Chrome 55: Async and Await, Pointer Events, Persistent Storage and more
Channel: Chrome for Developers
Date: 2016-11-30

With Chrome 55, you to write promise-based code as if it were synchronous, using async and await. Pointer events provide a unified way of handling all input events. And persistent storage graduates from it’s origin trial. Pete LePage has all the details on how you can use these new developer features in Chrome 55!

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Chrome 55 Beta blog post - https://goo.gl/NhDe4S

Pointer Events
Pointing the Way Forward with Pointer Events - https://goo.gl/lUeLrp
API docs on MDN - https://goo.gl/JOEBq5
Can I Use - https://goo.gl/znkJcj

Async and Await
Introduction to Async Functions on developers.google.com/web - https://goo.gl/cmQ7CA
Can I Use - https://goo.gl/eQo1Gp

Persistent Storage
Persistent Storage Update Article - https://goo.gl/YMT0yN
Spec - https://goo.gl/PcEYDX

CSS Automatic Hyphenation
Manage Hyphens with CSS Update Article - https://goo.gl/xHLmjm
Sample - https://goo.gl/VZ9nwf

Web Share API
Introducing the Web Share API - https://goo.gl/NealRx
API Interface - https://goo.gl/WxBvhv

You can learn more about origin trials at https://goo.gl/6FP1a5

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