ColdFront 2014
who it's for
frontend developers, javascript developers, web performance engineers, frontend architects, mobile web engineers, site reliability engineers, tooling engineers
topics
Dart language and tooling; Ember.js routing and components; WebTorrent BitTorrent streaming; static site generation with Jekyll; server-side initial HTML rendering; optimistic reactive UI patterns; critical CSS inlining; navigation timing and WebPageTest; service worker offline-first; peer discovery with DHT magnet links
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Why Google thinks you should drop everything you do and pick up their Dart. | Kasper Lund | 47m |
A new language plus integrated tools and libraries that runs either in a native Dart VM or compiles to dart2js, with an editor, debugger, profiler, package… | ||
| Ember.js, and why the framework helps you unlocking unprecedented productivity. | Erik Bryn | 59m |
Live coding shows a real Ember stack: routing with URLs that generate proper hrefs and support pushState, automatic loading states during async model hooks… | ||
| Pushing the limits of JavaScript with P2P and streaming BitTorrent | Mathias Buus | 38m |
Shows a concrete system using nodejs + torrent-stream + WebTorrent and VLC to stream BitTorrent content on demand, with a concurrent piece fetching strategy… | ||
| How to simplify your life by embracing static site generation | Phil Hawksworth | 43m |
Argues that static sites can feel dynamic by showing concrete builds: a beer-club site generated with Jekyll and deployed to GitHub Pages, a client doc site, a… | ||
| Stop what you are doing. You're breaking the web. | Nat Buckley | 44m |
Front-end failures are concrete: pages take 8.1 seconds to render readable text on Medium and 8.4 seconds for a single tweet unless stripped to a 4‑second… | ||
| How to build the modern, optimistic and reactive user interface, we all want. | Guillermo Rauch | 54m |
Advocates a hybrid stack: render meaningful HTML on the server to hit the initial 14 kilobytes, minimize round trips because coast-to-coast RTT is about 85 ms… | ||
| Giving you ways to increase, but also explain site performance, to your boss. | Peter Hedenskog | 39m |
Claims that 80–90% of end‑user time lives in the front end and that browsers have a 14 kilobytes slow‑start constraint drive the recommendations. Tools used… | ||
| The web in a mobile world dominated by native platforms. | Christian Heilmann | 46m |
Claim: the web can match native where it matters if browsers ship service worker support and developers adopt an offline-first approach. Evidence: comScore… | ||
| nothing matches | ||