Housekeeping

• Bathrooms
• Wifi: BuildRight / betterweb
• Interested in teaching web topics?
• Speakers and sponsors always wanted. Let's talk.
• Who is Hiring? Who is Available?
  • #Jobs channel in Slack

What's on your mind?

• What topic do you want us to bring to the group?
• How can we make the Dayton Web Developers a better experience?

"Thank You" to Our Sponsors

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

Languages, Libraries & Frameworks

• npm@6.13.1 released 11-18-2019
  Fixes some bugs and includes changes on the docs by the community.
  npm i -g npm@latest
• ESLint v6.7.0 released 11-22-2019
• A new "Suggestions API" for rule authors and integrations
• 5 new default rules
• A long list of Deprecations, New Features, Enhancements and Bug Fixes

Other New Releases:

• Babel 7.7.4 — The JavaScript transpiler.
• A list of bug fixes, code cleanup and "polish"
• Ink 2.6.0 — Like React but for building CLI apps.
• GPU.js 2.3.0 — GPU-accelerated JavaScript.
• jQuery.Terminal 2.9.0 — Add terminal experiences to your site/app.

Industry News

24 Ways 2019 advent calendar for web geeks

1. Making a Better Custom Select Element
2. Twelve Days of Front End Testing
3. Future Accessibility Guidelines—for People Who Can’t Wait to Read Them
4. An Introduction to Variable Fonts

The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019

• 3,005 developers answered 27

• Sass usage is still on the increase (almost 12%), which surprised me because I would have thought it was pretty stagnant.
• 15.4% of respondents have never heard of PostCSS.
• Bootstrap is on the decline and "no framework" is on the increase (though only slightly).
• CSS-in-JS had a 7.6% increase but 55.3% of respondents still don't use a CSS-in-JS tool.

• Flexbox and Grid usage are way up.
• NPM Scripts as a task runner had a 16.4% increase while almost all other task runners are on the decline.
• React usage is up 4.8% and jQuery is way down, though it's still at 36.8% usage, which seems a little high.
• Source: Web Tools Weekly

The "State of JavaScript" 2019 Survey
StateOfJS.com

Tools of the trade

• JSONCrush - Compresses JSON Into URI Friendly Strings
• ZenScrape - Scrape any website without writing a single line of code

Upcoming Events...

This Month

• New To The Web: Responsive Typography System using a Modular Scale - Ricardo Zea
  • Where: Brixx Ice Company
  • When: Tuesday, December 17th @6pm
• Gem City JS: JavaScript IOUs: Asynchronous JavaScript Code with Kris Hatcher Corinne Ling - Kris Hatcher
  • Where: Sparkbox Maker Space
  • When: Wednesday, December 18th @noon

Next Month

• Dayton Web Developers: After Holiday Social
  • Where: Brix Ice Company
  • When: THURSDAY, January 2nd @6pm