Since the last WebAssembly milestone we reached in March, the WebAssembly Community Group was hard at work to define a standard and to implement that standard in browsers.
Support for async/await has been added in the Firefox Nightly build from the 31st of October. Chrome, on the other hand, will ship this with version 55! Great stuff!
Annarita Tranfici shares an overview of the changes you really need to know about in the upcoming Bootstrap 4 release & what's different from Bootstrap 3.
Animations have been around since before the internet, and making them great is something you could spend a lifetime learning. However, there are some unique constraints and challenges in doing them for the internet.
On a bad Internet connection a lot of sites are refusing to load at all, and those that do have lots of images missing, leaving big blank holes in their web pages. Most of the images, thankfully, aren’t critical to understanding the content, but their absence does remind us that we're waiting for something else to arrive, and in many cases it is perceived performance that is more important than the actual performance itself.
React has changed how we tackle building complex applications. Instead of blindly enforcing DRY or “separation of concerns”, we eagerly co-locate data, logic, & aesthetics with the components that know best so progress can be made, rather than needlessly stifled.
What Chris is here to talk about is the situation where you do want a carousel and to resist the temptation to reach for a wheelbarrow full of code to do so.