Introduction New Features in TypeScript 3.7 and How to Use Them

The TypeScript 3.7 release is coming soon, and it’s going to be a big one.

The target release date is November 5th, and there are some seriously exciting headline features included:

• Assert signatures.
• Recursive type aliases.
• Top-level await.
• Null coalescing.
• Optional chaining.

Personally, I’m super excited about this, they’re going to whisk away all sorts of annoyances that I’ve been fighting in TypeScript while building HTTP Toolkit.

If you haven’t been paying close attention to the TypeScript development process though, it’s probably not clear what half of these mean, or why you should care. Let’s talk through all of them.

Assert Signatures

This is a brand-new and little-known TypeScript feature, which allows you to write functions that act like type guards as a side-effect, rather than explicitly returning their boolean result.

It’s easiest to demonstrate this with a JavaScript example:

function assertString(input) { 
  if (typeof input === 'string') 
    return; 
  else 
    throw new Error('Input must be a string!'); 
} 
function doSomething(input) { 
  assertString(input); 
  // ... Use input, confident that it's a string 
} 
doSomething('abc'); 
// All good doSomething(123); // Throws an error

This pattern is neat and useful, and you can’t use it in TypeScript today.

TypeScript can’t know that you’ve guaranteed the type of input after it’s run assertString. Typically, people just make the argument input: string to avoid this, and that’s good. But, it also just pushes the type checking problem somewhere else, and in cases where you just want to fail hard, it’s useful to have this option available.

Fortunately, soon we will:

// With TS 3.7 
function assertString(input: any): 
	asserts input is string { 
      // <-- the magic 
      if (typeof input === 'string') 
        return; 
      else 
        throw new Error('Input must be a string!'); 
    } 
function doSomething(input: string | number) { 
  assertString(input); 
  // input's type is just 'string' here }

Here assert input is string means that if this function ever returns, TypeScript can narrow the type of input to string, just as if it was inside an if block with a type guard.

To make this safe, that means if the assert statement isn’t true then your assert function must either throw an error or not return at all (kill the process, infinite loop, you name it).

That’s the basics, but this actually lets you pull some really neat tricks:

// With TS 3.7 
// Asserts that input is truthy, throwing immediately if not: 
function assert(input: any): 
	asserts input { // <-- not a typo 
      if (!input) 
        throw new Error('Not a truthy value'); 
    } 
declare const x: number | string | undefined; 
assert(x); // Narrows x to number | string 
// Also usable with type guarding expressions! 
assert(typeof x === 'string'); 
// Narrows x to string // -- Or use assert in your tests: -- 
const a: Result | Error = doSomethingTestable(); 
expect(a).is.instanceOf(result); 
// 'instanceOf' could 'asserts a is Result' 
expect(a.resultValue).to.equal(123); 
// a.resultValue is now legal // -- Use as a safer ! that throws immediately if 
// you're wrong -- 
function assertDefined<T>(obj: T): 
	asserts obj is NonNullable<T> { 
      if (obj === undefined || obj === null) { 
        throw new Error('Must not be a nullable value'); 
      } 
    } 
declare const x: string | undefined; 
// Gives y just 'string' as a type, could throw elsewhere later: 
const y = x!; 
// Gives y 'string' as a type, or throws immediately if you're wrong: 
assertDefined(x); const z = x; 
// -- Or even update types to track a function's side-effects -- 
type X<T extends string | {}> = { value: T }; 
// Use asserts to narrow types according to side effects: 
function setX<T extends string | {}>(x: X<any>, v: T): 
	asserts x is X<T> { 
      x.value = v; 
    } 
	declare let x: X<any>; 
// x is now { value: any }; 
setX(x, 123); 
// x is now { value: number };

This is still in flux, so don’t take it as the definite result, and keep an eye on the pull request if you want the final details.

There’s even a discussion there about allowing functions to assert something and return a type, which would let you extend the final example above to track a much wider variety of side effects, but we’ll have to wait and see how that plays out.

