You Gotta Love Frontend 2020
2020-08-27..2020-08-28
Vilnius, Lithuania
[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, web designers, React developers, frontend tooling engineers, build tool authors, web performance engineers, type designers
topics
css named colors; CIE LAB and LCH color; color-mix and color-contrast; React Query useQuery/useMutation; Suspense data fetching; web performance metrics FCP LCP CLS; Lighthouse audits with BigQuery; variable fonts axes wght wdth opsz; font subsetting and sizing; AST parsing and code generation; TypeScript compiler APIs; esquery pattern matching
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Prismatic World of CSS Colours | Chen Hui Jing | 51m |
History of CSS color names (16 from HTML, the rest from X11) gets traced to sRGB and hex notation like #BADA55, with the surprising fact that there are 148… | ||
| Road to Async Nirvana | Boris Litvinsky | 35m |
Claims that React Query plus modern Hooks and Suspense actually removes the usual async boilerplate by providing useQuery/useMutation, built-in caching… | ||
| The Metric System: Making Correct Performance Measurements | Henri Helvetica | 38m |
Slides trace FireBug back to two simple measurements — pre- and post-load — then maps concrete modern metrics (FCP, FMP, TTFB, Speed Index, LCP, CLS, FID, TTI… | ||
| Variable Fonts and Responsive Typography | Mandy Michael | 45m |
Variable fonts let one file act like many and reduce font requests while often matching or beating combined static sizes — e.g. Source Sans variable ~112 KB… | ||
| Do You Want to Build a Build Tool? | Craig Spence | 31m |
Shows concrete, runnable steps: read source files with Node fs and path, parse into ASTs (esprima / the TypeScript compiler APIs suggestion), query with… | ||
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