Angular 4.3 Brings New HttpClient and More

Angular 4.3, the last 4.x release before Angular 5, is a drop-in replacement for previous versions and includes a number of new features, including a new HttpClient module, new router life cycle events, and more.

Fable 1.2 Announced along with First FableConf

Three months after its first stable release, community-driven F# to JavaScript compiler Fable has reached version 1.2, just in time for FableConf 2017, the first conference dedicated to web development in F# using Fable.

TypeScript 2.6 Adds Strict Parameter Contravariance and More

Among new features in TypeScript 2.6 are a new flag to enforce strict parameter contravariance and improved tooling.

Last Npm Incident Uncovers Security Vulnerability

Last week, the npm registry had an operations incident that caused a number of highly depended on packages, such as require-from-string, to become unavailable. While the incident was relatively straightforward to solve, it uncovered a major security vulnerability that could have been exploited to inject malicious code in projects using npm.