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Housekeeping

• Introduce yourself!
• Join us on Slack
• Speakers and sponsors always wanted
  • edgeatx.org / speak.html
  • edgeatx.org / sponsorship.html
• Post-meet social options

Where did we leave off?

Last time BEW met in person was:

→ February 26, 2020!

What was even going on back then?

How about browsers?

Browsers in February 2020:

• Chrome: version 80
• Firefox: version 73
• Safari: version 13

How about browsers?

Browsers in February 2024:

• Chrome: version 80 → 121 (+41)
• Firefox: version 73 → 123 (+50)
• Safari: version 13 → 17 (+4)

RedwoodJS v7.0

redwoodjs.com

• "Focus on building your startup, not fighting your framework."
• React + GraphQL + Prisma + TS + Jest + Storybook
• v7.0 adds Redwood Studio, GraphQL Realtime & Fragments, Sentry integration, and more

jQuery 4.0.0 BETA !!

jquery.com

• Goodbye IE < 11
• Removed a bunch of deprecated APIs
• Migrated source from AMD to ES modules
• jQuery is dead... long live jQuery!

Backbone 1.6.0 !!

backbonejs.org

• A few random things :)
• Backbone is dead... long live Backbone!

Meet Rocket Turtle

The new Node.js mascot (interesting back story)

ASCII Theater

Stream free text-based movies in your terminal

Reset

• There's so much more we could talk about...
• Bun, Deno, Vite, Astro, Svelte, Next.js, ...
• The list goes on
• Back to our regular updates next time :)

Thanks!

Brian Moeskau

• moeskau.com
• edgeATX.org / slides