Improving the experience of developing for the web, one feature at a time

Web developers use open-source data all the time to help guide their decisions.

In this talk, I'd like to tell you more about this data, and in particular about web-features, an open-source project which aims at being a reference data point for the web platform.

The project contains the list of all features of the web platform, at a level of granularity that's most useful to you, web developers. This project has gained a lot of traction over the past two years, in particular thanks to Baseline.

Baseline banners help web developers make quicker decisions based on the maturity of the web features they use, and are now visible on MDN, Can I use, and many other development tools.

Baseline isn't the only consumer of the web-features data though. The data is starting to get used in more and more web-platform-related data which you rely on every, sometimes without realizing it. The web-features project is making it easier to get access to information about the state of the web platform, in a practical way.

In this talk, I'll go over the resources that make use of open source web-related data sources to help you stay aware of changes, but also discover new features, and make decisions.

I'll also go over what web-features does not cover today, such as accessibility or progressive enhancements, and how these are areas that demand careful planning and implementation. I'll offer pointers showing how we're thinking about addressing these on the WebDX community group, and will invite contributions from those interested.