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Talks & Presentations Collection

October 15, 2019

Implementing languages

Programming is hard; making compilers is harder. Or so people think. The truth is that making a compiler is just a series of small steps using regular language constructs. It's so easy, we'll make one in this talk.

Its all about me: From big data models to personalized experience

October 15, 2019

Even though each of us is only 1 of 7 billion, we all want to feel special. Product personalization is transforming the Internet experience to be all about me (and you too!). Yao Morin explores how to create customer-centric experiences through data science and software engineering, using Intuit TurboTax as a case study.

JavaScript and the Internet of Things

October 15, 2019

So you've mastered JavaScript in the browser or on the server side, and you have an itch to get into hardware? In recent years, a plethora of low-cost devices that can run JavaScript code have come to market. But which ones are best for what situations? Andrew Chalkley gives you a tour of the current landscape to get you started on your JavaScript hardware adventure.

Keynote by Brendan Eich

October 15, 2019

Details to come

Living style guides: Make looking good easy

October 15, 2019

A "living" style guide uses an actual library of frontend assets instead of existing as a static PDF. Living style guides can bring consistency, agility, and many other benefits to an organization's web apps, but there are potential pitfalls. Shane Russell melds dev-community wisdom with a firsthand account of implementing a living style guide across a suite of web apps at a health provider.

Making sense of the new CSS layout

October 15, 2019

Flexbox and Grid offer powerful layout methods for the Web. However, to make best use of them, you must familiarize yourself with some new core concepts. Rachel Andrew demystifies the new CSS layout methods so you can fully benefit from their power.

Offline-first apps with PouchDB

October 15, 2019

Web and mobile apps shouldn't stop working when there's no network connection. PouchDB is an open source syncing JavaScript database that runs within a web browser. Offline-first apps built using PouchDB can provide a better, faster user experienceboth on- and offline. Bradley Holt demonstrates how to use PouchDB and CouchDB to build offline-enabled web and mobile apps.

Progressive web apps and what's next for mobile

October 15, 2019

Web apps have long been considered underpowered compared to native mobile apps, but what's really at the root of this perception? Alex Russell describes a new way to build that combines emerging browser features into something that just might answer the question.

Quality, equality, and accessibility

October 15, 2019

The state of web accessibility is rapidly improving. This rising tide lifts all boats by driving quality frontend development. Laura Palmaro explains how we can continue this upward trajectory using the rich array of tools and learning resources now available.

React and Flux from scratch

October 14, 2019

Cory House gets participants started in React and Flux by helping them build a real-world application from the ground up, using react-router, Node.js, Browserify, and ESLint to help make it happen. Youll be amazed how quickly you can build a responsive single-page application in this modern stack.

Real-time drawing in the browser with HTML5 Canvas

October 14, 2019

Dina Goldshtein demonstrates how to use the Canvas API to draw a very large number of shapes in the browser, animate them, and apply various transformations. Dina also shares some best practices for wrapping the Canvas API with custom JavaScript classes.

Refactoring legacy AngularJS

October 14, 2019

Is your AngularJS application becoming too difficult to maintain? Corinna Cohn explains how to take an overburdened application and make it maintainable by separating concerns of retrieving models, creating components, and isolating business logic. You will learn techniques for making your own code cleaner and more maintainable by writing small, testable modules instead of tangled monoliths.

Repeatable processes for building secure containers

October 14, 2019

Building Docker images is easy; thats why there are over 45,000 public images on Docker Hub today (albeit only 100 of them "official" images). Creating reproducible, secure images from source that are easily maintained and updated takes a bit more planning and automation. Ryan Jarvinen illustrates what it takes to create a successful (and secure) build strategy.

Responsive browser-based video recording and playback

October 14, 2019

Oliver Friedmann introduces Ziggeo's open source framework for video recording and playback, which features responsive HTML5-enabled components with Flash fallbacks for older browsers. It is customizable and extendable via the components' state machines and their dynamic templating system and works across all platforms, including mobile browsers.