Top-Level Await

Async/await is amazing and makes promises dramatically cleaner to use.

Unfortunately, though, you can’t use them at the top level. This might not be something you care about much in a TS library or application, but if you’re writing a runnable script or using TypeScript in a REPL, then this gets super annoying.

It’s even worse if you’re used to frontend development, since top-level await has been working nicely in the Chrome and Firefox console for a couple of years now.

Fortunately though, a fix is coming. This is actually a general stage-3 JS proposal, so it’ll be everywhere else eventually too, but for TS devs 3.7 is where the magic happens.

This one’s simple, but let’s have another quick demo anyway:

// Your only solution right now for a script that does something async: 
async function doEverything() { 
  ... 
  const response = await fetch('http://example.com'); 
  ... 
} 
  
doEverything(); // <- eugh (could use an IIFE instead, but even more eugh)

With top-level await:

// With TS 3.7: 
// Your script: ... 
const response = await fetch('http://example.com'); 
// ...

There’s a notable gotcha here: if you’re not writing a script, or using a REPL, don’t write this at the top level, unless you really know what you’re doing!

It’s totally possible to use this to write modules that do blocking async steps when imported. That can be useful for some niche cases, but people tend to assume that their import statement is a synchronous, reliable, and fairly quick operation, and you could easily hose your codebase’s startup time if you start blocking imports for complex async processes (even worse, processes that can fail).

This is somewhat mitigated by the semantics of imports of async modules: they’re imported and run in parallel, so the importing module effectively waits for Promise.all(importedModules) before being executed.

Rich Harris wrote an excellent piece on a previous version of this spec before that change when imports ran sequentially and this problem was much worse), which makes for good background reading on the risks here if you’re interested.

It’s also worth noting that this is only useful for module systems that support asynchronous imports. There isn’t yet a formal spec for how TS will handle this, but that likely means that a very recent target configuration, and, either ES Modules or Webpack v5 (whose alphas have experimental support), will be used at runtime.

Recursive Type Aliases

If you’re ever tried to define a recursive type in TypeScript, you may have run into StackOverflow questions like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47842266/recursive-types-in-typescript.

Right now, you can’t. Interfaces can be recursive, but there are limitations to their expressiveness, and type aliases can’t. That means right now, you need to combine the two: define a type alias and extract the recursive parts of the type into interfaces. It works, but it’s messy, and we can do better.

As a concrete example, this is the suggested type definition for JSON data:

type JSONValue = | string | number | boolean | JSONObject | JSONArray; 
interface JSONObject { [x: string]: JSONValue; } 
interface JSONArray extends Array<JSONValue> { }

That works, but the extra interfaces are only there because they’re required to get around the recursion limitation.

Fixing this requires no new syntax; it just removes that restriction, so the below compiles:

// With TS 3.7: 
type JSONValue = | string | number | boolean | { [x: string]: JSONValue } | Array<JSONValue>;

Right now, that fails to compile with Type alias ‘JSONValue’ circularly references itself. Soon though, soon…

Null Coalescing

Aside from being difficult to spell, this one is quite simple and easy. It’s based on a JavaScript stage-3 proposal, which means it’ll also be coming to your favorite vanilla JavaScript environment soon (if it hasn’t already).

In JavaScript, there’s a common pattern for handling default values, and falling back to the first valid result of a defined group. It looks something like this:

// Use the first of firstResult/secondResult which is truthy: 
const result = firstResult || secondResult; 
// Use configValue from provided options if truthy, or 'default' if not: 
this.configValue = options.configValue || 'default';

This is useful in a host of cases, but due to some interesting quirks in JavaScript, it can catch you out. If firstResult or options.configValue can meaningfully be set to false, an empty string or 0, then this code has a bug. If those values are set, then when considered as booleans they’re falsy, so the fallback value (secondResult / ‘default’) is used anyway.

