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The Three Key Dimensions of Front-End Frameworks - Evan You at JS Conf Asia 2019
Evan You, Vue.js framework's creator, recently talked at JS Conf Asia 2019 about seeking balance in framework design. Frameworks should be distinguished on three design tradeoffs: scope, render mechanism, and state mechanism, rather than on popularity-based metrics. Frameworks are best evaluated on a continuous tradeoff axis instead of with a binary (good vs. bad) determination.
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Vue 3.0 Discards Class-Based API for Reusable, Composable Function-Based Approach
The Vue team recently opened an RFC describing the function-based component API for the upcoming Vue 3. Like React Hooks, the function-based component API allows developers to encapsulate logic into “composition functions” and reuse that logic to build larger components. The new component API provides better TypeScript type inference support, in ways that the now discarded Class API RFC cannot.
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Svelte 3 Front-End Framework Moves Reactivity into the JavaScript Language, Q&A with Rich Harris
The recently released front-end framework Svelte 3 introduces a new syntax to express reactivity in JavaScript. InfoQ interviewed Rich Harris, Svelte creator, and discussed what Svelte 3 means and its implications for developers.
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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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F# Web Development with the SAFE Stack
The SAFE stack is a set of F# libraries used together to create web applications. Tomasz Heimowski recently presented the stack at F# eXchange 2018 in a live coding session. He demonstrated the whole experience by creating and deploying a rating application for his talk.
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Interview with Henrik Feldt on Suave 1.0
Suave 1.0 was recently released after several years of active development. InfoQ reached out to Henrik Feldt, maintainer of Suave and CEO of qvitoo, to learn more about its capabilities and development history.
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Release 1.0 of Suave, a Web Server and Development Library for F#
Suave 1.0 was recently released, bringing a new web development library to .NET. Suave packs a light, fully async web server and a semantic model to describe HTTP processing pipelines. Suave runs on multiple platforms and operating systems, including Windows, OSX, Linux, .NET and Mono. While it could be used from any .NET language, Suave combinators and types are designed to be used from F#.
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Interview with Adam Granicz on WebSharper 3
Version 3 of WebSharper, the F# framework for developing web applications hits RTM this year. We decided to catch up with Adam Granicz, CEO of IntelliFactory, to learn what new features and improvements WebSharper 3 brings.
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Web Frameworks Benchmark 2015
We published in 2014 the results of TechEmpower’s benchmark of various web frameworks, a term including web platforms and micro-frameworks. A year later, they have published a new set of results outlining important changes in the performance of top 10 web frameworks.
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XHP-Bootstrap Project Announced, Combines XHP with Bootstrap Framework
Fred Emmott, software engineer for Facebook, has announced the release of XHP-Bootstrap project, combining XHP with the Bootstrap framework. Emmott describes XHP as a way to create HTML user interfaces from PHP or Hack, and provides an XML-like syntax for creating stringable objects representing markup.
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MontageJS: An Interview with Creator Benoit Marchant
Benoit Marchant is the creator of the open source MontageJS HTML5 Framework, and the Co-Founder & CEO at Montage Studio. MontageJS is designed to write single page, multi-screen web applications with a focus on high quality user experience, and to enable big projects with larger teams.
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Play 2.3 Released: Modularization, Java 8 and WebJars
The Play 2.3 release increases modularization of the framework by separating parts from the framework. Also, the Play shell has been replaced by Activator, which includes a browser UI and project templates. InfoQ also talked to Play tech lead James Roper to learn more about the changes and futures plans.
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Comparing the Performance of Various Web Frameworks
TechEmpower has been running benchmarks for the last year, attempting to measure and compare the performance of web frameworks. For these benchmarks the term “framework” is used loosely including platforms and micro-frameworks.
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Koa Web Framework 0.2.0 Release
The NodeJS based Koa web application framework has released version 0.2.0. Koa is the successor of the popular Express MVC platform, but relies heavily on newer ES6 constructs. This release is marked as an important one in that that it reaffirms the team’s design choices from the initial 0.1.0 release, solidifying Koa's API for future releases and production use.
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PayPal Switches from Java to JavaScript
PayPal has decided to use JavaScript from browser all the way to the back-end server for web applications, giving up legacy code written in JSP/Java.