Housekeeping

• Speakers and sponsors always wanted. Let's talk.
• Who is Hiring? Who is Available?
  • Epluno (Josh Fischer) | Mile Two | Smart Data
  • #Jobs channel in Slack
• Wifi: BuildRight / betterweb

What's on your mind?

Aug 12 Survey Results:

"Thank You" to Our Sponsors

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"Thank you" Bryan Braun for being here for us!

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Languages, Libraries & Frameworks

Chrome 76

Dark Mode Support

        @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
          body {
            background-color: black;
            color: white;
          }
        }
      

Mithril 2.0 Released

• Released July 24th
• 2.0 mostly formalizes minor breaking changes
• Lightweight (10kb) React/Vue alternative
• Plain ES5 syntax / KISS philosophy

Electron 6.0 Released

• Released July 30th
• Updated to Chrome 76 + Node 12.4
• Lots of additional Promise support
• A few breaking changes

React 16.9 Released

• Released August 8th
• codemod: componentWill* → UNSAFE_componentWill*
• Deprecating [javascript:] URLs and [FactoryComponent]
• Measure performance with <React.Profiler>

• True: Sass Unit Testing
  True is a full-featured unit-testing library for Sass. The core functionality is written in pure SassScript, so it can be used anywhere Sass is compiled. Advanced features are available with our test-runner integration and Mocha.

Industry News

GitHub Supports CI/CD

• GitHub Actions now support continuous integration
• Reusable actions and workflows
• Integrates with the GitHub Package Registry
• Free for public repos!

Upcoming Events...

• September 5th: Python Dayton PyDay @Dayton Metro Library
• September 14th: Dayton Women Code Together Tech & Talk 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM @SDayton Metro Library
• September 17th: Smart Data Lunch & Learn JavaScript IOUs: Asynchronous JavaScript Code @Smart Data
• September 17th: New To The Web Clean Code and Test Driven Development @Dayton Metro Library

• September 18th: Gem City JS Lightning Talks: Remote Working, Functional JS, UI Testing
• September 25th: Dayton Women Code Together Front End Lab: Get Started with Sketch
• September 25th: Dayton .Net Developers Looking for a presenter....

Next Month

• October 2nd: Dayton Web Developers What's good content, and how do you write it? How do developers involve writers in their processes to get the best result? There are many forms of "content" at play on the websites we create -- videos, graphics, etc. -- but as a writer, Samantha is going to attack the pie of "content" from a words perspective.