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Just as we do every month, we've pulled together a selection of articles from the world of web tech that we think are worth sharing…

Learn how to update React Native apps efficiently, get insights into the new features of Angular 17, find out how page speed reports are created, and much more.

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Angular 17 released

It’s already 13 years since the first version of AngularJS, and now the newest version has just been released, packed with improvements. In particular, deferrable views and control flow improvements bring significant performance enhancements, such as 87% faster builds for hybrid rendering or up to 90% faster runtime with control flow loops. To find out more about these and other improvements, check out this blog post.

New Angular documentation

Angular has been working on another significant improvement too – a new documentation website that includes fresh tutorials with the embedded code editor. Built using WebContainers, these tutorials allow you to learn the code without leaving the website. Have a read of this blog post to find out more, and then check out the new Angular.dev website and give it a try for yourself.

Updating React Native apps

Updating mobile apps is essential for keeping them compatible with the back-end code and providing the best user experience. Read this article to learn how to combine over-the-air updates and in-app-store updates in React Native, for the most efficiency and best results.

Understanding page speed reports

Performance scores are a useful metric for checking your core web vitals, but different tools can produce different results, which can be confusing. 

Do you understand how the results of page speed reports are calculated? Do you know how to compare them to real user data, and why different tools produce different results? If you answer “no” to any of these questions, this article will help you.

How does Expo Prebuild work?

Check out this Twitter post and video explaining how Expo Prebuild will be able to help you create your application configurations on the fly from the Expo configuration, instead of you needing to update it manually.