138: Stencil

Summary

This week Justin Willis and Adam Bradley join us to talk about Stencil a new tool for building Web Components. We talk about how Stencil came about and what problems it solves and we get into how Stencil works its magic to provide features such as pre-rendering.

This Week in Web News

• Safari Technology Preview 39 includes updates to the Beacon API, Directory Upload and the Fetch API
• Google Chrome 61 has dropped into stable with support for JavaScript Modules, Payment Request API, Web Share API, Web USB and more!
• The Yarn package manager has now hit version 1.0 which adds new features such as workspaces and auto-merging of lock files
• A new minor version of Vue.js has been released 2.4.3 with a range of bug fixes
• Babel v7.0.0 is now available as beta with a host of new features and bug fixes

Resources

• srcgraph
• Stencil Website

Guests

• Justin Willis (@justinwillis96)
• Adam Bradley (@adamdbradley)

Panel

• Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)
• Leon Revill (@revillweb)

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