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Session from Day 2 of VueConf.US
The first ever VueConf.US took place March 26-28 in New Orleans, bringing together the VueJS Core team and hundreds of Vue developers from around the world. March 28 sessions included advanced Vue Patterns, Design Systems with Vue, using TypeScript with Vue, comparisons between Vue and React, Server Side Rendering with Vue, Vue Storybook, and rapid prototyping with Vue Single File Components.
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TSDoc: A TypeScript Source Code Documentation Format
TSDoc proposes a new format for documenting TypeScript source code. Existing TypeScript API documentation parsers accept a syntax based on JSDoc, but the extensions to JSDoc are inconsistent across implementations.
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Tensorflow with Javascript Brings Deep Learning to the Browser
Google launched Tensorflow.js, a Javascript implementation of its open-source Tensorflow deep-learning framework during the recent TensorFlow Dev Summit 2018. Tensorflow.js enables training models directly in the browser by leveraging the WebGL JavaScript API for faster computations.
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WebAssembly Studio: An Online WASM IDE Tool from Mozilla
WebAssembly Studio is an online tool developed by Mozilla and used to compile C/C++ and Rust code into WASM.
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D3 Announces 5.0 Release of SVG, Canvas, and HTML Library for Manipulating Data
The D3 team has announced their 5.0 release, which embraces several newer asynchronous patterns such as promises and fetch, and updates key visualization APIs.
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Safari 11.1 in iOS 11.3 Enables Payment Request API
In the 11.3 version of iOS, released Thursday, March 29, Apple included version 11.1 of Safari which enables the Payment Request API. This allows web developers to allow users to make payments with saved credit cards and mobile wallets, streamlining payment and checkout flows. With Android already supporting it, the Payment Request API is now available for 98% of the US and UK mobile markets.
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TypeScript 2.8 Release Includes Conditional Types
TypeScript 2.8 has been released with several major features and bug fixes. The most significant addition is conditional types, a new construct that allows engineers to choose types based on other types.
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Afternoon Sessions from Day 1 of VueConf.US
The first ever VueConf.US took place March 26-28 in New Orleans, bringing together the VueJS Core team and hundreds of Vue developers from around the world. Afternoon sessions covered integrations between Vue.js and popular tooling such as serverless functions and rxjs, building native applications with vuejs-nativescript, and closed with a wide-ranging panel discussion.
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Q&A with Gregg Pollack on Vue.js at VueConf.US
InfoQ took the chance to ask Gregg Pollack from VueMastery about Vue.js internals, his view of the Vue.js community, the best ways to learn Vue, and more of the reasons for Vue’s success.
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Opening Sessions from VueConf.US
The first ever VueConf.US took place March 26-28 in New Orleans, bringing together the Vue Core team and hundreds of Vue developers from around the world. The conference contained a single day of workshops, all taught by members of the VueJS core team, followed by two days of talks. Speakers announced new releases and project processes, detailed Vue internals, and shared best practices.
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Ember 3.0 and beyond, with Co-Creator Tom Dale
Tom Dale, co-creator of Ember and senior staff software engineer at LinkedIn, recently talked with InfoQ about the recent Ember 3.0 release, the direction of the Ember project, alignment with modern web standards, and Ember’s initial experiments with Rust and Web Assembly.
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#smooshgate and the Challenges of Web Compatibility
The broader JavaScript community responded vocally when Michael Ficarra, the author of the Array.prototype.flatten TC39 proposal, jokingly suggested renaming flatten as smoosh in response to a bug report that the new feature breaks old websites in nightly versions of Firefox.
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Ionic Announces Capacitor 1.0.0 Alpha for Creating Web, Hybrid, and Native Apps
The Ionic team has announced the first alpha release of Capacitor, a new approach for building web, hybrid, and native apps on mobile and desktop platforms with JavaScript.
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Propel: Scientific and ML Computing JavaScript Library from Node.js Founder
Propel is a new JavaScript scientific computing library leveraging GPU hardware for computations to support machine learning and other scientific computing in JavaScript.
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Webpack 4.0 Release Brings Simplified Configuration, WebAssembly Support, and Big Performance Boost
Webpack, the most popular JavaScript module bundler, released version 4.0 on Sunday, February 25. The version contains a complete rewrite of the plugin system, new first class module types including support for WebAssembly, simplified configuration options, and much more. The update also comes with big performance improvements, with reports of anywhere from 60% to 98% reduction in build time.