What to expect from year 2017 in FrontEnd?

I will be updating this article to list most important changes in programming languages, frameworks and libraries.

Languages

Node.js 8.0

• RC Version 1 is already released (30.5.2017)
• More https://blog.risingstack.com/important-features-fixes-node-js-version-8/

Libraries

npm@5.0 https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/16244

• seems like npm want to catch up with yarm, and coming with quite big bunch of important changes
• cache rework (should speed up builds, and be more reliable)
• improved locking of dependencies
• versioning git dependencies with semver
• automatic --save

react-scripts@1.0.0 (React CLI) https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/2172

• best CLI for React getting big update
• updated Webpack to version 2
• code splitting with dynamic import()

Prettier https://github.com/prettier/prettier

• code formatting revolution
• opinionated JavaScript code formatter
• can fix many Linting rules and can create really nice looking code