InfoQ Homepage Web Development Content on InfoQ
-
Firefox Developer Edition Brings Popup Debugging
Mozilla has release Developer Edition 47 for Firefox, bringing new features to improve add-on debugging.
-
WebAssembly Preview Functionality Arrives in Browsers
Browser vendors are positioning WebAssembly as the safe, native format for the web. In an important step, each vendor has released preview functionality of WebAssembly in their respective browsers.
-
Meteor Brings "Pay-as-you-go" Galaxy, Ends Free Hosting
Meteor has rolled out "pay-as-you-go" Galaxy for individual developers, with stable containers and enhanced fault tolerance via high availability.
-
MIT's Polaris Touts Making Web Pages 34 Percent Faster
Polaris is a new JavaScript framework that aims to shrink Web pages load time by 34% at the median. Developed by researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Harvard University, Polaris focuses on reducing latency associated to network trips.
-
Ember.js Team Announces 2.4 LTS, 2.5 Beta
The Ember.js team has released version of 2.4. After a six-week maturation cycle as a stable version, 2.4 will be declared Ember's first LTS release.
-
TypeScript 1.8 Brings Module Augmentation Support
Microsoft has released TypeScript 1.8, bringing the ability to use JavaScript code within a TypeScript project, and full support for module augmentation.
-
Facebook Turns React.js Version Up to 15
Seeking to inspire more confidence in the stability of the React.js JavaScript library, Facebook has bumped the version number from 0.14 to 15.0.
-
Realm Launches New Database for React Native
Realm has launched a new database for React Native, Facebook's platform for building React apps with JavaScript.
-
Ionic Framework 2 Beta is Out
The beta of version 2 of the Ionic Framework has been released. Its architecture advances to Angular 2, brings a new navigation stack, and fully supports material design.
-
Google Drops Flash to go 100% HTML5 for Ads
The long, painful death of Adobe's Flash continues, with Google announcing the company's display network will soon stop running Flash ads. In an official post the company said "to enhance the browsing experience for more people on more devices, the Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing are now going 100% HTML5."
-
ECMAScript 2016: Array.prototype.includes and the Exponentiation Operator
ECMAScript 2016 will include as new features only Array.prototype.includes and the Exponentiation Operator. Async functions will have to wait until next year.
-
Angular Releases Version 1.5, Narrows Focus
Angular 1.5 has been released, introducing a new component helper which aims to get developers closer to what they'll encounter in version 2, easing the transition. Along with a flurry of other new features, version 1.5 is the biggest update in 9 months.
-
TypeScript 1.8 Beta Adds Integration with JavaScript, Stateless Functional Components and More
TypeScript, Microsoft’s open source superset of JavaScript, has reached 1.8 beta, bringing many new language features and tools enhancements.
-
Release 1.0 of Suave, a Web Server and Development Library for F#
Suave 1.0 was recently released, bringing a new web development library to .NET. Suave packs a light, fully async web server and a semantic model to describe HTTP processing pipelines. Suave runs on multiple platforms and operating systems, including Windows, OSX, Linux, .NET and Mono. While it could be used from any .NET language, Suave combinators and types are designed to be used from F#.
-
Ember.js 2.3 Release Brings Significant Changes
The Ember.js team has released the stable version of Ember 2.3, and the first beta of 2.4. Ember contributor Matthew Beale modestly describes the update as a "minor release," nonetheless 2.3 comes with several significant changes, including the ability to use Ember FastBoot with the latest stable release.