Lots of notable releases, community projects, and technical content were released in the DoneJS community last month! This post outlines some of the highlights from June 2017.
Notable releases
FuncUnit 3.4 includes Syn 0.10, which added PointerEvents for right clicks and fixed an issue in Internet Explorer 11 not-suppressing key events during preventDefault.
We’ve also made some structural changes to canjs.com, including the addition of a new API Docs page that is now the parent to the Core, Infrastructure, Ecosystem, and Legacy pages. The new About page contains some pages that were under Guides, and you can more easily see the list of Recipes now that they all show as soon as you go to the Guides page. Last but not least, we’ve started redirecting all traffic to HTTPS!
Blog posts, talks & trainings
Matthew Phillips published two blog posts: Utilizing HTTP/2 PUSH in a Single Page Application and Slimming Down Steal. In his first post, he presented some research he conducted on how HTTP/2 Server Push can improve the performance of SPAs under different conditions, including how quickly the server can return the data and how fast the user’s Internet connection is. In his second post, he outlined our roadmap for making the production version of StealJS dramatically smaller so your apps can load even faster for your users. If you like improving the performance of your apps, definitely check out both articles!
I published an article on SitePoint called How to Build a Real-Time GitHub Issue To-Do List with CanJS, in which I give an introduction to CanJS and then walk you through the process of building an issue to-do list with GitHub’s APIs. If you’re wondering how you might implement drag-and-drop sorting with CanJS, check it out!
Last month, you might’ve seen members of the core team at any of these events:
- Raleigh, NC: CanJS Overview and TodoMVC — Full Day Training
- Diamond Bar, CA: Intro to CanJS — Building a Weather Report
- Chicago, IL: Hacknight — Credit Card Payment Form with Stripe
- Irvine, CA: High-Performance Apps with DoneJS
The above talks were all based on guides you can find on our websites:
- CanJS TodoMVC with StealJS
- CanJS Weather Report Guide
- CanJS Credit Card Guide
- DoneJS Quick Start Guide
Contributors
In addition to the projects and releases we’ve already mentioned, we’d like to recognize the following contributions from people outside the core team:
- Alfredo Delgado’s contribution to StealJS
- Austin Kurpuis’s contributions to bit-docs, CanJS, and DoneJS
- Bianca Elizabeth’s contributions to CanJS
- Brad Momberger’s contributions to CanJS
- Chris Andrejewski’s contributions to CanJS, DoneJS, and FuncUnit
- Christopher Baker’s contributions to CanJS and DoneJS
- Frank Lemanschik’s contributions to CanJS and DoneJS
- Ilya Fadeev’s contributions to DoneJS and StealJS
- Jamie McCue’s contribution to CanJS
- Joel Kuzmarski’s contributions to CanJS and DoneJS
- Joshua Olson contribution to DoneJS
- Kyle Gifford’s contributions to CanJS
- Manuel Mujica’s contributions to StealJS
- Mike 'mitch' Mitchel contribution to DoneJS
- Nils Lundquist’s contributions to CanJS
- Obaid’s contributions to CanJS and DoneJS
What’s next
Members of the DoneJS core team are presenting at two meetup events this month: DoneJS Chicago and JavaScriptLA. Come hang out and learn more about DoneJS!
We have a couple of exciting announcements lined up this week (expect more blog posts soon!), and we’re continuing work on the following projects:
- Minimal production loader for StealJS to make production builds smaller & faster
- Improving the can-connect & can-set APIs so they’re easier to use & understand
- Documenting bit-docs so improved versions of DocumentCSS and DocumentJS can be built
Keep up with the latest in the community by following us on Twitter or joining us on our forums or Gitter chat!
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