Echo JS 0.11.0

Haha thank you for the honesty!

You acn always mark a release as "pre-release" on GitHub.

Where does this figure "50%" come from?

I see that the title is to catch the readers rather than actually to state the end of native apps, if you admit that they "still have a few capabilities that mobile apps will not have for a potentially long time".

It's not that device manufacturers have never tried the "all-web-tech" road in the past - it's an effort as old as WebOS - but there are apps which are *explicitely* thought for devices, and aren't suit to live on the web in any form. Like a file explorer, for example.

Honestly I have no idea native apps are doomed, or even will be relegated in a small niche. In my opinion, it's way too soon to tell. We still don't know if PWAs will ever catch on, among developers *and* users. Safari doesn't even support service workers at the moment.

One thing, for sure, is that we should try to develop PWAs because they *do* look cool!

In short, it makes background images centered, non-repeating and covering.
If the browser supports CSS3, that doesn't need a jQuery plugin: all you'd need is a CSS class!
The only "useful" part is the fix for IE8- for background-size... which works as expected only if it's set to `cover`. If you want something else (because it's an option you can override), you're out of luck.
Definitely a badly designed plugin.

?? Where did versions 2.1.0-2.1.3 go?
Just never tagged?

I agree, that confused me quite a bit when I first read the title.

A reminder of a lesser known event, but that was painful to read. Not only the English is broken, the punctuation is too.

A motivatonal post, but not directly related to JavaScript, I'm afraid.

You can pass a DOM element instead of a selector there. It's just like ReactDOM.render, only you can pass a selector too.

Plus you can pass a template property too so it won't use the element's content as a template.
Moreover, with Vue you can create .vue files that merge together the code, the template and the style of a single component. As a plus, you can use transpilers and compilers for all (Babel, Pug, Sass... you name it).

Finally you can even use JSX with Vue so you actually have maximum flexibility here.