029 jsAir - Web Animations with Matias Niemelä, Rachel Nabors, and Sarah Drasner

Web Animations with Matias Niemelä, Rachel Nabors, and Sarah Drasner

Description:

It's totally mind blowing what can be done to enhance the user's experience with animations on the web these days. Let's talk about how some of this is done and what tools are out there to help you with this.

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Links, Picks, and Tips:

LinksWebAnimationWeekly.comslack.animationatwork.comDevTools ChallengerA List Apart Article on using animation to improve your users’ experienceComplex timing function proposal

TipsSteady FPS over peaks and valleysComplete Web Animations API documentationDetailed browser support for the Web Animations API at the Edge Platform API catalog--don’t trust caniuse on this beast of an API!

PicksMy new CSS Animations + Transitions CourseCSS Conf ArgentinaCSS Dev Conf San Antonio plus CSS + Motion Design workshopAll Things Open

LinksMy CodePenComparison of Animation Technologies on CSS-TricksFrontend Masters CourseO’Reilly book coming: SVG AnimationsThe First Pull Request and Zero to 60 in Software Development: How to Jumpstart Your Career - talks by Kent C. Dodds

TipsGreensock SVG Tips

PicksRecreating the Twitter Heart Animation

LinksElement Animate Polyfill

TipsKeep up with the Angular RC releases

PicksAngular ConnectWeb unleashed

TipsWrite a letter to someone

PicksReact RallyMy Frontend Masters workshops. Webpack Deep Dive and Writing an Open Source LibraryMy Webpack Playlist on Egghead.io (includes my Webpack course)

PicksWhat I learned from analysing 1.65M versions of Node.js modules in NPMReact.js Program

PicksImmutability is not enoughA Deepdive into Flow

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