The Web Platform Podcast

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147: Next Generation JavaScript Today with Babel Dec 13, 2017

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Henry Zhu (@left_pad), a maintainer for Babel, sits down to discuss the ins and outs of what's happening with the worlds most used JavaScript compiler. Henry takes us through what Babel does, how Babel works and describes some of its many features, some you may not have known existed. Henry also explains the TC39 staging process and how that applies to Babel and discusses the risks of using stage 0-1 features in production.

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146: Web Authentication with Google Identity Nov 29, 2017

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Software engineer, author, and Google Developer Expert Allen Firstenberg (@afirstenberg) visits the show to discuss what exactly identity for a user is. From pitfalls with our current thinking in identifying users to the latest technology in helping users sign in across multiple devices and platforms.

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145: Thanksgiving Special: What We're Thankful for on the Web Today Nov 22, 2017

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Hosts Amal, Danny, Leon, and Justin kick of the start of the holiday season by taking a moment to reflect on what they're thankful for when it comes to the web. From platform APIs like Service Worker, to the latest ECMAScript features like arrow functions, to a healthy warning of the impending FCC vote on net neutrality, this episode touches on a wide set of varied topics that every developer just might enjoy.

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Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)
Danny Blue (@dee_bloo)
Leon Revill (@revillweb)
Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie)

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144: Vaadin - UI Components for Web Apps Nov 16, 2017

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Amahdy AbdelAziz from Vaadin joins us to share stories of where Vaadin got its name and awesome logo! We also talk about some decisions Vaadin made when creating its latest set of components including why they chose Web Components and Polymer.

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Amahdy AbdelAziz (@amahdy7)

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Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)
Leon Revill (@revillweb)
Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie)

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143: Introducing ReasonML Nov 08, 2017

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This week our panel talks with Ken Wheeler all about ReasonML. What is it? Why does it exist? Why should you care? Taking a systems language like OCaml and using it as a base for writing web applications might sound intimidating but Ken assuages our fears and discusses the benefits of the language and his experience with it.

This Week in Web News

Angular 5 and Angular-cli 1.5 released
React 16.1.0-beta released
Typescript 2.6 released
Node 9 released Node 8 becomes LTS
Super Mario Odyssey is out and it's awesome

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Ken Wheeler (@ken_wheeler)

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Danny Blue (@dee_bloo)
Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie)

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142: Redux & it's Ecosystem Nov 03, 2017

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This week Mark Erikson a Redux maintainer joins us to talk about Redux and its Ecosystem. Discover what Redux is, where it came from, who should use it, answers to common questions and so much more.

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Redux Documentation

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Mark Erikson (@acemarke)

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Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)
Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie)

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141: Web Animations API Oct 25, 2017

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Rachel Nabors joins us to chat all about the Web Animations API. Learn what benefits this API provides developers and when to use the Web Animations API instead of CSS or third-party JavaScript libraries. Find out how Rachel still delivers great web experiences to platforms which don't yet support the API and much more.

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Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors)

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Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)
Leon Revill (@revillweb)
Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie)

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140: Overview of Couchbase Oct 16, 2017

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This week Nic Raboy and Matt Groves talk to us about the history and future of the popular Open Source Couchbase project. Learn about some of the great features the noSQL database has to offer and how you can get started with Couchbase today.

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Nic Raboy (@nraboy)
Matt Groves (@mgroves)

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Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)
Danny Blue (@dee_bloo)
Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie)

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139: The state of CSS moving forward in 2018 Oct 06, 2017

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This week Erik Meyer joins us to talk about the past, present and future of CSS. Delving into some web history, discussing why CSS can be overlooked in regards to app development and the reasons people can be off-put by CSS this episode is a delightful insight into the mind of a web legend.

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Angular 4.4.X released. Be sure to update to the latest patch in 4.4 as there was an issue with the initial release
Quick shoutout to the npm package ng-packagr for making it simple to package angular modules for npm
As of Firefox 57.0a1, U2F is sitting behind a flag, which hopefully land soon the ability to use YubiKeys and the related security keys
Polymer 2.1.0 landed, which now allows the setting of Polymer.passiveTouchGeastures to enable better scroll performance
iOS 11 begins rolling out today, which means that Safari 11 has a new set of fixes and features, including more standards compliant flexbox, flags to enable experimental features, WebRTC and Media Capture for real-time video/audio, and much more
The upcoming iPhone X "notch" does seem to have workarounds for the web which is good news

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Eric Meyer (@meyerweb)

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Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)
Danny Blue (@dee_bloo)
Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie)

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138: Stencil Oct 02, 2017

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This week Justin Willis and Adam Bradley join us to talk about Stencil a new tool for building Web Components. We talk about how Stencil came about and what problems it solves and we get into how Stencil works its magic to provide features such as pre-rendering.

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