What’s New in Web Development

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about what’s new in web development: new promise static methods, new CSS functions, PWAs and more!

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Show Notes

5:38 - New Promise static methods

Promise.all
Promise.race()
Promise.allSettled()
Promise.any()

10:16 - Lazy loading images

Addy Osmani’s Lazy-Loading blog post

14:25 CSS Houdini aka JS in CSS

- CSS Houdini Experiments

20:32 - Subgrid

Syntax 109: Hasty Treat - CSS Grid Level 2 aka Subgrid
Subgrid is coming to Firefox - Jen Simmons
Bugzilla

24:31 - Native modules in browser

type="module"
dynamic import()

27:08 - Node Native Modules update

package.json will now have a type entry where
NodeJS - Plan For New Modules Implementation
New ESM Implementation

29:17 - PWA install app and Google PlayStore

Already shipped in Chrome
Java API that communicates through services with Chrome
Trusted Web Activity aka TWA
All content in TWAs must comply with Play store policy including policies for payments in-app purchases and other digital goods
Already existing TWAs include Twitter Lite, Google Maps Go, Instagram Lite
Passing the PWA Criteria
Performance Score with a minimum of 80/100, tested with Lighthouse
All current Google Play Store rules

35:49 - CSS Scroll Snap