Summary

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.

Resources

• 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

Guests

• Eric Meyer (@meyerweb)

Panel

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

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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

• Guests

  • None

  Panel

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

Summary

Harry Roberts (@CSSWizardry) talks with us about scaling CSS in code and across large teams. We also discuss the CSS in the Web Platform standards, the history of CSS, refactoring code, as well as projects like Houdini which aims ‘to jointly develop features that explain the “magic” of Styling and Layout on the web.’

Resources

• Harry’s website - http://csswizardry.com/
• Github - https://github.com/csswizardry
• The 3 I’s of refactoring - http://csswizardry.com/2016/08/refactoring-css-the-three-i-s/
• Mixins better for performance - http://csswizardry.com/2016/02/mixins-better-for-performance/
• Houdini W3C Drafts Wiki  - https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts/wiki
• What is Houdini? - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/houdini-maybe-the-most-exciting-development-in-css-youve-never-heard-of/
• Jen Simmons on Feature Queries in CSS - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/08/using-feature-queries-in-css/
• CSS Triggers - https://csstriggers.com/
• The languages that were almost CSS - https://eager.io/blog/the-languages-which-almost-were-css/
• Image issues with Base64 article - https://99designs.com.au/tech-blog/blog/2016/07/14/real-world-http-2-400gb-of-images-per-day/

What is Facebook’s React.js project? When it was announced at JSConf US 2013 it met mixed reviews. One question that might enter your mind is...as developer today in 2015, do I really need to know another framework? The short answer is “yes”. In episode 31 “Building with React.js” we talk with Facebook developer and TC39 member, Sebastian Markbage (@sebmarkbage) on building apps with React, React Native, React Conf 2015, what’s new in the framework, what the core concepts are, what the hype is all about, and much more.  

• Sebastian Markbage: Minimal API Surface Area | JSConf EU 2014 -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4anAwXYqLG8

• React - https://github.com/facebook/react

• Sebastian’s Github - https://github.com/sebmarkbage

• React blog - http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/

• v.0.13.0 Beta update - http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/01/27/react-v0.13.0-beta-1.html

• Erik Isaksen - UX Engineer at3Pillar Global

• Danny Blue - Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital

• Nick Niemeir - JavaScript Agent Engineer at New Relic

Summary

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.

• TypeScript 2.6 RC available on GitHub which includes new features such as strict function types, localized diagnostics and more
• The popular testing tool Cypress is now in public beta for the first time and has been made Open Source
• PayPal open sources a suite of cross-domain JavaScript tools
• Node 8.7.0 released which includes “a fancy new macOS installer” and more
• Babel 7 is getting closer with the release of v7.0.0-beta.3
• GitHub have open sourced the accessibility scanner that they use to check websites for accessibility issues with elements

Resources

• Redux Documentation

Guests

• Mark Erikson (@acemarke)

Panel

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

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Dan Wahlin (@DanWahlin) , Angular JS GDE & Software Engineer, chats on TypeScript & ES6 in Angular applications. He tells us about how he leverages the power of these tools to improve his applications. He goes into a few of his debugging stories and even about how he uses docker to quickly deploy these applications.

Resources

• Wahlin Consulting - http://www.codewithdan.com
• Blog - http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin
• TypeScript EdX course - https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-typescript-microsoft-dev201x-0
• TypeScript Pluralsight course - https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/typescript/table-of-contents
• Docker - https://www.docker.com/
• Flipboard Magazines:
• AngularJS - https://flipboard.com/@dwahlin/the-angularjs-magazine-f66o0fd8y
• JavaScript - https://flipboard.com/@dwahlin/the-javascript%2C-html5-and-css-magazine-r54fkughy
• Node - https://flipboard.com/@dwahlin/the-node.js-magazine-aa4fu4jsy
• Docker - https://flipboard.com/@dwahlin/the-docker-magazine-vp93fvnry

• TypeScript - http://www.typescriptlang.org/
• ES6 - http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/
• Traceur - https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler
• Angular - https://angularjs.org/ | https://angular.io/
• Babel - https://babeljs.io
• Danny Blue’s generator based on John Papa’s Style Guide - https://github.com/deebloo/generator-angular-blueprint

• Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) - Front End Development Lead at Deloitte Digital & Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies
• Sharon DiOrio (@sharondio) - Angular JS Google Developer Expert & Full Stack Engineer

In the past few years React has become a mainstay in the front end development community and React 16 has more to offer than ever. This week our hosts chat with Andrew Clark of the React core team about some of React’s history as well as some of the new exciting things in React 16 and beyond.

Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/156-react-16-fiber-and-beyond

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The world of web standards can be complicated and confusing, Jory Burson joins us to help make things clearer! We discuss the different standards organisations, why standards are important and why it's good for developers to get involved.

Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/158-a-developers-guide-into-the-world-of-web-standards

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CSS can seem like magic sometimes, but it really isn't! Join us with Aimee Knight and take an in-depth look at how the browser actually uses CSS. We talk about performance, hardware acceleration, debugging CSS issues, common pitfalls and all the things to make working with CSS easier.

Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/171-css-indepth

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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)

Erik Isaksen(@eisaksen) & Mark Nadal (@marknadal) talk about trends in web development as an industry. They discuss technology communities and how they got involved. Mark grills Erik on how technology has changed over the years & what patterns he’s seen across his career. Mark predicts the future of web technology…machine learning on AST’s. Do not resist, the future is already written.

• Web Components Remote Conf - https://wcremoteconf.com
• GunDB - http://gun.js.org/
• Brett Victor - http://worrydream.com/
• Non Zero - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonzero:_The_Logic_of_Human_Destiny
• Esprima AST visualizer - http://resources.jointjs.com/demos/javascript-ast

This week we are joined with special guests Jan Miksovsky and Rob Bearman from Component Kitchen to talk about their work on the Web Component Gold Standard. The Gold Standard is an open source project which outlines best practices for creating Web Components. The Gold Standard presents developers with a checklist they can use to ensure their Web Components are of exceptional high quality matching that of native elements. The episode goes into where the requirement for the Gold Standard came from and why it is such an invaluable resource for Web Component developers. This includes discussion on why code reuse on the web is so difficult and how Web Components and the Gold Standard can help. We also talk about the future of the Gold Standard and how the community can help make it even better.

Resources

• Gold Standard: https://github.com/webcomponents/gold-standard/wiki

Around the Web in Two Minutes

• Friday: webcomponents.js V1 polyfills got merged into master!
• • https://github.com/webcomponents/webcomponentsjs
• Monday: Universal Web Components by Jordan Last:
• • A follow up from Jordan’s talk at Web Component Remote Conference
  • All about using Web Components for more than UI in the browser - even as far as building a Node Express server with them
  • https://scotch.io/bar-talk/universal-web-components
  • Episode 123 http://thewebplatformpodcast.com/123-universal-web-components
• Monday: WebAssembly is now ready for browser to use
• • Gone into MVP status
  • Should be turned on by default in Firefox and Chrome by the end of the month, with Edge and Safari to follow
  • http://www.infoworld.com/article/3176681/web-development/webassembly-is-now-ready-for-browsers-to-use.html
• Tuesday: FireFox 52 Release
• • Added Support for WebAssembly
  • https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.0/releasenotes/
• AMP Conf New York is in full swing.
• • Alex Russell said this morning, “AMP is the most successful web components library in the world”. https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/839488945364807682
  • Catch the live stream and talks at https://www.ampproject.org.
• Samsung Internet released into beta their Progressive Web Indication Badge.
• • When the page you are viewing supports this feature, an indication badge will appear in the URL bar.
  • https://www.sammobile.com/apk/samsung-internet-beta/samsung-internet-beta-5-4-00-3/

Guests

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

Panel

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

Summary

Timmy Willison (@TimmyWil) , lead developer at The JQuery Foundation & Senior Engineer at Open Table, joins us to discuss what is new with the most popular JavaScript library of all time- JQuery. We discuss what is new in version 3, struggles and implementation decisions, performance and much more.