Null coalescing fixes this. Instead of the above, you’ll be able to write:

// With TS 3.7: 
// Use the first of firstResult/secondResult which is *defined*: 
const result = firstResult ?? secondResult; 
// Use configSetting from provided options if *defined*, or 'default' if not: 
this.configValue = options.configValue ?? 'default';

?? differs from || in that it falls through to the next value only if the first argument is null or undefined, not falsy. That fixes our bug. If you pass false as firstResult, that will be used instead of secondResult because, while it’s falsy, it is still defined, and that’s all that’s required.

It’s simple but super-useful, as it takes away a whole class of bugs.

Optional Chaining

Last but not least, optional chaining is another stage-3 proposal that is making its way into TypeScript.

This is designed to solve an issue faced by developers in every language: how do you get data out of a data structure when some or all of it might not be present?

Right now, you might do something like this:

// To get data.key1.key2, if any level could be null/undefined: 
let result = data ? (data.key1 ? data.key1.key2 : undefined) : undefined; 
// Another equivalent alternative: 
let result = ((data || {}).key1 || {}).key2;

Nasty! This gets much much worse if you need to go deeper, and although the second example works at runtime, it won’t even compile in TypeScript, since the first step could be {}, in which case key1 isn’t a valid key at all.

This gets still more complicated if you’re trying to get into an array, or there’s a function call somewhere in this process.

There’s a host of other approaches to this, but they’re all noisy, messy & error-prone. With optional chaining, you can do this:

// With TS 3.7: 
// Returns the value is it's all defined & non-null, or undefined if not. 
let result = data?.key1?.key2; 
// The same, through an array index or property, if possible: 
array?.[0]?.['key']; 
// Call a method, but only if it's defined: 
obj.method?.(); 
// Get a property, or return 'default' if any step is not defined: 
let result = data?.key1?.key2 ?? 'default';

The last case shows how neatly some of these dovetails together: null coalescing + optional chaining is a match made in heaven.

One gotcha: this will return undefined for missing values, even if they were null, e.g. in cases like (null)?.key (returns undefined). A small point, but one to watch out for if you have a lot of null in your data structures.

That’s the lot! That should outline all the essentials for these features, but there are lots of smaller improvements, fixes, and editor support improvements coming too, so take a look at the official roadmap if you want to get into the nitty-gritty.

#typescript #javascript

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New Angular 7 Features With Example - Info Stans

What is new in New Angular 7? New Angular 7 features have turned out as a powerful release that really brought advancement in the application development structure.

Here, we have listed new Angular 7 features with examples and write the difference between Angular 6 and Angular 7.

• Bundle Budget
• Virtual Scrolling
• Error Handling
• Documentation Updates
• Application Performance
• Native Script
• CLI Prompts
• Component in angular 7
• Drag and Drop
• Angular Do-Bootstrap

Read more: Angular 7 Features With Example

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How to Send E-mail Using Queue in Laravel 7/8

Today I will show you How to Send E-mail Using Queue in Laravel 7/8, many time we can see some process take more time to load like payment gateway, email send, etc. Whenever you are sending email for verification then it load time to send mail because it is services. If you don’t want to wait to user for send email or other process on loading server side process then you can use queue.

Read More : How to Send E-mail Using Queue in Laravel 7/8

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Introduction New Features in TypeScript 3.7 and How to Use Them

The TypeScript 3.7 release is coming soon, and it’s going to be a big one.

The target release date is November 5th, and there are some seriously exciting headline features included:

• Assert signatures.
• Recursive type aliases.
• Top-level await.
• Null coalescing.
• Optional chaining.

Personally, I’m super excited about this, they’re going to whisk away all sorts of annoyances that I’ve been fighting in TypeScript while building HTTP Toolkit.

If you haven’t been paying close attention to the TypeScript development process though, it’s probably not clear what half of these mean, or why you should care. Let’s talk through all of them.

Assert Signatures

This is a brand-new and little-known TypeScript feature, which allows you to write functions that act like type guards as a side-effect, rather than explicitly returning their boolean result.

