Offline POSTs with Progressive Web Apps

I’m in my eleventh week of twelve as a Developer Content Experience intern at Microsoft…

ES Modules in Node Today!

Introducing a New ES Module Loader

Manifoldjs is becoming PWA Builder, to simplify building Progressive Web Apps

Thinking in TypeScript

On the Office Online team, we regularly hire experienced engineers that have never worked on large scale web applications. As a result, we have a large number of engineers with strong backgrounds in languages like C# and Java learning how to write code in TypeScript for the first time…

Performance gains from switching to Closure Compiler

On the Office Online team, we’re constantly looking for ways to improve the boot times of our applications. One of the factors that directly impacts the time it takes for these applications to boot is the raw size of the JavaScript files…

Deminifying JavaScript call stacks

When deploying a new version of Office Online, we look at several pieces of telemetry to help determine the overall health of an individual application. One of these signals is the rate at which our users are experiencing unhanded JavaScript exceptions. We attempt to…