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Q&A with Gregg Pollack on Vue.js at VueConf.US
InfoQ took the chance to ask Gregg Pollack from VueMastery about Vue.js internals, his view of the Vue.js community, the best ways to learn Vue, and more of the reasons for Vue’s success.
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Opening Sessions from VueConf.US
The first ever VueConf.US took place March 26-28 in New Orleans, bringing together the Vue Core team and hundreds of Vue developers from around the world. The conference contained a single day of workshops, all taught by members of the VueJS core team, followed by two days of talks. Speakers announced new releases and project processes, detailed Vue internals, and shared best practices.
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Ember 3.0 and beyond, with Co-Creator Tom Dale
Tom Dale, co-creator of Ember and senior staff software engineer at LinkedIn, recently talked with InfoQ about the recent Ember 3.0 release, the direction of the Ember project, alignment with modern web standards, and Ember’s initial experiments with Rust and Web Assembly.
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#smooshgate and the Challenges of Web Compatibility
The broader JavaScript community responded vocally when Michael Ficarra, the author of the Array.prototype.flatten TC39 proposal, jokingly suggested renaming flatten as smoosh in response to a bug report that the new feature breaks old websites in nightly versions of Firefox.
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Ionic Announces Capacitor 1.0.0 Alpha for Creating Web, Hybrid, and Native Apps
The Ionic team has announced the first alpha release of Capacitor, a new approach for building web, hybrid, and native apps on mobile and desktop platforms with JavaScript.
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Propel: Scientific and ML Computing JavaScript Library from Node.js Founder
Propel is a new JavaScript scientific computing library leveraging GPU hardware for computations to support machine learning and other scientific computing in JavaScript.
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Webpack 4.0 Release Brings Simplified Configuration, WebAssembly Support, and Big Performance Boost
Webpack, the most popular JavaScript module bundler, released version 4.0 on Sunday, February 25. The version contains a complete rewrite of the plugin system, new first class module types including support for WebAssembly, simplified configuration options, and much more. The update also comes with big performance improvements, with reports of anywhere from 60% to 98% reduction in build time.
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Ember.js Releases Version 3.0
Ember’s major releases contain no new functionality, and 3.0 is no different. The main benefit of the Ember 3.0 release is the removal of previously deprecated features, clearing the path for new functionality and performance improvements.
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Basecamp Releases Stimulus 1.0 JavaScript Framework
Basecamp's new Stimulus 1.0 targets a modern take on HTML pages augmented with light amounts of JavaScript, rather than the creation of full-featured JavaScript applications. Basecamp calls it “a modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have.”
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Universal React Framework Next.js Releases Version 5.0
Next.js, an open source toolkit for universal React.js applications, has reached version 5.0. This release improves configurability of Next.js applications, adding better server-side webpack support and a plugin system for modular configuration. It also adds first-class TypeScript support, better support for React alt-libs like Preact, and a multi-application composition feature called Zones.
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Roadmap for AngularJS and Angular
AngularJS will have one more major release then it will enter a three-years period of LTS, while Angular continues the cycle of a major release every six months.
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TC39 Finalizes Feature Set for ECMAScript 2018
TC39 finalized the feature set for ES2018, the latest revision to the ECMAScript Language Specification, in their 23-25 January meeting. This update adds new features like asynchronous iterators and rest/spread operators for object destructuring and object literals, substantial updates to regular expressions, and additional updates to promises and template literals.
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TypeScript 2.7 Now Available
TypeScript 2.7 has been released with several major features and bug fixes. Some of the highlights include support for assignment checks on class properties, fixed length tuples, and improved type inference for object literals. Overall the changes in this release make improvements to the type system, ES2015+ features, and the overall TypeScript developer experience.
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jQuery 3.3.1 out, Team Preps for 4.0
jQuery 3.3.1 has been released, which includes a new feature and several deprecations. The deprecations are in preparation for jQuery 4.0. While there isn't much new information on jQuery 4.0, it will include a complete rewrite.
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Google Releases Puppeteer 1.0
Puppeteer 1.0 has been released and includes dozens of improvements, including measurement of JavaScript heap and page performance, and code coverage information for JavaScript and CSS.