Progressive Web Apps–Web sites that can progressively turn into app like experiences and be installed on your devices–were introduced to the world at this very conference in 2015, by Alex Russell.
PWAs now also work on desktop systems, but usually desktop applications have different requirements as they are usually used for creating, in contract to consumption on mobile. As a user you want to be able to access your files, copy paste without issues, not having the screen turn off while giving a presentation, you want access to printers and other devices, access to local fonts. The list goes on! Currently most of those things are only available to native apps and are not things you want your random web sites to have access to. Project Fugu is the project to extend the web with more native like capabilities in a way that is safe and understood by the users. Join this talk to learn more about the exciting things we are working on as part of Project Fugu.
Currently, much of our industry, and the world, is rightly focussed on the issues of justice and equality being raised by the Black Live Matter movement and protests in the US, and all around the world. Now is the time we’d usually be ramping up messaging around Code://Remote, but to be honest this simply doesn’t feel […]
[I’m mindful at a time where so many around the world are making their voices heard about the treatment of people of colour and indigenous people everywhere this post may seem a little self indulgent. Hopefully there’s some timeliness and value in recounting my experience this week of how the results of my daughter’s and […]
A decade in the making, Web Components, a standardized set of technologies allowing us to allowing to create reusable custom elements are now widely supported in modern browsers.
In this presentation Ana Cidre will take a look at the overall architecture and some common use cases and patterns to get you started now Web Components are a viable option.
Historically, layout on the web has been quite difficult. Developers have relied on third-party tools, like Bootstrap, and media queries based on “average” device sizes. Today, however, the web is available on an increasingly large range of devices – everything from your watch to your fridge! We are reaching the limits of what these tools can handle.
The good news is that CSS has you covered now! Modern CSS contains a number of properties that support responsive designs natively. We’re going to have a look at CSS columns, flexbox and grid. We’ll take a quick look into how each works individually. And then we’ll learn how we can combine them to create truly flexible layouts, that work across a huge range of devices, without relying on device-based breakpoints.
HTML didn’t stop at version 5 and it continues to evolve. Chris Lienert will review a number of HTML elements and attributes that are new and (somewhat!) ready to be used.
CSS syntax, like the box-model, flex, and grid is relatively easy to learn, or at least lookup. But CSS semantics, like when to apply the cascade, inheritance, or custom properties is an art form. And to master this art form, we first need to understand them.
Callbacks… Callbacks everywhere… Callback inside the callback, and one more inside! Asynchronous JavaScript code is a pain. Event loop is a JavaScript “bigfoot” – everyone heard about it, almost nobody knows how it works… There is multiple ways you can deal with the asynchronous action: callbacks, Promises, Observables, async-await; but which one is best? Which one should you choose for the particular scenarios?
