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Playwright 1.0 Release Automates Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit-Based Browsers
The Playwright 1.0 release and now supports automation with all evergreen browsers based on the Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit browser engines.
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CSS Containment Now a Web Standard
The CSS Working Group recently published the CSS Containment Module Level 1 as a new web standard. This CSS module specifies the contain property, which can be used to indicate elements whose subtree is independent of the rest of the page in some manner. That independence may then be used by user agents to render web pages faster by skipping subtrees.
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Electron 8 Releases Introduce Caller Stack Logging, HTTP Parsing Alternative
The recent Electron 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 releases make significant improvements to their framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Highlights in these releases include a performance boost in communication between main and renderer processes, better control over call stack, the addition of an HTTP parsing NODE_OPTION in a packaged Electron app, and more.
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Optimization Strategies for the New Facebook.com - Ashley Watkins at React Conf
Ashley Watkins discussed at React Conf some of the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the new facebook.com, addressing topics such as data-driven dependencies, phased code and data downloading, and more.
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Facebook's CSS-in-JS Approach - Frank Yan at React Conf 2019
Frank Yan discussed at React Conf some of the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the new facebook.com, addressing topics such as Facebook’s approach to CSS-in-JS.
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108 Common DOM Tasks in Vanilla JS: the HTML DOM Project
The open-source project HTML DOM provides over 100 snippets of vanilla JavaScript performing common DOM manipulation tasks. The tasks' difficulty range from trivial (get the class of an element) to advanced (create resizable split views). The project may be useful for educational purposes, and for component developers who need to do low-level DOM handling themselves.
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Node.js 14.0 Improves Diagnostics and Internationalization, Adds Web Assembly System Interface
The Node.js project recently released Node.js version 14.0.0, adding diagnostic reports, internationalization, experimental async local storage, native N-API module improvements, refinements to ES modules, and numerous other updates since the Node.js version 12 release. The release also adds experimental Web Assembly System Interface support.
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Refactoring GitHub OctoKit JavaScript REST SDK for Maintainability and Modularization
GitHub engineer Gregor Martynus recently described his journey to refactor GitHub official REST JavaScript SDK, originally containing about 16 thousand lines of code across six files total, into a more maintainable and modular project.
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New MDJS Markup Language Adds JavaScript to Markdown for Interactive Documentation
Thomas Allmer, founder of Open Web Components (@OpenWc), released MDJS, a Markdown variant that allows developers to include runnable JavaScript code into their Markdown documents. MDJS can be interpreted as regular Markdown content or be progressively enhanced to produce interactive documentation including web components.
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Browser-Automation Library Puppeteer Now Supports Firefox
Mathias Bynens, Google developer working on @ChromeDevTools & @v8js, released Puppeteer 3.0. Puppeteer now supports Firefox in addition to the Chrome browser. The new version also upgraded support to the latest Chrome 81, and removed support for Node 8.
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jQuery 3.5 Released, Fixes XSS Vulnerability
Timmy Willison released jQuery 3.5, which fixes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in its HTML parser. The Snyk open source security platform estimates that 84% of all websites may be impacted by jQuery XSS vulnerabilities. jQuery 3.5 also adds missing methods for the positional selectors :even and :odd in preparation for the complete removal of positional selectors in jQuery 4.
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Safari 13.1 Released
Safari 13.1 was recently released for macOS Catalina, iPadOS, iOS, and watchOS. Safari 13.1 strives to improve on the WebKit engine, privacy, performance, and web developer experience.
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W3C Finalizes Web of Things (WoT) Recommendations
The W3C recently announced two new W3C Recommendations, Web of Things (WoT) Architecture and Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description (TD), for web integration across IoT platforms and applications.
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Introducing the JAMstack
JAMstack is a new architecture for building sites that can be served directly from a CDN that offers many benefits over existing LAMP or MEAN solutions. It stands for JavaScript, APIs, and pre-rendered Markup.
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Theia Framework 1.0 Enables Web IDEs
Theia is a framework for building multi-language IDEs upon JavaScript, and powers GitPod.io, Arduino's new Pro IDE, and Arm's new mBed Studio. Earlier this week they released 1.0 signifying that they had reached stability and the vendor-neutral open-source framework was ready for use. Read on to find out more about what Eclipse Theia delivers and how it differs from VS Code.