accessible front end components.
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Security Concerns for Peripheral APIs on the Web
Google has been promoting the inclusion of peripheral connectivity using Bluetooth and USB on web browsers for several years. Yet, it's meeting heavy resistance from other browser vendors such as Apple and Mozilla.
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Airbnb Releases Tool to Convert Large Codebases to Typescript
The Airbnb engineering team recently released ts-migrate, a tool to help migrate JavaScript code to TypeScript. While the resulting TypeScript code will compile, manual revision of a few annotations (e.g. any) will still be necessary. An automated process may however be more productive than starting from scratch. The Airbnb team reports converting projects with over 50,000 lines of code in a day.