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137: Polymer Roadmap from GDD Europe Sep 30, 2017

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This week is a special episode! Recorded face-to-face at GDD Europe Amal Hussein interviews Wendy Ginsberg about life working on Polymer and what's next for the project.

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Guests

Wendy Ginsberg (@wmginsberg)

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Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie)

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136: Polymer Summit Recap Aug 31, 2017

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This week the crew is joined by Lars Knudsen (@denladeside) and Kenneth Christiansen (@kennethrohde) to talk about the recent Polymer Summit and all of the awesome stuff revealed there. Are web components really ready? Who is using web components? Answers to these questions and more on this week's episode of the Web Platform Podcast.

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Guests

Lars Knudsen (@denladeside)
Kenneth Christiansen (@kennethrohde)

Panel

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

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135: hyperHTML Aug 25, 2017

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This week Andrea Giammarchi joins us to talk about his latest project hyperHTML! A lightweight Virtual DOM alternative. Andrea talks us through what the project is all about and what he discovered about template literals to make it happen. We talk about how hyperHTML compares to Virtual DOM implementations and the similarities between hyperHTML and the newly announced lit-html.

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Andrea Giammarchi (@WebReflection)

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Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)
Leon Revill (@revillweb)

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134: Modern Web APIs Aug 17, 2017

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This week Paul Kinlan the lead for Chrome developer relations talks to us about Modern Web APIs including Web Share and Shape Detection! Paul talks us through the origin trials process which allows new APIs such as these to get into developers hands early, allowing platform developers to get all important feedback. We then get stuck into what Web Share is and how it works and chat about the possibilities of the Shape Detection API.

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Paul Kinlan (@Paul_Kinlan)

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

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133: Ionic & Web Components Aug 03, 2017

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Justin Willis from Ionic joins us this week to talk about hybrid app development with Ionic and some amazing work they have been doing with Web Components. Justin gives us an overview of the Ionic project, its background and how it makes building hybrid apps super easy. We then move on to talk about why Ionic have chosen to rebuild their components as Web Components and the benefits they are seeing from making this move.

Mozilla moves the Shadow DOM feature backward from ASSIGNED to NEW signalling that we might have to wait even longer to get full Web Components support in FireFox:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205323
The ability to import JavaScript modules via a script tag is available behind a flag in Chrome 60 and will be enabled by default in Chrome 61 due for release at the beginning of september
- https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5365692190687232
React 16 beta is now available which contains significant updates including a rewrite of React core
- https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/10294
Safari Technology Preview is now available which implements the JavaScript Object Spread feature, WebRTC fixes and much more - check it out
- https://webkit.org/blog/7833/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-36/
Most of you out there have probably aware of the popular message app Slack, recently it was announced Slack is now valued at $5 billion dollars
- https://www.inc.com/business-insider/slack-new-funding-round-250-million-5-billion-valuation-2017.html
Summits abound for web devs everywhere. Upcoming summits include, Polymer Summit (Aug 22/23, Copenhagen), Microsoft Edge Web Summit (Sept 13, Seattle), Chrome Dev Summit (Oct 23/24, San Francisco)
CSS Working Group is meeting at Mozilla Paris, where discusses of Houdini, frame animations, additive animations and Fonts Level 4 working draft have been topics of discussion.

Guests

Justin Willis (@justinwillis96)

Panel

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

132: Vue.js Jul 27, 2017

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This week we talk about the exciting JavaScript framework Vue.js! Chad Campbell the author of the training course "Vue.js: Getting Started" educates us on the benefits of Vue.js which includes simplicity and performance. We talk about the tooling story for Vue, comparing it to other frameworks such as Angular and learn about Vue's powerful plugin system which allows developers to add core functionality as it's needed.

Resources

https://github.com/vuejs/vue-rx
https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/typescript.html
Integration with Web Components example: https://vaadin.com/vaadin-fw8-documentation-portlet/elements/integrations/integrations-vuejs.html
https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/ssr.html
Chad's Blog: https://www.ecofic.com/
Chad's training course's: Vue.js: Getting Started & Vue.js: Going Deeper (Coming Soon)

Guests

Chad Campbell (@chadcampbell)

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

131: Google I/O Recap Jul 17, 2017

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Danny, Justin & Amal get together with Kenneth Christiansen to talk about this year's Google I/O. With everyone having attended I/O the show is packed full of great content with discussions on AI, Shape detection, PWAs, Polymer, Kotlin and so much more!

Resources

New site comparing frameworks: hnpwa.com
bit.ly/mustaches-io really shows how nice Shape Detection API and Media Capture has become!
Web AR: https://uploadvr.com/google-chrome-getting-ar-api-daydream-support/ https://github.com/googlevr/chromium-webar https://t.co/PyhQiChW2i?amp=1
V8 JavaScript Language Survey: https://docs.google.com/a/revillweb.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegrt21-vrtT10OsZgSF5THwz8s30JNi6lrm_WoNigUjmZvzA/viewform

Guests

Kenneth Christiansen

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

130: Web Worker Adoption Jul 05, 2017

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This week on The Web Platform Podcast your hosts ask the question "Why aren't Web Workers more widely adopted"? Your hosts talk about what problems can be solved by Web Workers providing some interesting use cases and talk about their own experiences in past projects.

