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5/1/2019 - 2:22 PM
whats-going-on-in-js-land_April-2019.md
What’s new in JS Land?
- Chrome 74:
- Summaries
- DevTools now highlights all nodes affected by a CSS property
- Audits improvements
- New tap-target target (sized properly for mobile)
- PWA audits
- Binary web socket messages now appear in Network tab
- Area Screenshots built into devTools
- Filter network log by requests that were caused or intercepted by service workers
- Performance panel now marks up long tasks (with red triangle on task) and first paint
- Bonus tip - shift+click colors in devTools to change from hex->rgb->hsl
- Pipeline operator is still in Stage 1 of TC39 proposal process
- Firefox is cooking up a new feature to have helper text about CSS properties
- Microsoft Is trying to reinvent JS???? WHY???? - Bosque Language https://github.com/Microsoft/BosqueLanguage
Any fun “High five” moments this month in JS?
- DenverScript is now an Open Collective!!!!!! - https://opencollective.com/denverscript
- Angular Schematics - makes it easier to develop and refactor.
- Tutorial intro - https://brianflove.com/2018/12/11/angular-schematics-tutorial/
- Angular Narwhal - https://nrwl.io/
- React Testing Library > Enzyme
- Chrome plugin https://www.webscraper.io/ is badass
Any new technologies, frameworks, libraries you came across this month?
- Vue JS 3.0 is coming!!! - https://news.vuejs.org/issues/138
- Angular v8 release candidate 2!
- Node 12 released!
- Material UI 4 is in beta
- React Window is sooooo much better than React Virtualize