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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

What’s New in Web Development

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about what’s new in web development: new promise static methods, new CSS functions, PWAs and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Clubhouse - Sponsor Clubhouse is the first project management software that brings everyone together so that teams can focus on what matters: creating products that customers love. Clubhouse provides a perfect balance of simplicity and structure for better cross-functional collaboration. Check out https://clubhouse.io/syntaxpodcast and get your first two months free. Show Notes 5:38 - New Promise static methods Promise.all Promise.race() Promise.allSettled() Promise.any() 10:16 - Lazy loading images Addy Osmani’s Lazy-Loading blog post 14:25 CSS Houdini aka JS in CSS CSS Houdini Experiments 20:32 - Subgrid Syntax 109: Hasty Treat - CSS Grid Level 2 aka Subgrid Subgrid is coming to Firefox - Jen Simmons Bugzilla 24:31 - Native modules in browser type="module" dynamic import() 27:08 - Node Native Modules update package.json will now have a type entry where NodeJS - Plan For New Modules Implementation New ESM Implementation 29:17 - PWA install app and Google PlayStore Already shipped in Chrome Java API that communicates through services with Chrome Trusted Web Activity aka TWA All content in TWAs must comply with Play store policy including policies for payments in-app purchases and other digital goods Already existing TWAs include Twitter Lite, Google Maps Go, Instagram Lite Passing the PWA Criteria Performance Score with a minimum of 80/100, tested with Lighthouse All current Google Play Store rules 35:49 - CSS Scroll Snap In many browsers already scroll-padding 38:17 - Aspect Ratio Unit Designing An Aspect Ratio Unit For CSS 39:32 - CSS nesting Disallows cross-domain cookies unless on the same domain/subdomain Links Gatsby Promise.allSettled() Promise.any() Apollo CodePen UC Browser Parcel Node.js Myles Borins’ Twitter Twitter Lite Google Maps Go Instagram Lite Lighthouse Opera Can I Use - modules Apple’s ITP ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Finding Drago Wes: The Punk Rock MBA Shameless Plugs Scott’s Gridsome Course Wes’ Courses Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.4

Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats.

0:14.0

Today we're going to be going over what is new in web development.

0:17.0

There's been, I don't know, a handful of things that have been surfacing lately,

0:22.0

things that are added to JavaScript or to CSS or just

0:25.6

to the web platform in general and it's good to keep up to date with what's coming

0:30.6

and what's new. Today we're sponsored by two awesome companies Century

0:34.1

it's just gonna do all of your error and exception tracking and Clubhouse

0:38.0

which is project management software that won't make you cry. I don't know if that's the tagline that they use but it seems

0:45.4

pretty sweet. We'll talk about them part way through the episode. How you doing today,

0:48.4

Scott? Hey, I'm doing super good. I just got back from the greatest wedding that I've ever been to and I'm feeling really good.

0:55.2

The wedding was amazing. It was in Pasadena, the bride and groom like walked on to the stage, I guess you could call it because it was a stage and

1:05.1

performed three songs with guitar she played guitar he played bass and sometimes

1:11.0

acoustic and then they had the guitarist from

1:13.2

Wolf Peck or Theo from Wolfpack he's not necessarily the guitarist he was

1:17.2

playing guitar with them as well and it was incredible they did did three songs, they exchanged rings,

1:24.6

and that is the wedding.

1:26.4

I think every single person there was just like, wow,

1:28.9

that was really cool.

1:29.7

That was like a, I mean, because they're all incredible musicians, musicians obviously and that's sort of how they met essentially and it was just like it was such a sweet sweet thing to be a part of there was a lot of really cool people there a couple of the guys from Wolf Peck in general were there so it was just a it was a

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