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At the 8th and 9th of December 2016 was NG-BE, Belgium’s first Angular conference. Igor Minar (Angular lead dev) attended as the keynote speaker with some interesting announcements regarding Angular’s release schedule. Please read the entire post, there are a couple of important things....

inferno - An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces...

UTo help users browse the web safely, Chrome indicates connection security with an icon in the address bar. Historically, Chrome has not explicitly labelled HTTP connections as non-secure. Beginning in January 2017 (Chrome 56), we’ll mark HTTP pages that collect passwords or credit cards as non-secure, as part of a long-term plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure...

Today we are releasing React 15.4.0. In React 15.4.0, you can now visualize React components in the Chrome Timeline. This lets you see which components exactly get mounted, updated, and unmounted, how much time they take relative to each other...

WebVR development continues to happen at a fever pace. And while much of the work has been around refining aspects of the API that define how content is rendered into headsets and managing input devices, one of the most exciting recent developments is the added ability to navigate between WebVR...

To test the latest developer features of Firefox, install Firefox Developer Edition Firefox 50 was released on November 15, 2016. This article lists key changes that are useful not only for web developers, but also Firefox and Gecko developers as well as add-on developers...

I'm glad to say that we have started a new JIT for PHP project and hope to deliver some useful results for the next PHP version (probably 8.0)...

Support for async/await has been added in the Nightly build from the 31st of October (bug #1185106). Great stuff! Time to start removing those JavaScript ...

GitHub announced a public API one month after the site launched. We’ve evolved this platform through three versions, adhering to RFC standards and embracing new design patterns to provide a clear and consistent interface. We’ve often heard that our REST API was an inspiration for other companies; countless tutorials refer to our endpoints. Today, we’re excited to announce our biggest change to the API since we snubbed XML in favor of JSON: we’re making the GitHub API available through GraphQL...

Over the past year, our top priority for Firefox was the Electrolysis project to deliver a multi-process browsing experience to users…

The draft of Indexed Database API 2.0 is almost complete, providing several new APIs for fine-grained access to IndexedDB. The good news is that all these new APIs are implemented in Firefox and will be available in the release of Firefox 51 (currently available in Developer Edition, scheduled for general release in January 2017). In this article, we will share some examples of how to use these APIs to access IndexedDB in a better way...

NPM alternative... Yarn is a fast, reliable, and secure Javascript dependency management...

The goals of this article are to define what stateful and stateless components are, otherwise known as smart and dumb - or container and presentational compo...

Over nine thousand developers took part in the first edition of the State Of JavaScript survey. They answered questions on topics ranging from front-end frameworks and state management, to build tools and testing libraries. You'll find out which libraries developers most want to learn next, and which have the highest satisfaction ratings. And hopefully, this data will help you make sense of the ever-changing JavaScript ecosystem...

Content Security Policy (CSP) is a mechanism designed to step in precisely when such bugs happen; it provides developers the ability to restrict which scripts are allowed to execute so that even if attackers can inject HTML into a vulnerable page, they should not be able to load malicious scripts and other types of resources....

Observatory by Mozilla is a project designed to help developers, system administrators, and security professionals configure their sites safely and securely...

Apple made changes once again to the video policies, this time they made them less restrictive. If a <video> element has the sound turned off then iOS will honor the autoplay attribute, which was not the case before. On iOS < 10, <video>s would only begin playing as a result of a user gesture....

ECMAScript 6 (or ECMAScript 2015) is the newest version of the ECMAScript standard and has remarkably improved parameter handling in JavaScript. We can now use rest parameters, default values and destructuring, among other new features. In this tutorial, we will explore arguments and parameters in detail and see how ECMAScript 6 has upgraded them...

This is about a proposal for using service-workers to improve cookie management on the web. Google is introducing a proof of concept design to persist sessions using the Service Worker...

We began a small-scale rollout for static assets earlier this year. After building confidence in our new infrastructure, we began transitioning our static assets to HTTP/2. Surprisingly, some sections of our platform felt noticeably slower. This post will cover our investigation into the performance regressions we experienced by adopting HTTP/2. Our story isn’t the panacea of web performance typically associated with HTTP/2. We hope sharing our sobering experience will help to balance the discussion...

Css is powerful, you can do a lot of things without javascript. Github repository listing examples.

Subresource Integrity (SRI), which just reached W3C Recommendation status, offers a way to include resources without that open-ended delegation. It lets browsers, as user-agents, cryptographically verify that the integrity of included subresources such as scripts and styles, matches as-delivered what was expected by the requesting application...

This is a tutorial on how to implement a programming language. If you ever wrote an interpreter or a compiler, then there is probably nothing new for you here. But, if you're using regexps to “parse” anything that looks like a programming language, then please read at least the section on parsing...

Zend Framework can be checked out on github or via composer as usual. The minimum supported PHP version is now PHP 5.6. This release updates all the components to latest versions, including v3 releases where present. It also adds the following components zend-mvc-console, zend-mvc-plugins, zend-mvc-form, zend-mvc-i18n, zend-json-server, zend-xml2json, zend-diactoros, zend-stratigility, zend-psr7bridge, zend-hydrator, zend-servicemanager-di ...

Declaration files (.d.ts files) are a fundamental part of using existing JavaScript libraries in TypeScript, but getting them has always been a place where we’ve known there was room for improvement. As we get closer to TypeScript 2.0, we’re very excited to show off a sneak peak of our plan to simplify things. Getting type declarations in TypeScript 2.0 will require no tools apart from npm...