It’s easiest to demonstrate this with a JavaScript example:

function assertString(input) { 
  if (typeof input === 'string') 
    return; 
  else 
    throw new Error('Input must be a string!'); 
} 
function doSomething(input) { 
  assertString(input); 
  // ... Use input, confident that it's a string 
} 
doSomething('abc'); 
// All good doSomething(123); // Throws an error

This pattern is neat and useful, and you can’t use it in TypeScript today.

TypeScript can’t know that you’ve guaranteed the type of input after it’s run assertString. Typically, people just make the argument input: string to avoid this, and that’s good. But, it also just pushes the type checking problem somewhere else, and in cases where you just want to fail hard, it’s useful to have this option available.

Fortunately, soon we will:

// With TS 3.7 
function assertString(input: any): 
	asserts input is string { 
      // <-- the magic 
      if (typeof input === 'string') 
        return; 
      else 
        throw new Error('Input must be a string!'); 
    } 
function doSomething(input: string | number) { 
  assertString(input); 
  // input's type is just 'string' here }

Here assert input is string means that if this function ever returns, TypeScript can narrow the type of input to string, just as if it was inside an if block with a type guard.

To make this safe, that means if the assert statement isn’t true then your assert function must either throw an error or not return at all (kill the process, infinite loop, you name it).

That’s the basics, but this actually lets you pull some really neat tricks:

// With TS 3.7 
// Asserts that input is truthy, throwing immediately if not: 
function assert(input: any): 
	asserts input { // <-- not a typo 
      if (!input) 
        throw new Error('Not a truthy value'); 
    } 
declare const x: number | string | undefined; 
assert(x); // Narrows x to number | string 
// Also usable with type guarding expressions! 
assert(typeof x === 'string'); 
// Narrows x to string // -- Or use assert in your tests: -- 
const a: Result | Error = doSomethingTestable(); 
expect(a).is.instanceOf(result); 
// 'instanceOf' could 'asserts a is Result' 
expect(a.resultValue).to.equal(123); 
// a.resultValue is now legal // -- Use as a safer ! that throws immediately if 
// you're wrong -- 
function assertDefined<T>(obj: T): 
	asserts obj is NonNullable<T> { 
      if (obj === undefined || obj === null) { 
        throw new Error('Must not be a nullable value'); 
      } 
    } 
declare const x: string | undefined; 
// Gives y just 'string' as a type, could throw elsewhere later: 
const y = x!; 
// Gives y 'string' as a type, or throws immediately if you're wrong: 
assertDefined(x); const z = x; 
// -- Or even update types to track a function's side-effects -- 
type X<T extends string | {}> = { value: T }; 
// Use asserts to narrow types according to side effects: 
function setX<T extends string | {}>(x: X<any>, v: T): 
	asserts x is X<T> { 
      x.value = v; 
    } 
	declare let x: X<any>; 
// x is now { value: any }; 
setX(x, 123); 
// x is now { value: number };

This is still in flux, so don’t take it as the definite result, and keep an eye on the pull request if you want the final details.

There’s even a discussion there about allowing functions to assert something and return a type, which would let you extend the final example above to track a much wider variety of side effects, but we’ll have to wait and see how that plays out.

Top-Level Await

Async/await is amazing and makes promises dramatically cleaner to use.

Unfortunately, though, you can’t use them at the top level. This might not be something you care about much in a TS library or application, but if you’re writing a runnable script or using TypeScript in a REPL, then this gets super annoying.

It’s even worse if you’re used to frontend development, since top-level await has been working nicely in the Chrome and Firefox console for a couple of years now.

Fortunately though, a fix is coming. This is actually a general stage-3 JS proposal, so it’ll be everywhere else eventually too, but for TS devs 3.7 is where the magic happens.

