Mozillas MDN web standards reference platform makes move to GitHub now in beta
Jamstack, Kubernetes, community contributions, and automatic translation – what could go wrong? Mozilla’s MDN JavaScript and web technology reference documentation is migrating to a new GitHub-based platform, codenamed Yari, which is now in beta and taking contributions.…
Date: 2020-11-03
theregister.co.uk
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