Resources

• jQuery - https://jquery.com/
• jQuery Foundation - https://jquery.org/
• builtwith.com - http://builtwith.com/
• jQuery Blog - http://blog.jquery.com/
• jQuery Core Source and Issues Tracker - https://github.com/jquery/jquery
• New York Developor Summit - http://events.jquery.org/2015/developer-summit/
• jQuery’s Code of Conduct - https://jquery.org/conduct/
• jQuery Usage Statistics - http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery
• Mootools - http://mootools.net/
• Prototype.js - http://prototypejs.org/
• The DoJo Toolkit - https://dojotoolkit.org/
• Timmy on Github - https://github.com/timmywil
• Average Page Weight Statistics - http://www.sitepoint.com/average-page-weights-increase-32-2013/
• Web Page Performance Analysis - http://www.webpagetest.org/

Angular Remote Conf

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The Web Platform Podcast listeners receive a 20% discount for https://angularremoteconf.com/. All you have to do is use "webplatform" as the coupon code at checkout to  get your 20% off. This works for group tickets, standard tickets, and early bird as well. Head over to angularremoteconf.com and sign up ASAP to get the maximum savings

Panelists

• Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) - Front End Development Lead at Deloitte Digital & Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies
• Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)  - Wearables & HTML5 Google Developer Expert & Partner at Stickman Ventures
• Danny Blue (@dee_bloo) - Sr. Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital

Identity is the missing link that connects all your users, apps, services, and devices to each other and the rest of the world. Christian Smith (@anvilhacks) is founder of Anvil Research (@AnvilResearch) and the creator of Anvil Connect, an open source authorization server built with Node.js to authenticate your users and protect your APIs.

Anvil Connect simplifies security when you have many apps and services to integrate. It acts as a broker between your apps, APIs, and a long list of OAuth providers like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and GitHub. The server works with apps written in any programming language that speaks HTTP. The code is MIT licensed and implements open standards like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and JSON Web Tokens.

• Open ID - http://openid.net/

• Anvil Connect - https://github.com/anvilresearch/connect

• Anvil - http://anvil.io/

• Anvil Gitter Channel - https://gitter.im/christiansmith/anvil-connect

• Open ID Connect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID_Connect

• Single Sign on - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on

• OAuth3 - https://oauth3.org

• JWT (JSON Web Token) - http://jwt.io/

• Let’s Encrypt - https://letsencrypt.org

• Web Crypto -  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/crypto

• Storm Path - https://stormpath.com/

• Auth0 - https://auth0.com/

• Service Worker - http://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/

• Ketboot -  https://github.com/substack/keyboot

• scramble.io - https://scramble.io/

• AJ’s article on creating a CSR for Https (tls/ssl) RSA Pems  - https://coolaj86.com/articles/how-to-create-a-csr-for-https-tls-ssl-rsa-pems/

• keybase.io - https://keybase.io/

• Erik Isaksen - HTML5 Google Developer Expert & Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital

• Nick Niemeir - Partner at Good News Everyone

• AJ O’Neal - JavaScript Engineer

We all got here somehow. This week Danny Blue and Leon Revill share how they got into web development. The web is a big place so how did those who do this as a career end up here?

Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/186-how-did-you-get-into-web-development?

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Episode 15 deep dives into the programming experiences of Adam Solove (@asolove), Head of Engineering at Pagemodo. Adam has spent the last ten years building web interfaces various technologies such as CGI, Flash, DHTML, RJS, jQuery, and many MVC JavaScript frameworks. Adam has found over his career that working with a more functional style of programming is much more rewarding in many ways.

Functional programming and FRP (Functional Reactive Programming) provides improvements in performance and purposely avoids changing-state and mutable data. This can be an extremely effective technique in web application development because of the stateful nature of DOM (Document Object Model) implementations in the browser. Adam evangelizes and works with several languages and tools to provide incredible functional style applications including, but not limited to, Elm, ClojureScript, OM, & React.js.

Facebook’s React.js, met with mixed reviews when it was first released in 2013.  Since then it has been stirring up support in droves within the JavaScript development community do to it’s high UI performance output in browsers. It’s Virtual DOM and ways of solving data & DOM performance problems have been highly criticized but hard to ignore. React has an effective unorthodox way of thinking about UI.