This one’s simple, but let’s have another quick demo anyway:

// Your only solution right now for a script that does something async: 
async function doEverything() { 
  ... 
  const response = await fetch('http://example.com'); 
  ... 
} 
  
doEverything(); // <- eugh (could use an IIFE instead, but even more eugh)

With top-level await:

// With TS 3.7: 
// Your script: ... 
const response = await fetch('http://example.com'); 
// ...

There’s a notable gotcha here: if you’re not writing a script, or using a REPL, don’t write this at the top level, unless you really know what you’re doing!

It’s totally possible to use this to write modules that do blocking async steps when imported. That can be useful for some niche cases, but people tend to assume that their import statement is a synchronous, reliable, and fairly quick operation, and you could easily hose your codebase’s startup time if you start blocking imports for complex async processes (even worse, processes that can fail).

This is somewhat mitigated by the semantics of imports of async modules: they’re imported and run in parallel, so the importing module effectively waits for Promise.all(importedModules) before being executed.

Rich Harris wrote an excellent piece on a previous version of this spec before that change when imports ran sequentially and this problem was much worse), which makes for good background reading on the risks here if you’re interested.

It’s also worth noting that this is only useful for module systems that support asynchronous imports. There isn’t yet a formal spec for how TS will handle this, but that likely means that a very recent target configuration, and, either ES Modules or Webpack v5 (whose alphas have experimental support), will be used at runtime.

Recursive Type Aliases

If you’re ever tried to define a recursive type in TypeScript, you may have run into StackOverflow questions like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47842266/recursive-types-in-typescript.

Right now, you can’t. Interfaces can be recursive, but there are limitations to their expressiveness, and type aliases can’t. That means right now, you need to combine the two: define a type alias and extract the recursive parts of the type into interfaces. It works, but it’s messy, and we can do better.

As a concrete example, this is the suggested type definition for JSON data:

type JSONValue = | string | number | boolean | JSONObject | JSONArray; 
interface JSONObject { [x: string]: JSONValue; } 
interface JSONArray extends Array<JSONValue> { }

That works, but the extra interfaces are only there because they’re required to get around the recursion limitation.

Fixing this requires no new syntax; it just removes that restriction, so the below compiles:

// With TS 3.7: 
type JSONValue = | string | number | boolean | { [x: string]: JSONValue } | Array<JSONValue>;

Right now, that fails to compile with Type alias ‘JSONValue’ circularly references itself. Soon though, soon…

Null Coalescing

Aside from being difficult to spell, this one is quite simple and easy. It’s based on a JavaScript stage-3 proposal, which means it’ll also be coming to your favorite vanilla JavaScript environment soon (if it hasn’t already).

In JavaScript, there’s a common pattern for handling default values, and falling back to the first valid result of a defined group. It looks something like this:

// Use the first of firstResult/secondResult which is truthy: 
const result = firstResult || secondResult; 
// Use configValue from provided options if truthy, or 'default' if not: 
this.configValue = options.configValue || 'default';

This is useful in a host of cases, but due to some interesting quirks in JavaScript, it can catch you out. If firstResult or options.configValue can meaningfully be set to false, an empty string or 0, then this code has a bug. If those values are set, then when considered as booleans they’re falsy, so the fallback value (secondResult / ‘default’) is used anyway.

Null coalescing fixes this. Instead of the above, you’ll be able to write:

// With TS 3.7: 
// Use the first of firstResult/secondResult which is *defined*: 
const result = firstResult ?? secondResult; 
// Use configSetting from provided options if *defined*, or 'default' if not: 
this.configValue = options.configValue ?? 'default';

?? differs from || in that it falls through to the next value only if the first argument is null or undefined, not falsy. That fixes our bug. If you pass false as firstResult, that will be used instead of secondResult because, while it’s falsy, it is still defined, and that’s all that’s required.

It’s simple but super-useful, as it takes away a whole class of bugs.

Optional Chaining

Last but not least, optional chaining is another stage-3 proposal that is making its way into TypeScript.

This is designed to solve an issue faced by developers in every language: how do you get data out of a data structure when some or all of it might not be present?

