React, Flux, GraphQL, Hack, HHVM...? All of this and more!
WebAssembly adoption has really picked up in the first quarter of 2018. Many languages are now targeting the binary format that is the first native alternative to JavaScript since the inception of the web. The Go programming language is now joining the wasm extravaganza.
Web Payments API is a way to integrate payments into browsers directly. Apple is now doubling down on the technology and payments are now possible using Apple Pay.
The latest iteration of the world's favourite JavaScript UI library has landed, it brings some exciting updates unveiled earlier.
Web Components aim to provide the tools needed for contemporary web development as native tools. However, there is now quite a bit of complexity in Polymer, etc. Fit-html is a light weight Web Components framework using lit-html and Redux.
NPM is the backbone (eh, eh) of the JavaScript ecosystem. The packet manager originally meant for distributing Node.js modules has grown to be a universal tool for distributing JavaScript code for the server and client, TypeScript type definitions, CSS frameworks and a whole lot of JS tooling.
The social media giant Facebook has been receiving some flak over the Cambridge Analytica case, but behind the scenes work goes on. The company has now made it's mobile web property to comply with PWA (Progressive Web App) specifications.
AWS Lambda, the serverless infrastructure from Amazon's Web Services arm has become a popular platform for hosting microservice architecture based apps. The platform provides support for multiple programming languages and frameworks - currently Node.js, Python Java, C# and Go are on the menu.
PHP continues it's long run as the world's favourite server side language in terms of adoption. The ubiqutious language continues to evolve as the team pushes new improvements now GC improvements are coming to PHP 7.3.
The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in modern CPUs from Intel/AMD/ARM revealed surprising attack vectors in computing. Everything from low level Operating System Kernel components to JavaScript running in Billions of browsers could be exploited by using Spectre variants 1 and 2.
At a JavaScript conference in Iceland, JSConf 2018, Dan Abramov from the Facebook team announced two improvements, Time Slice and Suspense coming to React is in the near future. Originally slated in React 16.3 or the features might arrive later in 2018.