Elm, a functional reactive language for interactive applications, combines core features of functional languages like immutability & type inference with FRP to Create highly interactive applications without callbacks or shared state. Elm is similar in syntax to Haskell and it compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that uses a Virtual DOM model similar in concepts to that of react.js. According to Elm’s internal benchmarks, using it’s compiled JavaScript code is actually faster than any JavaScript framework tested by a extreme margin.  

ClojureScript, is a new compiler for Clojure that targets JavaScript. It is designed to emit JavaScript code which is compatible with the advanced compilation mode of the Google Closure optimizing compiler. David Nolen, has taken ClojureScript and created an interface for react.js called OM. Om allows for simple represention of Web Application User Interfaces as an EDN. ClojureScript data is immutable data, which means that Om can always rapidly re-render the UI from the root.  According to the project description, UIs created with Om are inherently able to create & manage historical snapshots with no implementation complexity and little overhead.

• Why use Functional Style? - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36504/why-functional-languages

• Lambda: the ultimate syntax-semantics interface - http://okmij.org/ftp/gengo/NASSLLI10/

• Haskell -http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell

• Adam Solove - http://adamsolove.com/

• Adam’s talk on ClojureScript/OM - http://adamsolove.com/js/clojure/2014/05/08/react-js-and-om.html

• Elm’s Virtual DOM - http://elm-lang.org/blog/Blazing-Fast-Html.elm

• Elm’s Time Travelling Debugger - http://debug.elm-lang.org/

• ClojureScript Intro 2011 - http://clojure.com/blog/2011/07/22/introducing-clojurescript.html

• A feature comparison to JavaScript - http://himera.herokuapp.com/synonym.html

• David Nolen - https://twitter.com/swannodette/

• David Nolen’s Benchmarks - http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javascript-mvcs/

• Todo MVC - https://github.com/swannodette/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/labs/architecture-examples/om/src/todomvc

• Reactjs - http://facebook.github.io/react/

• Secrets of The Virtual DOM - http://fluentconf.com/fluent2014/public/schedule/detail/32395

• React Demystified -

• React Diff Algorithm - http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2013/diff/

VSCode has become incredibly popular, very quickly. We're joined this week by Ahmad Awais, the creator of vscode.pro and the insanely popular VSCode theme Shades of Purple and learn about the VSCode extension ecosystem and how beneficial it can be to have your editor written with the technologies you know and love.

Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/189-developing-with-vscode

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This week Michael Prentice and Stephen Fluin join Danny Blue and Amal Hussein to chat about the current state of Angular. They go over the path to get to the Angular as it is now as well as the new features available in the latest version (5.1.1 as of this recording). Compilers, template, and Observables are discussed as well as build tools & schematics. Come listen about the Angular Platform on the Web Platform!

Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/149-angular-a-platform-for-the-modern-web

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Andrew Gerrand (@enneff), Developer Advocate at Google & Go core contributor, talks about GoLang and how it is being used in Web Development today as well as the plans for the future of the Go as a platform for the web.

• Go - https://golang.org/

• A Tour of Go - https://tour.golang.org/ (great starting point!)

• Godoc.org - https://godoc.org/ (Go package index)

• Go Search package search engine - http://go-search.org/

• GoLang on Twitter - https://twitter.com/golang

• Web programming toolkits and frameworks:

• The standard HTTP package

• Gorilla Web Toolkit

• Revel

• BeeGo

• Hugo - a static site generator

• AJ’s articles on Go

• https://coolaj86.com/articles/getting-started-with-golang-and-vim/

• https://coolaj86.com/articles/how-to-test-if-a-port-is-available-in-go/

• https://coolaj86.com/articles/today-i-became-a-golang-dev-with-vim-and-caddy/

• “Learn Go in One Video” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF9S4QZuV30

• GopherCon - http://www.gophercon.com/

• GopherCon india - http://www.gophercon.in/

• Go on Slack - gopher slack channel

• Go intro talks:

• Go: code that grows with grace

• Go concurrency talks:

• Go Concurrency Patterns

• Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns

• Ruby Learning Slack Channel for Go Courses - https://gocourse.slack.com/

• The next Go class for Ruby Learning - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WXO68p3gH4b-4S3dOS_MUbvoe7uaRNT9tii1syTznYA/viewform

• Danny Blue (@dee_bloo) - Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital

• Christian Smith (@anvilhacks) - Founder of Anvil Research, hacker, musician, & startup enthusiast

• Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) - Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies

• AJ O’Neal (@coolAJ86) - Podcaster & JavaScript Developer

Brian Kardell (@briankardell) joins Erik, Justin, and Danny on the panel along with our guest Marcy Sutton (@MarcySutton) in a discussion on WAI ARIA attributes & how we should or shouldn’t be using these in the context of our applications.

