Hasty Treat - Keyboard Events Are Surprisingly Interesting

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about keyboard events and some of the fascinating things you can do with them! Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax . LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax . Show Notes 03:04 - The Events http://keycode.info/ keydown beforeInput Keypress - deprecated inputType tells you whether the event is inserting text, replacing text, inserting a line break, etc. keyup change event - only fires when you focus out https://github.com/w3c/uievents/issues/220 08:02 - Event meta data "key": "c", "keyCode": 67, "which": 67, "code": "KeyC", "location": 0, "altKey": false, "ctrlKey": false, "metaKey": true, "shiftKey": false Others: .locale .repeat 16:46 - Media keys https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/chrome-73-media-updates play, pause, ect Overkill app: https://krausefx.com/blog/introducing-overkill-dont-let-itunes-interrupt-your-workflow 18:32 - When might you use key codes? Space bar to stop a video on a page Building a game Making a web app feel more like an app Links Better Touch Tool Syntax 315: Hasty Treat - Hyper Productivity with Keyboard Shortcuts + Window Management Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets