Issue: #1 Rolling it out…
July 5th, 2020
📌 Short Updates
- What’s New In DevTools in Chrome 85 - includes Lighthouse 6.0 updates.
- Safari 14 is now available with Safari Web Extensions support for macOS.
- What’s New for Web Developers in Safari & WebKit - latest features and improvements announced at WWDC for Safari and WebKit. #Video
- New in Firefox 78 - DevTools improvements and platform updates.
- The 18th beta of Vue 3.0 is out.
- Version 10 of Angular released.
- Node 14.5 is out. This version introduces an new experimental API
EventTarget
- Bootstrap 5 alpha is now available.
- ECMAScript proposal:private static methods and accessors in classes - This post explains private static methods and accessors in classes.
- GitHub rolled out a new design for repo pages - Hacker News rant.
🗞 News & Articles
- Exploring the Web Speech API - Experimenting with voice on the web using the Web Speech Synthesis and Recognition API.
- Github’s Super Linter - One linter to rule them all.
- Improving HTTP with structured header fields
- Using the Chrome UX Report API - get easy, RESTful access to real-user experience data across millions of websites.
- History of search engines - A comprehensive take on history of search engines.
- In a tweet thread talking about “If you were given the chance to rename JavaScript, what would you call it?”, Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript, replied that he would prefer calling JavaScript as “JS” - Tweet
🧩 Conference Recaps
- web.dev LIVE- Google’s three-day digital event wrapped up on 2nd July covering topics such as Web Vitals, PWAs, Privacy and Security as well as the new updates coming to developer tools. Videos: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
- OpenJS World 2020, first-ever virtual OpenJS World 2020 conference by The Linux Foundation, wrapped up last month covering huge spectrum of topics related to JS ecosystem. Videos: All[Speakers and Slides]: (https://openjsworld2020.sched.com/overview/subject/Yes)
🎟 Upcoming Conferences and events
- ForwardJS - Online Event on July 20-24. Follow @forwardJS
- Angular NL Conference - Online Event on July 24. Follow @angularnl
- Create: Front-end - Online Event on July 29.
📺 Blast from the past
- What the heck is the event loop anyway? By Philip Roberts - Talk in JSConf EU 2014 is a gem of a talk about event loops. It covers the essentials to understand main thread for JS.
- How do Promises Work? - What promises are, what problem they solve, and how they’re implemented (in JavaScript and in theory).
🎨 Meanwhile on the web
- Slack theme for VS Code!
- TitleRun - A game to be played in Title Bar of Browser tab.
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