NationJS Frontrunners 2019
who it's for
JavaScript developers, frontend developers, Node.js developers, full-stack web developers, web accessibility engineers, platform and tooling engineers
topics
ES modules in Node 12; VS Code remote development with WSL; Next.js server-rendered React; Apollo GraphQL with WordPress; Redis caching for frontend apps; JWT auth with Netlify Functions; TypeScript migration and tooling; Web Audio API signal processing; getUserMedia and canvas chroma keying; drone control over UDP; progressive web app Cache API; Lighthouse-driven accessibility audits
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Futurist Code Bases: Integrating JS of the FutureToday | Brian Holt | 24m |
Node 12 finally runs ES modules in Node 12 (with --experimental-modules) and ES2019 lands features like Object.fromEntries, trimStart/trimEnd, flat/flatMap and… | ||
| The Hybrid Experiment: Merging Node.js, WordPress, and React | Chiedo | 21m |
Attempts to serve a React front end from Node with Next.js server-rendered React proxying WordPress APIs and using Apollo for GraphQL hit authentication… | ||
| I Don't Hate JavaScript Anymore | Michael Szul | 26m |
Shows a tiny Node.js demo calling IBM Watson that parses an article and returns keywords so the code actually runs, demonstrates how let/const fixes hoisting… | ||
| JavaScript, JavaScript…. Rocks You! | Vitalii Bobrov | 25m |
Live jamming on stage demonstrates converting a plugged‑in guitar into classic pedal tones using the Web Audio stack: capture via getUserMedia + AudioContext… | ||
| Authentication for the REST of us | Divya Sasidharan | 27m |
Progressively adds authentication to a barebones web app, showing concrete code that issues JWTs with HS256, signs them with the jsonwebtoken Node module, and… | ||
| Controlling a swarm of drones with JavaScript | Jasper Schulte | 29m |
JavaScript code running on Node.js sends UDP strings to cheap Ricetec Talo drones, reads 10–20Hz telemetry, and coordinates four drones over a grid of mission… | ||
| Building Bridges, Not Walls: An Approach to Accessibility | Ashley Jean | 18m |
Company-wide accessibility plan gets drafted, piloted and adopted as the standard for mdlogix applications; roadmap breaks work into six concrete steps (define… | ||
| How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love TypeScript | Tommy O'Keefe | 27m |
TypeScript moves codebases from confusion to clarity by adding concrete type signatures, IDE hover info and early errors. Migrating an Angular app and rewrote… | ||
| Be a Jedi developer. Become one with the Source, and the Source will guide you. | Nir Kaufman | 26m |
A concrete routine claims real payoff: spend five minutes a day in a small playground, open code, and follow one question to the source. Demos use quokka… | ||
| Take on me, web browsers! | Eva Ferreira | 26m |
Claims browser can mimic rotoscoping by removing chroma backgrounds and compositing live video with CSS and canvas processing. Implementation uses getUserMedia… | ||
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