CascadiaJS 2024
2024-06-19..2024-06-22
Seattle, United States
[CascadiaJS 2013, CascadiaJS 2014, CascadiaJS 2018, CascadiaJS 2020, CascadiaJS 2021, CascadiaJS 2022, CascadiaJS 2024, CascadiaJS 2026]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Return to Web Animation Wonderland | Rachel Nabors | 39m |
A rebuilt interactive Alice demo uses hand‑drawn assets (≈80 hours of work) and replaces a decade of jQuery/polyfills with modern browser features… | ||
| GIFs Are Forever, Let’s Make Them Better | Tyler Sticka | 22m |
Animated GIFs become smaller and higher quality by converting to webp and avif or short MP4/WebM transcodes (libvips/sharp, FFmpeg, HandBrake), with a… | ||
| How to Navigate Emerging AI-Driven Security | Logan Gore | 11m |
AI makes phishing and fraud faster and cheaper: a chatbot was tricked into advertising Chevys for $1, a deep‑fake CFO prompted a $25M wire, and GPT crafts… | ||
| React Without DevTools | Aiden Bai | 08m |
A tool called Million Lint instruments React to count state and prop changes and then rewrites code with compiler transforms, flagging that an onclick callback… | ||
| Delightful Design | John Pham | 14m |
Walks through rebuilding a tiny Twitter clone with concrete fixes: reorganizes layout into avatar/author/content/time columns, raises avatar text from contrast… | ||
| Jammin' with Javascript | Herve Aniglo | 25m |
Would you like to create your own musical playlist in a very simple way? Would you like to show your friends your very own personal playlist of favorite songs?… | ||
| A Decade of Modern JS and the Rise of Serverless Fullstack | Brian LeRoux | 25m |
Argues that serverless moves from hype to infrastructure by naming concrete milestones: S3 and SQS (2006), Lambda (2014), DynamoDB’s ~10 ms latency (2012), API… | ||
| Embedding Accessibility | Aaron Gustafson | 33m |
Argues that accessibility must be embedded early by building a diverse inclusive culture and shifting left in product lifecycles, citing concrete wins… | ||
| Building Useful Apps With Small, Local LLMs | Jacob Lee | 27m |
Builds a LangGraph.js workflow that uses LangGraph.js with Llama 3 (8B) run via AMA and embeddings from Transformers.js to implement an adaptive RAG pipeline… | ||
| AI-Generated React Server Components | Tejas Kumar | 27m |
Demo builds a semantic movie search that turns retrieval‑augmented generation into UI: content is ingested and indexed into a vector DB in 1.59 seconds… | ||
| Your AI Needs an Assistant | Josh Goldberg | 25m |
Argues that generative models are great at ideation but must be paired with verification tooling so code actually works, and demos an iterative pipeline… | ||
| Modern Event Handling: A Peek at the New Observable API | Dominic Farolino | 27m |
Browsers are getting a native Observable primitive that replaces nested addEventListener usage with a composable stream handle: an Observable API that adds an… | ||
| Optimize for Vibes: Svelte 5 and the New Age of Svelte | Geoff Rich | 28m |
Svelte 5 replaces compile‑time dependency tracking with runtime reactivity, introducing runes (state, derived, effect) and a signal‑based runtime so component… | ||
| Debugging Your Manager | Kristen Thayer | 12m |
Explains three concrete tactics: ask for what you want clearly (example script for a promotion and a monthly written checklist), frame the ask as a win‑win… | ||
| From Broken Looms to the AI Boom | Molly Jean Bennett | 15m |
Connects Jacquard punch cards to modern code and shows GitHub Copilot writing a React unit test in under a second, alongside the 18th‑century cascade: flying… | ||
| Having Your LLM With a Side of Library Science | Jerome Woody | 16m |
Claim: inserting the library‑science Big Six steps into prompts makes LLM outputs structured and forces the model to break answers into defined stages, which… | ||
| Everything You Need to Know About React 19 | Shruti Kapoor | 26m |
React 19 RC brings concrete changes: React Actions provide async form handlers that return state and remove manual pending flags (form data arrives as a… | ||
| The Time Traveler's Playbook for Coding with AI | Rizel Scarlett | 25m |
Shows step-by-step tactics for getting GitHub Copilot to produce usable code: use big contextual comments, give one‑to‑few examples (zero/one/few‑shot), and… | ||
| Say No to Boilerplate: Building Apps with v0 | Tracey Lee | 26m |
Live demo builds a UI with v0.dev — built a ChatGPT clone with rainbow colors and scaffolds components that export to Next via CLI, UI scaffolded in under 3… | ||
| Anatomy of a Modern Page Load | Henri Helvetica | 32m |
Audit of a Next.js WNBA site uses WebPageTest and RUM to compare lab versus field: lab TTFB ~886 ms while RUM shows different distributions, LCP lab ~3.5 s vs… | ||
| Putting Fun Back into Coding | Jason Lengstorf | 26m |
Organizes a 25‑person, 5‑day sprint dubbed web cohesion week to unify three separate codebases with 13 stakeholders, shipping visible cohesion while working… | ||
| Software 3.0 and the AI Engineering Landscape | Shawn Swyx Wang | 24m |
Argues that foundation models and hosted model APIs shift ML from bespoke training to product-first workflows so companies build MVPs, collect task data, then… | ||
| Sights & Sounds | 01m | |
Footage from CascadiaJS 2024 at Town Hall, Seattle shows quick clips of panels and crowd shots with music and applause, attendees repeatedly calling it the… | ||
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