Prefetching in 2019, Web Share Target API, Performance, Recap of 2018 & Look Forward to 2019! 🥂

Below, you can find the Pony Foo Weekly newsletter issue #148 — Prefetching in 2019, Web Share Target API, Performance, Recap of 2018 & Look Forward to 2019!
. It was sent to our subscribers on January 3, 2019.

Pony Foo Weekly Issue #148 — January 3, 2019

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The New Year

Frameworks and Topics to Learn in 2019

News

Erkc goes over what might be interesting for front-end developers to learn in 2019, as well as some statistics and hand-wringing.

Eric Elliott

A Recap of Front-End Development in 2018

News

The world of frontend development moves fast. Very fast. Trey recaps the most important front-end news of 2018.

Trey Huffine

Business Acumen

Speed up Navigation with Prefetching

performance

Loading web pages could be made faster by fetching the next page (or set of resources for the next page) a user is likely to visit ahead of time. We call this prefetching. This can make subsequent navigations appear to load instantly in some cases.

Addy explains how to speed up next-page navigations using prefetching.

Addy Osmani

Modernizing Netflix’s Web Playback UI

performance

An interesting account of how Netflix modernized their playback UI while tracking performance metrics and measuring the impact of their changes to a React application.

Registering with the Web Share Target API

Introductory

The Web Share Target API allows installed web apps to register with the underlying OS as a share target to receive shared content from either the Web Share API or system events, like the OS-level share button.

Pete LePage

Higher-Order Components in React

Deep Dive

Eduardo Vedes