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JQuery 4.0.0 Beta Released with Important Deprecations and Breaking Changes
Timmy Willison recently announced the beta release of jQuery 4.0. The new version of jQuery is a large release with numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and some breaking changes. IE<11 browsers are no longer supported, many APIs have been removed, jQuery aligns the ordering of focus events on that of browsers, and now supports FormData.
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Netflix Announces SafeTest, Its Custom Approach to Front-End Testing
Moshe Kolodny recently introduced SafeTest, described as a novel approach to front-end web testing. SafeTest orchestrates a test runner, a browser automation library, a UI framework, and dependency injection capabilities to alleviate the pain points of traditional UI testing methods. SafeTest is currently used at Netflix.
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New Docker Compose Functionality Banishes Alt-Tabbing and Bind Mounts
Docker has announced the general availability of Docker Compose Watch - a tool to enhance the efficiency of application development, making it easier for developers to maintain their focus while coding.
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LangChain - Working with Large Language Models, Made Easy
LangChain is a framework that simplifies working with large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI GPT4 or Google PaLM by providing abstractions for common use cases. It supports both JavaScript and Python.
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Azure Cosmos DB Integration with Vercel Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of the Vercel and Azure Cosmos DB integration allowing developers to easily create Vercel applications with an already configured Azure Cosmos DB database.
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Remult, a Crud Framework for Fullstack Typescript
Remult is a full-stack CRUD library that simplifies development by leveraging TypeScript models, providing a type-safe API client and query builder.
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Vercel Announces New Storage and Security Offerings for the Edge
Vercel recently announced a suite of serverless storage offerings for their cloud platform with Vercel KV, Postgres, and Blob, powered by the company’s infrastructure partners, Neon and Upstash. In addition, the company also launched Vercel Secure Compute, Visual Editing, and Spaces.
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Signia: New JavaScript Incremental Computing Library Delivers Better UX for Single-Page Apps
The team behind the collaborative whiteboard tldraw recently published a library that brings incremental computing to JavaScript. Signia seeks to overcome fundamental performance limitations of tldraw’s chosen UI and reactive framework and ultimately provide better interactive apps with better user experience. Signia can however be used standalone or in conjunction with any UI framework.
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Vercel Launches Edge Functions to Provide Compute at the Edge
Recently, Vercel announced the general availability of Edge Functions, which are either JavaScript, TypeScript, or WebAssembly functions. According to the company, these functions are generally both less expensive and faster than traditional Serverless Functions.
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Enhance, SSR for Web Components - Brian Leroux at QCon San Francisco 2022
Brian Leroux, CTO at Begin, recently introduced Enhance, a new HTML framework, at QCon San Francisco. Enhance heavily lies on web standards and progressive enhancement for future-proof web applications. Enhance provides file-based routing, reusable Custom Elements, a customizable utility CSS system, and mapped API data routes that get deployed to isolated, single-purpose cloud functions.
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Vanilla Extract - a Modern CSS in JS Library
Vanilla Extract is a new "CSS in JS" library that offers type safety, good theming support, and plenty of extensions, making it an exciting alternative to existing solutions such as Styled Components.
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Angular 15 - Standalone Components are Stable
Google recently released Angular 15, the latest version of their popular SPA framework. The update includes a stable API for standalone components alongside several other significant improvements.
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Luxon - Better Date and Time Management in JavaScript
Luxon is a modern lightweight library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates in JavaScript.
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The Road to Removing JQuery from Gov.uk
When the team that maintains the gov.uk website faced the issue of updating their old and outdated jQuery dependency, they decided instead to get rid of it altogether. Among other benefits, they achieved a not negligible performance improvement and, in the process, created a migration guide for other developers to tap into.
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Partytown, Offloading 3RD Party Scripts to Web Workers
Partytown is a small JavaScript library that speeds up web application load times by helping developers to move third party scripts into web workers and off the main thread.