14 DAY TRIAL // AngularJS headsman, Brad Green, was at the AngularConnect conference in London this past week, and despite not giving a definite answer to when AngularJS will be released, the team is "really close."
The project is still in alpha stage, and despite the fact that the team tried to release a beta version before the conference, it appears that the timeline Google's engineers gave back at the start of the year (with Angular 2 being launched in October) may have been delayed.
Judging that the AngularConnect keynote (video at the end of the article) provided some interesting statistics about AngularJS 2's huge speed improvements, most developers will surely not mind the wait.
Currently known facts about AngularJS 2: breaks Angular 1.x syntax compatibility, is written in TypeScript, allows developers to use ES5, ES6, and TypeScript as their base, provides React Native and NativeScript integration, lets developers mix Angular 1 and Angular 2 code without errors.
In other JavaScript news...
There haven't been too many pieces of news in the JavaScript community since we last reported about the launch of React 0.14, but we found some interesting things to share nevertheless.
Probably the most intriguing of all recent developments is this topic on the Node.js GitHub issues tracker, where the Node team announced the Node.js Foundation was considering an iteration of the Node.js logo.
As the team mentioned, this was not a complete re-design, but a facelift to Node's older brand, with small tweaks here and there. Some designers have already started submitting logo revisions, and you can take a look at the submissions if you like.
The WebKit team recently announced a more detailed plan to support ECMAScript 6 code in the browser engine's core, following similar announcements made by the Chrome, Firefox, and Edge teams.
Ionic, the beloved JavaScript framework for creating mobile applications, announced plans to use AngularJS 2 as its codebase for the upcoming 2.x branch.
This is not necessarily news, but this RisingStack Engineering blog post on Node.js security best practices is a must-read, whether you're an infosec expert or not.
