Web Unleashed 2016
2016-10-03..2016-10-04
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, ux designers, angular developers, react developers, mobile developers, engineering managers
topics
scrum with CI and continuous deployment; service worker backed progressive web apps; Ionic 2 with TypeScript; angular 2 ahead-of-time compilation; Web Animations API usage; three.js with WebVR API; ES6 let and destructuring; flexbox layout techniques; CSS custom properties; variable fonts OpenType 1.8; react performance with virtual DOM; bots with Bot Framework and LUIS
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Process Hacking With Rangle Flow | Yuri Takhteyev | 46m |
Rangle.io refines a delivery recipe used across dozens of short MVP projects over three years and proves it scales: a team of 70 JavaScript developers runs… | ||
| Programming Play | Stacey Mulcahy | 42m |
Claim: play reverses burnout by producing concrete, transferable work. Builds include a Raspberry Pi butt-sensor installation called booty bump that triggers… | ||
| Dirty Little Tricks From The Dark Corners Of Front-End | Vitaly Friedman | 56m |
Shows concrete hacks and whether they actually work: a calc-based fluid type formula that hits 16px at 400px and 24px at 800px without media queries; a… | ||
| Ionic 2: Your First @App | Mike Hartington | 43m |
Ionic 2 claims a simple path from web skills to cross-platform apps by combining Angular 2 and TypeScript with Cordova and a standard build/watch CLI. Demo… | ||
| Once Upon a Drop Cap: A Look at Typography as UX | Jason Pamental | 45m |
Argues that variable fonts (OpenType 1.8) can replace the 18 separate web font files demoed, shrinking 549 KB of font baggage into one adaptable file and… | ||
| Next Level UI Building Blocks With Angular2 | Matias Niemelä | 38m |
Shows concrete Angular2 features: a component-scoped animation DSL compiled ahead to fast JS with ahead-of-time compilation, uses the Web Animations API… | ||
| The Humans Are Dead, We Are All Bots Now | Tommy Lewis | 45m |
Claims concrete: a rule‑of‑thumb bot that dismissed 160,000 parking tickets proves dumb question‑and‑answer flows can solve real problems; deployment examples… | ||
| What Pokemon Go and Smart Kitchens Taught Us About Design | Ron Edelen | 39m |
Pokemon Go proves augmented reality drives real foot traffic and 20 million monthly users can change perceived value of physical places; a bakery adding free… | ||
| VR With JavaScript | Ricardo Cabello | 48m |
Shows concrete steps and working demos: uses three.js plus the experimental WebVR API with VRControls and VREffect, plus a Chrome extension emulator to test… | ||
| Start Using ES6 Today | Wes Bos | 38m |
ES6 features are usable now: block-scoped let/const fix closure loop bug so delayed callbacks see the right loop index, template strings allow embedded… | ||
| CSS Layout Techniques: Replacing Floats With Flexbox | Bermon Painter | 44m |
Shows exact CSS that centers a box with a few rules and replaces float hacks by using flex properties on the parent, building real layouts: media object, Holy… | ||
| A Cartoon Guide To Performance in React | Lin Clark | 34m |
Content gives concrete mechanisms: uses virtual DOM to batch DOM updates so the main thread does fewer reflows; keys prevent full reorders by making instance… | ||
| Increasing Effectiveness As A Technical Candidate/Interviewer | Scott Biggart | 46m |
Panel argues tech interviews are broken and shows concrete fixes: stop keyword filters, run short technical calls that probe depth, use pair programming… | ||
| A Round Table on The State of Front-End: (Ember, Angular, React) | Alexander Blom, Mike Hartington, Varun Vachhar, Aidan Nulman | 46m |
Panel debates concrete tradeoffs: Angular emphasizes decorators and ahead‑of‑time precompilation and is tied to Ionic for componentized mobile UIs; React… | ||
| Browser Internals for JS Devs | Alexander Blom | 41m |
Shows concrete things that change code: browsers run on two main threads so layout and heavy JS block rendering, CSS transforms run on the compositor so… | ||
| Accessibility Models in Tech Companies | Geordie Gibbons | 45m |
Ontario law requires WCAG 2.0 requirement for orgs with 50+ employees on public websites and removes the retroactive exemption on Jan 1 2021; organizations… | ||
| CSS Variables: var(–subtitle) | Lea verou | 44m |
Claims that CSS custom properties are usable now and more powerful than preprocessor variables, demonstrated with live demos: themable buttons, SVG “eyes”… | ||
| DownTheRabbitHole.js – How to Stay Sane in an Insane Ecosystem | Branden Hall | 41m |
Built an HTML5 educational game called space forensics for NASA and the project proves the talk favors concrete choices: using ES6 with Babel, webpack/brunch… | ||
| A Day in The Life of a Developer Bo$$ | Dyanna Zaidman, Robyn Larsen, Haris Mahmood, Wes Bos | 42m |
Starts with concrete routines: code from six in the morning until noon and reserve afternoons for meetings, plus weekly no tech days and one-day “bits and… | ||
| The Evolution and Future of Content Publishing | Haris Mahmood | 32m |
Argues that static HTML is fastest and shows site load drops from ~4s to 0.4s after moving off a PHP CMS; demonstrates Jekyll’s pipeline of Markdown + front… | ||
| Thinking Outside The Little Black Box: Interaction Design in The Post-Mobile Era | Jonathan Stark | 35m |
Prediction: cheap chips and sensors make everyday objects connected so a hammer or doorknob gains networked capabilities, and web professionals must deliver… | ||
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