Polypane 16, Safari TP 182-183, Angular 17, Node 21.2, TypeScript 5.3 RC, Vite 5.0, and more | Front End News #105

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In this issue, we present Polypane 16 and two releases of Safari Technology Preview: 182 and 183. There are many important entries on the Release Radar, including Angular 17, Node 21.2, TypeScript 5.3 RC, Vite 5.0, and more. And we're wrapping things up with a collection of tools, images, fonts, and other valuable resources.

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💻 Browser news

Polypane

Polypane, the browser for ambitious web developers, received a significant update with workflow improvements, scoped styles, and Chromium 118. On top of that, we receive emulation for prefers-reduced-transparency, an updated preview for X/Twitter and Mastodon posts, updated React DevTools, and much more.

• Polypane 16: workflow improvements, scoped styles and Chromium 118

WebKit

We got two new releases for Safari Technology Preview: 182 and 183. Each boasts a long list of fixes, improvements, and even some new features, such as basic support for text-wrap: balance and text-wrap-style CSS properties, or the showPicker() method for <input type="date">.

• Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 182

• Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 183

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📡 The Release Radar

• Angular v17 - a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages

• Astro 3.5 - The web framework that scales with you

• Cypress 13.5.0 - Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser

• Deno 1.38 - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript

• Docusaurus 3.0 - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites

• Ember.js v5.4.0 - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications

• Node v21.2.0 (Current) - an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime

• PDFKit 0.14.0 - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser

• Prettier 3.1 - an opinionated code formatter

• reveal.js 5.0 - The HTML Presentation Framework

• TypeScript 5.3 RC - a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output

• Vite 5.0 - Next generation frontend tooling

• YouTube.js 7.0 - A wrapper around YouTube's internal API

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🛠️ Front End Resources

• BGJar - Free svg background generator for your websites, blogs, and app

• Bigjpg - AI Super-Resolution lossless image enlarging / upscaling tool using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

• Carbon - Create and share beautiful images of your source code

• Geist - a typeface specifically designed for developers and designers

• GriddyIcons - Ever-expanding icon set tailored to your needs.

• monaspace - An innovative superfamily of fonts for code

• Typeculator - a simple type scale calculator based on the "Golden Thread" technique

There's more where that came from. Explore the rest of the Front End Resource collection.

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Wrapping things up

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