Right now, you might do something like this:

// To get data.key1.key2, if any level could be null/undefined: 
let result = data ? (data.key1 ? data.key1.key2 : undefined) : undefined; 
// Another equivalent alternative: 
let result = ((data || {}).key1 || {}).key2;

Nasty! This gets much much worse if you need to go deeper, and although the second example works at runtime, it won’t even compile in TypeScript, since the first step could be {}, in which case key1 isn’t a valid key at all.

This gets still more complicated if you’re trying to get into an array, or there’s a function call somewhere in this process.

There’s a host of other approaches to this, but they’re all noisy, messy & error-prone. With optional chaining, you can do this:

// With TS 3.7: 
// Returns the value is it's all defined & non-null, or undefined if not. 
let result = data?.key1?.key2; 
// The same, through an array index or property, if possible: 
array?.[0]?.['key']; 
// Call a method, but only if it's defined: 
obj.method?.(); 
// Get a property, or return 'default' if any step is not defined: 
let result = data?.key1?.key2 ?? 'default';

The last case shows how neatly some of these dovetails together: null coalescing + optional chaining is a match made in heaven.

One gotcha: this will return undefined for missing values, even if they were null, e.g. in cases like (null)?.key (returns undefined). A small point, but one to watch out for if you have a lot of null in your data structures.

That’s the lot! That should outline all the essentials for these features, but there are lots of smaller improvements, fixes, and editor support improvements coming too, so take a look at the official roadmap if you want to get into the nitty-gritty.

#typescript #javascript

TypeScript 3.7 has Been Released

Recently, Microsoft announced the latest version of TypeScript i.e. 3.7. The new release brings new language, compiler, and tooling features.

Well, TypeScript is a language based on JavaScript that provides static type-checking along with type syntax. It powers things like completions, quick fixes, and refactorings for both TypeScript and JavaScript in many of the editors.

You can get the latest version through NuGet, or using npm - npm install typescript

3.7 brings some great features like Optional Chaining, Nullish Coalescing, Better Support for never-Returning Functions, and Assertion Signatures

You can check out the TypeScript playground where you will find an entire menu for learning what’s new.

Source: Microsoft

New feature Optional chaining allows you to write code where you can immediately stop running some expressions if you run into a null or undefined. Consider the following code:

let x = foo?.bar.baz();  

that means when foo is defined, foo.bar.baz() will be computed, but incase foo is null or undefined, it will stop and return undefined.

And, the nullish coalescing operator(??) is a feature that goes hand-in-hand with optional chaining. ?? operator is a way to fall-back to a default value when dealing with null or undefined. So if you write a code like:

let x = foo ?? bar();  

it means the value foo will be used when it’s present; but if it is null or undefined, it will calculate bar() in its place.

TypeScript 3.7 brings a new concept - assertion signatures - which model the assertion functions.

Here, one type of assertion signature models the way that Node’s assert function works. It makes sure that whatever condition is being checked must be true for the remainder of the containing scope. While, the other type of assertion signature, instead of checking for a condition, tells TypeScript that a specific variable or property has a different type.

Other important features, included in 3.7 are:

• –declaration and --allowJs
• (More) Recursive Type Aliases
• The useDefineForClassFields Flag and The declare Property Modifier
• Build-Free Editing with Project References
• Uncalled Function Checks
• Flatter Error Reporting
• // @ts-nocheck in TypeScript Files
• Semicolon Formatter Option
• Website and Playground Updates

_And breaking changes include DOM Changes, Class Field Mitigations, Local and Imported, _Type Declarations Now Conflict, Function Truthy Checks, and API Changes

You can visit the official announcement here.

Thank you !

#TypeScript #TypeScript 3.7 #JavaScript

Why Use WordPress? What Can You Do With WordPress?

