Today, Bun has two main priorities: stability and compatibility with Node.js and Web APIs. In v0.3.0, we’ve made significant progress toward both of these goals.
Bun is an interesting new Node.js alternative based on JavaScriptCore, with additional features, such as bundling, transpiling, and managing packages. It is written in Zig, gluing a lot of of third-party C and C++ code.
React.js is known for its virtual DOM, but as Facebook’s software engineer Bill Fisher said, the virtual DOM is only an implementation detail.
Last week we saw Facebook releasing React Native, which renders native OS components instead of DOM elements. Today Flipboard released React Canvas, a high performance React renderer for <canvas>.
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At React.js Conf 2015 Facebook announced React Native — a way to write native iOS and Android applications with JavaScript using the familiar React.js.
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React.js is a revolutionary JavaScript library created by Facebook, described by its developers as “V in MVC”, that is, a view layer. Some time after its release, Facebook introduced Flux application architecture, which used React.js for UI views, and specified how to deal with everything else without MVC architecture shortcomings. Flux is a pattern, not a framework or a library, so there’s a whole field of implementations, helpers, frameworks based on Flux out there. In this article we introduce five of them.
Everyone hates when something happens to that huge web form they were filling. Accidentally closed a browser window? Pressed a Back button? Computer crashed? “Arrgghh, have to fill the form again!” — says your user… or just leaves your website. If you don’t want this to happen, Garlic.js is here to help you!
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Snabbt.js is a new simple and fast JavaScript animation library. It is minimalistic — 4 KB (minimized and gzipped) — and according to its author, focuses on “things that modern browsers can animate cheaply: transforms and opacity”. Snabbt uses CSS3 transforms for animation.
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localForage is a project started at Mozilla for the purpose of providing a stable, simple key/value store API on top of various offline storage options available in modern browsers: IndexedDB, WebSQL, or localStorage.
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