133: Ionic & Web Components

Justin Willis from Ionic joins us this week to talk about hybrid app development with Ionic and some amazing work they have been doing with Web Components. Justin gives us an overview of the Ionic project, its background and how it makes building hybrid apps super easy. We then move on to talk about why Ionic have chosen to rebuild their components as Web Components and the benefits they are seeing from making this move.

• Mozilla moves the Shadow DOM feature backward from ASSIGNED to NEW signalling that we might have to wait even longer to get full Web Components support in FireFox:
• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205323
• The ability to import JavaScript modules via a script tag is available behind a flag in Chrome 60 and will be enabled by default in Chrome 61 due for release at the beginning of september
• • https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5365692190687232
• React 16 beta is now available which contains significant updates including a rewrite of React core
• • https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/10294
• Safari Technology Preview is now available which implements the JavaScript Object Spread feature, WebRTC fixes and much more - check it out
• • https://webkit.org/blog/7833/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-36/
• Most of you out there have probably aware of the popular message app Slack, recently it was announced Slack is now valued at $5 billion dollars
• • https://www.inc.com/business-insider/slack-new-funding-round-250-million-5-billion-valuation-2017.html
• Summits abound for web devs everywhere. Upcoming summits include, Polymer Summit (Aug 22/23, Copenhagen), Microsoft Edge Web Summit (Sept 13, Seattle), Chrome Dev Summit (Oct 23/24, San Francisco)
• CSS Working Group is meeting at Mozilla Paris, where discusses of Houdini, frame animations, additive animations and Fonts Level 4 working draft have been topics of discussion.