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Many, Big, Conferences. Zed Extensions, and More. This week in web dev (February 23rd, 2024) #37

Hello friend 👋 , I hope you had a great week! I know I did! I am once again back with another list of the biggest web-dev news from the last week. This time I got some big conferences, exciting Zed additions, and more!

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February 23rd, 2024

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React Conf is back again. This time in Henderson Nevada, taking place May 15-16, of this year ofc. The conference gathers people who love React and the React ecosystem.

With an estimated 40k online attendees, 20+ speakers, and 700+ in-person attendees, this is definitely an event to keep track of, if you use React.

The code editor Zed has been on everyone’s mind for the last few weeks. After going open-source, many people have tried it out. Some people want to call it the VS Code killer, but it has been missing something for it to be truly realistic, extensions!

The team behind Zed just released the first feature on the quest to make extensions possible. Currently, it is possible to access already created extensions and install them, but not to create them yourself.

Nuxt UI Pro has just been released to version 1! Filled to the brim with great components for your next Vue dashboard projects. For the release, they are currently offering a discount for anyone wanting to sign up for their premium plans.

Another conference is just around the corner, VueJS Amsterdam 2024. Like the React conference, it is focused on gathering together the Vue community.

With talks from people like Evan You, the creator of Vue and Vite, to Sebastien Chopin, the creator of Nuxt.js, this conference will have a lot of exciting talks!

The release candidate for Typescript 5.4 has just been announced. This is planned to be the last version before the official production release since they do not expect to make any changes from now. Some of the features include:

  1. Preserved narrowing in closures following last assignments - This makes narrowed types persist better within closures, making more JavaScript code patterns "just work".

  2. The NoInfer utility type - This allows better control over type inference to avoid unintended/surprising inferences.

  3. Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy support - TypeScript now has declarations for these new static methods on Object and Map.