Workshop: Solving Web Performance: Understanding Code Splitting

Featuring Sean Larkin

Did you know that the average website on mobile takes 14 seconds to load? Did you also know that 50% of your user base drops off after waiting 3 seconds or longer? Would you believe Sean if he said that JavaScript was the number one cause of your slowness. Or, that 50% of all of the JavaScript...

Workshop: Build Your Own Trivia Game In NativeScript and a REST API

Featuring Guy Nesher

Few years back, using Web technologies for building mobile apps revolved around using hybrid frameworks that basically used a web host view to run a web app inside.

Consequently, the performance of such apps rarely met the desired expectations, leaving the development of immersive and exciting...

#FullStackCon 2018 Wrap-up Presentation

Featuring Ariel Horn

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...

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...

Learn Javascript Like A Googler

Featuring Sarah Clark

If you've been programming for a while, you know that you spend substantial time saying "now why is it doing that?!" Google's developers are no exception, and even turn to problem-solving as a way to learn. In this fast-paced class, you will learn about the ins and outs of...

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,...

Opening Keynote: JavaScript: The Next Generation

Featuring Brendan Eich

JavaScript is over 23 years old but still growing, both as a programming language and in number of people programming in it. With "framework fatigue" and inevitable complexity by extension, JS may seem long in the tooth compared to compiled languages that target it as a "high level...

WebAssembly And The Future of JavaScript

Featuring Colin Eberhardt

JavaScript brought interactivity to the web more than 20 years ago, and despite numerous challengers, it is still the only language supported by browser. However, as those 20 years have passed we've moved from adding a little interactivity to largely static sites, to creating complex...

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Workshop: Building Apps with Dojo 2, A Progressive Framework for Modern Web Apps

Featuring Matt Gadd, Anthony Gubler and Dylan Schiemann

Dojo 2 is a progressive, lightweight framework for building today’s web apps. Drawing inspiration from what other frameworks do right and aligned with modern standards and best practices, Dojo 2 delivers a great experience to promote increased developer productivity.

In this workshop, you will...