Resources

https://nolanlawson.com/2015/09/29/indexeddb-websql-localstorage-what-blocks-the-dom/

Around the Web in Two Minutes

Chrome Canary gets JavaScript Modules
- https://jakearchibald.com/2017/es-modules-in-browsers/
TypeScript 2.3 Released
- https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/04/27/announcing-typescript-2-3/
Firefox 53 arrives with new themes, separate graphics process
- https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/19/firefox-53-arrives-with-new-themes-separate-graphics-process-on-windows-and-compact-tabs-on-android/
Node.js 8.0.0 has been delayed until the end of May
- https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/node-js-8-0-0-has-been-delayed-and-will-ship-on-or-around-may-30th-cd38ba96980d
Published "A Practical Guide to Vanilla Web Components" my first Pluralsight course all about my favourite topic; Web Components.
- https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/vanilla-web-components-practical-guide
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- None
Panel
- Leon Revill (@RevillWeb)
- Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)
- Danny Blue (@dee_bloo)

129: Elix Project Apr 25, 2017

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In this episode, Leon and Justin sit down with Jan Miksovsky and Rob Bearman of of the recently released Elix Project. Elix is a community-driven collection of high-quality web components for common user interface patterns such as lists, menus, dialogs, carousels, and so on. The modular nature of web components let you easily incorporate them into your web apps, and their standard definition ensures good results across all mainstream browsers.

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Around the Web in Two Minutes

Preact 8.0 Beta Release
- https://github.com/developit/preact/releases/tag/8.0.0
Apple updates Safari Technology Preview to Release 27 with Web Inspector updates
- https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/05/safari-technology-preview-release-27/
Firefox Will Add a Settings Section That Lets You Control "Performance"
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-will-add-a-settings-section-that-lets-you-control-performance-/
Google Chrome update should prevent webpages skipping back to the top as you scroll farther down the page as it progressively loads new content
- http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/11/15260994/google-chrome-update-fixes-page-jumps-scroll-anchoring
Work continues to bring the certificate viewer link back into Chrome's Page info window, with a code review ongoing for the update hopefully landing in M59.
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2737413004/
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663971#c64
Twitter has been writing a series of informational posts on their path to Twitter Lite, a progressive web app at scale. One of the posts this week from Paul Armstrong dives into high performance and React:
- https://medium.com/@paularmstrong/twitter-lite-and-high-performance-react-progressive-web-apps-at-scale-d28a00e780a3
Microsoft Edge 15 has shipped to stable and brings a host of new features including Payment Request API, Brotli compression support, WebRTC v1, and CSS Custom Properties (among many more)
- https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/04/11/introducing-edgehtml-15/#khMRm5zgmPDmllbl.97
https://www.pwastats.com/ is a new a community-driven list of stats and news around Progressive Web Apps and their ability to be better for end users.

Guests

Rob Bearman (@robbearman)
Jan Miksovsky (@JanMiksovsky)

Panel

Leon Revill (@RevillWeb)
Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)

128: Developer Bias Apr 12, 2017

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Developer bias is something all developers deal with either knowingly or not. Trey Shugart the creator of SkateJS joins us this week to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of developer bias. Following up on his talk at Web Componente Remote Conference we look at what problems developer bias causes us in our day to day lives and Trey provides some tips on how to step back and look at problems more objectively.

Around the Web in Two Minutes

- Safari 10.1 Release
- - Includes Fetch, CSS Grid Layout, ES2016-2017 Support & Custom Elements V1!
  - This release also includes support for ES6 modules making Safari the first browser to ship this feature!
  - https://webkit.org/blog/7477/new-web-features-in-safari-10-1/
- Chrome DevTools landed JS/CSS coverage moved out of experiments
- - Currently in Canary M59
  - Useful for identifying code which would be split/ or lazy loaded
  - https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/848907772318015488
- Edge confirms that an updated CSS Grid implementation is in development
- - https://twitter.com/MSEdgeDev/status/848997331567497216
- Interesting Blink Intent to Ship's of the week:
- - Writable Streams
  - - https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/qpY1dj_ND-Q
  - Animated PNGs
  - - https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/xEOyu8QFCr0/3oqSlHBxCwAJ
  - InputEvent
  - - https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/W-Q1yWW-zas
- Firefox added experimental support for async iteration into Firefox nightly
- - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/4--twpqTrMY
- Engineers gathered in Japan for two days of Service Worker standards meetings covering potential version2 updates.

Guests

Trey Shugart (@treshugart)

Panel

Danny Blue (@dee_bloo)
Leon Revill (@RevillWeb)
Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)

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