Resources

• Marcy’s EggHead.io class - https://egghead.io/courses/start-building-accessible-web-applications-today
• AXE 2.0 - http://www.deque.com/blog/introducing-axe-2-0/
• Best practices - https://w3c.github.io/aria-practices/#toc
• Examples - https://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-practices-20090224/#aria_ex
• Smashing article from 2014 - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/07/the-wai-forward/
• Getting started - http://a11yproject.com/posts/getting-started-aria/
• Harvard University guide to online accessibility - http://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/use-accessible-design-patterns
• Marcy’s performance post - https://marcysutton.com/accessibility-and-performance/
• Free course on Web Accessibility - https://www.udacity.com/course/web-accessibility--ud891
• Chrome A11y Inspector - http://bit.ly/chrome-a11y
• JSAir on Axe - https://javascriptair.com/episodes/2016-07-13/
• Accessibility API’s by Leonie Watson - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/03/web-accessibility-with-accessibility-api/
• Web AIM screen reader survey - http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey6/
• What does accessibility supported mean? https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2016/08/what-does-accessibility-supported-mean/

For a lot of software developers running code in separate threads is a common tool to reach for. On the web they are not nearly as widely used but can be just as powerful. Join us this week as Surma talks us through just how useful workers can be and some of the challenges they can help developers solve.

Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/194-off-the-main-thread

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What is a web developer toolchain? It seems that, like most web development questions, it depends on many factors. There are build tools, testing, CI, and much more. Danny and Erik go through some of their current tools they use for development and explain how these have evolved over time.

Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/193-modern-web-toolchains

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In 2019, when developers think of Ionic and particularly the Ionic Framework they might think of Angular and Stencil. What about that VDOM thing called React? That’s on the other side of web developers minds...right? Actually…..it’s everywhere and now it’s part of Ionic. Mike Hartington (@mhartington) joins The Web Platform podcast again. This time Mike discusses Ionic’s latest incarnation of its framework using powerful React Components. React developers only need to know React and a few extra bits. Listen in to get the gritty details and some news on upcoming Ionic ventures as well.

Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/192-ionic-and-react-are-friends

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Web component have been a favorite topic here on the Web Platform Podcast for a while now. After years of waiting Web components finally seem like they are ready for prime time. Browser support is great and only getting better and more and more frameworks have an excellent inter-op story. Join us this week as we chat with Ben Farrell all about how web components may have finally arrived.

Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/191-the-state-of-webcomponents

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As a treat for the start of your summer Angular is has a new major release. Angular version 8 brings some exciting features to both the core libraries as well as the Angular CLI. Stephen Fluin joins us this week to talk all about what is new in Angular version 8 as well as a tiny bit about what is coming for Angular in future. Pull up a lawn chair, crack a beverage and enjoy learning about Angular. (unless the weather is bad or it isn't summer where you live)

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VSCode has become incredibly popular, very quickly. We're joined this week by Ahmad Awais, the creator of vscode.pro and the insanely popular VSCode theme Shades of Purple and learn about the VSCode extension ecosystem and how beneficial it can be to have your editor written with the technologies you know and love.

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Kyle Simpson, the author of the extremely popular "You Don't Know JS?" book series has been a JavaScript developer for 20 years which is a long time considering JavaScript is only 24. Join us this week and witness Kyles obvious passion for the language, hear about his past experiences (like creating a compiler with PHP) and what it's like to be part of the JS community from the beginning.

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Get an update on everything that is happening in the wonderful world of WebRTC. WebRTC powers a staggering number of applications most of us use every day and has some exciting use cases you probably never even thought of. As a developer WebRTC is certainly one of those technologies you should be taking a look at. In this weeks episode get the latest from one of WebRTCs leading authorities Tsahi Levent-Levi. Check out This Week in Web for a 15% discount on Amsterdam JSNation conference tickets!

