Bleeding Edge Web: August 2015
Announcements
News from the Bleeding Edge
— Brian Moeskau (@bmoeskau)
Intro to React and Redux
— Matt Bow (@DmtHigh)
Lightning Talks
News from the
Bleeding Edge
Browser Pop Quiz
Last version check — June 2015:
Chrome Highlights
Notable ES6 features:
Plus service worker improvements and a bunch of other stuff
More details next month :)
Firefox Highlights
Opera
- Updated Chromium/Blink to version 44
- New CSS multi-column
layout implementation
- Minor ES6 and Web Audio improvements
Just released in July with Windows 10
Brand new Platform Status page
New features in
development for next version:
- New CSS pseduo-classes and keywords
- New form input types
- New canvas features, <picture> support
- And more!
Bootstrap 4 has been a massive undertaking that touches nearly every line of code.
- Dropped IE8 support
- Less → Sass
- Improved grid system + flexbox support
- Wells / thumbnails / panels → cards
- Every plugin now written in ES6
- Lots, lots more
Node
The convergence from io.js → Node is now underway
Declarative Data Management
Today, developers mostly have to solve these themselves:
- Local vs. remote data
- Caching
- Optimizing requests
- Designing for graph retrieval
- Released by Facebook on August 11
- Works with FB's GraphQL
(query language for graph data)
- Components can describe the data necessary to render them
- Automatic data consistency on client/server
Currently a tech preview, but used in production at FB
No, not that one
Created by Netflix
- "One model everywhere" via a virtual JSON graph (sorta like GraphQL)
- Object-oreiented data API via get/set, path syntax, routing
- Transparent network calls, auto batching and de-duping
- Side note: they are using this with React also!
Currently a developer preview, but used in production at Netflix
Summary
Specify what to fetch, but not necessarily how or where to get it
- Declarative data definition
- JSON-based
- Designed for complex graph data
- Transparent remote API
- Request caching / batching / de-duping
Not quite ready for primetime, but watch this space...
And now for something completely different...
Launching soon to low Earth orbit.
Did you know we have a rocket company in Cedar Park?!
Austin Diversity Hack
This hackathon is a celebration of diversity. Anyone who supports diversity is welcome.
- September 11-13 at Capital Factory
- Register
for free, no experience required
- Prizes in multiple categories
Friday
happy hour and pitch session sponsored by Atlassian
Virtual conference on Angular and other JS/Node topics
- September 24-26, 12-4:30pm EST
- $100 / person
- Not many details posted yet, caveat emptor!
Develop a web site/platform serving creeks in Austin!
- October 24, 10am-6pm
- Free, but limited to 50 people
- Registration
ends September 19
Thanks!
←
→
/
#
