You Gotta Love Frontend 2015
2015-06-08..2015-06-09
Tel Aviv, Israel
[You Gotta Love Frontend 2015, You Gotta Love Frontend 2016, You Gotta Love Frontend 2017, You Gotta Love Frontend 2019, You Gotta Love Frontend 2020]
who it's for
frontend developers, frontend architects, full stack developers, mobile developers, engineering managers, server-side JavaScript developers
topics
BEM modular CSS; io.js server-side JavaScript; React Native internals; Web Push API; ArrayBuffer and TypedArrays; front end performance optimization; frontend security and privacy mistakes; front end team leadership; frontend hiring and careers; backend-frontend integration and APIs
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Upgrading the Web (Keynote) | Douglas Crockford | 37m |
Proposes a transition via a helper app that implements secure JSON over TCP with elliptic curve 521 public keys as global identifiers, producing 105‑digit… | ||
| Old Gods & New: A Vision of Backend & Frontend | Gil Tayar | 30m |
Argues for servers that parse and act on front-end assets: on‑the‑fly bundling of ES6 modules, transpilation with Babel and minifiers, and using HTTP/2 push to… | ||
| The web is getting pushy | Phil Nash | 31m |
Builds a tiny live app: Node + Express backend, Twitter streaming API and Server‑Sent Events to the page, EventSource and template strings client‑side, then… | ||
| Creepy frontend mistakes | Chen Shay | 21m |
Shows a working clickjacking iframe overlay that clicks hidden buttons, a live demo of autocomplete exfiltration via drag‑and‑drop, and concrete DOM XSS… | ||
| Bringing it all together | Efim Dimenstein, Itai Chejanovsky | 30m |
A complex enterprise single‑page app is built and running: 15+ cross‑domain microservice APIs, realtime visitor feed with ~5s updates, and sessions meant to… | ||
| Leading a Front End Development Team | Serge Krul | 29m |
A front-end team framework that reduces every conflict to love versus fear and converts fear into action with concrete practices: build confidence to make… | ||
| BEM - Building 'em modular | Yelena Jetpyspayeva, Vladimir Grinenko | 34m |
Claims that BEM (Block Element Modifier) solves CSS cascade, reuse, and naming at scale and shows a decade of deployment inside Yandex across 50+ services with… | ||
| The Aleph | Martin Kleppe | 56m |
Claims that a thousand‑generation Game of Life fits in 250 bytes and that JavaScript can run from a single Unicode character get demonstrated with working… | ||
| The missing slice (Keynote) | Lea verou | 01h 01m |
Claim: pie charts are deceptively tricky in CSS but solvable with concrete techniques. Demonstrations show a brittle skewed pseudo-element hack that breaks… | ||
| io.js and the future of server side JavaScript | Benjamin Gruenbaum | 29m |
Claims a concrete win: io.js attracted more active developers than node had in its entire history and later merges back into node, keeps V8 current and ships… | ||
| React Native: Under the Hood | Alexander Kotliarskyi | 26m |
Explains that React Native runs the React runtime on a JavaScriptCore runtime and communicates with platform code via an asynchronous serialized bridge that… | ||
| Coding Your Company Culture | Alex Wolkov | 27m |
Lists concrete builds and outcomes: chat bots using hubot can be live on Heroku in five minutes with over a thousand scripts on npm, small Hubot scripts that… | ||
| Binary Data Adventures in Browser JavaScript | Or Hiltch | 26m |
Demonstrates binary blobs decoded and rendered entirely in browser JavaScript: fetching ArrayBuffer via XHR2/File API, decoding H.264 with asm.js and… | ||
| Landing your dream job as a FED | Igal Steklov | 23m |
Nowadays the demand for Frontend developers is higher than ever. Plenty of offers and interesting positions. So getting hired as a FED should be easy, right?… | ||
| BOOM Performance | Eran Zinman | 28m |
Claims concrete fixes and measurable wins: users perceive <100ms as instant and >1s breaks focus, so target the boom window; fixing a loop by caching jQuery… | ||
| nothing matches | ||