Full Frontal 2013
who it's for
front-end developers, mobile web developers, javascript developers, performance engineers, tooling engineers, web component developers, node developers
topics
destructuring assignment in ES6; rest and spread operators; ES6 proxies; generators for sequences; Johnny-Five and Firmata (Arduino); node-ar-drone hardware control; start XHR within first 14KB; lazy parse to avoid 300KB penalty; touchend to avoid 360ms click delay; Chrome Remote Debugging protocol integration; Web Components with X-Tags and lifecycle callbacks; CSS-only generative visuals using transforms and gradients
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| ES6 Uncensored | Angus Croll | 31m |
Compares concrete ES5 solutions with ES6 rewrites: variable swap via destructuring assignment, Math.max with the spread operator, summing args with the rest… | ||
| JavaScript in the Real World | Andrew Nesbitt | 39m |
Shows how to control real hardware from Node: uses Johnny-Five + Firmata to talk to Arduino (LED, servos, a laser‑rabbit toy) and publishes the code on GitHub… | ||
| Mobile is not a thing; it's everything. | Joe McCann | 36m |
Claims rapid mobile growth with concrete figures: 1.25 billion devices ship this year, tablets overtake PC shipments, and Target expects >50% mobile traffic on… | ||
| Pushing the Limits of Mobile Performance | Andrew Grieve | 39m |
Mobile Gmail and Docs focus on concrete wins: remove the 300KB parse penalty (old iPhone ~3s, modern browsers ~330ms, lazy parse down to ~40ms), start the XHR… | ||
| Our web development workflow is completely broken | Kenneth Auchenberg | 29m |
Claim: the front-end workflow is broken because editors and runtimes are disconnected, producing a daily reload-edit-repeat loop patched by extra tools… | ||
| Stunning visuals with Maths and...no JavaScript? | Ana Tudor | 32m |
Recreates mathy visuals using only HTML and CSS (with Sass for generation), claiming no JavaScript is involved and showing when CSS wins and when it gets ugly… | ||
| Building with Web Components using X-Tags | Angelina Fabbro | 33m |
Uses Web Components via xtags/brick to build mobile UI: registers a custom tag with xtag.register, creates X-deck and X-card views, an X-app-bar, and an… | ||
| Time | Jeremy Keith | 44m |
Recreates the opening of Powers of Ten and uses that scale to argue the internet is physical — fiber cables dominate and the theoretical fastest… | ||
| nothing matches | ||