Scale your code with Scala.js

October 14, 2019

Web apps are complex and comprised of many technologies. It can be difficult to simultaneously scale large server and client codebases. Scala is an expressive, performant language that can now run in your browser as well as on the JVM. Paul Draper explains how Scala's presence on the two most ubiquitous runtimes greatly assists web developers.

Scaling your Node.js API like a boss

October 14, 2019

It's one thing to create a sample RESTful API using Node.js, but it's quite another to horizontally scale your architecture to hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections while trying to ensure redundancy and high availability. Volkan zelik shows what it takes to create real-life, scalable, highly available, and highly responsive Node.js applications.

The entire history of design principles, 13222016 (abridged)

October 14, 2019

If you work with web technology, at some point you'll work on something people will see. What's the quickest way to better interfaces? Tracy Osborn explores the two most important principles to get you started on the path to being a better designer.

The first pull request

October 14, 2019

Feel free to submit a pull request. For some, this is a welcome invitation, but for many developers, pull requests are intimidating, discouraging them from contributing to the community. Kent Dodds demonstrates how easy and fun it is to create a pull request as a first timer. And if youre a project maintainer, Kent will show what you can do to make contributing easier and more inviting.

The landscape of frontend testing

October 14, 2019

From unit testing to visual-regression testing to even testing accessibility, the list of frameworks that help you test your codealready quite a large landscapecontinues to grow over time. Alicia Sedlock gives an overview of the state of frontend testing and explains how you should go about choosing which tests work best for your product.

The rise of async JavaScript

October 14, 2019

As JavaScript has evolved over the past several years, so have the patterns for handling its asynchronous nature. Through callbacks, Promises, and now async functions, JavaScript has made asynchronous control flow easier to tackle. Jeremy Fairbank dives into the new async functions landing in ES7 and investigates various use cases and gotchas along the way.

The Seif project

October 14, 2019

The Web has grown to become a hugely important medium, but it has also become horrendously complex, which extends development schedules and promotes bug formation. Douglas Crockford introduces Seif, an open source project started at PayPal with the goal of transitioning the Web into an application delivery system that will be safer, easier to use, and easier to develop for.

A new approach to design thinking

October 13, 2019

In 2013, IBM, one of the worlds largest technology companies, set the mission to create a sustainable culture of design. The goal: bring a human-centered focus to thousands of product and service experiences. Doug Powell offers a look at how this 350,000-employee company implemented Design Thinking and is addressing the needs of their users to deliver outcomes with speed and at scale.

Balancing chaos and order when designing for offline and online

October 13, 2019

Design is changing at a rapid clipthe next generation of companies are not just looking at how to give the pixels polish but focusing on creating and curating an amazing experience in the real world. Katie Dill demonstrates how to design for a multifaceted journey over time, how to identify when to own the experience and when to enable it, and how to build a team for depth and breadth.

Using Julia and D3 to analyze web performance data

October 13, 2019

If you've always wanted to play around with D3 or Julia, Philip Tellis will bring you up to speed very quickly. Philip explores both Julia and D3 to demonstrate how to extract meaningful information from web-performance data and guides participants through some fun visualizations that are possible only when using these tools together.

Visualizing millions of datapoints with GPUs in the client and server

October 13, 2019

The ability to visualize millions of data points opens up a world of applications. But its hard to quickly render that much data, let alone compute anything with it. Thibaud Hottelier shares the GPU technologya hybrid client/server GPU engine using Node-OpenCL and a new library, CL.jsthat Graphistry used to break the million datapoint barrier for fast, interactive visualizations.

Web cryptography workshop

October 13, 2019

The Internet's security depends on cryptography. People use "secure" websites to take advantage of current cryptography methods. But what if users can't (or don't want to) trust the web server with their secrets? Web-page authors can use the Web Cryptography API to give their users end-to-end secrecy and authentication through web servers, not just to them. Charles and Laurie will show you how.

WebGL: The next generation

October 13, 2019

Tony Parisi explores the latest developments in web graphics using WebGL 2. Tony covers the new version of the 3D standard, as well as related technologies such as glTF for 3D data transmission and WebVR for web-based virtual reality.

Breaking the habit: The art of noticing the world around us and making it better

October 12, 2019

Details to come.