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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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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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...

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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: Refugees Becoming Software Developers Of Tech4Good Open-source Projects

Featuring Germán Bencci

Many tech for good projects want to improve society by bringing services and tools that help alleviate social issues in local and communities abroad. People involved in them are full of good intentions, but in many cases lack the insight to understand the dynamics of the problem and the best ways...

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Lightning Talk: Improving User Experience With Web Workers

Featuring James Milner

Web browsers use single threaded JavaScript to perform tasks; business logic, layout, reflows, and garbage collection. This means complex and heavy JavaScript functions can block the main thread from rendering. This results in low frame rates and low interactivity for things like scrolling and...

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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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#FullStackCon 2018 Wrap-up Presentation

Featuring Ariel Horn

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