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Import Maps - Guy Bedford at ESNEXT 2020
Guy Bedford, core contributor and creator of the dynamic module loader system.js, discussed the workflows enabled by import maps. In his talk at ESNEXT this year, Bedford took a historical view while introducing the motivation behind the import map proposal, and linked the feature with the package entry points used in the latest version of node.
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Web Components at GitHub - Web Component SF Meetup
Kristján Oddsson detailed at the Web Components SF meetup how GitHub uses Web Components and the patterns GitHub identified to foster readable, performant, and accessible front end components.
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Security Concerns for Peripheral APIs on the Web
Google has been promoting the inclusion of peripheral connectivity using Bluetooth and USB on web browsers for several years. Yet, it's meeting heavy resistance from other browser vendors such as Apple and Mozilla.
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Airbnb Releases Tool to Convert Large Codebases to Typescript
The Airbnb engineering team recently released ts-migrate, a tool to help migrate JavaScript code to TypeScript. While the resulting TypeScript code will compile, manual revision of a few annotations (e.g. any) will still be necessary. An automated process may however be more productive than starting from scratch. The Airbnb team reports converting projects with over 50,000 lines of code in a day.
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TypeScript 4.0 Adds Long-Awaited Variadic Tuple Types
The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 4.0, which includes long-awaited variadic tuple type support and other improvements without introducing any major breaking changes.
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Next.js 9.5 Improves Static Site Regeneration Performance
Next.js, the open-source React-based framework from Vercel, adds several static site generation performance improvements in the Next.js 9.5 release. The release also allows developers to optionally opt-in to Webpack 5 beta for smaller and faster builds.
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Ajv Joins the OpenJS Foundation
Ajv, a JSON Schema validator for both server-side and client-side JavaScript applications, has joined the OpenJS Foundation. Ajv, which was recently awarded a grant from Mozilla’s Open Source Support (MOSS) program, may benefit from the OpenJS infrastructure and organization to grow the number of contributors and foster wider enterprise adoption.
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UI Component Explorer Storybook Releases 6.0 with Live Edits, Storybook Composition, Zero-Config
The Storybook team recently released the sixth major version of Storybook. Storybook 6.0 features zero-configuration setup, live edit of component examples, and support visualizing several storybooks in the same component explorer window (composition feature).
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React 17 to Ease Migration Pains for Future React Versions
The React team recently released React 17 (first release candidate), two years after React 16. React 17 strives to ease the migration between future major versions of React by enabling two concurrent versions to coexist. React 17 additionally has a few breaking changes related to the event system and the scheduling.
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Bootstrap 5 Removes jQuery Dependency
The new Bootstrap 5 removes jQuery and no longer supports Internet Explorer (IE).
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Interactive Terminal Apps with Ink 3 - New Built-In Hooks, Suspense and React Dev Tool Support
Ink, the React renderer for interactive command-line apps, released Ink 3 with new built-in hooks and better focus and stream management (e.g. stdin) in the terminal. Developers can now leverage the React development tools. Ink 3 also features updated components that allows for better styling of CLIs, built-in error handler and log interception, and other performance and stability improvements.
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Accessible Adaptive Design Systems with Microsoft's New FAST Framework
Rob Eisenberg recently introduced the FAST Framework. FAST allows developers to create their own design system and web component libraries by customizing styles and properties. FAST uses an adaptive color system that meets accessibility contrast requirements, supports color theming, and provides a perceptually uniform UI across different background colors – with little input from developers.
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Svelte Adds Official TypeScript Support
The Svelte JavaScript framework leverages TypeScript, but until recently, it was challenging to use TypeScript to create Svelte web apps. The latest Svelte updates add official TypeScript support to Svelte.
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Ionic Capacitor 2 Improves Mobile Authentication and Cross-Domain HTTPS
The recent Ionic Capacitor 2 release updates the underlying Swift, XCode, and Android versions, adds Face Unlock and Iris Unlock, improves the core Capacitor plugins, and simplifies cross-domain HTTPS requests.
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Cloud Development Kit Can Now Generate Terraform Configurations Using TypeScript and Python
AWS, HashiCorp, and Terrastack collaborated to release a preview of the CDK for Terraform, or cdktf. Developers can use programming languages like Python or Typescript to manage infrastructure as code. cdktf generates a Terraform configuration in JSON. Also, cdktf supports any existing modules and providers from the Terraform registry to deploy resources to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.