Web Unleashed 2015
2015-09-16..2015-09-17
Toronto, Canada
[Web Unleashed 2015, Web Unleashed 2016, Web Unleashed 2017, Spotlight Vue.js FITC 2018, Web Unleashed 2018, Web Unleashed 2019]
who it's for
front-end developers, javascript developers, mobile developers, web app architects, ux designers, qa engineers, build and release engineers
topics
ES6 language features; React application patterns; Angular 2 basics; Ember.js cross-platform apps; Ionic and PhoneGap apps; HTTP/2 performance strategies; Flexbox layout techniques; Chrome DevTools features; Grunt plugin development; Continuous delivery for HTML5; Maintainable style guides; Motion design for front end
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Upgrading the Web | Douglas Crockford | 59m |
Proposal upgrades the web by adding a transitional helper app that runs object-capability vats and uses secure JSON over TCP instead of HTTP/SSL, identifying… | ||
| Creating a Comprehensive Social Media App Using Ionic & PhoneGap | Andrey Feldman, Nick Van Weerdenburg | 44m |
Case study of a mobile wellness social network built with Ionic Framework and PhoneGap/Cordova that ships to iOS Android and as mobile web from one codebase in… | ||
| Your UX Is Not My UX | Andrew Smyk | 33m |
Argues for replacing vague user stories with job story = situation motivation outcome and shows concrete changes: observing travelers made Hipmunk’s agony… | ||
| A Journey With React | Taz Singh | 37m |
Overview
React has been receiving a lot of buzz lately but does it live up to it? Taz was curious about this exact question and decided to embark on a journey… | ||
| Maintainable Style Guides | Bermon Painter | 45m |
A concrete approach: stop copying HTML between docs and apps and serve UI modules from a versioned pattern API. Work involves Node, Angular, React, Sass… | ||
| The Future is in Pieces | Jonathan Snook | 44m |
Argues that modular UI wins: adopts SMACSS/BEM/Atomic Design, uses Sass, Pattern Lab and mustache-style templates, and pushes toward Web Components while… | ||
| Getting to Know Grunt By Writing Your Own Plugin | Jamie Strachan | 38m |
A developer writes a Grunt plugin that checks the installed Sass version and fails the build if it doesn’t match the required version, because differing Sass… | ||
| Performance in the World of HTTP 2.0 | Dave Methvin | 43m |
HTTP 2.0 already lands in major browsers and many servers so implementing it cuts latency by removing head‑of‑line blocking, using header compression to one… | ||
| An Intro to ES6 | Grant Skinner | 46m |
Overview
ECMAScript 6 is the approved and published standard for the next version of JavaScript. It offers new syntax and language features that provide new… | ||
| Swaggy Layouts With Flexbox | Haris Mahmood | 40m |
Shows concrete techniques: use display:flex plus margin-left: auto to build navs, use justify-content and align-items to vertically center responsive blocks… | ||
| Create a Mobile App in 45 Minutes with Ionic | Daniel Zen | 40m |
Claims that a fully working to‑do app can be built in 45 minutes and demonstrates it: a live, data‑driven to‑do app with add edit delete and toggle completion… | ||
| Managing The Process | Daniel Schutzmith | 46m |
Shows concrete steps: designate a process leader, dump everything into a wiki and template it, and use checklists to stop 3am panic. Demonstrations include a… | ||
| Continuous Delivery of HTML5 Applications | Yuri Takhteyev | 44m |
Rangle.io moves front-end projects to continuous delivery so every merge is deployable, aiming for one-week sprints and most stories finished in days… | ||
| Getting Started with Angular 2 | Rob McDiarmid | 47m |
Builds a working Angular 2 app live in Plunker and actually bootstraps a root component, showing templates, bindings and routing; uses Traceur runtime and… | ||
| Declare Bankruptcy on Technical Debt | Kacey Coughlin | 44m |
Argues that unchecked shortcuts turn small features into a messy contact form full of inline styles, dead classes and brittle hacks, and cites a Carnegie… | ||
| Measuring UX | Hira Javed | 35m |
Shows how to measure UX with Google’s HEART framework and a practical goal–signal–metric workflow, including concrete KPIs used at CBC: number of visitors from… | ||
| Web, Native iOS and Native Android with one Ember js App | Alexander Blom | 41m |
Single Ember.js codebase plus Cordova runs desktop web, mobile web, native iOS and Android, and yields real apps that feel native when engineered correctly… | ||
| What’s New in Chrome DevTools | Addy Osmani | 48m |
Chrome DevTools adds practical, testable features: film strip screenshots in Network and a new custom network throttling dropdown (presets plus user profiles —… | ||
| Breaking the Broken Web | Kyle Simpson | 46m |
Claim: the web is broken by choice — a commitment to eternal backwards compatibility and designs that assume unlimited bandwidth and battery. Evidence: average… | ||
| The Little Shop of TDD Horrors | Giorgio Natili | 43m |
Identifies concrete “testing smells” and shows fixes with real JavaScript Swift and Android examples including how to shrink setup and avoid over-mocking, how… | ||
| Badass Motion Design for Front end Developers | Ron Edelen | 44m |
Dissects concrete wins and failures and claims motion must be inseparable from layout, not decoration. Shows a crystallization effect that tiles one low‑res… | ||
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