InfoQ Homepage Web Development Content on InfoQ
-
Bootstrap 5 Removes jQuery Dependency
The new Bootstrap 5 removes jQuery and no longer supports Internet Explorer (IE).
-
The New Microsoft Edge's Extensions
Pratyusha Avadhanula, senior program manager with the Microsoft Edge extension team, recently walked developers through the new extension submitting process. At Microsoft Build 2020, Avadhanula detailed the registration process, the differences between the Chromium APIs and the new Microsoft Edge APIs, and the features roadmap. Edge users can install existing Chrome extensions, with some caveats.
-
Interactive Terminal Apps with Ink 3 - New Built-In Hooks, Suspense and React Dev Tool Support
Ink, the React renderer for interactive command-line apps, released Ink 3 with new built-in hooks and better focus and stream management (e.g. stdin) in the terminal. Developers can now leverage the React development tools. Ink 3 also features updated components that allows for better styling of CLIs, built-in error handler and log interception, and other performance and stability improvements.
-
Accessible Adaptive Design Systems with Microsoft's New FAST Framework
Rob Eisenberg recently introduced the FAST Framework. FAST allows developers to create their own design system and web component libraries by customizing styles and properties. FAST uses an adaptive color system that meets accessibility contrast requirements, supports color theming, and provides a perceptually uniform UI across different background colors – with little input from developers.
-
Svelte Adds Official TypeScript Support
The Svelte JavaScript framework leverages TypeScript, but until recently, it was challenging to use TypeScript to create Svelte web apps. The latest Svelte updates add official TypeScript support to Svelte.
-
The New Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Build 2020
Melanie Richards recently presented new and upcoming features for users and web developers that are being incorporated into the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. Since moving to Chromium, Edge has been slowing gaining user share, passing Firefox to become the second browser on desktop/laptop devices (according to netmarketshare).
-
Ionic Capacitor 2 Improves Mobile Authentication and Cross-Domain HTTPS
The recent Ionic Capacitor 2 release updates the underlying Swift, XCode, and Android versions, adds Face Unlock and Iris Unlock, improves the core Capacitor plugins, and simplifies cross-domain HTTPS requests.
-
Fastify 3.0 Improves Performance, Logging, Schema, and TypeScript Support
Fastify is an open-source, low-performance overhead Node.js web framework. Fastify version 3 introduces support for running Express applications inside Fastify, adds improvements to logging serialization and schema substitution, and provides better TypeScript definition support.
-
WebAssembly Used to Extend Life of Flash Legacy Content
Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020. The large amount of Flash content accumulated over the years is however not entirely lost. Ruffle, a Flash emulator, and CheerpX, an x86 virtualization technology, both leverage WebAssembly to play .swf files in the browser.
-
Crowdfunding Web APIs - Igalia Lets Developers Fund APIs They Care About
Igalia, an open-source consultancy that contributed a large part of the CSS Grid implementation in WebKit and Chromium, is experimenting with the crowd-funding of new web APIs. Starting with six HTML/CSS features, the experiment gives developers a larger say on what web APIs get implemented and when.
-
Haskell Web Framework IHP Aims to Make Web Development Type-Safe and Easy
Created at digitally induced, the Integrated Haskell Platform aims to be an opinionated framework bringing Haskell type-safety to server side rendering combined with fast development. InfoQ has spoken with digitally induced CEO Marc Scholten.
-
Faster, Smaller Vue3 Coming Soon - Evan You, State of the Vuenion 2020
Evan You, creator of Vue.js, recently discussed the Vue 3 release. After more than two years of development, Vue 3 targets a release in Q3 2020. Vue 3 brings a faster renderer, a new composition API, a new template compiler, and server-side rendering support. With TypeScript, and a more modular architecture, Vue 3 strives to be smaller, more maintainable and make it easier to target native.
-
Vue 3 Reactivity Internals - Sarah Drasner at Vue.JS Amsterdam
Sarah Drasner, Vue.js core team member, gave an overview of Vue 3 reactivity internals. Vue’s reactivity functionality is isolated in a separate package and can be used standalone.
-
Microfrontends at Vonage - Yoav Yanovski at Vue.JS Amsterdam
Yoav Yanovski, senior technical manager at Vonage, recently presented at Vue.js Amsterdam 2020 the rationale behind moving from a monolithic front-end towards a micro-front-end architecture. Yanovski also detailed micro-front-end’s architectural options, the tradeoffs involved in each option, and the choices made at Vonage.
-
Apple Rejects NFC, Bluetooth and 14 More Web APIs, Citing Privacy Reasons
In the frame of its tracking prevention policy, Apple recently communicated its current refusal to implement 16 web APIs, citing privacy concerns. Apple emphasized that the decision could be reconsidered if the proposals evolve to reduce the fingerprinting attack surface.