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Web developer conference, Apple, BIG releases, and more! This week in web dev (January 26th, 2024)

Hello friend đź‘‹ ! We are nearing the first month of the year, and we are slowly starting to see some exciting news, after the Christmas hiatus of most companies. I have once again found a list of exciting news for you!

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January 26th, 2024

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Epic Web Conf, “The Full Stack Web Development Conference of Epic proportions”, 2024, was just announced. From April 10th to April 11th, in Park City UT, this conference will contain workshops and talks from some of the most influential people in the web development world, including Zeno Rocha, Saron Yitbarek, Ryan Florence, and many more.

Major changes to Apple IOS

A few days ago Apple announced changes to large parts of its IOS eco-system, to comply with the EU DMA (Digital Markets Act). These changes will start to roll out in March this year.

Most important for us developers are the changes being made to the app store, and Safari. From now on it will be possible, and allowed, to create third-party app stores, and download from them. Users will now also be prompted to pick a standard browser when they launch Safari for the first time.

These are just some of the changes among a very large list of changes.

Next.js, the well-known web framework, is back with another release to help developers create awesome applications.

This time they are back with improvements to Turbopack, self-hosting capabilities, routing, images, and more.

Zed a code editor, some call it “the vs code killer”, has just been released to open-source. Zed is packed with features that make it a serious contender for the best code editor out.

With features like vim-mode, allowing Zed to act vim-like, a shared workspace, allowing you to share your work with other people in real-time, the window being rasterized on the GPU, allowing fast, reliable, and smooth delivery of pixels on every frame, and much more, this is a project worth checking out!