New digest, new digest! We know you’ve been waiting for it since Monday and here it is. In this issue: list of Progressive Web App features Apple will support, the Bootstrap 4 beta launch, the best way to implement a “Wrapper” in CSS, Javascript for people who hate JavaScript, and more. Sounds interesting, doesn’t it?

Web Development

• Proposal to Republish Previous Versions of HTML and XHTML as Obsolete Recommendations
• .NET and WebAssembly – Is this the future of the front-end?
• SEO:
  • Google: SEOs Help JavaScript Coders
  • JavaScript and SEO: The Difference Between Crawling and Indexing
  • Progressive Web App — Search Engine Optimization in Shuvayatra App
• PWA:
  • What Progressive Web App features will Apple support?
  • Best Mobile Components for Progressive Web Apps in VueJs
  • React Progressive Web Apps — Part 1
• Tools:
  • It’s official as can be — the Bootstrap 4 beta is finally here. Upgrade Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6 to Beta
  • JPNG.svg – Transparent PNG with JPEG Compression
  • Totally Tooling Tips: Webpack Tips
• Accessibility:
  • Accessible SVG tables
  • Building Accessible Single Page Apps
• Animation:
  • Performant Web Animations and Interactions: Achieving 60 FPS
  • Transitions with JavaScript: Collection of little Chrome-only Pen animating by Ana Tudor (CSS vars with a bit of JS)
  • Morphing Page Transition
  • Frame by Frame Animation Tutorial with CSS and JavaScript

CSS

• CSS Hex Colors Demystified
• Font-size: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property
• Shadow DOM: fast and encapsulated styles
• Web fonts: when you need them, when you don’t
• CSS Inheritance: An Introduction
• The Best Way to Implement a “Wrapper” in CSS
• Flex Grow & Flex Basis: CSS Responsive Page Layouts
• CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns”
• CSS Grid Layout:
  • The Difference Between Explicit and Implicit Grids
  • chrome-css-grid-highlighter – Css Grid Highlighter for Chrome
  • Browser Compatibility for CSS Grid Layouts with Simple Sass Mixins
  • Changes to the Grid Spec and taking on Multi-Column layout
  • More CSS Charts, with Grid & Custom Properties

JavaScript

• ES Modules in Node Today!
• JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript
• Machine Learning in Javascript
• JavaScript Design Patterns: The Observer Pattern
• How to keep updated with the JavaScript ecosystem?
• How does JavaScript actually work: Part 1
• Practice:
  • Lazy loading images using Intersection Observer
  • Binary Search in JavaScript. A practical Example
  • Improving Conversations using the Perspective API
  • How we built our first full-stack JavaScript web app in three weeks. A simple step-by-step guide to go from idea to deployed app
  • Binary Search in JavaScript. A practical Example
  • How To Build A Github Search UI in 60 Minutes
  • Closing Iterables is a Leaky Abstraction
• VueJS:
  • React + Webpack: confusion, frustration and how Vue.js can help
  • Yandex Maps Component for VueJS
• React:
  • Why React is better than Vue.js. And when.
  • Fetching API Data with React.JS
  • Using Create React App with Relay Modern
  • react-beautiful-dnd – Beautiful, accessible drag and drop for lists with React.js
  • Server-Render like a Pro /w Redux-First Router in 10 steps
• Angular:
  • How Angular Protects Us From XSS Attacks?
  • MEAN Stack: Developing an app with Angular 2+ and the Angular CLI
  • Avoiding common confusions with modules in Angular
• Libs & Plugins:
  • js-meter – it is an tool of measuring performance of time, CPU, RAM and heap of javascript code
  • react-simple-maps — SVG maps with d3-geo and topojson
  • posterus — сomposable async primitives (futures) with true cancelation, control over scheduling, and coroutines
  • nanoid — a tiny, secure URL-friendly unique string ID generator for JavaScript
  • DisplayJS — a simple JavaScript framework for building ambitious UIs

Browsers

• Firefox 55: first desktop browser to support WebVR
• Firefox Is Better, For You. WebVR and new speedy features launching today in Firefox
• Firefox 55 for developers
• Exportable bookmarks, smoother videos and design improvements in Opera 47
• Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview Release 37