Talks

Numbers Douglas Crockford

The story of numbers, where they came from, how they work, and what they might do next.

Goto There and Back Again Douglas Crockford

We'll look at the history of some current controversies in language design, starting with Dijkstra's letter to the editor.

JS UX: Writing code for humans Lea Verou

In this light-hearted talk you will learn a ton of tips and tricks to improve your API design.

Forgotten funky functions Jakob Mattson

In the age of frameworks, transpilers and build systems the powerful fundamentals of JavaScript are often overlooked. Let's rediscover them.

The Road to a Statically Typed Future Patrick Stapfer

Discussing how tools like Flow will help us writing type-safe and analyzable JavaScript, and philosophizing about the future of typed JavaScript.

Rendering performance from the ground up Martin Splitt

In this talk we will explore how a page is rendered from the pixel to the whole page and get an intuition why some things are slow and others are fast... and what "hardware accelerated" actually means!

Functional Programming in JS: What? Why? How? Anjana Vakil

In this gentle, practical intro to functional programming, we'll explore the advantages and basic principles of the paradigm, letting holy, pure functions deliver us from the evils of mutable state.

Make More Than Music with Tiny Computers, JavaScript and MIDI George Mandis

We're living the halcyon days of tiny computers and JavaScript, but MIDI is a technology that's been around for much longer. In this talk we'll explore why its implementation and prevalence in hardware makes for a uniquely intriguing and accessible platform for creative coding.

Migrating Pinterest profiles to React Imad Elyafi

Techniques tried and challenges faced while migrating to React a service that’s constantly changing and used by millions of people.

Migrating your existing web app into virtual reality Denis Radin

WebVR technology and approaches you might use to move existing web applications to virtual reality in order to provide new experience to users and a bit of fun for yourself.

Down the Rabbit Hole: JavaScript in Wonderland Claudia Hernández

What even makes sense in JavaScript? Experience Alice's trip through Wonderland of JS oddities and their explanations.

React with the speed of light: not quite the usual server rendering Timofey Chaptykov

How we considered if VK can afford to use React for individual website elements, and what problems get in the way.

Offline Second Aliaksei Bahachuk

How to add an offline mode to an already existing app.

ES2017 vs Typescript vs Dart. Comparing without emotion Alexey Zolotykh

Unbiased competition between Dart, JS, Typescript.

CSS in JS. Why and how? Valerii Sorokobatko

How to choose CSS in JS library, when its better to use this approach instead of usual CSS, how to make code more concise and less complex. A lot of examples.

V8 under the hood Andrey Melikhov

What steps does our program go through on the way from a text file to machine code. Why do you need compiler for an interpreted language and how does it work.

The cost of a skipped frame Dmitry Shuranov

This talk covers some aspects of browser rendering mechanics, underlying browser optimisations, techniques for achieving smooth animation as well as instruments for its developing and debugging.

8 1/2 things about serverless (with Node.js) Slobodan Stojanovic

Explaining serverless architecture, showing why it’s important, and showing why it works great with Node.js and how to use it.

Kotlin as a language for frontend development Zalim Bashorov

Interop with JS, differences with JVM version and so on.

The inner structure of a webpack bundle Alexey Ivanov

How does webpack create bundles, transform code, choose which files to add to build, connect chunks? Knowing all this you can debug your code easier and control bundle size.

Architecture of modern JS-applications: three frameworks, three approaches Nikita Isaev

We will speak about the approaches of three popular frameworks to the modern patterns of the front-end architecture. That can be a good occasion to brush up on your skills or to try out something new.

From frameworks to overframeworks Sergey Yuferev

How popular libraries force us to write non-reusable code, unnecessary refactoring and copy-paste. And how to solve these problems without overhead by developing DI ideas on the front-end.

Dependencies in component web done right Vladimir Grinenko

Get rid of manual work on component based projects.

«Strict» JavaScript: typings vs reality Illya Klymov

Story of forcing one small company to write everything in «typed JS» for a year and what came out of it.

React Loadable: Code Splitting with Server Side Rendering George Bukhanov

In this talk we will explore how to organize component-centric code splitting with server side rendering and universal data fetching in React, when your application becomes large enough.

Why my site lags and how to fix it Igor Alexeenko

A talk about client-side app optimization.

Screen mirroring in action Aleksey Nosov

The story about how "easy" it is to implement screen sharing from a user to a call center operator.