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New Kitten update

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• Added `remove()` method to kitten.Component class. Use this when working with live pages and components and you want to remove a component from the page (or its parent). It will handle removing event listeners for you so you don’t end up with any memory leaks.

• Improved `update()` method so it similarly removes listeners on child components before updating the component itself in case you have class-based child components that will be reinstantiated on render.

• Updated the `send()` methods on `page.everyone` and `page.everyoneElse` so you can pass a swap target to insert the element being streamed to the page before, after, asFirstChildOf, or asLastChildOf another. (This was already there for the page.send() but now the two broadcast objects have the same consistent interface.

The @small-web/kitten npm package (Kitten’s types package) has also been updated to version 5.1.0 to reflect the latest changes.

(Remember that the new class and event-based page and component model is still experimental and largely undocumented and fully backwards compatible with the classic functional way of authoring your page routes and components.)

Enjoy!

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