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Spotify Open Sources cstar: its Cassandra Orchestration Tool
Spotify recently open sourced cstar, its Cassandra orchestration tool. Cstar is a command line tool to runs scripts on all hosts in a Cassandra cluster.
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Kubernetes 1.12 Brings Volume Snapshots, TLS Improvements, and More
The Cloud Native Community Foundation has announced Kubernetes 1.12. This version brings Snapshot and restore volumes, improvements on TLS, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), topology-aware dynamic provisioning, Advanced Auditing, topology support for Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin, and more.
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TypeScript 3.1 Adds Mappable Tuple and Array Types
The TypeScript team recently announced version 3.1 of TypeScript, adding mappable tuple and array types and several other refinements.
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Next.js 7 Released with 40% Faster Builds
The Next.js team has announced version 7 of their open-source React framework. This release of Next.js focuses on improving the overall developer experience with 57% faster boot times and 40% faster builds in development, improved error reporting and WebAssembly support.
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Webhint Open Source Linting Tool for Detecting Issues with Accessibility, Performance, and Security
The webhint project provides an open source linting tool to check for issues with accessibility, performance, and security. The creation of websites and web apps has an increasing number of details to perfect, and webhint strives to help developers remember these details.
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Mozilla Firefox 62 Brings Dark Theme on macOS, Variable Fonts and More
Mozilla has released Firefox 62. This version brings variable fonts, automatic dark theme on macOS Mojave, improved scrolling on Android, and more.
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Mozilla Firefox Will Block Web Trackers by Default
Mozilla recently announced that Firefox will block web trackers by default in a near future. Mozilla plans to releases a series of features through three key initiatives, including improving page load performance, removing cross-site tracking, and mitigating harmful practices.
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Ionic Announced Ionic Framework 4 Beta
Ionic recently announced a beta release of version 4 of their framework for building mobile applications. Ionic 4 focuses on improvements to performance and a more framework-agnostic approach by focusing on support for the web components standard.
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Uber Announces Open Source Fusion.js Framework
Uber Announces Fusion.js, an open source "Plugin-based Universal Web Framework." Uber builds hundreds of web-based applications, and with web technologies changing quickly and best practices continually evolving, it is a challenge to have hundreds of web engineers leverage modern language features while staying current with the dynamic nature of the web platform.
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TypeScript 3.0 Release Improves Support for Large Projects
The TypeScript team recently announced version 3.0 of TypeScript, introducing new techniques for creating and scaling projects, operations on parameter lists, new types to enforce explicit checks, and improvements to the developer user experience in handling errors reported by TypeScript.
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Eclipse Foundation Releases Eclipse Photon IDE
The Eclipse Foundation has released the latest version of the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse Photon brings support for both Java 10 and Java EE 8, improvements for PHP development tools, Dark theme improvements, and more.
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Eich and Crockford on the Future of JavaScript: Insight from the Creators of JavaScript and JSON
At the recent FullStack conference in London, JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, and JSON creator and JavaScript: The Good Parts author Douglas Crockford spoke on the future of JavaScript.
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Netflix Announces Polly.JS HTTP Interaction Library
Netflix recently announced the release of Polly.JS, an open source library for recording, replaying and stubbing HTTP interactions.
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JSUI, a UI Toolkit for Managing JavaScript Apps
JSUI introduces a visual tool for creating and managing JavaScript applications. The project provides utilities and features for both front-end and back-end applications, and most of its features are independent of underlying JavaScript frameworks.
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Microsoft Edge Now Supports W3C WebDriver Recommendation
Microsoft Edge now supports the recently ratified W3C WebDriver recommendation, making it easier to automate unit and functional tests with Edge. WebDriver is also now an Edge Feature on Demand, providing automatic WebDriver updates for each release of Edge.