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Dynamic Web Apps without JavaScript - HTMX Showcase at DjangoCon and Devoxx
DjangoCon and Devoxx Belgium recently reported examples of interactive web applications developed without JavaScript developers. The showcased htmx HTML-first framework seems to target those applications that mainly propose a friendly interface to CRUD operations over remote resources. In one case, the team was able to remove the JavaScript developer.
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Container Queries, Next Step Towards Truly Modular CSS - Maarten Van Hoof at Devoxx Belgium
Maarten Van Hoof, senior front-end developer at iO, recently explained at Devoxx Belgium how CSS container queries facilitate modular, component-based responsive web applications. With container queries, micro-front-end components can adjust their internal layout independently from the other components on the page.
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Lessons Learned: Emotion Library Maintainer Explains Why Company No Longer Uses Runtime CSS-in-JS
Sam Magura, staff software engineer at Spot and active maintainer of the CSS-in-JS Emotion library, recently detailed why Spot abandoned the runtime CSS-in-JS library Emotion in favor of Sass modules: Runtime overhead, payload overhead, and server rendering issues contributed to a lesser user experience.
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New Qwik JavaScript Framework Seeks Faster Web Apps with Unique Approach: Resumability
Misko Hevery, creator of AngularJS, recently announced the beta availability of Qwik, his new web framework. Qwik claims to build applications that feel fast regardless of application size. In most cases, Qwik first downloads only 1 KB of JavaScript. Event handlers and application code are lazy-loaded and prefetched as needed.
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Preact Joins the Crowd and Bakes in Reactivity Primitives with New Signals API
The Preact JavaScript framework recently released Signals, a new set of reactive primitives for managing application state. Signals let developers associate parts of the user interface with state variables independently of the UI’s component tree. Alleged benefits of the extra 1.6KB: fast re-renders that are independent of the shape of the UI component tree and excellent developer ergonomics.
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Azure Static Web Apps Introduces API Backend Options
Azure recently announced the preview of new API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps. Developers can now create an end-to-end authenticated application calling APIs hosted on Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, or Azure API Management.
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AWS Introduces a New Open-Source Solution: AWS Virtual Waiting Room
Recently, AWS introduced a new open-source solution called AWS Virtual Waiting Room, allowing integration with existing web and mobile applications. In addition, the solution protects systems from resource exhaustion by buffering user requests during sudden traffic bursts.
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Microsoft Previews Enterprise-Grade Edge Functionality to Optimize Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web Apps are a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps, which Microsoft manages. The company now announced a preview of Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door, enabling faster page loads, enhanced security, and increased reliability for global apps with no configuration or additional code required.
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AWS Releases Preview of a New Low-Code Development Tool with Amplify Studio at re:Invent
At the recent re:Invent AWS announced Amplify Studio, a new Figma-connected low-code service meant to help developers quickly build cloud-connected apps. The new tool is an extension of the existing AWS Amplify service, which focuses on building web and mobile apps but lacks the easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface of Amplify.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Static Web Apps into General Availability
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Static Web Apps, a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps. The service provides developers with one package that works for static web apps – which Azure manages for them.
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Cloudflare Announces the General Availability of Cloudflare Pages
Recently, Cloudflare announced the general availability (GA) of Cloudflare Pages: a fast, secure, and free way for frontend developers to build, host, and collaborate on Jamstack sites.
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Serverless React Applications with AWS Lambda
Roman Boiko, solutions architect at AWS, recently published three scenarios to deploy a React application in the cloud or at the edge making use of Amazon Web Services. The scenarios use Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Lambda@Edge for a fully serverless implementation.
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Tailwind CSS V2.0 - First Major Update
Tailwind CSS, a popular utility framework, recently received its first major update, which offers significant improvements, including dark mode support, extended color palette, improved form support, and many other features that were requested by the community.
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Inertia.JS Lets Developers Write API-Free Monolithic React/Vue/Svelte Applications in PHP or Ruby
Inertia.js allows developers to write single-page applications using classic server-side routing and controllers. Inertia tightly couples the backend to the frontend so developers need not write APIs. Developers can use battle-tested server-side frameworks (e.g., Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Django, AspNetCore). On the client, developers can use React, Svelte, or Vue to implement the user interface.
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Microsoft Introduces App Service Static Web Apps in Preview at Build 2020
During this year's digital Build event, Microsoft announced it had expanded Azure App Service with a new hosting offer explicitly tailored for static web apps. The hosting offering is called App Service Static Web Apps and is currently in preview.