UI Kaizen Chatter

What?

• UI -- specifically front-end
• Kaizen is the practice of continuous improvement. Kaizen was originally introduced to the West by Masaaki Imai in his book Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success in 1986
• Chatter -- I will be giving something of a presentation to have some focus, but there will be time afterwards for others to share things they are learning as well.
• (recurring) -- don't know if we can get food each time, but I'm hoping this is a regular thing -- please consider volunteering to give a focused talk or discussion

Why?

• We all need ongoing development, have a lot to learn from each other, and this provides a vehicle for that sort of sharing.
• This will help us to keep up with rapidly changing UI landscape. 
• One of us can make the investment to learn about a new technology/toolchain/library/framework, and facilitate easier understanding for the rest of us.
• The goal is that this makes us better developers.
• This will also make DNB a better place to work. Probably.

ES6

• current schedule has standard finalized sometime next month
• a random guess on the internet said that evergreen browsers will support the full language version by end of this year.
• ES6 standards include classes, subclasses, better scope/variable management, and prettier syntax

Current Support:

% of accepted features (as of Monday)

• IE11 — 15% (with Experimental JS Features Enabled — 69%)
• Safari 7.1/8 — 20%
• Node/io.js — 23%/43%
• Chrome 44/Opera 41 — 48%
• Firefox 39 —68%
• Babel + core-js — 76% (Compiles to ES5, Alternatives include Traceur, Closure, JSX, Typescript, es6-shim)

What are we doing?

• To facilitate better understanding of current useable features, we will be going over available features by compatibility Chrome Canary > Firefox Dev Edition > Babel + Core > Unsupported (not perfect nesting)
• Samples of new functionality so we can play around with these features
• Most features/ideas are borrowed from primarily OO languages, so much of this is new to me personally -- feel free to interject if I'm missing a concept. 
• Want to limit the time I'm presenting to allow time afterwards for others to share. 

Sources

• https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
• http://es6-features.org/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13355486/when-will-i-be-able-to-use-es6-in-a-browser
• http://www.2ality.com/2014/06/es6-schedule.html