This week in tech news | 28th October 2022
Next.JS 13

Turbopack

Rust-based Module bundler which is blazingly fast due to speed improvements provided by Rust and caching used functions while bundling.
Beyond the hype, Turbopack’s success would depend on the integration of the existing Webpack Plugins and making it pluggable with Turbopack
OG Image Generation
Implement Open-Graph Images which can be used to dynamically generate social media images on the fly.

React Server Components, Data Fetching and HTML Streaming
Get rid of getServerSideProps and getStaticProps and use the fetch extension to Browser’s fetch API, cache and revalidate data at the component level


Repl.it’s New Mobile App

Repl.it announces mobile app (iOS and Android)
The mobile app provides a lot of features for writing code on the go:
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Navigate using coding Joystick
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Auto-completion for language-specific code snippets.
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AI pair programming using Ghostwriter
Python 3.11

Descriptive Error Message

Tomlib support
Support for TOML parsing using the standard library
Exception groups
Allow raising and handling multiple exceptions at the same time using the except keyword