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Angular 5 Comes with Faster Incremental Compilation
Google has pushed Angular 5 out, adding build optimizations, incremental compilation, and better support for internationalization, among others.
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TypeScript 2.6 Adds Strict Parameter Contravariance and More
Among new features in TypeScript 2.6 are a new flag to enforce strict parameter contravariance and improved tooling.
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Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla Team Up for Web Documentation
In a coordinated announcement, three major browser vendors have agreed to consolidate their individual web API reference documentation into Mozilla's MDN and have formed an advisory group to guide future efforts. The groups will start using MDN as a single point of truth for web platform documentation and reference.
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Azure Application Insights for Node.js Hits 1.0
At Node.js Interactive North America 2017, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Application Insights for Node.js SDK, closing a big gap in their product offering.
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Switching to GraphQL at Bustle
While GraphQL, Facebook's "query language for APIs", is heavily used within Facebook, it's still early days for the specification in the community. InfoQ sat down with Steve Faulkner, director of engineering at Bustle, to talk about GraphQL, how it's used at Bustle, and what teams looking at GraphQL should consider.
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Node.js Foundation Readies Official Developer Certification
The Node.js Foundation is putting the finishing touches on their new Node.js Developer Certification, with plans to release it in December.
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NPM Releases New Security Features
Today, Npm released new features that should help secure the package registry from attackers. The use of two-factor authentication and authentication token restrictions should help keep packagers more secure.
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CoffeeScript 2 Released, Adding Modern JavaScript Features
After a year of intense activity, CoffeeScript has risen from the embers with CoffeeScript 2, updating the language for use in a modern JavaScript community.
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Facebook Releases React 16
Facebook has released version 16 of React, adding some welcome features and performance improvements. The only difference this time around is that they completely rewrote React.
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Facebook to Relicense React under MIT
Facebook has decided to change the React license from BSD+Patents to MIT to make it possible for companies to include React in Apache projects, and to avoid an uncertain relationship with the open source community.
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W3C Publishes DRM as a Recommendation
After a divided vote, the World Wide Web Consortium has adopted Encrypted Media Extensions as a full recommendation, formalizing closed-source Digital Rights Management into the specification. In response, the EFF has resigned from the W3C.
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Fable 1.2 Announced along with First FableConf
Three months after its first stable release, community-driven F# to JavaScript compiler Fable has reached version 1.2, just in time for FableConf 2017, the first conference dedicated to web development in F# using Fable.
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Yarn 1.0 Adds Workspaces, Auto-Merge and Selective Version Resolution
Almost a year ago we published the news Facebook Open Sources Yarn, a JavaScript Package Manager, introducing Yarn and the motivation behind its creation. The community has moved the project forward, releasing the first major version with workspaces, automatic merging, selective version resolution and many other features and fixes.
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TypeScript 2.5 Released, Adds Language Level Refactoring
Microsoft has released TypeScript 2.5. The release is light on new language features, but has some new abilities including basic refactoring built into the language service itself.
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Facebook Refuses to Alter React's Open Source License
The Apache Foundation recently announced that Facebook's BSD+Patents open source license was disallowed for inclusion with Apache products. The resulting fallout has caused gnashed teeth and much soul searching for React developers as Facebook refused to reconsider.