Wikimedia adopts Vue.js and npm joins GitHub

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Mathieu Dionne podcast Babel 7.9.0 Released — A new minor release for the popular JavaScript compiler which includes updates related to @babel/preset-env, TypeScript 3.8, Flow, and JSX. Nicolò Ribaudo ⚡️ Quick Releases Vue 3.0.0 alpha 9 Vuex 4.0 alpha 1 — Adds support for Vue 3.0 alpha. Tesseract.js 2.1 — Pure JavaScript OCR. Cypress 4.2.0 — Test anything that runs in a browser. Grunt 1.1 — Legacy task runner. 💻 Jobs UX/Frontend Engineer @ Siteline — Join the founding engineering team at Siteline and help us revolutionize the payments process for construction. Siteline Find a Dev Job Through Vettery — Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers. Vettery 📘 Articles & Tutorials An Interactive Introduction to AntV — We recently linked to a neat interactive introduction to D3, here’s something similar for AntV, a data visualization toolset originally built for financial data. Worth a play. 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