Frontrunners 2023
as the organisers put it
Frontrunners is an annual JavaScript and web developers conference held in the Washington, DC area! The next Frontrunners will be March 10, 2023 in Arlington, VA at GMU's Van Metre Hall (formerly Founders Hall).
who it's for
frontend developers, web developers, engineering managers, UX designers, accessibility engineers, civic technologists
topics
progressive web apps; service worker caching strategies; micro frontend composition patterns; Qwik resumability and serialization; design system tokenization and rollout; software quality checklist (ACRUMEN); accessibility overlays evaluation; api rate-limit caching and pagination; weakmap and proxy state patterns; property-based and mutation testing
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Health Practices for Programmers | Casey Watts | 04m |
Numb hands and ruined posture can make sitting and working impossible; concrete tests and exercises include a nerve Glide self-test to detect nerve tension, a… | ||
| Soufyan – "Intro to Micro Frontend" | Soufyan | 08m |
Short five-minute intro that claims micro frontends let independent teams own UI pieces — example: three product widgets and separate checkout/related-product… | ||
| Keynote: "The Most Annoying Lesson to Learn" | Allison McMillan | 28m |
Parenting forces a set of concrete leadership experiments and measurable fixes: claim that being forced out of comfort zones makes better managers, evidence… | ||
| "Intro to Progressive Web Apps" | Chris Lorenzo | 26m |
Shows how to enable an web app manifest, register a service worker, and push a web notification; demonstrates using the service worker to serve different image… | ||
| "ACRUMEN: What IS Software Quality, Anyway?" | Dave Aronson | 24m |
A concise, actionable definition called ACRUMEN claims software must be Appropriate, Correct, Robust, Usable, Maintainable, Efficient and fits on a business… | ||
| "Anyone Can be a #CivicTech Hero" | Jordan Kasper | 26m |
A developer identifies a concrete problem with regulations.gov, finds the regulations.gov API on api.data.gov 1,000/hour limit, and builds an MVP site… | ||
| Intro to Qwik: The Answer to Web App Scalability Issues | Doguhan Uluca | 28m |
Claims Qwik achieves O(1) scalability and no hydration — resumability, delivering 5–10× faster full-page loads under one second at scale. It builds… | ||
| "Design Systems from 0 to 1" | John Athayde | 27m |
Clear, actionable path: start with a UI audit (screenshots reveal seven left navs and 15 button variants), pick measurable goals for consistency and… | ||
| "All Sizzle, No Steak" | Karl Groves | 27m |
Research shows accessibility overlays market themselves as claims to make sites compliant in 24 hours while shipping a tiny JavaScript snippet or widget that… | ||
| "Design Patters for Modern JavaScript" | Justin Schroeder | 38m |
Shows four concrete patterns and demos the results: module scopes for a persistent global store with a clickable shopping cart and reactive badge, weak maps… | ||
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