Page-fetch is a new open-source tool created by the Detectify Security Research team that helps hunt for prototype pollution issues. One of the most common places for prototype pollution — the ability to inject properties into existing JavaScript language construct prototypes — is in processing the query string. Detectify’s solution can already find issues that … continue reading
Lightbend has announced the launch of Akka Serverless, a cloud-native development platform-as-a-service that enables the creation of cloud-native apps using any programming language and eliminates the need for databases in deploying business-critical apps. Akka has a simple, API-driven programming model that makes it easy for developers to define the data that they need so that … continue reading
Angular announced a new automated feature request process that it will implement over the next few weeks after the team found that a large portion of requests among its three main repos were feature requests. In the new process, an Angular team member will review a ticket manually and identify it as either a feature … continue reading
GrapeCity recently announced the releases of both GrapeCity Documents v.4.1 and ActiveReportsJS v2.1. The GrapeCity’s Documents API product line provides low-footprint APIs for Excel, Word, PDF, Imaging and JavaScript PDF viewer. The latest version includes enhancements for GrapeCity Documents for PDF, PDF Viewer, Documents for Word, Imaging and Excel. GrapeCity Documents for Excel (GcExcel) also … continue reading
Pyodide, Mozilla’s open-source project for running Python inside a web browser, has become an independent and community-driven project with a new home on GitHub. The company also announced the new 0.17 release as part of its announcement. The project aims to bring the Python runtime to the browser via WebAssembly along with NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the official release of TypeScript 4.2, the latest version of its JavaScript superset programming language. There are a number of new features in this release, including smarter type alias preservation, leading/middle rest elements in tuple types, and stricter checks for the “in” operator. Type aliases can be used to avoid having to … continue reading
Reshift Security added support for JavaScript alongside its current Application Security Platform’s Java scanning capability and the company said it will add C#, C/C++ and Python scanning later in 2021. Redshift integrates into modern software development tools, processes, and workflows and identifies code vulnerabilities as software is being created. It utilizes a Datadog scanning engine … continue reading
Application monitoring company Sentry has announced Release Health capabilities are now available by default in its JavaScript SDK. The company’s Release Health insights is designed to provide teams with error and performance monitoring so that they can get actionable data and resolve errors and issues quickly. According to the company, this is especially important as … continue reading
Apache ECharts graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level Apache project, which means that the project’s community and products have been well-governed under the Apache Software Foundation’s meritocratic process and principles. ECharts, which recently reached version 5, is a charting and visualization library that is best suited for commercial-grade presentations, according to the … continue reading
The latest State of JavaScript report reveals that while React and Vue are still the most popular JavaScript frameworks, the framework Svelte is starting to establish itself as a top contender for the top spot. Svelte has a user based that is 89% satisfied with it. Sixty-six percent of survey respondents were interested in using … continue reading
The latest version of Microsoft’s programming language TypeScript is now available. TypeScript 4.1 introduced a number of new features, such as template literal types, key remapping in mapped types, and recursive conditional types. String literal types allow developers to model functions which expect a specific set of strings. Template literal strings can be used to … continue reading
The JavaScript runtime Node.js has been updated to version 15. Node.js 15 will replace Node.js 14 on the team’s current release line, and Node.js 14 has been moved to long-term support. According to the team, Node.js 15 will be updated every two weeks with the latest features and changes. Version 15 features support for npm … continue reading
