Tag: JavaScript
We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji
Richi Jennings | | Douglas Crockford, E, emoji, github, JavaScript, microsoft, MIT license, The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape, The Long View, TypeScript, Wasm, WebAssemblyIn this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub ...
AppSmith Adds Git Support to Low-Code App Dev Framework
Mike Vizard | | application development, AppSmith, Git repository, JavaScript, low-code applicationsAppSmith has added support for Git repositories to an open source framework for building custom applications using a low-code platform based on the JavaScript programming language. Rishabh Kaul, head of marketing for ...
Stytch Launches New, Flexibility-First SDK
Passwordless solutions have been a trend for a while now, improving user experience (UX) while reducing exposure to common attack vectors. Now, Stytch’s new JavaScript SDK aims to make password-free authentication a ...
NPMs Sabotaged as OSS Sustainability Crisis Continues
A long-simmering debate over the sustainability of smaller open source projects moved beyond the theoretical when two widely used open source node packaged modules (npm) were deliberately sabotaged this week, allegedly by ...
Vercel Acquires Turborepo to Gain Build System
Vercel today announced it has acquired Turborepo, a provider of a build system for JavaScript and TypeScript applications that provides developers with access to an easy-to-use monorepository for their code. In the ...
Is TypeScript the New JavaScript?
While JavaScript is frequently the language of choice for all sizes of frontend and backend applications, it’s not the only option; nor is it necessarily the most efficient or cost-effective. Increasingly, TypeScript ...
WhiteSource Report Finds NPM Vulnerabilities Fixed Fast
WhiteSource today published a report that found most of the vulnerabilities that affect node package managers (NPMs), widely employed to deploy JavaScript applications, are addressed long before they are assigned a Common ...
WTH? We Wanna WFH | DoD Dual-Sources JWCC | More Nvidia ARM Woes
Richi Jennings | | ARM, Department of Defense, github, google, IT contracts, JavaScript, JEDI, JWCC, NVIDIA, Octoverse, Python, remote working, SoftBank, The Long View, U.S. government, WFH, work from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Working from home is de rigueur, JEDI redux, and more about Nvidia/Arm ...
Netlify Acquires OneGraph to Integrate GraphQL APIs
Netlify this week announced it has acquired OneGraph, a provider of a platform that simplifies the integration and management of application programming interfaces (APIs) based on the GraphQL query language. At the ...
Netlify Acquires FeaturePeek to Streamline App Feedback Process
Netlify announced today it has acquired FeaturePeek as part of an effort to make it simpler for DevOps teams to create a portal through which application stakeholders can both inspect a web ...
Languages and DevOps: Web Development
Web development has changed a lot since DevOps first hit the scene. The languages used have shifted, where languages are used has shifted, the likely back-end hosting environment has changed - but ...
Top Misconceptions About Low-Code Development
Accelerating the pace of development has become one of the biggest goals in DevOps. After all, having teams speed the creation and modification of applications is supposed to be one of the ...
