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Running PostgreSQL in the Browser with WebAssembly
With the recently released PGlite, a WASM build of Postgres that is packaged into a TypeScript client library, developers can run Postgres queries in the browser with no extra dependencies. PGlite is used for reactive, real-time, local-first apps.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Angular 14 - Typed Forms and Standalone Components
Angular 14 was released earlier this month with the most significant update since Ivy. It includes two long-awaited features, Typed Reactive Forms and Standalone Components, as well as several minor improvements.
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React 18, Introducing the Concurrent Renderer
React 18 is out and includes the long-awaited concurrent renderer, which enables React to offer several improvements, including the ability to interrupt the rendering process.
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Minze, a Minimalistic JS Library for Creating Web Components
Minze is a modern JavaScript library that abstracts many of the difficulties of writing Web Components with a minimal overhead (2kb minified and compressed) and good developer ergonomics.