Hello again from Tradeling.com, it's near the end of the year but the tech community is still working, let's check the updates:
- Vercel announces Series B - $40M- bringing the total raised to $61M. The new fund is directed to fund to help to accelerate research and development, drive platform innovation, and scale its team globally to further accelerate frontend developers’ ability to enrich end users’ web experiences.
- Cypress.io Raises $40M in Series B, as a rising star in the test automation community, this new fund will open the way to more robust testing enhancement to help companies accelerate the velocity and quality of their web and JavaScript-based applications.
- New acquire in 2020 as Reddit acquired Dubsmash, this might be a step towards a more effective competition with TikTok, also we might see some of Dubsmash tools integrated into reddit.
- Hackers believed to be operating on behalf of a foreign government have breached software provider SolarWinds and then deployed a malware-laced update for its Orion software. The victims have included government, consulting, technology, telecom and extractive entities in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
- Typescript is getting more momentum in the community, as npm displays packages with bundled TypeScript declarations.
Quick Releases
- npm 7.2.0: Nothing big here, just add a path to rebuild command and some bug fixes.
- node 14.15.3: reverts a commit that caused issues in some packages.
Top Picks
- Do you think you should write more e2e, integration or unit tests? This guide from Google delfs into details to discuss the pros and cons for tests and compare them.
- Oldie but goodie, have you ever written just quick CSS fixes as a hack on a tight deadline? check this approach which seems like a good one.