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CSS Grid Level 2 Preview: Adding Subgrid Support for Layout Inheritance
CSS Grid level 2 has gone live on Firefox nightly, providing access to the new subgrid property. The new functionality enables developers who use inner grids to relay on the parent grids column and row definitions, enabling more complex design.
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High Performance Video Editing for the Mobile Web
Forbes Lindesay, a software developer at Threads Styling, shares his experience of creating Video Renderer, a high-performance video editor that was written for a mobile web application
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Chrome 74 Natively Supports Lazy Loading
Google recently released Google Chrome 74 with a new experimental flag to enable native lazy loading support for images and iframes. The img and iframe HTML tags get an additional loading attribute to configure the lazy loading behaviour of the corresponding resource. Deferring load of non-visible content may reduce data usage, memory usage, and speed up above-the-fold content.
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Experimental Trusted Types API to Combat Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
The Google Chrome team announces an experimental Trusted Types API to help combat DOM Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) security vulnerabilities. Google's Vulnerability Reward Program reports that DOM XSS is the most common XSS security variant.
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Anime.js 3.0 Released: New Animation Options, New Documentation Website
Julian Garnier recently released Anime 3.0. The third major iteration of Anime features new animation options, ES6 module support together with a new build process, and a new showcasing website which doubles as documentation.
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Hyperscript Tagged Markup: A JSX Alternative Based on Standard JavaScript
The Hyperscript Tagged Markup (HTM) library, which proposes an alternative to JSX, released its second major iteration. HTM 2.0 is a rewrite that is faster and smaller than HTM 1.x, has a syntax closer to JSX, and now supports Server-Side Rendering (SSR). With HTM 2.0, developers may enjoy simplified React/Preact workflows for modern browsers.
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Linaria 1.0 Released: CSS-in-JS with No Runtime
The first major iteration of Linaria, a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library, is now available to developers. It provides a new API to facilitate using it with React, aims at a better developer experience and build integration, and is more robust.
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Google Chrome Never-Slow Mode
Google has been working on a prototype feature called Never-Slow Mode. This prototype feature, referenced as a work in progress, aims to improve the user experience, delivering consistent quick browsing.
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TypeScript Roadmap: Enhanced Type System, More Productivity, and Improved Linting
Microsoft has detailed the priorities that will drive TypeScript development during the first six months of 2019. Albeit not yet committed, the current roadmap includes enhanced core type system, maximizing forward compatibility with new ECMA features, improving tools, including editor support and linting, and more.
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Howler.js Audio Library for the Modern Web
Howler.js provides a modern audio library with support for the Web Audio API and a fallback mechanism for HTML5 Audio. The project strives to streamline cross-platform development efforts with audio in JavaScript.
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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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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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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.