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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.
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Mozilla Firefox 62 Brings Dark Theme on macOS, Variable Fonts and More
Mozilla has released Firefox 62. This version brings variable fonts, automatic dark theme on macOS Mojave, improved scrolling on Android, and more.
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Mozilla Pushes WebXR as New Open Web API for Augmented Reality
After adding support for WebVR to Firefox, Mozilla is now working on a new API, called WebXR, to bring mixed reality to the Web. Initially announced last year, WebXR aims to replace WebVR in time and to offer a smooth transition for developers using WebVR.
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Mozilla Firefox Will Block Web Trackers by Default
Mozilla recently announced that Firefox will block web trackers by default in a near future. Mozilla plans to releases a series of features through three key initiatives, including improving page load performance, removing cross-site tracking, and mitigating harmful practices.
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Ionic Announced Ionic Framework 4 Beta
Ionic recently announced a beta release of version 4 of their framework for building mobile applications. Ionic 4 focuses on improvements to performance and a more framework-agnostic approach by focusing on support for the web components standard.
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QCon New York 2018: Better Developer Experience at Netflix: Polyglot and Containers
Mike McGarr, manager of developer productivity at Netflix, recently presented Better DexEx at Netflix: Polyglot and Containers at QCon New York 2018. He described how Netflix evolved from operating as a Java shop to supporting developer tools built with multiple languages. This has ultimately provided a better development experience. McGarr spoke to InfoQ about centralized teams at Netflix.
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Uber Announces Open Source Fusion.js Framework
Uber Announces Fusion.js, an open source "Plugin-based Universal Web Framework." Uber builds hundreds of web-based applications, and with web technologies changing quickly and best practices continually evolving, it is a challenge to have hundreds of web engineers leverage modern language features while staying current with the dynamic nature of the web platform.
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Experiences Using Micro Frontends at IKEA
Today, we commonly split up an enterprise architecture in smaller services, microservices. But we have the same problems with the frontend monolith as we had with the backend, Gustaf Nilsson Kotte explained in a recent interview hosted by Stefan Tilkov. Using a micro frontend architecture, he breaks the frontend into smaller parts, to allow for teams to deploy continuously and autonomously.
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TypeScript 3.0 Release Improves Support for Large Projects
The TypeScript team recently announced version 3.0 of TypeScript, introducing new techniques for creating and scaling projects, operations on parameter lists, new types to enforce explicit checks, and improvements to the developer user experience in handling errors reported by TypeScript.
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Eich and Crockford on the Future of JavaScript: Insight from the Creators of JavaScript and JSON
At the recent FullStack conference in London, JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, and JSON creator and JavaScript: The Good Parts author Douglas Crockford spoke on the future of JavaScript.
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Netflix Announces Polly.JS HTTP Interaction Library
Netflix recently announced the release of Polly.JS, an open source library for recording, replaying and stubbing HTTP interactions.
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JSUI, a UI Toolkit for Managing JavaScript Apps
JSUI introduces a visual tool for creating and managing JavaScript applications. The project provides utilities and features for both front-end and back-end applications, and most of its features are independent of underlying JavaScript frameworks.