Fast, Cross-Platform Apps With Electron

Featuring Felix Rieseberg

You’re already using desktop software written in JavaScript: Apps like Skype, Slack, or Visual Studio Code use Electron to combine native code with Node.js. Felix will share with you how that works, how you can push JavaScript beyond the limits of a browser, and what the future of Electron looks...

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Building Materialised Views Of Content Metadata Using Javascript Microservices

Featuring Augustine Kwanashie

In the BBC’s Content Distribution Services division, they build and maintain systems that expose content metadata to be consumed by a wide range of audience-facing products. Their current architecture for distributing tagging metadata consists mainly of two JVM-based read and write APIs feeding...

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Lightning Talk: How Angular Is Going To Change The Way You Book Your Flights

Featuring Jean-Yves Chanal

In Jean-Yves' company, they have a lot of closed, independent applications in order to build an airline's website. They have all their own requirements and limitations, and rely on old technologies: EDIFACT, XML web services, etc... Jean-Yves and his Team wanted to develop a new platform,...

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Micro Frontends - A Microservice Approach To The Modern Web

Featuring Ivan Jovanovic

The web is changing every day and it’s so hard to follow and implement all the new and fancy stuff that is being built. Cool new frameworks, libraries, methodologies and new approaches to solving problems. Usually is not that easy to deprecate some old technology and migrate to the new one. There...

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Lightning Talk: Visual Regression Testing

Featuring Gideon Pyzer

Traditional automated test strategies report on behavioural changes in the functionality of a web application, but what about regressions caused by changes to CSS? Visual Regression Testing (VRT) adds an otherwise missing level of coverage, to help developers improve and refactor CSS and markup....

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Preprocessors, Components, and CSS in JS Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Website

Featuring Jackie Balzer

Behance's codebase has existed in various states for over 7 continuous years - which includes multiple major redesigns, brand overhauls, backend framework changes, JavaScript frameworks, CSS preprocessors, templating languages, feature births and deaths, product integrations, and more.

And...

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We Need to Talk About Preact

Featuring Sara Vieira

Many of you have heard about Preact and may have tried it out. In this talk, you will discover the true potential of using Preact by taking a closer look at why it's a performant framework and its developer experience is so good. You will compare it to other frameworks by taking a closer look...

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Apps, Algorithms and Abstractions: Decoding our Digital World

Featuring Dylan Beattie

It's a familiar scenario. You’re on the train, your phone goes ‘ping’, you take it out of your pocket and hey - someone sent you a message! It’s a funny cat picture! You send back ‘LOL’, you put your phone back in your pocket… but have you ever stopped to think about what’s actually involved...

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Database as API with PostgreSQL and Massive.js

Featuring Dian Fay

Node.js has been around for a while, and it's not showing any signs of slowing down yet. More and more developers are using JavaScript on the server, and PostgreSQL is a popular choice for applications with relational data needs. But what does data access look like in a dynamic language...

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High Performance Graphics With WebGL

Featuring Adrian Meredith

WebGL is the fastest way to draw graphics on the web but can be difficult to get started with. In this talk, Adrian will introduce the WebGL API and how you can start to write your own graphics engines that can run anywhere.

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