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Send ### Contact Us (312) 620-0386contact@bitovi.com April 5, 2017 # March 2017 DoneJS Community Update This post highlights the notable releases, community projects,and technical content released in the DoneJS community in March 2017. ![Chasen Le Hara](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/47447d7b410651534d079d84497c1a5c) Chasen Le Hara Share: [![Twitter](https://www.bitovi.com/hubfs/limbo-generated/_astro/twitter-white.os3xLc3C_Z2nW4or.svg) ](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=) [![Reddit](https://www.bitovi.com/hubfs/limbo-generated/imgs/icons/reddit.png) ](http://reddit.com/submit?url=) Lots of notable releases, community projects, and technical content were released in the DoneJS community last month! This post outlines some of the highlights from March 2017. ## Notable releases [Steal 1.3.0](https://github.com/stealjs/steal/releases/tag/v1.3.0) was released with an awesome new feature: development bundles. Development bundles provide a way to create a bundle of your dependencies (npm packages) so that you don't need to import all of the individual files. We’ve seen the number of HTTP requests decrease 50% with this feature, improving load times up to 36%. Check out the [development bundles guide](https://stealjs.com/docs/StealJS.guides.development_bundles.html) for more information. [CanJS 3.5.0](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/releases/tag/v3.5.0) was released with lots of bug fixes and three new ecosystem packages: [can-connect-signalr](https://canjs.com/doc/can-connect-signalr.html), [can-validate](https://canjs.com/doc/can-validate.html), and [can-validate-validatejs](https://canjs.com/doc/can-validate-validatejs.html). `can-connect-signalr` makes it really easy to connect to a [Hub](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/signalr/overview/guide-to-the-api/hubs-api-guide-server) on a [SignalR](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/signalr/) server, while the validation packages make it even easier to check data for validation errors. ## Community projects This month [Marshall Thompson](https://github.com/marshallswain) released [steal-vue](https://www.npmjs.com/package/steal-vue), a package that helps [StealJS](https://stealjs.com/) bundle [Vue.js](https://vuejs.org/) Single File Components with your application. [Brad Momberger](https://github.com/bmomberger-bitovi) made an awesome [Glitch Hello World for DoneJS template](https://glitch.com/edit/#!/donejs-helloworld). You can use it to create a `done-autorender` project *without* having to use the DoneJS CLI locally, which is awesome for quickly sharing code online. ## Blog posts, talks & trainings A couple weeks ago at [DoneJS Chicago](https://www.meetup.com/DoneJS-Chicago/), [Brian Moschel](https://github.com/moschel) and [Kevin Phillips](https://github.com/phillipskevin) hosted a [Hack Night on how to build a weekly weather report](https://www.meetup.com/DoneJS-Chicago/events/237785381/). The app uses Yahoo’s [Weather API](https://developer.yahoo.com/weather/) and [Query Language (YQL)](https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/) to build an app that gives you a 10-day forecast for any location you give it. It takes about 25 minutes to complete and was built with CanJS 3.5. Check out the [recipe guide on CanJS.com](https://canjs.com/doc/guides/recipes/simple-weather-report.html) if you haven’t already! Last week [Justin Meyer](https://github.com/justinbmeyer) hosted a [live stream about can-util](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW0VUbzJPtA), which I followed up with a new blog post on [JavaScript Query String Encoding and Decoding with can-param and can-deparam](https://www.bitovi.com/blog/javascript-query-string-encoding-and-decoding). The “Can’d Goodies” series will highlight different modules in CanJS, so look for more of those blog posts in the future. ## Contributors In addition to the projects and releases we’ve already mentioned, we’d like to recognize the following contributions from people outside the core team: - [Acupofspirt](https://github.com/acupofspirt) for his contribution to [CanJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Aacupofspirt%20org%3Acanjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Christopher Baker](https://github.com/christopherjbaker) for his contributions to [CanJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Achristopherjbaker%20org%3Acanjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Curtis Cummings](https://github.com/ccummings) for his contributions to [CanJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Accummings%20org%3Acanjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Ilya Fadeev](https://github.com/ilyavf) for his contributions to [DoneJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Ailyavf%20org%3Adonejs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31) and [StealJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Ailyavf%20org%3Astealjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Joe Crick](https://github.com/joe-crick) for his contribution to [CanJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Ajoe-crick%20org%3Acanjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Joel Kuzmarski](https://github.com/leoj3n) for his contributions to [CanJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Aleoj3n%20org%3Acanjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31), [DocumentCSS](https://github.com/bitovi/documentcss/pulls?utf8=✓&q=author%3Aleoj3n%20is%3Apr%20is%3Aclosed%20created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31%20), [DoneJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Aleoj3n%20org%3Adonejs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31), and [StealJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=✓&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Aleoj3n%20org%3Astealjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Marshall Thompson](https://github.com/marshallswain) for his contributions to [CanJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Amarshallswain%20org%3Acanjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Manuel Mujica](https://github.com/m-mujica) for his contributions to [StealJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Am-mujica%20org%3Astealjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Mick McGrath](https://github.com/mickmcgrath13) for his contributions to [CanJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Amickmcgrath13%20org%3Acanjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Obaid](https://github.com/obaidott) for his contributions to [CanJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Aobaidott%20org%3Acanjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Robert Lin](https://github.com/Rlin415) for his contributions to [CanJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3ARlin415%20org%3Acanjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31), [FuncUnit](https://github.com/bitovi/funcunit/pulls?utf8=✓&q=is%3Apr%20is%3Aclosed%20created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31%20author%3ARlin415), and [StealJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3ARlin415%20org%3Astealjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Reinaldo Arrosi](https://github.com/reinaldoarrosi) for his contribution to [StealJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Areinaldoarrosi%20org%3Astealjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). - [Sarath Nair](https://github.com/sarathnair) for his contributions to [CanJS](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&s=created&o=asc&q=author%3Asarathnair%20org%3Acanjs+is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+created%3A2017-03-01..2017-03-31). ## What’s next The core team is *really close* to announcing the [release of DoneJS 1.0](https://github.com/donejs/donejs/issues/703). Expect to hear an official release announcement from us this month. After the DoneJS 1.0 release, we’ll be working on a few larger projects. Here are some of the things we’re starting to discuss: - [Figure out how to handle custom generators](https://github.com/donejs/generator-donejs/issues/148) - [Generate supermodels inside modlets](https://github.com/donejs/generator-donejs/issues/114) - [Generated DoneJS app & plugin file structure](https://github.com/donejs/donejs/issues/843) - [RFP: Templating in CanJS](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/2995) These and other issues are being tracked in [DoneJS 1.1](https://github.com/donejs/donejs/issues/787) and [DoneJS 2.0](https://github.com/donejs/donejs/issues/800) [ZenHub](https://www.zenhub.com/) epics. You can keep up with the latest in the community by [following us on Twitter](https://twitter.com/donejs) or joining us on our [forums](http://forums.donejs.com/) or [Gitter chat](https://gitter.im/donejs/donejs)! 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