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Ionic React Released
The Ionic team recently announced the first production release of Ionic React, a version of Ionic that leverages React to build applications for iOS, Android, Desktop, and Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
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V8 JavaScript Engine 8.0 Reduces Heap by 40%, Adds Optional Chaining and Null Coalescing
The latest release of Google's V8 JavaScript engine, V8 8.0, uses pointer compression to reduce heap size by 40% and with no performance hit. Additionally, it adds support for optional chaining using the ?. operator and for nullish coalescence using ??. V8 v8.0 will be officially available with Chrome version 80.
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Introducing React Concurrent Mode
React's "Concurrent Mode" refers to a set of newly-released experimental features in React that aim to increase the responsiveness of applications by using interruptible rendering.
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Vue.js CLI 4 Released
The Vue CLI team recently updated its command line tool for Vue.js development to version 4. The release will help developers automate the migration process, use additional package managers and remove extraneous whitespace for more efficient DOM structures.
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Preact X Adds Features, Remains Lean
The Preact team announced Preact X, adding significant updates such as fragments and hooks to their React alternative, while retaining their lean size of less than 4KB, gzipped.
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Brave 1.0 Released to Improve Web Privacy
The Chromium-based Brave web browser recently announced its 1.0 release. Brave strives to improve performance, security, and privacy by blocking ads and other web trackers. Brave rewards its users when they opt into privacy-respecting ads and share ad revenue with website publishers.
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Chrome Updates Experimental Wake Lock API Support
The Wake Lock API prevents some aspect of a device from entering a power-saving state, a feature currently only available to native applications. Chrome 79 Beta updates its experimental support for this feature, adding promises and wake lock types.
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WebXR Arrives in Chrome 79
WebXR, the in-progress standard for virtual and augmented reality on the web, is now available in Chrome 79. After preliminary work on WebVR was superseded by WebXR, Chrome becomes the first production browser release supporting portions of the new standard.
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Microsoft Edge 79 to Use the Chromium Browser Engine
With the release of Edge 79, Microsoft will transition from its proprietary EdgeHTML engine to Chromium, the popular open-source engine that powers Chrome.
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Web Components Reaching Mainstream Maturity
For years web components have been a standard that was almost ready. With the recent Apple Music web client release, Apple shipped over 45 web components to drive the Apple Music experience. Others, including Amazon, Porsche, arm, Panera, and Microsoft, are leveraging Stencil to create design systems and cross-framework web components.
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New Bytecode Alliance Announces WebAssembly Nanoprocesses Proposal for Safe Use of Untrusted Modules
Mozilla’s Lin Clark recently announced the creation of the Bytecode Alliance. The Bytecode Alliance is an industry partnership aiming at proposing and implementing standards to enable the growth of a secure-by-default WebAssembly ecosystem, inside and outside the browser. The Bytecode Alliance introduced nanoprocesses to provide isolation and safety when running third-party Wasm packages.
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Faster Web Rendering with WICG Display Locking Proposal
The Web Incubator Community Group (WICG) recently introduced Display Locking, a proposed set of API changes that make it straightforward for developers and browsers to easily scale to large amounts of content and control when rendering work happens.
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TypeScript 3.7 Adds Optional Chaining and Coalescing
The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 3.7, including optional chaining, nullish coalescing, assertion functions, and numerous other developer ergonomic improvements.
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Predicting the Future of the Web: Richard Feldman at ReactiveConf 2019
At ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague, Richard Feldman drew on his 12 years of professional Web development experience, and history of being an early adopter of technologies like React in 2013 and Elm in 2014, to make and justify some concrete predictions about the future of the Web in both 2020 and 2025.
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Writing Tests for CSS Is Possible! Gil Tayar at ReactiveConf 2019
Gil Tayar, senior architect and developer relations at Applitools, recently presented at ReactiveConf 2019 in Prague the specific issues behind CSS testing and how they can be addressed through methodology and tooling.