Release Radar • February 2024 Edition

• nitric

  27 797 8.6 Go

  Nitric is a multi-language framework for cloud applications with infrastructure from code.

  

For all those on the hunt for a framework, Nitric is here for you. It's a multi-language framework that helps teams quickly build cloud applications. Nitric unites backend and infrastructure code and automates the process of provisioning and deploying infrastructure. The first major version brings a bunch of changes including significant improvements to the Nitric CLI to support productive cloud development. There's also new architecture visualizations and a new SDK for building and extending Nitric providers. Congrats to the team on shipping your very first version 🥳.

• Electron

  236 111,957 9.8 C++

  :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

  

The team at Electron have been faithfully shipping new releases almost every single month. I think they had Christmas off 🤔. This popular framework has developers writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. The latest update depreciates some process events, and added new modules, APIs, methods, and more. Read into all the changes in the Electron release notes. This month, Electron also introduced a new formal RFC process.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Wagtail

  52 17,204 9.9 Python

  A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience

  

If you like Python 🐍 then check out this project. Wagtail is a popular CMS, combining Django’s powerful customization capabilities with a slick user interface. The newest update brings Django 5.0 support, a new searchable and filterable listing UI, the accessibility checker built into the admin interface, and a brand new 10-step tutorial for developers. This release marks Wagtail's 10th birthday 🎂. Happy birthday to the team and all the best for the next ten years and beyond 🥳.

• node

  924 103,799 9.9 JavaScript

  Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

  

The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on Node.js and Chromium and is used by the Visual Studio Code and many other apps.

• redwood

  114 16,734 10.0 TypeScript

  The App Framework for Startups

  

Frameworks are a theme with this month's Release Radar, so here's another. Redwood is a full-stack, JavaScript/TypeScript web application, designed to scale with you. It uses React frontend for the frontend and links to a custom GraphQL API for the backend. The latest version includes a bunch of breaking changes such as moving to Node 20.0, the Redwood Studio, and highly requested GraphQL features such as Realtime, Fragments, and Trusted Documents, the server file, new router hooks, and heaps more. If you've previously used Redwood, you'll probably want to upgrade to version 7.0. The team have put together a handy migration guide for you to follow.

• documentation

  8 311 9.4 MDX

  Documentation for the npm registry, website, and command-line interface. (by npm)

  

To install prebuilt Electron binaries, use npm. The preferred method is to install Electron as a development dependency in your app:

• Visual Studio Code

  2,840 158,095 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on Node.js and Chromium and is used by the Visual Studio Code and many other apps.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• electrondocs

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For more installation options and troubleshooting tips, see installation. For info on how to manage Electron versions in your apps, see Electron versioning.

• Gravitational Teleport

  61 16,543 10.0 Go

  The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.

  

Are you looking to set up SSO for your cloud infrastructure? Or maybe establish tunnels to access services behind NATs and firewalls. Then Teleport is for you. It provides connectivity, authentication, access controls and audit for infrastructure. The newest update has a tonne of new features and improvements including enhanced device trust support, SSH connection resumption, MFA for admin actions, improved provisioning for Okta, and heaps. more. Check out all the changes in the Teleport release notes.

• Mirror

  23 4,844 9.8 C#

  #1 Open Source Unity Networking Library

  

Woah, over 80 versions 😮! This is a project with over 1,740 releases over the past five years. Mirror is one for the game devs in the room. It's a high level networking library for Unity. Used in some of the top video games, Mirror is used by thousands of game developers around the world. The latest update brings Mirror in line with the latest Unity version, includes better motion smoothing time, and lots more. Check out all the changes in the Mirror changelog.

• Mirror

  1 4,720 - C#

  Discontinued #1 Open Source Unity Networking Library [Moved to: https://github.com/MirrorNetworking/Mirror] (by vis2k)

  

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