The Morning Brew

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• A look at ES6 Maps – Jaime González García shares a look at the Map data structure in ECMAScript 2015, sharing examples of its use in a number of scenarios
• News from Xamarin Evolve: What’s next for Visual Studio and Xamarin – Amanda Silver shares the latest news on the work integrating Xamarin into Visual Studio
• GitHub Authentication with ASP.NET Core – James Chambers shares a look at creating authentication in your application which uses GitHub accounts, sharing both a video and detailed blog post.
• The web is Doom – Ronan Cremin discusses the ever growing average size of web pages, looking at how we have reached the point where the average web page is now the size of the original Doom game.
• The Web Is Too Damn Fat and Doomed, How You Can Fix It – Chris Love follows up on Rowan’s article, discussing the makeup of the average web page, and suggesting that we need a web equivalent of a diet and fitness program to put our web pages on.
• NATS, What a beautiful protocol – Daniel Wertheim takes a look at the NATS Protocol, which is used in NATS, an ‘open source modern secure messaging system for distributed systems and scalable cloud applications’
• Spring cleaning: Package management updates – Matt Cooper gives an update on the next steps for the Package Management extension which went into preview back in November
• Node.js 6.0 Supports 93% of ES2015 – Abel Avram highlights the release of Node.js 6.0, some of its new features, and the amount of the ES2015 language specification that it supports.
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 13 – The HTTP Table Interface – Adrian Hall continues his series looking at Azure Mobile Applications with a look at the HTTP interface that is provied by the SDK to access tables of data
• Route-friendly localization of ASP.NET MVC 5 – DmitriyArh88 takes a look at forming user friendly URLs when offering content in multiple languages

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