Tuesday
Get Up and Running Quickly With Vue.js
Presented by: Burton Smith
Time: Tuesday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMWhether you are enhancing a legacy application or starting a greenfield project, Vue.js can help reduce your development time. Vue.js a very lightweight and fast JavaScript framework that makes it ideal for modern applications - from using it as a library to create some enhanced features in your...
Room: ZambeziTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: PreCompilerLevel: Introductory and overviewWednesday
Get Progressive with it
Presented by: Matthew LaForest
Time: Wednesday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PMResponsive web design! Mobile first! Hybrid apps! We are continuously bombarded with new ideas about the best way to develop a new application. For a small team, effectively delivering across many platforms can be a problem, but delivering a hybrid app frequently falls into an uncanny valley...
Room: OrangeTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: PreCompilerLevel: IntermediateCreating a Cohesive Collection of Components with React
Presented by: Russell Skaggs
Time: Wednesday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMComponent libraries enable teams to do more work quicker. It frees up our designers and developers to work on big issues, while allowing them to make updates with surgical precision. Building components within React has never been easier. During this presentation we will: create a set of React...
Room: OrangeTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: PreCompilerLevel: AdvancedMicro Frontends: Breaking up the Frontend Monolith
Presented by: Kito Mann
Time: Wednesday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMOver the past several years we have embraced microservices as a way to “break up the monolith” and reduce complexity, allowing teams to focus on specific areas of functionality, while providing more flexible scaling and better fault isolation. However, for most of us, the front-end has remained...
Room: Salon DTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: PreCompilerLevel: IntermediateThursday
How I overcame my fear of JavaScript
Presented by: Kim DelSenno
Time: Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AMAs a front- end developer, my current job has me using HTML, CSS, and a little bit of JavaScript. In this talk, I am going to walk you through exactly how I got over a major career slump and overcame my fear of going deeper into the world of JavaScript. I will walk you through how I learned to use...
Room: Salon HTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewTDD Designer Style: Styleguide Driven Development
Presented by: Matthew LaForest
Time: Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AMDevelopers have adopted a number of techniques to help speed development of their products. Leveraging tests to help them design the interfaces to their underlying pieces (classes, functions, components, etc.). For a long time the interface between designers and developers has been a continual rough...
Room: Salon ETrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewAngular and The Case for RxJS
Presented by: Sandi Barr
Time: Thursday 9:15 AM - 10:15 AMWhen choosing Angular to build a front end app, it can seem like RxJS is just one more thing to learn, and there’s no easy transition coming from another framework. But RxJS is efficient and expressive! We declare relationships between entities, describing the what not the how. The basic sequence...
Room: OrangeTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateVue 3.0 Smaller, Faster & Stronger
Presented by: Dan Vega
Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMVue.JS has quickly become one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks around. The Vue Core Team is getting ready to release the third major version of the framework and it's packed with new features and performance updates. In this presentation, I will show off some of those new features such...
Room: CypressTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateAn Introduction to WebAssembly
Presented by: Guy Royse
Time: Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PMWant to write a web application? Better get familiar with JavaScript JavaScript has long been the king of front-end. While there have been various attempts to dethrone it, they have typically involved treating JavaScript as an assembly-language analog that you transpile your code to. This has lead...
Room: ZambeziTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewUnclogging Your Code: Linting 101
Presented by: Hannah Stannard
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMConsider your code base to be the dryer and the lint to be the stuff you really shouldn't be doing. Without a linter, all that fuzz is going to be trapped in your code! If you don't take care of this lint, your dryer will catch fire, much like your code base (also known as a dumpster fire). Join me...
Room: Salon DTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewJavaScript the Grumpy Parts
Presented by: Rob Richardson
Time: Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMWe love JavaScript, but we must admit: it's weird. Why does `this` behave as it does? How does variable scope work? Why do we have such comical behavior when comparing mixed types? Let's pull back the covers of these scenarios, and learn how it truely works. You may find a new reason to fall in...
Room: Indigo BayTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: AdvancedHuman Readable JavaScript: Using ES2015+ to Craft Better Code
Presented by: Laurie Barth
Time: Thursday 4:45 PM - 5:45 PMLove JavaScript? Awesome! Hate JavaScript? That's ok! In the past, JavaScript hasn’t always been easy to read; lots of dollar signs and slick one-liners do not a sustainable, high-longevity language make. The good news is that things have gotten better! Lots of ECMAScript 2015 (and beyond)...
Room: Sagewood / ZebrawoodTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateTesting your UI Components
Presented by: Avindra Fernando
Time: Thursday 4:45 PM - 5:45 PMWhen our clients give us kudos for releasing high quality applications, it makes us happy. To achieve great levels of quality, we need to thoroughly test our applications. But we know that some forms of testing can be expensive and tedious at times. Unit and integration tests help overcome some of...
Room: RosewoodTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateFriday
Burn It Down and Start Again: Principles of Modern JavaScript
Presented by: Joe Morgan
Time: Friday 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMHeard about the latest JavaScript syntax? Seems like a day doesn’t pass without a language update. And with all the focus on syntax changes, it’s easy to miss the subtle principles driving JavaScript. Modern JavaScript doesn’t just have new tools, it’s composed differently. Don’t use a...
Room: ZambeziTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateBuilding a super performant GossipGirl.com in Gatsby in under 50 Minutes
Presented by: Jennifer Wadella
Time: Friday 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMHey, Upper East Siders, Gossip Girl here bringing you the scoop on rapidly building static websites in React. I don’t know about you, but my site is in a major need of an overhaul, so we’re going to rebuild it in under 50 minutes using GatsbyJS. We’ll make SEO look hot and blow some minds with...
Room: Salon HTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateReact State: Redux & Context & Hooks, Oh My!
Presented by: Michael Moran
Time: Friday 12:15 PM - 1:15 PMIn the age of ephemeral javascript frameworks, ReactJS has lasted 5 years and only grown in popularity as its evolved. Despite its popularity, there is one burning question for anyone working with React: "How should I handle state?". We have many options at our disposal including React component...
Room: CypressTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateAccessibility Audits in Chrome: Easy Steps toward an Inclusive Internet
Presented by: Maranda Provance
Time: Friday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMDo you want to help make the internet a better place for all people? In this talk, you’ll be introduced to the accessibility audits built into Chrome’s dev tools. We’ll walk through the automated tests they provide as well as the helpful information they give on manual testing. By the end of...
Room: Salon DTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview