React, Flux, GraphQL, Hack, HHVM...? All of this and more!
Graph databases are popping up everywhere. During the 2016 they're bound to come up even more and will probably reach mainstream acceptance such as NoSQL Document Databases did a few years back. RDF and the Semantic web have held the promise of powerful graph data for a long time, but have not become a staple for web developers.
Last week there was interesting news about OpenCypher, HHVM and LLVM and React Forms.
Working with JavaScript is pretty hectic in 2015. The advancement in the area have been rapid and it's been hard to find a technology that is stable enough.
A few years back it felt like SQL was on it's way to the grave. Everyone was talking about how all kinds of NoSQL solutions were the absolute future and the solutions to all of life's problems. It felt like everything would be NoSQL in 2015
Falcor is a new library open sourced by Netflix, another prominent new company giving back to Open Source. Falcor is described as a JavaScript library for efficient data fetching. It is a radically different approach from the traditional culture of building multiple endpoints.
Now that even Drupal is popularising GraphQL, the Facebook driven Query Language for Graph Databases, it's time to take a closer look at how to apply it in practise.
Server side rendering and isomorphic JavaScript is somewhat of a hyped topic these days. Mostly the whole stack is built with JavaScript, from the server running Node.js to the client using a framework/library such as React.
JavaScript has been and continues being a hot topic. In the last few years we've seen the rise and fall of libraries, utilities and other tools such as Angular.js, React, Mootools, CoffeeScript and more. Nowadays the ideal way to develop JavaScript would be to use a transpiler: a tool that allows you to write a future specification of the EcmaScript specification and compiles it down to something compatible and available to users today.