Render Conference 2018
who it's for
front end developers, javascript developers, performance engineers, accessibility engineers, build and release engineers, iot developers, security engineers, technical designers
topics
CSS Grid and Houdini paint worklets; CSS custom properties theming; critical CSS delivery and parsing; webpack ML-driven code splitting; Web Bluetooth with Puck.js and Espruino; WebAssembly as cross-platform architecture; Payment Request API and tokenization; headless Chrome and DevTools automation; image and video delivery optimization; keyboard focus and focus-visible fixes; deploys tied to git tags and previews; Web Speech API with Dialogflow integration
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A CSS Carol | Una Kravets | 35m |
Covers concrete upgrades and demos: grid replaces clearfix and enables complex layouts (examples from Jules Forrest), will-change instead of translateZ for… | ||
| FaCSSt—CSS and Performance | Harry Roberts | 30m |
CSS parsing and delivery actually decide perceived speed: a 1 MB stylesheet costs about 200 ms parse on a Moto G4, embedding images with base64 blows up… | ||
| Data Sketches | A year of exotic data visualizations | Nadieh Bremer | 43m |
Year-long Data Sketches collaboration with Shirley Wu produces a monthly pair of data visuals, many published with writeups. Builds include a 5,000‑medal… | ||
| Let's Get Chatty with Conversational Interface in JavaScript | Tomomi Imura | 28m |
Shows working code that wires the browser Web Speech API (webkit SpeechRecognition plus speechSynthesis) to a Dialogflow backend and a Node.js socket server so… | ||
| Teach Your Bundler The Users' Habits | Minko Gechev | 20m |
Describes a webpack-based pipeline that uses Google Analytics navigation graphs, a static parser and a clustering step to produce ml plugin driven chunking and… | ||
| How to hack a web app? | Asim Hussain | 30m |
Claims that the biggest risks are known and unpatched vulnerabilities: Equifax breached via known Apache Struts vuln patched two months earlier and many… | ||
| Serving for the win - Deploys and hosting for the rest of us | Phil Hawksworth | 43m |
Describes concrete failures and fixes: FTP-and-manual-file-dragging leaves deployments unknowable; version control must extend to production so every deploy is… | ||
| Reducing the friction of online payments | Peter O'Shaughnessy | 22m |
Checkout friction falls with concrete results: cart abandonment is ~68% on desktop and ~84% on mobile, J.Crew gets 50% of users through an express flow and… | ||
| Escaping the Sandbox with Puck.js | Gordon Williams | 16m |
Shows that Puck.js running Espruino executes real JavaScript on-device so web pages control hardware via Web Bluetooth, not just demos. Claims devices run for… | ||
| Common ways we break accessibility and how to avoid them | Laura Carvajal | 32m |
Over 70% of websites break accessibility, leaving 10–20% of customers unable to use them; this talk shows concrete fixes: removing CSS like outline:none hides… | ||
| Creating IoT applications with Web Bluetooth | Martin Woolley | 17m |
Bluetooth ships 10 million devices every day and Bluetooth mesh now supports thousands-node smart-building networks. Web Bluetooth shows working demos: BBC… | ||
| Physical interfaces for digital applications | Indira Knight | 13m |
Shows how to connect an Arduino Uno to a web server and exchange real data: sketches with setup/loop, reading pins, serial prints, using a terminating… | ||
| WebAssembly as cross-platform architecture?! | Benedek Gagyi | 26m |
Shows a real cross‑platform C++ codebase from join.me compiled for web with Emscripten and migrated toward WebAssembly, claims four years of production… | ||
| DevTools and Headless Chrome - The Automation Power-Couple | Yonatan Mevorach | 19m |
Demos combining Chrome Headless and DevTools show concrete automation: launch headless Chrome, use Puppeteer to open pages, send raw DevTools protocol commands… | ||
| Delivering fast and beautiful images and video | Doug Sillars | 03m |
Slides and demos show concrete wins: average JPEG ~47 KB while WebP >50% smaller, one image drops to 345 KB with structural similarity quality and format… | ||
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