Gil Tayar
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- ReactNext2 editions2024–2026
- jsday2 editions2020–2022
- You Gotta Love Frontend2 editions2015–2019
all 20 in the filters
on a stage with
- Ariel Shulmanonce
- Michal Hershkovitzonce
- Nir Kaufmanonce
all 4 in the filters
who talks about the same things
- Stefan Judis23 talks
- Shawn Swyx Wang32 talks
- Ben Ilegbodu25 talks
- Brian Holt17 talks
- Phil Hawksworth22 talks
- Kyle Simpson24 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Server-Side Apps, Not Server-Side Rendering: A Real Alternative to React | ReactNext 2026 | 2026-06-23 |
Claims a full-featured app ships with ~10–14 MB bundle using React while a server-driven approach uses ~HTMX plus ~1 KB client JS, the HTMX runtime ~50–70 KB… | ||
| Did AI Kill Frontend? | ReactNext 2026 | 2026-06-23 |
Panel argues AI does not kill frontend but changes the craft: teams use GitHub Copilot and agent workflows, some measure developer output by tokens and see… | ||
| Towards a simpler JavaScript ecosystem | ReactNext 2024 | 2024-06-24 |
Argues that development can drop heavy bundlers and transpilation by using import maps, browser ESM, on‑the‑fly CDNs (esmDosh), JSDoc type checking and 103… | ||
| ESM Loaders: Enhancing Module Loading in Node.js | NodeTLV 2023 | 2023-06-28 |
Explains how ESM loaders hook the module resolve/load hooks to change resolution and file reads, with concrete examples: an overrides.json resolver that… | ||
| ESM Loaders: Enhancing Module Loading in Node.js | JSNation 2023 | 2023-06-01 |
Claims that ESM loaders let Node.js change resolution and loading phases and shows working code: a tiny overrides.json mapping loader that redirects… | ||
| Towards a simpler JavaScript ecosystem | JSHeroes 2023 | 2023-05-18 |
Claims that a Create React App can run without bundlers or transpilation get demonstrated: a live demo shows edit and F5 refreshes working, JSX handled with… | ||
| Typed JavaScript? For real? The “type annotations” proposal and what it’s all about | JSConf Budapest 2022 | 2022-06-02 |
A TC39 Stage 1 proposal reserves explicit syntax spots so type annotations become legal JS, with the key claim that types are ignored at runtime (runtime… | ||
| The time to migrate to ESM in Node.js is now! | jsday 2022 | 2022-04-21 |
ESM has been in Node since v12 and the talk argues migration is urgent because ESM is part of the language not a userland hack, it enables top-level await and… | ||
| Frontend Testing: Mapping Out the Territory | Build Stuff 2021 | 2021-11-17 |
A practical map of front-end testing that claims confidence comes from using the right tool at each level: Cypress end-to-end for user flows and occasional… | ||
| Docker and the Path to a Better Staging Environment | TestCon Europe 2021 | 2021-09-07 |
Demonstrates building a real staging stack: a Node.js/React blog plus MongoDB, containerized with Docker Compose for single-host staging and deployed to a… | ||
| ES Modules in Node JS | Infobip Shift 2021 | 2021-09-07 |
Node v12 ships unflagged ESM after the spec (June 2015) and Node implementation (Nov 2019), and the talk argues the actual change is a semantics break: Node… | ||
| Divide and conquer: using NPM to scale you codebase | AngularUP Experience 2020 | 2020-11-30 |
www.angular-up.com
AngularUP Experience, Nov 30th-Dec 3rd, 2020
Twitter: @AngularUP
Gil Tayar
Senior Software Architect @ Applitools
Divide and conquer… | ||
| FOUR PILLARS AND A BASE: THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF A MONOREPO | jsday 2020 | 2020-09-10 |
Claims a working Monorepo strategy that splits code into small packages, keeps them independent (no source requires, npm deps only), and requires well tested… | ||
| Don’t Believe the Rumors: Writing Tests for CSS is Possible | ReactiveConf 2019 | 2019-10-30 |
Claim: writing tests for CSS is possible. Practical setup uses Cypress plus visual plugins (one-liner matchImageSnapshot) or cloud services like Applitools… | ||
| Egoprogramophobia, or fear of one's own code: how testing can change your life | Reversim Summit 2019 | 2019-06-16 |
You fear your code. Once in production, you are afraid of changing it. A bug? You fix it using messy, yet surgical, hacks, rather than a refactoring that… | ||
| Navigating the Wild Seas of Native ES Modules | JSConf.Asia 2019 | 2019-06-14 |
Node v12 aims to make browser and Node ES modules a single system that can just work without bundlers by using explicit extensions and package metadata, e.g… | ||
| Writing Tests For CSS Is Possible! Don’t Believe The Rumors | CSSConf EU 2019 | 2019-05-31 |
Claim: CSS can be tested with visual regression testing that actually prevents fear of refactors. The demo uses Cypress + Applitools Eyes (and mentions… | ||
| Don’t Believe the Rumors Writing Tests for CSS is Possible | You Gotta Love Frontend 2019 | 2019-05-16 |
Claims that visual regression testing can make CSS changes safe and shows a workflow that actually works: use Cypress or Puppeteer (or webdriverIO/selenium for… | ||
| Docker and the Path to a Better Staging Environment | DevOps Pro Europe 2019 | 2019-03-19 |
Claim: let testers spin up isolated staging instances in seconds using Docker, Docker-Compose and Kubernetes and the same deployment files used for production… | ||
| Four Pillars and a Base: The Nuts and Bolts of a Microservice-based Project | DevOps Pro Europe 2019 | 2019-03-19 |
Implementation walkthrough of a microservice project with concrete numbers and tools: about 75 packages, ~20–25 small utils, tests that run under a minute, and… | ||
| Node Es Modules - Something Almost, but not Quite Entirely Unlike Commonjs | NodeConf EU 2018 | 2018-11-04 |
NodeJS is adding native ES Modules with concrete rules: files ending .mjs are ESM, .js remain CommonJS; ESM uses export/import, CJS uses require. ESM gives… | ||
| Not Only Cars: “AI, Please Test My App” | Selenium Conference India 2018 | 2018-06-28 |
Maps driving autonomy onto testing with a concrete roadmap: 6 levels of autonomous testing from level 0 (regular automated tests) to level 6 (Skynet), with… | ||
| Say No(de) to the Browser: Testing your Webapp Frontend Code Using Just Node | TestCon Vilnius 2017 | 2017-10-18 |
Claims that full frontend integration tests run entirely under Node using JSDOM under Node with Babel/register, Mocha and React and without launching real… | ||
| How to Build a Micro-services Infrastructure In 7 Day | Codemotion Amsterdam 2016 | 2016-05-11 |
Rebuild of a microservices platform in a seven‑day hackathon that produces a working deploy pipeline (not production‑hardened) using Mesos/Marathon, Docker… | ||
| Old Gods & New: A Vision of Backend & Frontend | You Gotta Love Frontend 2015 | 2015-06-08 |
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… | ||
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