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TypeScript 3.8 unveils new syntax for type-only imports

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How to convert Python to JavaScript (and back again)

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Making open source JavaScript pay

Money isn’t everything to the success of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. Or is it?

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What frustrates web developers? Web browsers

Mozilla Developer Network survey indicates broad satisfaction with web technologies, with browser support being the main frustration

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WebAssembly hasn’t grabbed JavaScript developers

State of JavaScript 2019 developer survey says TypeScript, React, Express, and GraphQL are hot, Angular and WebAssembly not

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What’s new in Angular: Angular 9.0 delayed

The popular JavaScript framework for desktop and mobile apps produces better code and enhances the Bazel compiler

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WebAssembly 1.0 and W3C core specification arrive

The W3C has published the WebAssembly core specification, along with companions pertaining to web and JavaScript APIs

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‘Privacy first’ Brave browser exits beta

By blocking trackers, invasive ads, and device fingerprinting by default, the open source browser had drawn protest from content publishers

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Bytecode Alliance focuses on WebAssembly outside the browser

Mozilla and partners will collaborate on secure foundations for WebAssembly runtimes and language tooling

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TypeScript 3.7 arrives with optional chaining

Latest TypeScript includes a highly requested ECMAScript feature for dealing with null and undefined values

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What is JSON? A better format for data exchange

JSON has eclipsed XML as the preferred data interchange format for web applications and web services. Here’s why

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Node.js 13 brings programming enhancements, worker threads

New release also features V8 engine performance improvements for object destructuring, memory usage, and WebAssembly startup time

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JSON tools you don’t want to miss

Developers can choose from many great free and online tools for JSON formatting, validating, editing, and converting to other formats

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React Native fixes ‘broken’ reloading

New feature called Fast Refresh addresses a number of bugs that caused users to turn off ‘hot reloading‘

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What is JavaScript? The full stack programming language

The most popular programming language in the world started out in the browser but now runs everywhere

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Dart language taps machine learning for code completion

Google’s Dart 2.5 SDK features previews of machine learning powered code completion and a foreign function interface for C interoperability

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Microsoft proposes Static TypeScript for embedded systems

Static TypeScript is a subset of TypeScript that runs in a web browser and compiles to ARM Thumb machine code

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6 top-notch tools for React developers

Facebook’s JavaScript UI library has sparked an ecosystem of companion tools and frameworks

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TypeScript 3.6 brings stricter checking to iterators and generators

The latest TypeScript version also introduces improvements for working with arrays and promises

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10 trusty JavaScript test tools

From simple test runners to complete testing frameworks, look to these proven tools to keep your JavaScript free of bugs

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