Front End North 2018
2018-01-19
Sheffield, United Kingdom
who it's for
front end developers, React developers, web performance engineers, web designers, engineering managers, UX designers
topics
living style guides and styleguidist; PouchDB to CouchDB sync; service worker asset caching; composed inline form validation; React Native and custom renderers; RxJS observables for UI flows; automated critical CSS generation; Jenkins pipelines for front end builds; accessibility audits and fixes; Contentful CMS integration
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Night of the Living Style Guides | Sarah Semark | 28m |
Claims that living style guides cut inconsistency and speed development get shown with concrete numbers, tools and techniques: automated audits find 250 unused… | ||
| OfflineFirst Apps with PouchDB and CouchDB | Lorna Jane Mitchell | 49m |
Demo shows a local PouchDB-powered shopping list that syncs to CouchDB/Cloudant and keeps browsers consistent after offline edits, proving replication actually… | ||
| Designing form validation the right way | Damian Nicholson | 34m |
Argues that inline validation improves speed and satisfaction but is often broken: 40% of major e‑commerce sites lack inline validation and of those that do… | ||
| Reacting to change | Ben Cooper | 28m |
Argues that the real change is a move to functional and reactive programming, shows that pure functions plus composition and disciplined side‑effect placement… | ||
| Build Anything With React | Jani Eväkallio | 45m |
Claims that React’s programming model runs everywhere, and demonstrates it: react native (same React core, ~50k stars, 8,000+ contributors) ships ~10 mobile… | ||
| Agile working in a slow-moving world | Chris Marsh | 24m |
A lot of concrete fixes and experiments not platitudes — a cross‑campus weekly drop‑in and Slack channel to reuse staff expertise, recruiting students for… | ||
| Owning Innovation | Tejay White | 30m |
Claims that matter: a tutor portal is rebuilt to serve data to tutors so teachers spend less time in the app and spot at‑risk students earlier reducing… | ||
| Selling Front-End | Kimb Jones | 33m |
A WordPress agency explains why selling front-end is about value not tech jargon, shows a wall of real tools (React, Sass, Webpack, Babel) as noise, and… | ||
| Automating Critical CSS | Rich Higgins | 30m |
Automates per-template critical CSS generation for a modular, CMS‑driven Co-op site using Contentful, Django, Fastly and the Filament/addy osmani tooling… | ||
| Marty McFly Has A Lot To Answer For | Craig Burgess | 35m |
Claims that responsive web design is ruined web design, argues technology inflation (he cites 81 different screen resolutions) and shows concrete examples… | ||
| nothing matches | ||