Google IO summary for Web Developers | 2023
Links to the entire Google Developer Conference videos:
• Developer keynote (Google I/O '23)
• Google Keynote (Google I/O ‘23)
Points from the video
Interaction to Next Paint(INP) - Responsiveness - A new Google Core Web Vital input for measuring speed
WebAssembly(Wasm) now supports managed-memory languages
WebGPU - new API for the web, which exposes modern hardware capabilities and allows rendering and computation operations on a GPU. TensorFlow runs 100x faster on WebGPU than vanilla JavaScript
Firebase Hosting now supports: Astro, Flutter Web, Nuxt, Sveltekit in addition to: Next.js and Angular Universal
Debugging improved a little for Web Apps
Baseline - a similar thing to www.caniuse.com. Shows if the main browsers support a certain feature. www.web.dev/baseline
Firebase AI Extensions - www.extensions.dev/extensions?category=ai
Bard AI Chatbot - Knows 20 programming languages and integrates with some Google Products like: Sheets, Maps and Lens. Will be able to generate images based on text input through their partnership with Adobe Firefly