Can you use WordPress for anything other than blogging? To your surprise, yes. WordPress is more than just a blogging tool, and it has helped thousands of websites and web applications to thrive. The use of WordPress powers around 40% of online projects, and today in our blog, we would visit some amazing uses of WordPress other than blogging.
What Is The Use Of WordPress?

WordPress is the most popular website platform in the world. It is the first choice of businesses that want to set a feature-rich and dynamic Content Management System. So, if you ask what WordPress is used for, the answer is – everything. It is a super-flexible, feature-rich and secure platform that offers everything to build unique websites and applications. Let’s start knowing them:

1. Multiple Websites Under A Single Installation
WordPress Multisite allows you to develop multiple sites from a single WordPress installation. You can download WordPress and start building websites you want to launch under a single server. Literally speaking, you can handle hundreds of sites from one single dashboard, which now needs applause.
It is a highly efficient platform that allows you to easily run several websites under the same login credentials. One of the best things about WordPress is the themes it has to offer. You can simply download them and plugin for various sites and save space on sites without losing their speed.

2. WordPress Social Network
WordPress can be used for high-end projects such as Social Media Network. If you don’t have the money and patience to hire a coder and invest months in building a feature-rich social media site, go for WordPress. It is one of the most amazing uses of WordPress. Its stunning CMS is unbeatable. And you can build sites as good as Facebook or Reddit etc. It can just make the process a lot easier.
To set up a social media network, you would have to download a WordPress Plugin called BuddyPress. It would allow you to connect a community page with ease and would provide all the necessary features of a community or social media. It has direct messaging, activity stream, user groups, extended profiles, and so much more. You just have to download and configure it.
If BuddyPress doesn’t meet all your needs, don’t give up on your dreams. You can try out WP Symposium or PeepSo. There are also several themes you can use to build a social network.

3. Create A Forum For Your Brand’s Community
Communities are very important for your business. They help you stay in constant connection with your users and consumers. And allow you to turn them into a loyal customer base. Meanwhile, there are many good technologies that can be used for building a community page – the good old WordPress is still the best.
It is the best community development technology. If you want to build your online community, you need to consider all the amazing features you get with WordPress. Plugins such as BB Press is an open-source, template-driven PHP/ MySQL forum software. It is very simple and doesn’t hamper the experience of the website.
Other tools such as wpFoRo and Asgaros Forum are equally good for creating a community blog. They are lightweight tools that are easy to manage and integrate with your WordPress site easily. However, there is only one tiny problem; you need to have some technical knowledge to build a WordPress Community blog page.

4. Shortcodes
Since we gave you a problem in the previous section, we would also give you a perfect solution for it. You might not know to code, but you have shortcodes. Shortcodes help you execute functions without having to code. It is an easy way to build an amazing website, add new features, customize plugins easily. They are short lines of code, and rather than memorizing multiple lines; you can have zero technical knowledge and start building a feature-rich website or application.
There are also plugins like Shortcoder, Shortcodes Ultimate, and the Basics available on WordPress that can be used, and you would not even have to remember the shortcodes.

5. Build Online Stores
If you still think about why to use WordPress, use it to build an online store. You can start selling your goods online and start selling. It is an affordable technology that helps you build a feature-rich eCommerce store with WordPress.
WooCommerce is an extension of WordPress and is one of the most used eCommerce solutions. WooCommerce holds a 28% share of the global market and is one of the best ways to set up an online store. It allows you to build user-friendly and professional online stores and has thousands of free and paid extensions. Moreover as an open-source platform, and you don’t have to pay for the license.
Apart from WooCommerce, there are Easy Digital Downloads, iThemes Exchange, Shopify eCommerce plugin, and so much more available.

6. Security Features
WordPress takes security very seriously. It offers tons of external solutions that help you in safeguarding your WordPress site. While there is no way to ensure 100% security, it provides regular updates with security patches and provides several plugins to help with backups, two-factor authorization, and more.
By choosing hosting providers like WP Engine, you can improve the security of the website. It helps in threat detection, manage patching and updates, and internal security audits for the customers, and so much more.

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