FrontKon 2023
who it's for
frontend developers, junior frontend developers, engineering managers, ux designers, accessibility engineers, developer experience engineers, design technologists
topics
Chrome DevTools command palette; webpack cold-start caching; accessibility checklist and testing; frontend career development framework; remote-work mental health practices; junior hiring and onboarding; design-developer collaboration workflows; low-fidelity models for UI; flexbox growth and basis rules; Interaction to Next Paint (INP) debugging; module federation patterns; container queries versus media queries
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| DevTools: The developer's Swiss Army knife | Michal Matuška | 22m |
Overview of browser DevTools panels, settings, and lesser-known features (the "Swiss Army knife" of developers) demonstrating tools to increase debugging… | ||
| Webpack… and beyond? | Honza Hrubý | 19m |
Overview of the new generation of JavaScript bundlers and how they compare to Webpack. Discussion focuses on whether projects should migrate to a modern… | ||
| Web Accessibility - a better user experience for everyone! | Michaela Rudolfová | 22m |
Practical checklist for improving web accessibility: ensure text contrast >= 4.5 using Chrome DevTools contrast inspector, use a base font size of at least… | ||
| Growth in the frontend: personal and technical development hand in hand | Marek Velas, Petra Kubita Nulíčková | 23m |
Talk explains how to balance technical skills and personal growth to advance in frontend development, focusing on practical strategies to level up without… | ||
| How to maintain your mental health in the post‑COVID era | Petr Buchbauer | 25m |
Talk explains how permanent remote work, combined with not taking vacations, erodes work–life boundaries and increases burnout risk in IT. It describes… | ||
| How to Get Your First Job in IT? | Roman “yablko” Hraška | 26m |
Practical advice for getting a first IT job: concrete steps to break the cycle where applicants have certificates but are ignored, while employers claim there… | ||
| Junior as an investment: Why to have one on the team and how to onboard them | Honza Javorek | 13m |
Talk explains why hiring junior developers is a long-term investment and how to onboard them effectively. It covers how to find juniors with rapid-growth… | ||
| Dev Fiction: Juniors and the reality of the development team | Marta Kirchgessner | 08m |
A frontend developer who trained as a historian describes the myths around hiring and being a junior developer, like unrealistic expectations for enthusiasm… | ||
| Discussion: Juniors in the world of frontend | Honza Javorek, Marta Kirchgessner, Roman “yablko” Hraška | 30m |
A panel discussion about the role of junior frontend developers in teams, featuring Honza Javorek, Marta Kirchgessner, and Roman Hraška with Jana Nečasová… | ||
| How not to kill yourself working with a designer 2.0 | Jakub Šenk | 24m |
Practical look at how team structure, documentation, and communication practices impact deliverables, stakeholder awareness, and working relationships when… | ||
| Models instead of high‑fidelity UI designs | Martin Kopta | 09m |
The talk challenges reliance on high-fidelity UI prototypes and argues that detailed screen-by-screen designs can be redundant and slow. It presents using… | ||
| Behind the mysteries of flexbox: Why it doesn't do what I want? | Tomáš Pustelník | 08m |
Explains how CSS Flexbox actually distributes space among items and why its behavior often seems unintuitive. Covers the underlying rules that cause unexpected… | ||
| A look under the hood of the new INP metric | Zuzana Šumlanská | 25m |
Overview of Google's new web performance metric Interaction to Next Paint (INP), which will replace First Input Delay (FID) in March 2024; explains that INP is… | ||
| Module Federation: Theory vs Practice | Milan Holeš | 28m |
A team moved a 10+ site monolith to micro-frontends and used Webpack Module Federation to share a design-system package and other code without republishing… | ||
| Container Queries vs. Media Queries | Kateřina N. Voláková | 19m |
Comparison of CSS Media Queries and the newer CSS Container Queries for responsive design, focusing mainly on Container Queries. Explains how Container Queries… | ||
| Is It Time for Clean CSS? | Jan Svěrák | 24m |
Explores whether modern pure CSS (no preprocessors, post-processing, or CSS frameworks) can support long-term maintainability and easier onboarding without… | ||
| What’s New in Storybook | Tereza Vaňková | 20m |
Covers recent updates and new features in Storybook, the UI component development environment for frontend developers. Describes how the latest Storybook… | ||
| Design System 1.0 | Adam Kudrna | 29m |
Covers maturing a design system from experimental to stable: how a design-system team prepares for "adulthood," communicates with product teams about breaking… | ||
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