Armada JS 2023
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building a Framework for the Edge | Daniel Roe | 38m |
A minimal meta framework is assembled live using Nitro and njs libraries to target edge runtimes (Cloudflare, Vercel, Bun, Deno), proving zero config SSR… | ||
| Frontend is dead, long live full stack | Yoav Ganbar | 25m |
Argues that the frontend/backend boundary is collapsing and shows how modern meta frameworks make UI code run on servers and edges using concrete features from… | ||
| Scaling teams with Federated Super Apps | Michał Pierzchała | 24m |
Claim: large React Native apps can split into independently built and deployed mini apps so teams ship faster. Uses repack (a webpack-based rewrite of the RN… | ||
| Revolutionizing Web Development with Astro Build | Ruby Jane Cabagnot | 21m |
Astro 3.0 launches as a server‑rendered, islands‑architecture framework that ships zero JavaScript by default and lets developers add interactivity with… | ||
| Improving developer happiness with AI | Senna Parsa | 25m |
Claims that GitHub Copilot boosts developer satisfaction by cutting boilerplate and bridging skill gaps, not by auto-writing perfect code, and shows concrete… | ||
| Better than loading fast… is loading instantly | Barry Pollard | 28m |
Chrome aims for truly instant loads by combining existing and new browser features rather than more JavaScript: reuse pages with the back/forward cache… | ||
| Controlling the web with a PS5 controller | Harshil Agrawal | 29m |
Browser demo adds PS5 controller support to web games by switching from the Gamepad API (polling loop at 300 ms polling causing lag and no haptic/LED feedback)… | ||
| JavaScript Source Maps, can we do better? | Kamil Ogórek | 40m |
The JavaScript source map spec is effectively frozen at v3 (over 12 years old) and breaks for post‑mortem debugging because mappings are optional and bundles… | ||
| Let's build a Spatial Navigation library | Sergio Avalos | 26m |
Builds a small Spatial Navigation library for TV UIs using React and react-router, registering interactive nodes, listening to document keydown events and… | ||
| Upgrade Your Toolbox with IDE Extensions | Max Kless | 29m |
Builds a VS Code extension that pings a translations JSON API, maps keys into an autocomplete provider (registered for .ts/.tsx) and surfaces a nested… | ||
| Turbopack and Rspack - Modern day JavaScript bundlers | Devlin Duldulao | 24m |
Turbopack is a Rust reimplementation from Vercel that uses an incremental computation engine plus SWC to cache function inputs and outputs so rebuilds only… | ||
| Vis.gl, the powerful framework suite for geospatial visualization | Ib Green | 39m |
Vis.gl is a composable open source suite centered on deck.gl that runs geospatial compute on the client GPU, not the backend, and sees roughly 100K daily npm… | ||
| Performance wins with React 18 | Aashima Ahuja | 31m |
Live demos show wrapping slow updates with useTransition/startTransition drops TBT from 4425 ms to 105 ms, about 42× faster. Another pattern uses deferred… | ||
| Achieving end to end typesafety | Dragan Jovanovic | 34m |
Claim: a working end-to-end type-safe API stack that removes client-side service types and gives immediate compile-time errors when backend changes. Implements… | ||
| Why the ultimate web framework will be a language (DSL) | Matija Sosic | 26m |
Argues that a domain-specific language pays off by describing what an app should do and generating the implementation: a Wasp DSL compiles to React + Node +… | ||
| Non-trivial optimization techniques in Angular | Michael Hladky | 40m |
Angular site performance goes from Lighthouse ~49 to 99 (Cloudflare variant 100) by applying concrete fixes: enable SSR one-line hydration and TransferState to… | ||
| Navigating TypeScript Performance for Better Dev Experience | Aleksandra Sikora | 36m |
Shows how to find and fix TypeScript compiler hotspots using compiler flags and traces: run diagnostics, listFiles and showConfig, generate a Chrome trace via… | ||
| Qwik: performance as a human design problem | Manu Martinez-Almeida | 34m |
Qwik claims to make performance a UX problem not a checklist by using resumability instead of hydration so pages load with no JS and individual interactions… | ||
| Using Pytorch, AI, WebGL and React to make 3d avatars of our users | Denis Radin | 27m |
Runs a daily cron that sends new user photos to a PyTorch depth model (Midas, later switched to a better “zoo” variant) and stores generated depth maps on CDN… | ||
| Our future without passwords | Milica Mihajlija | 41m |
Passkeys replace typed passwords with a device-bound credential: a private key stored on the device and a server-held public key, preventing server-side leaks… | ||
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