Bleeding Edge Web: April 2019

News From the Bleeding Edge

— Corey Butler (@goldglovecb)

Production React Redux Architecture, Patterns, and Infrastructure Components

— Ryan Vice (ViceSoftware.com)

Housekeeping

Announcements

• Speakers and sponsors always wanted (edgeatx.org)
• Remember your $7 Parking validation | Another Parking Deck
• Omni hotel bar (downstairs) after meetup
• Anyone hiring / looking?

Browser Update

Last Check — Mar 21, 2019

73	65	18*	12

Browser Updates

As of Apr 18, 2019:

73 74*	64 66	18*	12

New-ish Browsers?

Edge Canary (Chromium)	Opera 60: Reborn 3

Chrome 73

Released Mar 12

CSS: Use response URL as base URL

Origin-Signed HTTP Exchanges

Layout Jank API

Badging API

// In a web page
const unreadCount = 24;
window.ExperimentalBadge.set(unreadCount);

Chrome 74

Release on Apr 23

Don't allow popups during page unload

CSS Transition Events

KV Storage (Built-in Module)

Private Class Fields

class Counter extends HTMLElement {
  #x = 0;

  clicked() {
    this.#x++;
    window.requestAnimationFrame(this.render.bind(this));
  }
...

Firefox 66

Released Mar 11, 2019

globalThis (FF 65)

Removed Mutation Events in shadow trees

Edge Canary

First Chromium-based release

Opera

Web 3 (Blockchain-Based Transactions)

Faster VPN

Ad Blocker

Borderless Design

Releases

jQuery 3.4.0

Node 11.14.0

Resources & Requests

Tidbits

npm hit 1M users

Node 6 EOL in 12 days

Amazon announces 800 tech jobs in Austin

Zoho is moving HQ to ATX

Thanks!

http://edgeatx.org/slides

Corey Butler (@goldglovecb)