This Week in Web

1st July 2018 - #27

This week we look at three excellent features in the tc39 proposal including optional chaining, take a deeper dive into thread support in Node, check out Firefox's accessibility inspector and more!

Enjoy 🎊

Three upcoming changes to JavaScript that you'll love
Justin outlines three really cool features coming to JavaScript and provides examples of their usage with tests.

Threads in Node 10.5.0: a practical intro
The latest release of Node includes multi-thread support - a long awaited feature, Fernando parses the official docs for us and provides some easy to grasp examples.

Assessing loading performance in real life with navigation and resource timing
Synthetic testing of web page load performance using browser tools is a great start, but the Navigation Timing and Resource Timing APIs can be used to get a more ‘real world’ impression of what’s going on.

Firefox 61 – Quantum of Solstice
The latest release includes parallel CSS parsing, adding to a host of additional performance improvements.

An introduction to Firefox's accessibility inspector
Say hello to the accessibility tree - a new inspector that lets you access key information exposed to assistive technologies.

How GraphQL replaces Redux
Mark talks about switching to GraphQL and how doing so will get rid of a huge amount of complexity in your client-side state management.

Headless user interface components
This pattern separates the logic and behaviour of a component from its visual representation.

Reduce JavaScript Payloads with Tree Shaking
Learn how to reduce JavaScript payloads using Tree Shaking 🌲🍃

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