Must‑Read Front‑End Articles, News & Releases for This Month

IMWeb.io Community Selected Articles

From Rendering Principles to Performance Optimization

Perhaps you are using or know React, but have you studied its internal rendering principles? The article explains how React generates elements from JSX, how elements become real DOM nodes, and demonstrates component optimization with examples.

Website Performance Optimization Practice

The article details browser architecture and core, explores rendering and event mechanisms, and derives website performance optimization solutions.

You Don't Know Electron (Part 1): The Amazing remote Module

Electron lets you use web technologies to build cross‑platform desktop apps. The remote module is one of Electron’s inter‑process communication methods; the article analyzes its implementation and principles from the source code.

You Don't Know Electron (Part 2): Understanding Electron Packaging

The article explains how Electron packages web code into an executable and examines how electron‑builder performs the packaging.

Understanding the Event Loop

JavaScript is single‑threaded and uses asynchronous operations without blocking the main thread. This piece explains how asynchronous execution and the event loop work in browsers and Node.js.

Everyone Is an Artist! Strange Characters

Encoding is unavoidable for programmers. For front‑end engineers, characters appear directly on the UI. The article discusses Unicode, the “universal code”, and quirky issues that may arise during encoding and display.

Front‑End News

Vue 3.0 Development Roadmap Released

At the Vue.js London conference, Evan You outlined the upcoming major version. On September 30, he posted the Vue 3.0 development roadmap on his Medium blog.

Baidu Smart Mini‑Programs Open for Applications

On September 25, Baidu announced that its smart mini‑programs are now open for developers, joining the other two major super‑apps.

GitHub Deprecates jQuery

On September 6, the GitHub team announced the complete removal of jQuery from GitHub.com’s front‑end code, marking a milestone after 11 years of usage.

Microsoft Open‑Sources Sketch2Code, Turning Sketches into Code

Sketch2Code is a web‑based solution that uses AI to convert hand‑drawn UI sketches into usable HTML code, potentially impacting front‑end developers.

React Fire: Modernizing React DOM

Dan Abramov presented ideas and concrete plans for the next optimization of React DOM, aiming for clearer, faster, smaller internals and revisiting many controversial issues. This initiative, called “React Fire”, follows React Fiber.

Version Releases

Create React App 2.0 released, dropping Node 6 support.

Next.js 7.0 released: recompilation speed up 42 %, WebAssembly support.

Nuxt 2.0 released: supports Webpack 4 and ES modules.

Electron 3.0 released.

Taro 1.0 released, unifying multi‑platform development and fully supporting the mini‑program ecosystem.

Technical Conferences

IMWeb Front‑End Conference.

QCon – Global Software Developers Conference.

2018 Mini‑Program Developer Salon.

Second China Developer Conference.

2018 China System Architect Conference.

First China React Developer Conference (with PPT download).