Web Components with Rob Dodson, Tushar Mathur, and Monica Dinculescu Description:

There's been quite a bit of talk about the Web Components spec lately. As with anything new, there's been a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about Web Components. We're going to chat about some of their use cases, strengths, and weaknesses to give us all a better idea of this tech.

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Links, Picks, and Tips:
Monica Dinculescu
@notwaldorf Tips

• Emoji-cli is an emoji-searcher-by-keyword as a cli

Picks

• Electron!
• GO VOTE
• punchesbears is an amazing twitter where a dude posts hilarious videos of various videogames he is making (dancing bears! Throw macbooks at hipsters! Drunk navigating of a 7-11 for a burrito!)

Rob Dodson
@rob_dodson Links

• Server Components (https://pimterry.github.io/server-components/)
• Using React app techniques at the web component level with Redux, virtual-dom, and JSX
• Dig up twitter thread. It’s a total centithread but here’s a decent jumping in point (https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/770645608415784960)

Tips

• The gas arrow in your rental car dashboard tells you which side the gas tank is on

Picks

• Slappy Cakes (http://www.slappycakes.com/)
• Elon Musk biography by Ashlee Vance (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KVI76ZS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)
• The Corgi sticker from cotton bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/)

Tushar Mathur
@tusharmath Links

• rwc
• Demythstifying Web Components
• Funag

Picks

• Google I/O 2012 - Breaking the JavaScript Speed Limit with V8

Pam Selle
@pamasaur Tips

• Delete your Facebook (app)

Picks

• NPR fact check
• Polymer Summit

Kent C. Dodds
@kentcdodds Tips

• Vote
• If you know Elon Musk, I’d like an intro because I want him on the show I’m. Not. Joking.

Picks

• slice-js so far... (a gist giving a quick demo
• React.js 50,000 stars (and some awesome shirts for the whole family!)

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