About this episode
Scott and West talk about what’s new in JavaScript. Fluent Conf - Sponsor Developers, software engineers, designers, and web performance professionals flock to Fluent in pursuit of a common goal: building a better web. That means delivering fast, secure, accessible experiences to users and customers. Fluent covers a broad range of technologies and topics to provide web programming professionals with the skills, connections, and inspiration needed to build better online and mobile experiences. Fluent is this June 11-14 in San Jose, CA. Save 20% today with code: SYNTAX Netlify — Sponsor Netlify is the best way to deploy and host a front-end website. All the features developers need right out of the box: Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more. Hit up netlify.com/syntax for more info. They are also hiring! netlify.com/careers Show Notes 1:55 - Scott’s new studio 4:57 - Pop Motion Pose New library for React or vanilla JavaScript Define locations instead of CSS styles Pass the animation state into a React component as open or closed instead of active or inactive Flip animation techniques Style Fire - Simple HTML & SVG styler optimised for animation 8:44 - Intersection Observer Browser-based API based on observables Example uses: Tell me when this element is on the page, goes off the page or is halfway down the page 10: 32 - MDX Webpack loader for MDX (i.e. JSX-infused Markdown) using mdx-it Turns MarkDown files into components in Webpack 12:56 - Resize Observer Watch elements for resize 15:47 Web Animations API Works with animations natively in JavaScript Tell your animations to play, pause, reverse, etc. Instead of changing classes, you have full control over what the animation is doing Web-Animation-JS Polyfill Can I use 18:00 - Window Face Detector API Create a new window.face detector and pass it an image tag and it returns an array of faces. 22:53 - Payment Request API Eliminates check out forms Allows platform to handle payment safely and securely 29:23 - INTL.NumberFormat Format pricing with different currencies 32:59 - V8 BigInts Makes working with big numbers more viable 34:53 - Speech Recognition Converts speech to text Pipe in different accents 36:22 - Text To Speech Simulates text into spoken words 41:46 - ES6 Modules In Node There are no ES6 modules in Node. It’s still being developed. If you want to build an ES6 module in Node, you have to use the .mjs extension ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Dank Mono Wes: Video Doorbell Pro from Ring 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