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Angular CLI Helps Spin Up Angular 2 Projects and Components
The Angular Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a number of useful commands to help Angular 2 developers quickly spin up an app. At ng-conf 2016 Mike Brocchi walked developers through the basic features of the tool and showed off some advanced routing setup.
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Angular Mobile Toolkit Tries to Make Web Apps Feel Native
A new part of Angular 2, the Angular Mobile Toolkit, brings together tools and techniques to help developers make their web apps feel more native. In a session at ng-conf 2016, Jeff Cross and Alex Rickabaugh showed how to use three of these techniques to build a "progress web app".
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NativeScript 2.0 Release Brings Mobile App Development with Angular 2
NativeScript 2.0 has been released, integrating with AngularJS 2.0 to allow developers to write native mobile applications for iOS and Android. The release brings developers "an unprecedented code reuse story between [their] web and native mobile app," Valio Stoychev says.
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Deep Dive into New Angular Compiler at ng-conf 2016
The day 2 keynote at ng-conf 2016 provided a deep dive into the new offline compiler and showcased some of the directions Angular 2 is moving towards in the future.
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Three Development Patterns of Angular Universal
At the 2016 ng-conf, Jeff Whelpley and Patrick Stapleton showed off Angular Universal, the ability to render an Angular app on the server. Often, there are a few patterns that Angular Universal projects run into. Whelpley and Stapleton show off how to deal with three of those patterns.
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Angular 2 Reaches Release Candidate at ng-conf 2016
At the 2016 ng-conf, Brad Green and Jules Kremer took the Keynote stage to show off a little bit of the new Angular 2 Release Candidate and showcase some of the new features and community efforts.
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Rewritten Framework for Vue.js 2.0 Release
The team behind Vue.js has released v2.0, in what is described as a "full rewrite" of the framework. Vue creator Evan You describes Vue as the framework as consisting of "a core view layer and accompanying tools and supporting libraries," and says that the 2.0 release makes it even leaner and faster.
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Firefox 46 Tackles Security Issues, Improves Performance
Mozilla has released Firefox 46, including improved security of the JavaScript JIT Compiler, and delaying Addon signing.
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V8 JavaScript Engine 5.1 Brings More ECMAScript Compliance, WASM Support
Google has announced version 5.1 of its V8 JavaScript engine, which improves compliance with the ECMAScript 2017 draft specification and adds preliminary support for WASM, a low-level portable bytecode aimed to enable near-native execution speed.
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Node.js 6.0 Supports 93% of ES2015
Node.js 6.0 has been released, becoming the new current version. It comes with performance improvements, better test and documentation coverage, better security and wide support for ES2015.
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Microsoft Supports React Native on UWP, Adds Tooling to VS Code
Microsoft and Facebook have announced that the Universal Windows Platform will be the next platform to support React Native. Aiding developers build React Native apps on Windows, Microsoft also released a React Native extension for Visual Studio Code that provides debugging and IntelliSense in their cross-platform code editor.
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Atom Text Editor 1.7 Released, with MRU Tab Switching
Text editor Atom has released version 1.7 with notable changes including MRU tab switching and a number of improvements for Windows users. In the blog post Atom 1.7 and 1.8 beta, software engineer Michelle Tilley describes how with v1.7 ctrl-tab now switches "between the most recently used (MRU) tabs in an Atom window instead of switching to the tab to the right of the current tab."
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Visual Studio Code 1.0 Released: 100+ Languages, 300+ PRs, 1,000+ Extensions
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.0, a year after its initial preview.
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React v15 Released
Facebook has released version 15 of their React JavaScript framework, delivering a faster, cleaner, and more complete package. Despite some hiccups with that weren't discovered in the Release Candidate, the new major version is a solid upgrade.
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Vivaldi 1.0: First Official Release
Vivaldi has released the first official release for its web browser built for – and with – the web. Launched in 2015 by the co-founder of Opera Software, Jon von Tetzchner, the browser is unique in being built using only web technologies.