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Moddable IoT JavaScript Engine: 99% ES2017 Compliance with Requirement of Less Than 32KB RAM
The Moddable SDK provides a JavaScript engine for IoT development supporting greater than 99% compliance with the ES2017 specification, starting at less than 32KB.
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Google Releases Versions 7.0 and 7.1 of V8 JavaScript Engine
The recent 7.0 and 7.1 versions of Google's V8 JavaScript engine improve JavaScript memory performance, add key features for WebAssembly, and introduce a few minor language improvements.
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UI Development Environment "Storybook 4" Supports Six New View Layers, Including Ember and MarkoJS
The Storybook 4.0 release adds support for six new view layers including Ember, MarkoJS, and Svelte, and updates its dependencies to Webpack 4 and Babel 7.
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Google Introduces Carlo, a Node.js Web Rendering Surface
Google announces an early release of Carlo, a Google Labs experiment for creating Node.js applications. Carlo leverages Puppeteer to communicate between Node.js applications and the Chrome web browser.
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JetBrains Releases React-Based "Ring UI" 1.0 Web UI Components
The RingUI 1.0 release introduces a new visual language for components within light and dark environments, adds support for CSS properties and modules, and adds new Message, Tabs, and Toggle components.
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British Airways Data Breach Conducted via Malicious JavaScript Injection
British Airways reports two substantial data breaches this year, initially reporting in September the compromise of 244,000 credit card transactions in August and September, and further disclosing in October another 185,000 transactions from April through July.
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React Conf 2018 Introduces React Hooks and React 16.7 Alpha
The recent React Conf 2018 includes the alpha release of React 16.7, a Hooks proposal for using state and other React features without writing classes, and several promising third-party React packages.
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WorkerDOM Adds DOM Concurrency for JavaScript Programming
The big news at this year's JSConf was the introduction of WorkerDOM, a JavaScript library to make the DOM available to Web Workers, allowing developers to leverage multi-core processor architectures to improve web performance.
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Electron 3 Release Increases Stability
The Electron team recently announced the release of version 3 of Electron. This release includes numerous enhancements and improvements including support for reading massive files, better APIs for managing applications, and logging and performance measurement capabilities.
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Babel 7 Release Improves Support for ES.Next Proposals and TypeScript
The Babel 7 release includes many significant changes and improvements including support for TypeScript transpilation and a better approach to managing ES.Next proposals.
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Angular 7 Released with Virtual Scroll, Drag and Drop, CLI Prompts and More
Google has delivered Angular 7. This version brings Virtual Scroll, Drag and Drop, CLI Prompts, and more.
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Tim Berners-Lee Introduces "Solid" Decentralized Identity Platform
Solid is a new decentralized identity platform from WWW Creator Tim Berners-Lee. Solid provides a mechanism for users to own and better control the usage of their data.
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TypeScript 3.1 Adds Mappable Tuple and Array Types
The TypeScript team recently announced version 3.1 of TypeScript, adding mappable tuple and array types and several other refinements.
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Next.js 7 Released with 40% Faster Builds
The Next.js team has announced version 7 of their open-source React framework. This release of Next.js focuses on improving the overall developer experience with 57% faster boot times and 40% faster builds in development, improved error reporting and WebAssembly support.
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Webhint Open Source Linting Tool for Detecting Issues with Accessibility, Performance, and Security
The webhint project provides an open source linting tool to check for issues with accessibility, performance, and security. The creation of websites and web apps has an increasing number of details to perfect, and webhint strives to help developers remember these details.