Take Command with Invokers

With special guest Luke Warlow

on Winging It episode 18 with Miriam & James on April 17, 2025 | 64 mins

Learn how to declaratively add behavior to buttons with the Invoker Commands API. Join James Stuckey Weber and Miriam Suzanne for a live conversation with special guest Luke Warlow, Web Platform Engineer at Igalia.

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What we cover:

Invokers, and why they are needed
Controlling popovers with invokers
Controlling dialog elements with invokers
Controlling anything with custom invoker events
Potential future built-in events
Polyfilling the Invokers API
What is OpenUI?

Demos:

Examples on popover and dialog
- Popover – Porting existing popover attributes to command and commandfor
- Dialog
- Returning a value from a dialog
Custom events

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