Cold Front 2018
as the organisers put it
The front-end role has evolved, and yet our conferences are still focused around a religious set of technologies. With ColdFront we are changing that by focusing on the challenges of building a modern interface and a front-end that runs everywhere.
who it's for
front-end developers, mobile developers, AR/VR developers, UI/UX designers, engineering managers, accessibility specialists, web performance engineers
topics
ARKit object recognition and persistence; React Native Fabric and JSI internals; Expo universal modules and build tooling; micro-frontend architecture with mono-repos; WebAssembly WebP decoding in Service Workers; top-level await for JavaScript modules; D3 with React and Vue integrations; prefers-reduced-motion with CSS custom properties; Emotiv EPOC brain-computer interface in JavaScript; WebRTC mobile streaming to large audiences
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The future of web animation | Sarah Drasner | 42m |
We talk a lot about how to animate on the web, and what's possible in browsers today, but where is animation heading? In this talk, we'll start with some… | ||
| Designing for Augmented Reality | Michael Flarup | 48m |
Michael Flarup - on designing for Augmented Reality We thought we could port our existing game to an AR experience. We couldn't. Here's what happened and… | ||
| What's next for React Native and Expo | Brent Vatne | 53m |
Fabric re‑implements React Native internals to move away from the async bridge by leveraging React Fiber and offering opt‑in synchronous execution, while JSI… | ||
| A fresh perspective on multi-platform UI | Michael Thomsen | 42m |
Claim: a single Dart-based codebase renders custom UI at near-native speed by compiling most of the framework to machine code. Development uses hot reload and… | ||
| Will the future of front-end be AI-assisted? (Ideal Bar) | Tony Beltramelli, Henrik Haugbølle | |
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning: three buzzwords that made headlines in the tech press all year long. What does it mean for the future… | ||
| Debate What will AI and ML mean for software developers? (Ideal Bar) | Hans Ravnkjær Larsen | |
Our interactive session host Hans will host a debate the role of ML and AI for software engineering as a field. | ||
| Working with AR by Jayway (Main Stage) | Lars Cimber, Mina Ashena | 20m |
Claims concrete results: shows ARKit 2 persistence and object recognition actually used to place and share anchored content, cites tooling like USDZ and Adobe… | ||
| Building AR apps with ARKit on iOS by Shape (Main Stage) | Srđan Rašić | 24m |
Claims that ARKit makes AR simple and shows it by building a working demo: a “Spaces on Wheels” placement app plus a small pickle‑shooting game built from… | ||
| It’s My (Third) Party, and I’ll Cry if I Want To | Harry Roberts | 52m |
Third-party scripts often multiply requests and bytes — WebPageTest plus RequestMap shows requests rising 4.2× and bytes 2.7×, and blocking tag managers can… | ||
| Data visualizations on the web | Shirley Wu | 42m |
Claims that D3.js with React and Vue removes the friction of enter/update/exit by letting the framework handle DOM updates and keeps D3 for scales, layouts and… | ||
| New Adventures In Responsive Web Design | Vitaly Friedman | 59m |
A fast run of practical decisions: art‑direction techniques that add friction to increase engagement, concrete layout patterns for accordions (tests show icon… | ||
| Inclusively Responsive UIs with CSS and SVG | Sara Soueidan | 54m |
Shows how to wire prefers-reduced-motion to a single root CSS variable to cancel hundreds of animations, uses CSS custom properties plus the range input and… | ||
| How a design tool changes relationships | Jessica Liu | |
Designers and developers can often butt heads. We hail from different backgrounds; we bring different perspectives; we speak different lingo. The level of… | ||
| Top-Level Awaiting for Godot | Myles Borins | 46m |
Walks through a real implementation effort: attempted a Node patch (which breaks require timing), spec edits that add an async‑block start and per‑module… | ||
| Mind control in JavaScript - Experimenting with alternative interactions | Charlie Gerard | 45m |
Builds an open-source JavaScript framework around an Emotiv EPOC and a node add-on, with an emulator and live-data API that emits boolean events for facial… | ||
| WebRTC streaming to large audiences using mobile devices by TwentyThree (Ideal Bar) | Daniel Pouzemski, Vasil Dimitrov | |
WebRTC has been around for several years allowing native audio and video streaming from a browser without using external plugins. P2P streaming has natural… | ||
| Debate How to foster collaboration between Designers and Engineering? | Hans Ravnkjær Larsen | |
Inspired by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden's book `Sense and Respond`, our interactive session host Hans will host a debate on collaboration between Design and… | ||
| Architecture for an ever changing environment” by Zendesk (Main Stage) | Sune Simonsen | 28m |
Zendesk Copenhagen splits a large SPA into independently deployed pieces using a micro-frontend architecture served by a mono-repo with top-level server that… | ||
| On the fly WebP decoding with Web Assembly and Service Workers (Main Stage) | Kenneth Rohde Christiansen | 21m |
Demonstrates a concrete pipeline: compile a WebP C decoder to WebAssembly with Emscripten, load it in a Service Worker, intercept .webp requests, decode in the… | ||
| The Untold Benefits of Ethical Design | Holger Bartel | 39m |
Built a conference product called collec conference platform that ships progressive enhancement, accessibility-first components and 100% tracking free… | ||
| Uniting the real world with the virtual | Jacob Rossi | 49m |
Claims concrete enough to act on: two-thirds of Oculus Go MAUs use Oculus Browser and spend significant time in web VR; a React 360 workflow lets teams ship… | ||
| Do the Most Good | Mina Markham | 37m |
Leaves a senior engineer job to join a presidential campaign, builds a campaign pattern library "pantsuit", launches a college-voter calculator and demos the… | ||
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