This week on The Web Platform Podcast your hosts ask the question “Why aren’t Web Workers more widely adopted”? Your hosts talk about what problems can be solved by Web Workers providing some interesting use cases and talk about their own experiences in past projects.

Resources

• https://nolanlawson.com/2015/09/29/indexeddb-websql-localstorage-what-blocks-the-dom/ 

Around the Web in Two Minutes

• Chrome Canary gets JavaScript Modules
• • https://jakearchibald.com/2017/es-modules-in-browsers/
• TypeScript 2.3 Released
• • https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/04/27/announcing-typescript-2-3/
• Firefox 53 arrives with new themes, separate graphics process
• • https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/19/firefox-53-arrives-with-new-themes-separate-graphics-process-on-windows-and-compact-tabs-on-android/
• Node.js 8.0.0 has been delayed until the end of May
• • https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/node-js-8-0-0-has-been-delayed-and-will-ship-on-or-around-may-30th-cd38ba96980d
• Published “A Practical Guide to Vanilla Web Components” my first Pluralsight course all about my favourite topic; Web Components.
• • https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/vanilla-web-components-practical-guide

• Guests

  • None

  Panel

  • Leon Revill (@RevillWeb)
  • Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)
  • Danny Blue (@dee_bloo)