High Notes: VueConf 2017, Webpack 3 and Java 9
VueConf 2017 — First Official Vue.js Conference
The first ever official Vue.js conference took place in Poland (they are finally joining the big boys on the stage!). This was a big step for the developer community for Vue.js which has been making its mark in Javascript framework space. With presence from Evan You (the creator), some core team members, co-authors of Nuxt.js and more, it made for a pretty decent lineup.
There were lots of interesting talks from these members around how they see the future of Vue.js being shaped and sharing of some great ideas and thoughts from by the speakers. Over the years, this is going to set the platform for the community to learn, share and explore.
Webpack 3 was recently released which comes with the long awaited Scope Hoisting - you can now say goodbye to individual function closures which slowed down your browser execution time. With ModuleConcatenationPlugin and “magic comments”, this is a warmly welcomed update, among many other things that you can see in their release announcement here.
Yep, after a few ups and downs, silence, hiccups, and delays — Java 9 is making its way into the market and is scheduled to finally be announced this September. While there is a lot of buzz around some of the new features and improvements to Streams, Microbenchmarks, JShell, etc. Jigsaw is undoubtedly the biggest of them all. Which is awesome because it will bring modularity into the Java platform thereby providing a JVM which could run with only those modules and APIs which are required by the application.