Bleeding Edge Web: May 2016

Announcements

News from the Bleeding Edge

— Brian Moeskau (@bmoeskau)

All About Node 6 (slides)

— Evan Lucas (@evanhlucas)

Lightning Talks

• nvm-windows overview (Corey Butler)

Thanks to our venue sponsor:

Thanks to our food sponsor:

Browser Pop Quiz

Last version check — April 27, 2016:

50	36	46	14 14291	9.1

Browser Pop Quiz

As of May 25, 2016:

50 51	36 37	46	14 14291 14342	9.1

Chrome 51

Released May 25 (today!) — Release Notes

• Credential Management API integration (one-tap sign in)
• Skip rendering / requestAnimationFrame for x-origin, offscreen frames
• Intersection Observer API support
• Passive event listeners for improved scroll performance
• Lots of other stuff

Opera 37

Released May 4 — Release Notes

• Added support for Chromium version 50
• Added built-in ad blocker
• Opera 38 currently in beta

Edge 14 (14342)

Release Notes

• New APIs: Web Notifications, Beacon, Fetch
• ES2015: default params, async/await, modules (behind flag)
• ES2016/17: Object.values/entries, Array.includes, String.padStart/padEnd
• New elements: <time>, <data>, <output>
• Support for WOFF 2.0
• A lot more!

Bonus: Safari Technology Preview 5

Released May 25 (today!) — Release Notes

• Fifth preview release since March
• Many, many fixes and improvements
• Download and try it out

WebKit Update

Notable Releases

Babel 6.8 – May 2

• Babel is now compiled with Babel 6
• Fixes a major npm deduping issue with Babel 5 dependencies

Babel 6.9 – May 16

• Upgraded core-js and lodash
• A few important bug fixes

Notable Releases

Angular 2.0 (RC) – May 2

• Completely redesigned from Angular 1
• Heavily focused on TypeScript integration
• Tons of new features and breaking changes

Notable Releases

NativeScript 2.0 – May 4

• JS-based mobile apps with native UI bindings
• Supports TypeScript and Angular 2.0
• Open source
• Backed by Telerik, paid support options

Notable Releases

Electron 1.0 – May 11

• Build native desktop apps with HTML, CSS and JS
• New Electron API Demos app
• New Chrome extension Devtron for debugging
• New 3.0 version of Spectron for integration testing

Notable Releases

jQuery 3.0 (RC) – May 20

• Final version barring major bugs
• IE 9+ only (stick to 2.x for IE 6-8)
• jQuery.Deferred now Promises/A+ compatible
• Animations now use requestAnimationFrame
• Upgrade guide available

Reason

A new developer experience for rapidly building fast, safe systems

• Developed by Facebook
• A new interface to OCaml
• "Resembles a typed subset of modern JavaScript (the good parts)"
• Compare to JS

Node v8_inspector support

Node.js can now be debugged and profiled via Chrome DevTools

• Currently an open PR in the Node github repo
• Breakpoints, stepping, source maps, live editing, etc.
• Console with ES6 support

nlp_compromise

A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript

• 100k, no dependencies, IE9+
• Aims for 80-20 rule in accuracy / complexity

nlp.statement('She sells seashells').negate().text()
// She doesn't sell seashells

nlp.person("Tony Hawk").pronoun();
// "he"

nlp.value("five hundred and sixty").number;
// 560

StarWarsIntro.css

A small CSS library to build your own Star Wars-esque intro crawl

ATX Hack for Change 2016

A civic hackathon that lets you find the projects and the people you need to change your community for the better

• Free to attend! Check out the project proposals
• Audience: "hackers"
• June 3-5 at St. Edwards University

MakerPrep: Learn to Code Part-time

Learn HTML, CSS and basic JS skills over 4 weeks in June

• Perfect for non-techies who want exposure to new tech skills
• $750 per student — more info and sign up
• Hosted at MakerSquare in downtown Austin

Thanks!

http://www.meetup.com/bleeding-edge-web/

http://edgeATX.github.io/slides

Brian Moeskau — @bmoeskau