14 DAY TRIAL // Killing expectations is what ZURB does on a regular basis. Today the company has released version 6 of its UI framework, the famous ZURB Foundation toolkit.
Everybody's favorite Bootstrap-alternative, the ZURB Foundation frontend framework, has always seen a lot of usage among Web developers.
With today's 6th branch release, ZURB is boasting of having reduced the framework's codebase by 50%, half the size of Foundation 5.
Additionally, ZURB devs have also introduced full accessibility (ARIA) support by making the code A11y-friendly but also adding a special package for handling UI animations, with two dozens of various built-in transition and animation classes.
Besides the built-in support for npm, Meteor, Bower, and Composer, Foundation can now also be installed via a custom CLI tool and a new Mac desktop app called Yeti Launch.
Other cool new Foundation features include a much more customizable Sass-based grid system, an alternative Flexbox grid, and over 15 new templates and 50 ready-made components to easily assemble Web pages together.
In other JavaScript news...
If you haven't heard, Adobe's Brackets Web-based code editor will soon be added to the company's desktop IDE, Adobe Dreamweaver CC, starting 2016.
The Grunt(.js) JavaScript task runner is looking for new maintainers after the project's creator, JavaScript and jQuery guru Ben "Cowboy" Alman, decided he couldn't give all his attention to the project alone.
The Node.js foundation has opened individual memberships. This means that, besides the 20 or so businesses that support the project, individuals can sign up and help the organization, either with money or with their time. Individual members are also eligible for spots on the foundation's Board of Directors.
An interesting survey asked developers how they called the new version of JavaScript. ES6, the name that it was given during its development, won by 82%, beating out JavaScript 2015, the language's official name.