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We all got here somehow. This week Danny Blue and Leon Revill share how they got into web development. The web is a big place so how did those who do this as a career end up here?

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Houdini is a set of specs and APIs which expose low-level CSS capabilities allowing developers to break the mould and capitalize on performance gains. Surma who is a web advocate at Google joins us this week to enlighten us on the use-cases and capabilities of these APIs and how they are going to impact the web.

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Finding documentation about the web and its various platform APIs used to be a fragmented experienced across a wide range of sites with not quite the right information. When all hope seemed lost, Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Web Docs became the clearinghouse for not only Mozilla related docs but also the web in general. In this episode, we talk with Mozilla's Ali Spivak (@Ali Spivak) and Kadir Topal (@atopal), as well as MDN Product Advisory Board member and ex-Mozilla/current Googler Robert Nyman (@robertnyman) about the ongoing growth of MDN and how the browser vendors and developers alike are beginning to bring better web platform documentation to all.

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Since Visual Studio Code burst onto the code editor scene, the steady improvements have made a number of web-related development tasks easier to handle. In this episode, we speak with web standards contributor and PM on the Visual Studio Code Kenneth Auchenberg (@auchenberg) on a wide range of topics. From VS Code's beginnings and current open source model, to Kenneth's recent experiments with Chrome headless in VS Code via browser-preview extension, this is an episode not to miss.

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With an ever-expanding array of devices, connectivity, and growing usage in new markets, the need for web performance has never been stronger. Beyond single testing for a given metric, how do you achieve and monitor your progress? To help us learn more about performance, Ben Schwarz (@benschwarz), founder of Calibre, joins us to discuss various facets of web performance, how monitoring can help achieve your goals, and just why he thinks performance budgets aren't an end-all solution for most developers.

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For many developers, design can be a mystifying topic. For many designers, writing code isn't their daily task. In this episode designer and developer Erik Kennedy walks through common approaches and talks about who designers and developers can better work together to bring forth happiness inducing products.

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web.dev is a new developer resource released at Chrome Dev Summit last year to help developers with topics such as fast load times, network resilience, SEO and more. With integrated lighthouse, the automated performance auditing tool, it can analyse your sites and provide deep insight into what you can do to improve. Join us this week with Rob Dodson to talk all about how web.dev came about, why it is so important, all its great features and what could be coming in the future. Oh! and listen for a chance to WIN a FREE ticket to React Amsterdam, the largest React conference worldwide!

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Voice interfaces are more common than ever and devices like the Google Home and Amazon's Echo are becoming deeply ingrained in our day-to-day lives. This week we talk about developing for voice both for the web and beyond. We discuss how developing voice-based applications differs from traditional UI based applications and the challenges involved. Dustin Coates shares plenty of tips and resources to help you get stuck into developing for voice.

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This week we cover many of the great things announced at Chrome Dev Summit 2018. We talk about some of the exciting new things coming to the web, the new resource for web developers (web.dev) how the Squoosh app brings together all of the latest modern best practices including web workers, web assembly and PWA techniques to deliver a great experience and Justin opens with a priceless Santa impression - what more could you need to kick off your December?

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Tyler McGinnis joins us this week to talk about the importance of community outreach, how he got into teaching and what keeps him going. We talk about how publishing content like blog posts and other training material can generate exciting opportunities and learn how Tyler makes a living doing what he loves without the need for complicated marketing campaigns.

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Feeling empowered to design on the web can be a challenge. With the recently demoed Project VisBug by Adam Argyle (@argyleink) at Chrome Dev Summit, that's changing. VisBug allows any website to become an artboard to be shaped, allowing designers and developers alike a new set of freedom to find joy with designing on the web. In this episode, we dive into the challenges of designing for the web, how VisBug helps alleviate some of the pain points, and just what's next for the latest in punk rock web development tools.

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Gatsby brings together React, Webpack and modern JavaScript in a way that makes a performant experience the default experience. In this weeks episode join us with Jason Lengstorf and learn how Gatsby can do this and some of the other great products that Gatsby are working on.

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