Modern Web

In this Modern Web podcast Ben Lesh discusses the future of RxJS with Tracy Lee.

Topics covered:

- Decreasing the bundle size of RxJS

To learn RxJS, visit http://reactivex.io/rxjs.

Making and accepting payments on the web is quite cumbersome.

Thankfully, the new Payment Request API and vendors like Apple and Stripe make the implementation simple and secure. Molly Dalton and Zach Koch, who work closely with Edge, Chrome and the Payment Request API, join us to discuss how to use this new standard for seamless payments on the web.

Panelists

Molly Dalton @mollyadalton

Zach Koch @zachk

Host

Ray Shan @rayshan https://shan.io

Links

W3C Payment Request API

https://w3c.github.io/browser-payment-api/

W3C Technical Report Development Process with various stages

https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#recs-and-notes

Microsoft Edge

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge

Google Chrome

https://www.google.com/chrome/

Apple Pay JS

https://developer.apple.com/reference/applepayjs/

Stripe

https://stripe.com/

Authorize.Net

https://www.authorize.net/

Firefox Payment Request API implementation tracking

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318984

Washington Post integrates Payment Request API

https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2016/09/28/the-washington-post-expands-mobile-payment-options-to-include-chromes-service/

Payment request integration guides

Google guide

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/discovery-and-monetization/payment-request/

Mozilla guide

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Request_API

Microsoft guide

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/dev-guide/device/payment-request-api

Live Payment Request API demos from Microsoft

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/testdrive/demos/paymentrequest/

Google I/O 2017 - The future of web payments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU89pPBmhds

What’s new in Microsoft Edge in the Windows 10 Creators Update

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/04/11/introducing-edgehtml-15/

Simpler web payments: Introducing the Payment Request API

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/12/15/payment-request-api-edge

Simplify payments in UWP Apps with the Payment Request API from Microsoft

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/03/28/simplify-payments-uwp-apps-payment-request-api-microsoft

Leo Balter is a software engineer at Bocoup and an active member of the TC39 technical committee. If you are unfamiliar with TC39, it is the governing body for Javascript standards.

TC39 members include individuals from Google, Netflix, Facebook, Yahoo and many others. Leo is among these individuals and attends committee meetings as a representative of the JS Foundation.

Leo and Tracy discuss topics of societal barriers, exclusion of minorities, and sexism. Many of these topics surface as deterrents to individuals who want to be involved in the tech world but feel as if they are unable to do so well.

Leo’s talks about his experience being a Brazilian male entering a male dominated, Caucasian world and how this inspired him to want to promote greater diversity within the TC39 community.

Highlighted are the importance and benefits of having a wide range of diversity coming together to further the advancement of technology.

TC39

https://github.com/tc39

Bocoup

https://bocoup.com/

Leo Balter Twitter

https://twitter.com/leobalter

Leo Balter Github

https://github.com/leobalter

Topic

Vue.js with creator Evan You and Sarah Drasner

Summary

Vue.js is a JavaScript UI framework built to be approachable, versatile and performant. Its creator Evan You and the award winning writer of CSS-Tricks Sarah Drasner join us to discuss the creation of Vue.js, the beginner learning curve, how it handles data and animations, and how it differs from Angular and React.

Panelists

Evan You @youyuxi http://evanyou.me/

Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo https://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/

Host

Ray Shan @rayshan https://shan.io

Links

Vue.js

https://vuejs.org/

Angular

https://angular.io/

Laravel

https://laravel.com/

Object.defineProperty()

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/defineProperty

Getter / setters in JavaScript

http://speakingjs.com/es5/ch17.html#getters_setters

http://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_classes.html#_getters-and-setters

Animations in Angular

https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/animations.html

React Motion

https://github.com/chenglou/react-motion

Redux

http://redux.js.org/

Vuex

https://vuex.vuejs.org/

MobX

https://mobx.js.org/

RxJS

http://reactivex.io/

Ben Lesh

https://twitter.com/BenLesh

Chris Fritz

https://github.com/chrisvfritz

Evan’s Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/evanyou

Sarah’s CodePen

http://codepen.io/sdras/

Upcoming VueConf in Poland, June 2017

https://conf.vuejs.org/

Topic

Accessibility on the Web

Summary

This episode is all about web accessibility. We’re joined by Rob Dodson, developer advocate at Google, and Alice Boxhall, software engineer at Google. We talk about why accessibility matters to everyone, even beyond people with disabilities. We dive into the implementation details, such as navigation, semantics and styling, based on Rob and Alice’s Web Accessibility course. We explore various guidelines and learning resources to improve your design and implementation.

