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Scott and West talk about what’s new in JavaScript.
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Show Notes 1:55 - Scott’s new studio
4:57 - Pop Motion Pose
- New library for React or vanilla JavaScript
- Define locations instead of CSS styles
- Pass the animation state into a React component as open or closed instead of active or inactive
- Flip animation techniques
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Style Fire - Simple HTML & SVG styler optimised for animation
8:44 - Intersection Observer
- Browser-based API based on observables
- Example uses: Tell me when this element is on the page, goes off the page or is halfway down the page
10: 32 - MDX
- Webpack loader for MDX (i.e. JSX-infused Markdown) using mdx-it
- Turns MarkDown files into components in Webpack
12:56 - Resize Observer
- Watch elements for resize
15:47 Web Animations API
- Works with animations natively in JavaScript
- Tell your animations to play, pause, reverse, etc.
- Instead of changing classes, you have full control over what the animation is doing
- Web-Animation-JS Polyfill
- Can I use
18:00 - Window Face Detector API
- Create a new window.face detector and pass it an image tag and it returns an array of faces.
22:53 - Payment Request API
- Eliminates check out forms
- Allows platform to handle payment safely and securely
29:23 - INTL.NumberFormat
- Format pricing with different currencies
32:59 - V8 BigInts
- Makes working with big numbers more viable
34:53 - Speech Recognition
- Converts speech to text
- Pipe in different accents
36:22 - Text To Speech
- Simulates text into spoken words
41:46 - ES6 Modules In Node
- There are no ES6 modules in Node. It’s still being developed. If you want to build an ES6 module in Node, you have to use the .mjs extension
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