backendlessConf_ 2019
2019-12-14
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who it's for
frontend developers, JAMstack developers, web engineers, web performance engineers, developer experience engineers, web operations engineers
topics
JAMstack architecture; static site performance; frontend performance and conversion; serverless deployment strategies; streaming video in browser without patents; standards-based authentication for JavaScript sites; globally distributed app hosting; editing and headless CMS workflows; using React Vue and Node together; improvisation in software development
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Movement is Real | Guillermo Rauch | 14m |
Argues that the JAMstack movement is real and shows how it happens: move from data centers to the edge using Zeit Now, component UIs with React/Vue/Svelte, and… | ||
| How I Used React, Vue, & Node to Build a Single JAMstack App | Ahmad Awais | 17m |
CloudyCAM is a JAMstack photo demo that combines React Vue and Node.js with Cloudinary for image processing and a serverless backend deployed on the Now… | ||
| The Future of Editing Websites | Sadek Drobi | 24m |
Claim: a headless/API-based CMS (Prismic) actually produces both an editor and a queryable API from a content model, yielding CDN distribution, image… | ||
| The Performance Aspect of Building and Deploying Static Sites | Maya Shavin | 24m |
Claim: a static site can provide dynamic realtime features but naive full rebuilds create user-visible latency. CloudyPatch generates conference badges using… | ||
| Frontend Performance & Impact on Customer Conversion | Eva Ieridou, Brendan Goodenough | 20m |
Eva Ieridou and Brendan Goodenough from Crystallize share insights on the impact of
frontend performance both from a technical and business… | ||
| The Value of Improvisation in Software | Simen Svale Skogsgrud | 18m |
Argues that discipline plus shared patterns preserves future options, demonstrates by building Sanity.io for a large OMA archive that outputs rule‑based… | ||
| Streaming video in the browser without patents | Phil Cluff | 20m |
A practical report on building browser streaming with only libre tech: experiments encode to VP8/VP9 and verify playback across evergreen browsers and find… | ||
| Building Globally Distributed Apps Instantly | Dan O'Donnel | 27m |
Claims a globally distributed, strongly consistent database that needs no special hardware or networks and gives native GraphQL support plus SDKs for… | ||
| Frontend-centered Development: the Future of Web Development | Derrick Reimer | 21m |
Traces three real projects and the concrete tradeoffs: Drip — Ruby on Rails + jQuery ships fast but accumulates duplicated templates and spaghetti JavaScript… | ||
| The Future of the JAMstack | Belen Curcio, Dan Zajdband | 32m |
Claims the JAMstack future is about shipping immersive, low‑friction apps as URLs using WebAssembly + WebXR, not bigger build systems. Shows a working… | ||
| Standards-based authentication for JavaScript sites | Kim Maida | 30m |
Explains that browser apps must stop returning tokens in URLs and instead use the PKCE code flow; shows how an ID token (a signed JWT) and access tokens are… | ||
| The Shiny New World of JAMstack & Serverless | Zan Markan | 41m |
Demo wires live captions from Google Cloud Speech-to-Text into a static slide site built with Hugo/reveal.js, broadcasting updates over Pusher channels so… | ||
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