--- title: "Aurelia 1.0 and Meteor 1.4 released, plus an official React app builder" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 294 published_at: "2016-07-28" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/294" --- Aurelia 1.0 and Meteor 1.4 released, plus an official React app builder This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/294) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 294 — July 28, 2016[Aurelia 1.0 Released](http://blog.durandal.io/2016/07/27/aurelia-1-0-is-here/)[Aurelia](http://aurelia.io/) is a next-gen JavaScript client framework that Rob Eisenberg, formerly an Angular 2 core team member, first shared [18 months ago.](http://blog.durandal.io/2015/01/26/introducing-aurelia/) Aurelia [Create React App: Create React Apps with No Build Configuration](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app)A new, official toolkit that brings together several tools to rapidly create React apps with no up-front build config. 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