dotJS 2014
2014-11-17
Paris, France
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who it's for
JavaScript developers, front end developers, Node.js developers, web security engineers, open source maintainers, tooling engineers, technical leads
topics
immutable offline webapps; dependency static analysis; CSS Grid layout; Node.js performance tuning; indie open source sustainability; web audio tools for musicians; React component evolution; polyfills and shims; jsdom DOM emulation; JSON Web Tokens authentication
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A day at | 02m | |
Title gives nothing beyond a mood, and the page contains no specifics so skip unless hunger for ambience wins. Worth watching only if it lists an actual claim… | ||
| Immutable offline webapps | James Halliday | 17m |
Shows concrete hacks and working demos: using the cache manifest to make pages survive when the server is killed and even intentionally brick a site by setting… | ||
| Dependencies Static Analysis and The Grid | Charlie Robbins | 11m |
Builds a pipeline that walks the global NPM dependency graph, downloads tarballs, generates ASTs and runs static analysis so answers that were minutes or hours… | ||
| Tuning Node | Joe McCann | 16m |
Shows concrete V8 edits that change performance: functions shorter than 600 characters get inlined and drop a loop from about 10s to ~2s, changing the flag… | ||
| A guide to Indie Open Source Software | Yehuda Katz | 20m |
Argues that indie open source succeeds by specific practices: diversify core team membership across companies, insist on 20% time for maintainers who also ship… | ||
| Tools for the 21st century musician | Soledad Penadés | 22m |
Web Audio API delivers accurate scheduling in audio time rather than DOM timing so parameter automation (setValueAtTime, linearRampToValueAtTime) produces… | ||
| React Through the Ages | Paul O'Shannessy | 18m |
A concise origin story and roadmap: React starts at Facebook from XHP and experiments in SML and Hack before moving to JavaScript, built into an interactive… | ||
| A Shimblance of Success | John-David Dalton | 15m |
Built-ins often run slower, behave inconsistently across engines, and shims are frequently partial or break specs; measurable regressions and traps crop up in… | ||
| Pulling the Plug | Mike McNeil | 18m |
A concrete specification for wrapping functions as self‑describing units claims to solve plugin chaos by embedding inputs, exits, examples and types into the… | ||
| A Book Nerd's Guide to JavaScript | Angus Croll | 14m |
Argues that literary techniques produce concrete JavaScript patterns and shows a published experiment called "If Hemingway wrote JavaScript" — 25 authors… | ||
| A JavaScript Project Checklist | Justin Meyer | 16m |
A practical checklist emerges from a review of 30 projects across many companies with measured influence per item the strongest predictor of success is whether… | ||
| The jsdom | Domenic Denicola | 17m |
A JavaScript reimplementation of the DOM that runs in Node and in workers claims to run real browser code by providing jsdom plus an HTML5 parser CSSOM XHR and… | ||
| JSON Web Tokens | Martin Gontovnikas | 04m |
Shows how JSON Web Tokens replace cookie sessions by putting header payload and signature into a compact string and signing it with a server secret so the… | ||
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