web.dev LIVE 2020
who it's for
web developers, pwa developers, frontend engineers, browser engineers, automation engineers, performance engineers, mobile developers
topics
Chrome DevTools web vitals integration; WebAssembly debugging with DWARF; optional chaining and nullish coalescing; WeakRefs and FinalizationRegistry; Puppeteer emulation APIs; Bubblewrap and Trusted Web Activity; getInstalledRelatedApps install strategy; Background Sync queue pattern; Network Information adaptive loading; IndexedDB and Cache Storage quotas; WebTransport and WebCodecs; Native File System API for PWAs
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to Day Two | Dion Almaer, Kadir Topal, Victoria Wang, Una Kravets, Paul Lewis | 30m |
MDN's Web DNA reports 28,000+ responses from 173 countries and pushes browser teams to focus on compatibility; Firefox DevTools adds a Compatibility panel, a… | ||
| What’s new in DevTools | Paul Lewis | 23m |
Chrome DevTools now surfaces web.dev metrics (FCP, LCP, FID, TTI, Total Blocking Time and Cumulative Layout Shift) directly in the Performance panel… | ||
| What’s new in V8/JavaScript | Leszek Swirski, Shu-yu Guo | 23m |
Covers concrete language features and engine work: optional chaining and nullish coalescing land in Chrome and change property access and defaulting semantics… | ||
| What’s new in Puppeteer | Mathias Bynens | 08m |
Puppeteer is a Node.js browser-automation library that now exposes programmatic APIs to emulate light/dark mode, override time zones, and simulate vision… | ||
| Shipping a PWA as an Android app | Andre Bandarra | 09m |
Shows how to turn an existing PWA (demo uses the Persistence app) into a real Android APK without writing native code by using Bubblewrap and standard Android… | ||
| How to define your install strategy | Demian Renzulli | 07m |
Shows that combining native, Play Store PWA (Trusted Web Activity) and browser Add to Home screen prompts raises installs while avoiding cannibalization by… | ||
| Progressively enhancing like it’s 2003 | Thomas Steiner | 16m |
Fugu Greetings is an installable offline PWA that progressively loads only supported code via dynamic imports and demonstrates roughly nine modern browser… | ||
| Advanced PWA patterns | Demian Renzulli | 09m |
Four concrete patterns using Workbox and browser APIs: resilient search uses Background Sync with a queue and onSync callback plus web push to retry failed… | ||
| Giving your PWA superpowers | Andre Bandarra, PJ McLachlan | 22m |
New PWA features let web apps behave like native ones with concrete APIs and timelines File type handlers enter origin trial in Chrome 85 this summer to open… | ||
| Quieter notifications permissions | PJ McLachlan | 11m |
Chrome implements Quiet Notification UI (introduced in Chrome 80) that moves prompts to the omnibox or an infobar, animates a bell, and lowers… | ||
| Storage for the web | Pete LePage | 10m |
Recommendation: use IndexedDB and Cache Storage API for large client storage; both are asynchronous, available to windows and service workers, and throw a… | ||
| Zoom on Web: getting connected with advanced web technology | Thomas Nattestad | 13m |
Chrome and Zoom are building a browser-based video pipeline that replaces heavy native clients by combining WebAssembly SIMD for CPU-vectorized tasks like… | ||
| App-Like UX for PWAs | Thomas Steiner | 11m |
Compares three concrete builds: an always-open Gmail-like inbox that uses target=_blank for external links, inner scrolling with overscroll-behavior/overflow… | ||
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