Loading all the resources a web page needs is a complex process. Some resources can cause the browser's parser to block, preventing other resources' discovery. In other cases, resources can be hidden from the parser altogether. Yoav Weiss discusses how browsers discover and load resources and explores preload, a new link relation enabling early resource discovery.

JavaScript frameworks seem like death and taxesinevitable and unavoidable. But that's not the way it needs to be, and actually, it must stop. Joseph Gregorio outlines the Zero Framework Manifesto and discusses his implementation experience building and shipping framework-free applications for the past two years.

The University of Buea over the past two years has sextupled it's Google Summer of Code(GSoC) participants from 2 in 2013 to 12 in 2015 due to the hard work of the Google Developer Group Buea. The Open source culture is new in Africa and University students in Cameroon are taking the lead in Open source development through GSoC, with the Art of community imbibed in students on campus.

The Angular team has been investing in building techniques that enable large teams to build robust applications that span desktop and mobile. Brad Green covers the new specs for zones and decorators and explains how new techniques make it easy to use advanced browser features like web workers, HTTP/2, and service workers for building robust apps.

Nicolas Bevacqua explores the past, present, and future of web performance. Nicolas quickly covers what you're already doingminifying, bundling, and using progressive enhancementbefore moving on to what you should be doingoptimizing TCP, inlining the important stuff, and deferring the rest so that you don't block the rendering path. Nicolas also explores what HTTP/2 has in store for the future.

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.

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.

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.

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.