Building desktop apps using Web technologies has never been easier. This tutorial compares NW.js and Electron and digs into the key concepts and issues.
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The first in a series of quarterly events where representatives of 6 popular frameworks/libraries give an update on how they’re progressing.
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jQuery 3.2.0 was released quickly followed by 3.2.1. One new feature is support for custom CSS properties, demonstrated here.
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A compiler for typed JavaScript, using OCaml as the target runtime and leaning on an OCaml implementation of JavaScript’s builtins.
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nginScript is a unique JavaScript implementation for the NGINX Web server that lets you more easily play with dynamic load-balancing, logging, request parsing, etc.
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Todd Motto runs through some of the considerations you should review when planning to build an application using Angular (aka Angular 2 and above).
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Ember 2.12 and 2.13 Beta Released news This release kicks off the 2.13 beta cycle for all sub-projects.
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Cross-Origin Resource Sharing — A Simple Guided Tour tutorial Martin Splitt
Magical JavaScript Tips Every Developer Should Remember tutorial Tarun Gupta
React is Slow, React is Fast: Optimizing React Apps in Practice tutorial François Zaninotto
An Overview of an ES Proposal for Arbitrary Precision Integers tutorial Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
Creating a Book Cover Using JavaScript and p5.js tutorial Engin Arslan
Encoding Text as Unicode Clock Faces tutorial A slightly out-of-left-field piece from Axel :-) Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
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React Conf 2017: The Full Recorded Stream video Day 2 here. YouTube
ASTs for Beginners video An hour long JavaScript-oriented intro to abstract syntax tree concepts. Kent C Dodds
react-sourcerer: A Linting Framework Built in React video Merrick Christensen
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JavaScript vs. Python in 2017 opinion Michael Bolin
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