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Next.js 8 Static Site Framework Adds Serverless Support
The Next.js team recently released version 8 of their static site generation framework, improving reliability and scalability through splitting applications into smaller parts for use with cloud services such as AWS lambda and ZEIT Now lambdas.
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TC39 Finalizes the Feature Set for ECMAScript 2019
The ECMA TC39 panel recently finalized the feature set for the ES2019 edition of Javascript (also referred to as ECMAScript 2019). ES2019 improves arrays, objects, strings, symbols, try/catch blocks and JSON with new or updated features.
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React Native Team Surveys Developers' Pain Points
The React Native team recently surveyed React Native developers with a single question: "What do you dislike about React Native?" Developers overwhelmingly mentioned developer experience, including debugging, as their first grievance. Community handling, and documentation were also prominently featured as pain points.
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Rollup 1.0 Brings Code-Splitting to Library Bundling
Rollup recently released its first major iteration. Rollup 1.0 enables developers to code-split their library bundle. Libraries can thus expose several import targets with optimized bundles.
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Vue.js 2.6 "Macross" Released with Improved Slots Syntax
Vue 2.6 (code-named *Macross*) contains new features, improvements and bug fixes. Slots get a streamlined syntax, and directives accept dynamic JavaScript expressions as arguments. Developers can now design reusable components with a greater flexibility to customize and compose their children components.
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FlexSearch.js: A Fast, Zero-Dependency Full-Text Search Library
FlexSearch, a full-text, zero-dependency search library for the browser and Node.js claims to be the fastest search library available to JavaScript developers due to its novel scoring algorithm.
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Hyperscript Tagged Markup: A JSX Alternative Based on Standard JavaScript
The Hyperscript Tagged Markup (HTM) library, which proposes an alternative to JSX, released its second major iteration. HTM 2.0 is a rewrite that is faster and smaller than HTM 1.x, has a syntax closer to JSX, and now supports Server-Side Rendering (SSR). With HTM 2.0, developers may enjoy simplified React/Preact workflows for modern browsers.
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Google Releases Versions 7.2 and 7.3 of V8 JavaScript Engine
The recent 7.2 and 7.3 versions of Google's V8 JavaScript engine improve JavaScript parsing performance, new JavaScript language features, and WebAssembly performance.
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Linaria 1.0 Released: CSS-in-JS with No Runtime
The first major iteration of Linaria, a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library, is now available to developers. It provides a new API to facilitate using it with React, aims at a better developer experience and build integration, and is more robust.
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TSLint Deprecated to Focus Support on typescript-eslint
Palantir, the creators of TSLint, recently announced the deprecation of TSLint, putting their support behind typescript-eslint to consolidate efforts behind one unified linting solution for TypeScript users.
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JS Foundation Releases Dojo 5
At the end of January, Dojo, a progressive framework from modern web applications, released Dojo 5. Dojo 5 brings a significant amount of bug fixes and improvements in features and tooling. This iteration aims to enable developers to ship faster a smaller and more robust code base to more browsers.
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Google Chrome Never-Slow Mode
Google has been working on a prototype feature called Never-Slow Mode. This prototype feature, referenced as a work in progress, aims to improve the user experience, delivering consistent quick browsing.
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Jest 24 Improves TypeScript Support, Plans Migration to TypeScript
The Jest team recently released version 24 of their JavaScript testing framework which improves its support for TypeScript test authoring. The Jest team also announced plans to migrate their codebase from Flow to TypeScript in the near future.
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TNG-Hooks: Reuse and Compose Stateful, Effectful Logic within Regular Functions
With the new TNG-Hooks library, developers can now decorate regular, standalone functions with useful and frequent stateful and effectful logic, such as querying a remote database or accessing out-of-scope contextual data. The code reuse and composition enabled by Hooks potentially contributes to a smaller, more maintainable and more robust code base.
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A Conversation about ZipSlip, NodeJS Security, and BBS Hacking
Earlier this year, the popular Bower package manager was found vulnerable to archive extraction, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files on a user's disk. As it turns out, the vector attacks used by this exploit have been known since the early days of BBS. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Liran Tal to learn more about software security, and NodeJS security in particular.