Panelists

Rob Dodson @rob_dodson

Alice Boxhall @sundress

Host

Ray Shan @rayshan https://shan.io

Links

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

U.S. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act

https://www.section508.gov/

Free Udacity Web Accessibility course by Google

https://www.udacity.com/course/web-accessibility--ud891

tabindex attribute

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/tabindex

Heydon Pickering

http://www.heydonworks.com/

Inclusive Design at Microsoft

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/design/inclusive

Webkit no longer respects user-scalable=no

https://webkit.org/blog/7367/new-interaction-behaviors-in-ios-10/

Testing tools

aXe / axe-cli

https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core

https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-cli

WAVE

http://wave.webaim.org/

tota11y

http://khan.github.io/tota11y/

Lighthouse for progressive web apps

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/

Accessibility tools in Chrome DevTools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBJZsp5LsOE

macOS VoiceOver

https://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.12/

NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access)

https://www.nvaccess.org/

Learning Resources

Google Developers - Web Fundamentals - Accessibility

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/accessibility/

A11ycasts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Qff0b-lHk&list=PLNYkxOF6rcICWx0C9LVWWVqvHlYJyqw7g

WebAIM and its mailing list

http://webaim.org/

Web Accessibility Slack

https://web-a11y.herokuapp.com/

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) specs and Authoring Practices

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/

Good accessibility reference implementations

Bootstrap http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/getting-started/accessibility/

Medium https://medium.com/

Apple https://www.apple.com/

GitHub https://github.com/

Accessibility Wins

https://a11ywins.tumblr.com/

Topic

The What, Why and How of Web Analytics

Summary

Calvin French-Owen, CTO of Segment, and Andy Elliott, business analyst at Google, join us to discuss analytics. We talk about what business metrics to measure and how to select analytics vendors for businesses large and small. We also discuss the technical challenges of analytics instrumentation, such as measuring web apps vs. websites, automation and data schema design.

Panelists

Calvin French-Owen @calvinfo http://calv.info

Andy Elliott https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewwelliott

Host

Ray Shan @rayshan https://shan.io

Links

Segment

https://segment.com/

Google Analytics

https://www.google.com/analytics/#?modal_active=none

Mixpanel pushing for meaningful metrics beyond pageviews

http://allthingsd.com/20121217/andreessen-and-mixpanel-call-for-an-end-to-bullshit-metrics/

Adobe Analytics (Omniture)

http://www.adobe.com/marketing-cloud/web-analytics.html

Amplitude

https://amplitude.com/

Customer.io

https://customer.io/

Amazon Redshift

https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/

Google BigQuery

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/

Automated instrumentation

Google Analytics autotrack

https://github.com/googleanalytics/autotrack

Heap

https://heapanalytics.com

Coverage on “data lake”

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DataLake.html

http://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2014/cloud-computing/features/data-lakes.html

In this episode, Stephen Fluin (@stephenfluin), Angular core team member and Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) interview Alex Castillo (@castillo__io) and Uri Shaked (@urishaked) on unique and interesting projects utilizing Angular (2).

With these two pushing the edge on what is possible with JavaScript and as speakers on the upcoming ngcruise, listen in to hear about IoT, neurojavascript, and Angular.

Guests

Alex Castillo (@castillo__io)

Uri Shaked (@urishaked)

Hosts

Tracy Lee (@ladyleet)

Stephen Fluin (@stephenfluin)

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Summary

James Long, Mozilla, speaks to us about developer tooling in this podcast. What is the state of firefox tooling? How was the migration of firefox developer tools to react? What are some upcoming features in firefox like reverse debugging?

We discuss other topics such as browsers standardizing on the chrome debugging protocol, redux-observable, redux middleware, error trapping issues with promises, and implications in the observable spec.

Panelists

James Long @jlongster

Ben Lesh @benlesh

Tracy Lee @ladyleet

Summary

Benoit Marchant, create of the Montage Framework, and Andy Matuschak, UIKit engineer, researcher and head of mobile engineering at Khan Academy, join us to discuss UI components. We reminisce Benoit and Andy’s extensive history of web and native engineering at Apple. We debate various challenges and best practices of component reusability, encapsulation, gestures, data binding, and collaboration between engineers and designers.

Panelists

Benoit Marchant @benoitmarchant

Andy Matuschak @andy_matuschak https://andymatuschak.org/

Host

Ray Shan @rayshan https://shan.io

Links 

WebObjects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects 

Montage Framework

http://montagestudio.com/montagejs/

UIKit gesture recognizers

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/EventHandling/Conceptual/EventHandlingiPhoneOS/GestureRecognizer_basics/GestureRecognizer_basics.html

Gestures in React Native

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/handling-touches.html

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/gesture-responder-system.html

WebComponents

http://webcomponents.org/

Elm

http://elm-lang.org/

Khan Academy Long-Term Research

http://klr.tumblr.com/

In this episode of the Modern Web podcast - Ben Lesh stars as the Jerry Springer of JavaScript stirs things up with the Polymer team Monica Dinculescu and Fred Schott with hard questions about louder voices representing Polymer on twitter and the reasoning behind perceived abrasiveness.

Thankfully, no one gets pregnant in this episode and hard conversations are all in jest. The meat of this podcast is centered around the difference between Polymer and web components, composable components nested inside svg, where browsers are in supporting native custom elements, web components versus frameworks, the concept of using the platform, using Polymer in frameworks like Angular 2, the progression of the polymer-cli.

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