UI component workshop Storybook 6.1 is now available. Highlights include:

• Support for React 17 as well as fast refresh and strict mode.
• Fast search and navigation UX.
• Foundational performance improvements, such as the addition of asynchronous loaders, the removal of Webpack DLLs, while Storybook also now pre-builds and caches the manager.

For a full list of more major changes, click here.

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In more big front-end news, TypeScript 4.1 was released last week in case you missed it, and you can click here for a full list of changes. Some highlights include:

• Template Literal Types
• Key Remapping in Mapped Types
• Recursive Conditional Types
• React 17 JSX Factories

Amazon, Codefresh, GitHub, Microsoft, and Weaveworks launched the GitOps Working Group. The open Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) community project aims to arm individuals and businesses with GitOps tooling skills and methodologies that can make managing infrastructure and cloud-native apps simpler.

More:

• The project will initially be a part of the CNCF fluxcd GitHub organization. It will first work on launching a vendor-neutral GitOps Manifesto defining the principles and technical aspects of GitOps. That will be published in March 2021.
• The creators defined the Five GitOps Principles as follows: Declarative Configuration; Version controlled, immutable storage; Automated delivery; Software Agents; and Closed loop. You can read more about them in detail here.
• Businesses and individuals actively participating in the GitOps ecosystem are invited to join the community.

📅   NOV. 22-30 VIRTUAL EVENTS AND HACKATHONS:

Virtual Events:

• NOV. 30- DEC. 4: "Watch dev talks and live coding sessions with leading experts from all around the world..."

Hackathons:

Microsoft Azure Cloud Advocates released a free open-source 12-week web development course for beginners that teachers can incorporate or students can use to learn by themselves. The 24-lesson curriculum covers the basics of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, while offering quizzes, projects to build with step-by-step guides, and more.

More:

• Microsoft included a lesson template teachers can use while offering suggestions. Students can fork the repo and start the course here.
• Authors of the "Beginners Series to: JavaScript" contributed to the curriculum.
• The course does not cover JavaScript frameworks.

Safari Technology Preview Release 116 has been released. You can download it here for use on macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina. Highlights from the new release:

• Support for non-persistent background pages and creating a local override from resources that can't load.
• The enabling of the AudioWorklet API and video capture by default on macOS.
• In CSS, support for accelerated animation and the individual transform properties translate, rotate, scale.
• Enabling of per-page storage access scope.

For a full list of changes in the release as well as fixes, click here.

Gartner reported that end-user spending for cloud services would grow by $50B in 2021, a 19% YoY increase. You can read the report here.

More:

• SaaS is expected to be the biggest market with a size of $117B. The most significant surge in spending is expected for PaaS solutions with a 26.6% increase.
• Around 14.2% of all IT spending is likely to be directed towards could solutions, up from 9% in 2020.
• The report also mentioned that public cloud services revenue would grow by 6.5% in 2020, then 19% in 2021 and 2022. Desktop-as-a-service is expected to double by 2022 to $2.5B.

This story first appeared in Inside Cloud and you can read it here.

QUICK HITS:

• An algorithm that analyzes Twitter comments and invests in crypto is beating the S&P. *
• The editor of the JavaScript spec will be stepping down once ES2020 is final in early 2021.
• Linus Torvalds says he'd love to own the new MacBook Air if it just ran Linux. "I've been waiting for an ARM laptop that can run Linux for a long time. The new Air would be almost perfect, except for the OS," he said.
  In case you missed it, the eleventh version of Electron 11 has been released with experimental Apple Silicon support.
• Gimp turned 25-years-old.

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