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SQLite 3.38 Improves JSON Queries, Error Messages, and More
SQLite 3.38.0 is the latest release of SQLite, bringing improved syntax for JSON queries, a new diagnostic interface, CLI enhancements, and more.
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Comparative Study of 11 CSS-in-JS Libraries - Andrei Pfeiffer at React Finland 2021
Andrei Pfeiffer recently presented the results of a comparative study of 11 CSS-in-JS libraries. In his talk at React Finland 2021, Pfeiffer focused on the distinction between static and runtime CSS-in-JS libraries and further explained how each category and browser caching relate to performance.
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Streamlining the Handoff between Designers and Developers - Travis Arnold at React Finland 2021
Travis Arnold recently presented how JSX and compiler technologies can be used conjointly to make the handoff between designers and developers more efficient. While the ideas presented are not yet implemented in any publicly available tool or library, the ideas of Arnold, who describes himself as a designer/developer, may serve to illustrate possible avenues for improved collaboration.
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Facebook CSS-in-JS Solution Stylex Introduced at React Finland 2021
Naman Goel, software engineer at Facebook, recently presented Stylex at React Finland 2021. Stylex is Facebook’s custom CSS-in-JS solution used for the new facebook.com website. StyleX alleviates key pain points of CSS-in-JS for large React applications (unused styles, large CSS files, CSS-in-JS library size). Goel anticipates that Stylex will be open-sourced by the end of 2021.
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Ionic Portals Aims to Simplify the Integration of Web Apps into iOS and Android Native Code
Ionic describes its new web view component, Ionic Portals, as a "supercharged" version of the native web view controls available on iOS and Android. It aims to make it easier for developers to integrate web apps with native code in an efficient way.
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WICG Publishes New HTML Sanitizer API Proposal against mXSS Attacks
The Web Platform Incubator Community Group recently published the Draft Community Group Report for the HTML Sanitizer API. The HTML Sanitizer API lets developers take untrusted strings of HTML and sanitize those strings for safe insertion into a document’s DOM. The most common use case of HTML string sanitization is to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
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Uber Reveals Its API Gateway's Architecture
Uber recently detailed the architecture of its internally built API gateway. It described how independent layered components handle each request in the gateway, with each layer being responsible for a different facet of the request lifecycle. A combination of YAML and Apache Thrift defines the gateway configuration, and a code-generated artifact in Go makes up the gateway implementation.
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Cloudflare Announces the General Availability of Cloudflare Pages
Recently, Cloudflare announced the general availability (GA) of Cloudflare Pages: a fast, secure, and free way for frontend developers to build, host, and collaborate on Jamstack sites.
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Charts.CSS, a Pure CSS Charting Library
Charts.css is a new data visualization library that relies solely on CSS and HTML. By avoiding the use of JavaScript/Canvas, it avoids many of the accessibility challenges in existing solutions while keeping the bundle size under 10KB when minified and gzipped.
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React Native 0.64 Brings the Hermes JavaScript Engine to iOS
The latest version of React Native adds support for the Hermes JavaScript engine on iOS and moves to React 17.
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Web Almanac Mega Study Reveals That Popular Front-End Frameworks Are Still a Small Part of the Web
The HTTP Archive finalized the Web Almanac 2020, an annual report on the state of the web. The report gathers its conclusions in 22 chapters organized in four sections (e.g, page content, user experience, content publishing and distribution): jQuery is still 80% of the web; CSS Houdini is seldom used; the median website ships 400 KB of JavaScript in 2020, 14% more than in 2019; and many more.
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Vue 3 Experiments with Native CSS Variables Template Integration
Vue 3 shipped in September last year in what was a huge release that followed two years of work. Vue developers can now declaratively describe in single-file component templates how component state relates to component style. The experimental feature relies on CSS variables, a native feature in modern browsers, that has been used to implement framework-independent design systems.
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Farewell to Flash
Flash reached end of life on 31st December, 2020. InfoQ looks back at the contribution that Flash made to the early web, and what will be missed after its demise.
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Cloudflare Introduces a Way to Build and Host Jamstack Sites with Cloudflare Pages
In a recent blog post, Cloudflare announced a fast, secure, and free way to build and host JAMstack sites with Cloudflare Pages. It seamlessly integrates with a Git repository and existing JAMstack frameworks and is in beta now.
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Tailwind CSS V2.0 - First Major Update
Tailwind CSS, a popular utility framework, recently received its first major update, which offers significant improvements, including dark mode support, extended color palette, improved form support, and many other features that were requested by the community.