141: Web Animations API

Summary

Rachel Nabors joins us to chat all about the Web Animations API. Learn what benefits this API provides developers and when to use the Web Animations API instead of CSS or third-party JavaScript libraries. Find out how Rachel still delivers great web experiences to platforms which don’t yet support the API and much more.

This Week in Web News

• Minor version of TypeScript released: 2.5.3 which includes a long list of bug fixes
• Angular 5.0.0-rc.0 has been made available on GitHub
• The tc39 String#matchAll proposal has moved from stage 1 to stage 2: Checkout the link in the show notes to find out what it’s all about
• React v16 released with features such as the ability to return strings and arrays from render and improved error handling
• Facebook to re-licence projects to MIT which previously had the BSD + Patents licence that caused outrage in the open source community

Resources

• Rachel Nabors Courses on Animations & Cartooning
• Resources on the Web Animations API
• Web Animation Weekly
• Animation at Work Slack
• Animation at Work the Book
• CSS Animations and Transitions Course
• Awwwards site for awesome example of animations
• Greensock -- the jQuery of Web Animations
• Airbnb Lottie, Bodymovin’
• Houdini Project

Guests

• Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors)

Panel

• Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)
• Leon Revill (@revillweb)
• Amal Hussein (@nomadtechie)

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