DinosaurJS 2019
2019-06-19..2019-06-20
Denver, CO, United States
[DinosaurJS 2016, DinosaurJS 2017, DinosaurJS 2018, DinosaurJS 2019]
who it's for
JavaScript developers, frontend engineers, library and tool maintainers, engineering managers, test and QA engineers, developer experience engineers
topics
Babel 7 plugin arrays; infinite-loop runtime protection; js-codeshift codemods; ESM-ready package registry (Pika); TensorFlow.js in-browser ML; web workers and offscreen canvas; React component wrappers; Vue composition hooks and page transitions; GreenSock and FLIP animations; taxonomy of flaky tests and race conditions; chaos engineering and incident response; React Native versus progressive web app
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building JavaScript for JavaScripters | Cassidy Williams | 22m |
Builds a babel 7 processor for CodePen using an explicit plugin array instead of presets, migrates from babel-standalone, and writes a custom infinite-loop… | ||
| Postmortem on the Ingen Incident | Hayley Denbraver | 28m |
A forensic review of Jurassic Park’s software and practices claims the engineered park fails: electric fences, visual scanners and power systems are brittle… | ||
| How to Have an Amicable Breakup With a JavaScript Library | Daria Caraway | 28m |
Demonstrates that wrapping third party APIs lets a codebase swap libraries without mass edits or broken tests, using React and TypeScript with Grommet then… | ||
| Codemods: Refactoring JavaScript using JavaScript | Saimon Sharif | 29m |
Explains how to programmatically refactor JavaScript using js-codeshift and recast, converting patterns like React.createClass to ES2015 classes and turning… | ||
| Pika: Reimagining the Registry | Fred K. Schott | 27m |
Pika claims bundlers aren’t required for everyday development and demonstrates concrete numbers and tools: measured apps with a one-minute cold start and 11s… | ||
| Data science in the browser: DX & UX | Jana Beck | 32m |
Shows a concrete pipeline: running TensorFlow.js t-SNE and UMAP on MNIST and clothes images inside the browser, moving heavy work into web workers and… | ||
| The Future of Web Animation | Sarah Drasner | 39m |
Demonstrates concrete techniques: Vue hooks composition that shares window/media state, Next page transitions with a persistent layout and Vuex page store, and… | ||
| The Art of Teaching | Lori Culberson | 33m |
Practical rules and evidence for teaching code: build schema by connecting new ideas to prior knowledge, create a no-judgment learning zone, and give explicit… | ||
| A Partial Taxonomy of Test Unreliability | Rich Trott | 30m |
A partial taxonomy catalogs concrete causes of unreliable tests with Node core examples: race conditions (deadlocks, too many processes, firewall throttling)… | ||
| A Tale of Two Architectures | Tejas Kumar | 32m |
Built a personal dosing app for hemophilia that shows a donut chart and models drug half‑life, implemented with React Native plus Apollo/GraphQL, demoing a… | ||
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