JS Fest 2018
2018-03-30..2018-03-31
Kiev, Ukraine
JS Fest ·
[JS Fest 2018, JS Fest 2019 Spring, JS Fest 2019 Autumn]
as the organisers put it
JS Fest is professional conference dedicated to JavaScript development. What is happening in JS world? What's new in the JavaScript world? Which trends in Front-end development have appeared recently? Which frameworks are getting more popular and which ones are dying? How to make the development process more efficient? JS Fest is a space where leading professionals in JS field will share their experience helping to find answers to these and many other questions. Only real cases. Only top-notch trends.
who it's for
JavaScript developers, frontend developers, mobile web developers, Node.js developers, platform and backend engineers, QA and test engineers, engineering managers
topics
React and React Native; GraphQL APIs; WebAssembly vs JavaScript; Conflict-free replicated data; Node.js microservices with CQRS; Mutation testing in JavaScript; Browser APIs for mobile web; SSE WebSocket long-polling comparisons; V8 performance tuning; Pixel shader UI components; E2E testing with Hermione; Interactive command-line apps in Node
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Power of the Paradigm | Douglas Crockford | 01h 03m |
Claims the next paradigm is asynchronous message passing and argues the actor model fits distributed systems better than RPC/HTTP, promises, generators or… | ||
| WebAssembly vs JavaScript | Alexandr Skachkov | 52m |
WebAssembly is a compact binary format browsers can fetch and parse in parallel to run compiled C/C++, Rust and C# inside web pages; real examples include… | ||
| Features in creating React/Redux Cordova IOS/Android Mobile Apps | Lilia Karpenko | 47m |
During the talk, we'll talk about the features of creating an off-standard mobile application using Cordova / PhoneGap + React / Redux. We will go through the… | ||
| Microservice Architecture with Reusable Components | Nikita Galkin | 40m |
Describes using Node.js, Docker and RabbitMQ to build microservice fleets composed from reusable private npm packages, published to Nexus and shipped as… | ||
| Distributed Data: Conflict-free Data Structures in JS | Max Klymyshyn | 49m |
Covers Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) in JavaScript for building distributed, eventually-consistent apps where browsers and phones can each hold… | ||
| Running JS engine on a microcontroller (UK) | Volodymyr Shymanskyy | 54m |
JavaScript is everywhere! Just recently I was trying to run the same JS code in Browser, Node.js, and React Native, and now a new challenge occurred - Embedded… | ||
| Mutation Testing in JavaScript | Andrey Kucherenko | 50m |
Mutation testing for JavaScript uses the Striker tool (npm install striker; striker run) to create mutants (binary, boolean, statement removal) and shows it… | ||
| W.T.F. is GraphQL? | Ivan Goncharov | 57m |
Builds a Star Wars profile page to explain GraphQL by showing exact queries, server resolvers, and an added voting feature implemented with Express… | ||
| React-Native: Introduction | Ilya Ivanov | 55m |
Creating native mobile applications with JavaScript? How is this even possible? This talk will show how React-Native works and his internal structure. Why… | ||
| How to Make a Mobile Web App Better with Browser APIs | Timofey Lavrenyuk | 40m |
A news-aggregator app migrated from Cordova to a native Android build, then moved back toward a Progressive Web App using Web App Manifest, Service Worker and… | ||
| The Better Parts | Douglas Crockford | 56m |
Argues for keeping only the reliable features of JavaScript and shows concrete choices: uses JSLint to enforce safety, removes null and avoids this by favoring… | ||
| Pixel Shader-based UI Components and Let’s Write Your First Pixel Shader | Denis Radin | 56m |
Shows how pixel shaders written in GLSL for WebGL can be used in web UIs instead of large sprite sheets, and demonstrates a live workshop that implements a… | ||
| How Microsoft To-Do Uses React | Alex Migutsky | 01h 02m |
Microsoft To-Do’s web app is built with React, Redux, Reselect and partial TypeScript, and the talk explains wiring many independently connected components to… | ||
| FaCSSt: CSS & Performance | Harry Roberts | 52m |
Slides and experiments show concrete, actionable findings: a 1 MB stylesheet takes about 200 ms parse on a Moto G, base64-encoding images in CSS makes parsing… | ||
| $ecret | Alex Migutsky | 54m |
A Microsoft To‑Do web developer argues that programmers should focus on reducing costs and creating business value rather than just writing code, proposing a… | ||
| Why Fast Matters | Harry Roberts | 52m |
Shows that shaving 0.3s drives an extra £8.1M per year, turning on gzip cuts bandwidth by 43%, and cutting load times 80% yields an 80% jump in organic… | ||
| Warm up your engine! or I know what you did last summer to V8 (UK) | Sergiy Babich | 57m |
Brief overview of things, good and bad, which happened to V8, NodeJS Javascript engine, in recent versions, where it got improvements or new performance… | ||
| How to Write a Compass Plugin | Anna Herlihy | 41m |
Compass exposes a plugin API for Electron apps built with NodeJS and React; the implementation uses an app registry with activate/unactivated hooks, webpack… | ||
| SSE vs WebSockets vs Long Polling | Martin Chaov | 58m |
Concrete comparison of SSE, Web-Sockets, and Long-Polling with code and a working demo: Node backends behind nginx, HTTP/2 multiplexing pushes many widget… | ||
| GraphQL — Usable API or Just Another Hype? | Vladimir Zaets | 54m |
Compares GraphQL and REST with concrete tradeoffs: schema generation tools (PostGraphile, Prisma) save manual mappings but can duplicate schemas; N+1 database… | ||
| Useful Tools and Utils for JS Development | Alexey Volkov | 01h 01m |
A practical walkthrough of a JS project lifecycle from first commit to deployment using concrete tools: project scaffolding with create-react-app or Yeoman via… | ||
| E2E Testing Front-end with Hermione | Sergei Puzankovs | 56m |
How to add real end-to-end checks using the Hermione framework for front-end apps: shows configuring Hermione, running tests in parallel per test to speed… | ||
| Just Vue it | Oleksii Babakhanov | |
Detailed overview the marvelous front-end framework called Vue.js with all advantages and disadvantages. | ||
| Building interactive command line applications | Mathias Buus | 54m |
Claims that rendering the whole terminal UI each update then sending a minimal text diff is simpler and fast enough; demos use Node, ANSI codes and ncurses… | ||
| ES X | Vitalii Ratyshnyi | 35m |
Covers the current status of ECMAScript proposals and when they land in engines: async iterators (for await...of) are finished (stage 4) and implemented in… | ||
| NodeJS Microservices + CQRS + Event Sourcing — Why Do I Do This? | Roman Sachenko | 48m |
Describes building Node.js microservices using CQRS and Event Sourcing to produce a replayable audit log for debugging and dispute resolution. Implementation… | ||
| A Glimpse into the Future of React | Roman Iakobchuk | 59m |
Predicts React will remain dominant for about a decade, highlights the React Fiber rewrite and the split of react and react-dom, and describes concrete… | ||
| Heroes of Might and Magic in the Browser: Long, Difficult and Incredibly Interesting | Alexander Korotaev | 58m |
A browser port of Heroes of Might and Magic is described, covering concrete engineering solutions used to turn three years of evening work into a playable… | ||
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