A Better Node.js REPL

Featuring Athan Reines

The Node.js read-eval-print-loop (REPL) is one of the most powerful and yet underutilized Node.js features. In Athan's talk, he will dive deep into the Node.js REPL, how it works, and what it can do. He'll discuss how you can customize and extend the REPL environment, giving it advanced...

Thought Computing

Featuring Alex Castillo

What is the next way we interact with technology? The input source is getting closer and closer to the brain. Alex Castillo will share how Neurosity empowers the mind with JavaScript and AI.

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Keynote: Franziska Hinkelmann on Speed, Speed, Speed: JavaScript vs C++ vs WebAssembly

Featuring Franziska Hinkelmann

In Node.js, you can use WebAssembly modules and native C++ addons. If your app has performance critical parts, should you stay in JavaScript? Or write a native C++ addon? Or use WebAssembly? During this keynote talk, you will discover how these options compare performance wise and which one is...

Lightning Talk: Leveraging the Monorepo: Composable Apps with Webpack

Featuring Tim Reen

The monorepo has many advantages from simplified organization to simplified dependencies. During this talk you will learn how you can further leverage the monorepo to create shared platforms that render apps across a matrix of brands and platforms with minimal code.

You will use react and webpack...

Lightning Talk: Digital Advertising with the Facebook Pixel

Featuring Julian Villalpando

Digital Advertisers place small snippets of JavaScript in websites to power sophisticated matching systems in large platforms such as Facebook. In this session, Julian will share how developers connect people to product, and the challenges they face (e.g. ads blocking). You will learn about...

JAVASCRIPT <3 BINARY DATA

Featuring Kirill Cherkashin

In this talk, you will explore a deep dive into the tools JavaScript has to offer for working with binary data, see how the popular binary formats are structured and how Serialization Frameworks like Thift/protobuf use binary for speed and efficiency.

Lightning Talk: An Effective Code Review

Featuring Donavon West

Join this talk and discover techniques to transform the code review process into something that is enjoyable and productive.

Ask What AI Can Do For You

Featuring Kevin Scott

Kevin will discuss using AI in Javascript. Kevin will motivate Javascript developers to get involved using AI, developing tools and frameworks, and exploring use cases. As hardware continues to improve (Apple improved on the performance of their NPU chip a whopping 70% in one year!) Kevin...

Compu-mathe-sci-tics

Featuring Jennifer Wong

Math. Computer science. Computers were invented to do complicated mathematics. But JavaScript wasn’t. It was created to assemble components and be written directly in web page markup. So how does Math fit into all of this? Well, JavaScript has had a Math object since its inception in 1997.

From Long-Wall Coal Mining to Serverless Coding

Featuring Marvin Laucher

Serverless architecture is a way to build and run applications and services without having to manage infrastructure. With all the server management handled by a cloud service provider, your developers can focus on their core product instead of worry about managing server, operating systems and...

Keynote: Inclusive Architecture - Designing Your Applications and Team for the Future

Featuring Tracy Lee

You are all too familiar with projects and companies that only seem to be able to support senior developers, but this can get expensive, unsustainable, and your team can begin to look very myopic. Teams begin groupthink, ideas become stale, and it can be difficult to reinvigorate the growing...

UX for the Fullstack Developer

Featuring Heather Shockney

To consider yourself a “Fullstack Developer” you must have a basic understanding of UX. User experience and design are often hard problems for developers. You focus on code and hopefully, someone else will make sure it looks good and users enjoy using it. That’s because user experience requires a...

An Introduction to Static Web Apps with JAMStack

Featuring Christina Yu

This past year my team at PayPal began looking at how we could radically improve our developer experience and deliver high-quality applications faster. We landed on an approach we call “static apps” that removes our heavy node layer and replaces it with static markup and JS on a CDN. All of the...

Hybrid Apps from a Ember/Vue/React PWA

Featuring Alex Blom

This talk will cover taking an existing PWA and wrapping it as a native app - while adding custom mobile-only features (e.g. push). Alex will also touch on PWA performance, and what changes in a hybrid context.

For many the hybrid build process is complicated and frustrating - getting a...

Drawing Git Graphs in the Browser

Featuring Nicolas Carlo

Gitgraph.js is an open-source library that allows you to draw git graphs using a JavaScript API. This session will explore the inner details of building such a project. Nicolas will talk about: open-source, monorepos, SVG rendering, React/Angular adapters and git tricks.

Keynote: Bridging Open Source and Open Standards

Featuring Jory Burson

Git Hook[ed]” on Images & Up Your Documentation Game

Featuring Veronica Hanus

Can you remember the difference between two hex color values? Veronica can't either! Entering visual representations of recently-changed elements into version control makes review of past changes easier & speeds acclimation to a new web project, especially for visual learners....

Bringing Back Dial-up: The Internet Over SMS

Featuring Alexandra Sunderland

Travelling to FullStack in NYC from another country? You probably had to pay an arm and a leg for a data roaming package on your phone. But there’s a better way! What if Alexandra told you that you could stay connected to the internet with a phone that can only send and receive text messages?

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Keynote: Top-Level Awaiting for Godot

Featuring Myles Borins

It goes without saying that one of the largest challenges in JavaScript is handling asynchronicity. Along come Async / Await, a language feature made popular by C#. You can now use the keyword await to write code in a synchronous fashion without blocking the main thread. The only catch is that...

Indie games in JS with Phaser

Featuring Guy Nesher

Javascript is probably not the first language that pops in mind when thinking about Game development. It's not particularly fast, OOP support is a little special and most games don't really target the browser.

But if you paraphrase from Photography - the best programming language is the...