FFConf 2017
2017-11-09..2017-11-10
Brighton, United Kingdom
ffConf ·
[ffconf 2014, ffconf 2015, ffconf 2016, FFConf 2017, ffConf 2018, ffconf 2019, ffconf 2022, ffconf 2023, ffconf 2024]
who it's for
frontend developers, web platform engineers, performance engineers, developer tooling engineers, site reliability engineers, UX engineers
topics
Create React App workflow; compiler and bundler tooling; Stylable CSS preprocessor; shadow DOM and element lifecycle; service workers and caching; code-splitting and PRPL; Brotli and MozJPEG optimization; Chrome User Experience Report; email-first and password reset flows; V8 garbage collection diagnostics; Chrome DevTools memory snapshots; in-browser live coding and games
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Rethinking The Web Platform | James Kyle | 33m |
Argues for re‑centering the web on reusable components and teaching by building apps early, shows a working Create React App starter workflow, describes… | ||
| If You're Going Out Of San Francisco… | Bruce Lawson | 49m |
Argues that the real problem is getting the free open web to the other four billion and shows a concrete tool: Stylable, a CSS preprocessor used at Wix to keep… | ||
| How The Web Sausage Gets Made | Monica Dinculescu | 34m |
Begins in 2010 with a proposal that becomes the extensible web manifesto and pushes for low‑level primitives not high‑level widgets. Browsers implement shadow… | ||
| Lessons Learned Sciencing The Web | Addy Osmani | 42m |
Argues that the right specifics decide optimization: measure with BigQuery, WebPageTest, Lighthouse, Puppeteer and the Chrome User Experience Report, then… | ||
| My Password Doesn't Work | Blaine Cook | 35m |
A concrete claim: passwords matter less than control of your email because most logins fall back to a reset link, so password reset proves passwords pointless… | ||
| Memory Don't Forget To Take Out The Garbage | Katie Fenn | 30m |
Explains how JavaScript actually reclaims memory: new objects go into a young generation with minor garbage collection ~1 ms and surviving pages move to an old… | ||
| Abstract Art In A Time Of Minification | Jenn Schiffer | 38m |
Claim: view source disappears behind developer tools so newcomers lose the learning path. Concrete examples: Make8bitart.com hosts thousands of pixel artworks… | ||
| Alpha, Beta, Gamer: Dev Mode | Joe Hart | 43m |
Live performance mixes playable web games, standup, and a rapid build of a platformer made from audience artwork; set pieces include a cooperative Flappy Bird… | ||
| nothing matches | ||