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Bruck: Quick Interface Layout Prototyping
Bruck is a new lo-fi prototyping system targeted at web designers that enables them to quickly build responsive, accessible layout prototypes for clients. Designers may prototype a large variety of layouts by composing up to 25 web components. Designers may additionally visualize in real time the composed layout in Bruck's online interactive playground.
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TypeScript 3.3 Improves Calling Union Types and Build Times
The TypeScript team continues its bi-monthly release cadence with version 3.3 of TypeScript, improving the behavior for calling union types and the performance of incremental file watching for composite projects. The team also announced their roadmap for the next six months.
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Evan You Previews Vue.js 3.0
At VueConf Toronto, Evan You, creator and project lead of Vue.js, previewed Vue 3, the next major iteration of the Vue.js framework.
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Fable 2 Interview with Fable Creator Alfonso García-Caro
Fable entered its fourth year with a new major version that greatly improves its performance, code-generation, and stability. InfoQ has spoken with Alfonso García-Caro, Fable creator and maintainer.
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Ionic Version 4: from Angular to React, Vue, and Web Components
Version 4 of Ionic represents a substantial change, moving from a mobile framework for Angular users to a framework-agnostic approach that adds support for React, Vue.js, and web components.
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Prettier 1.15 Code Formatter Adds Angular and Vue.js Support
The Prettier 1.15 release adds code formatter support for HTML, Vue.js, Angular, and MDX, as well as adding a variety of syntax refinements and improvements.
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TypeScript Roadmap: Enhanced Type System, More Productivity, and Improved Linting
Microsoft has detailed the priorities that will drive TypeScript development during the first six months of 2019. Albeit not yet committed, the current roadmap includes enhanced core type system, maximizing forward compatibility with new ECMA features, improving tools, including editor support and linting, and more.
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JavaScript V8 Engine Improves Async Performance
The V8 JavaScript team announces improvements to optimize async functions and promises. The team also improved the debugging experience for async code, a common pain point for JavaScript developers.
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Deno: Secure V8 TypeScript Runtime from Original Node.js Creator
Deno is a rethink of a server-side JavaScript runtime from original Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, to address regrets and challenges with Node.js.
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Epoc.js: Open Source JavaScript Brain-Sensor Controller Software
The recent transition from science fiction to reality for the Brain Machine Interface, coupled with Atwood's Law, "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript," had led to Epoc.js, an open source control software for the Emotiv line of brain sensors.
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Beaker Browser Offers Electron-Based Peer-to-Peer Web Browser
Beaker is an experimental peer-to-peer Web browser based on Electron, Chromium, and Node.js. Beaker includes new Dat-based APIs for building hostless applications while retaining compatibility with the traditional Web.
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Microsoft Announces AI-Assisted IntelliCode for TypeScript and JavaScript in VS Code
Beyond the typical IntelliSense or code completion developers have come to appreciate, earlier this year Microsoft announced IntelliCode, a set of capabilities that provide AI-assisted development. The VS Code team has now announced a new experimental extension to bring IntelliCode to TypeScript and JavaScript users.
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TensorSpace.js Delivers Neural Network 3D Visualization Framework
TensorSpace.js provides an open source browser-based neural network data visualization framework to complement the growing machine learning landscape by supporting pre-trained models created with TensorFlow.js, Keras, or TensorFlow.
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Three.js Releases 98 and 99 Improve WebGL Support
The two most recent releases of Three.js, the JavaScript 3D library providing renderers in Canvas 2D, SVG, CSS3D, and WebGL, introduce hundreds of refinements and improvements.
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React Suspense Provides Redux Alternative
React 16.6 introduces Suspense, the ability to suspend rendering and display a loading indicator while waiting for something such as data from an API call.