I am happy to announce a new series of blog posts dedicated to Specflow. In the first article, I am going to introduce to you the Specflow framework. You will be able to write and execute business-readable specification after 10 minutes. Keep reading! 

SASS is dead? CSS vs SASS 2024

These two are similar in some ways but are worlds apart in their approach to solving problems

A streaming approach to JSON. Oboe.js speeds up web applications by providing parsed objects before the response completes.  Demo

I What began as a side project of a Google developer
now shares the JS leaderboard with #React and #Angular With the help of Sarah Drasner, Taylor Otwell, Thorsten Lünborg and many others from the Vue.js community, Evan You tells the story of how he fought against the odds to bring #Vuejs to life

MONEY and DECIMAL are useful in the case of values and sums. However, money is not a correct data type in case of division (The result is 0,00009 so it should be rounded to 0,0001). 

Here's a couple of final thoughts.

• 3 major front end frameworks (Angular, React, and Vue)
• React is the highest growing and highest paying front end framework
• Express is still the dominant Node framework by far
• TypeScript is becoming more and more popular (and it's going to take over...just my thought)
• Tooling is making JavaScript a more evolved and appealing language
• Options to reach almost any platform (desktop, mobile, server, web, hybrid, etc.)
• Graphql is on the rise, especially with the rise of Gatsby.js 

Apparently, GitHub’s own syntax highlighting approach isn’t open source, but this takes a similar approach and is. It’s admittedly quite 'heavy' (due to using a WASM build of the Oniguruma regex engine) but that’s the price of quality. 

Part of the new Angular rendering engine, Ivy, includes a new approach to localizing applications — specifically extracting and translating text. This article explains the benefits and some of the implementation of this new approach. 

- The assembly discovery mechanism in type scanning has new methods to scan for “.exe” files as Assembly candidates. I had removed “.exe” file searching in 4.0 thinking that it was more problematic than helpful, then several users asked for it back.

- The assembly discovery handles the PrivateBinPath of the AppDomain in all (known) cases now

- Child container creation is thread safe now