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Angular 14 - Typed Forms and Standalone Components
Angular 14 was released earlier this month with the most significant update since Ivy. It includes two long-awaited features, Typed Reactive Forms and Standalone Components, as well as several minor improvements.
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React 18, Introducing the Concurrent Renderer
React 18 is out and includes the long-awaited concurrent renderer, which enables React to offer several improvements, including the ability to interrupt the rendering process.
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Minze, a Minimalistic JS Library for Creating Web Components
Minze is a modern JavaScript library that abstracts many of the difficulties of writing Web Components with a minimal overhead (2kb minified and compressed) and good developer ergonomics.
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Shepherd JavaScript Library: Guided User Tours of Your Application
Shepherd is a JavaScript library that provides a simple interface for creating guided user journeys in web applications. It's framework-agnostic, easy to use, and works great on desktop and mobile applications alike.
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TypeScript 4.6 Beta Improves Type Inference and Error Checking
The TypeScript team released version 4.6 beta, which introduces improvements to control flow analysis, class constructor definitions, error checks in JavaScript files, and others. TypeScript can now narrow down the signature for a function parameter whose type is a discriminated union.
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Etsy Moves from React to Preact to Lower Migration Risks
Ben Sangster, software engineer at Etsy, recently detailed the reasoning behind Etsy’s migration from React v15.6 to Preact 10. Going beyond the difference in library size, Sangster argued that adopting Preact lowered the risk associated to migrating Etsy’s large codebase. As Preact was already used by Etsy’s front-end team, migrating to Preact would avoid maintaining a fragmented stack.
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AngularJS Officially Reached End of Life
After a grace period induced by the current global pandemic, long-term support for AngularJS has been discontinued. While AngularJS will still remain available, its repo will be archived and will receive no more additional updates, including security patches.
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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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Introducing Angular 13
Google recently announced the release of Angular 13, their popular single-page application framework, continuing the steady stream of small improvements we have seen since the release of the Ivy engine in Angular 9.
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Microsoft Edge for Linux Now Stable
After one year in preview, Edge for Linux has recently become stable, aiming to provide an alternative to Chrome and Firefox and support to legacy Web apps.
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Comparative Study of 11 CSS-in-JS Libraries - Andrei Pfeiffer at React Finland 2021
Andrei Pfeiffer recently presented the results of a comparative study of 11 CSS-in-JS libraries. In his talk at React Finland 2021, Pfeiffer focused on the distinction between static and runtime CSS-in-JS libraries and further explained how each category and browser caching relate to performance.
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Grails 5.0 Updates Underlying Frameworks and Consolidates Features
Grails 5.0 has been released, featuring deprecation of the "dot"-Based Navigation to configuration, default autowire by type in Data Services, the decoupling of Grails Gradle Plugin from the grails-core and the Grails Gradle Publish plugin was removed from the Grails plugin applications. Also, this release includes Apache Groovy 3, Micronaut 3, Gradle 7, Spring Boot 2.5, Spring 5.3 and Spock 2.0.
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Gatsby 4 - More Than a Static Content Generator
Gatsby 4, the latest iteration of the popular static site generator, is now out, offering developers improved build speeds alongside new ways for delivering content.
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Streamlining the Handoff between Designers and Developers - Travis Arnold at React Finland 2021
Travis Arnold recently presented how JSX and compiler technologies can be used conjointly to make the handoff between designers and developers more efficient. While the ideas presented are not yet implemented in any publicly available tool or library, the ideas of Arnold, who describes himself as a designer/developer, may serve to illustrate possible avenues for improved collaboration.
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Facebook CSS-in-JS Solution Stylex Introduced at React Finland 2021
Naman Goel, software engineer at Facebook, recently presented Stylex at React Finland 2021. Stylex is Facebook’s custom CSS-in-JS solution used for the new facebook.com website. StyleX alleviates key pain points of CSS-in-JS for large React applications (unused styles, large CSS files, CSS-in-JS library size). Goel anticipates that Stylex will be open-sourced by the end of 2021.