Angus Croll ponders the emergence of moralizing and faith-based JavaScript and discusses how an alternative approach grounded in knowledge, experience and understanding will make us all better coders and encourage creativity and innovation. Like what you see? Want a piece of the action next time around? Then get along to Web Directions South in Sydney […]
The browser used to be a meek sandbox, shut off from all the things that native apps could do. But now we’ve grown up, and with WebGL, Canvas, Web Audio, Device Access and more, we have a lot of power at our fingertips. To really unlock this potential and make all this data dance, we […]
Some time ago now JavaScript stopped being a toy language and became a serious player. Yet when you browse through the plethora of code and different discussions you get the sense that a lot of people, even those who use it every day, are still quite confused about the language — its great power, and your great responsibility toward it as a developer. Demystifying this is the purpose of the entire second day of Web Directions Code, which Dmitry will introduce in a keynote you won’t forget for a long time.
An in-depth look at how JavaScript’s first-class functions and lexical scope allow us to write powerful and expressive code. Through the single topic of immediately invoked function expressions, we’ll touch upon function scope, closures, JavaScript “classes”, CoffeeScript and ECMAScript 5.
Stuck in the land of DOM-based event handling in your JS code? While jQuery (and other libraries) help ease the pain, they don’t solve all the problems. This session will explore modern JS event libraries that will change the way you architect and build your apps forever.
Douglas Crockford has introduced us all to the good parts of JavaScript. But what then are “the bad parts”? In this session, Anette Bergo takes a look at some of JavaScript’s odd parts, quirks, and pitfalls.
This 15 minute party may or may not include: when and how to load and run JavaScript on page load; JavaScript coding conventions you should adopt; a look at writing callback oriented JavaScript and some JavaScript performance tips for fun and profit.
Before we fork out for expensive performance monitoring tools, what if we took the time to listen to what our browser was trying to tell us? We can discover a whole range of features you may have ignored. Discover how to debug network latency issues, memory leaks and other performance fun in our browsers. With web applications becoming more like desktop apps, remaining open for days at a time. Now is the time to listen to your browsers pain and walk away with a new toolkit of performance best practices.
Today’s web browser is a powerful application platform, challenging the traditional responsibilities of web application server and client. In this session we learn to harness the browser to do some of the heavy-lifting traditionally delegated to the server-side.
Pushing rendering tasks onto the web browser reduces the amount of hand-holding required of a server, minimising network utilisation and lag involved in user interactions. This decouples our views from our server implementation and can improve overall application performance. Your web applications will feel snappy and lightweight, presenting a more pleasant user experience.
We will explore the implications of client-side rendering and the differences between popular client-side templating tools, such as jQuery templates, EJS, Underscore and Handlebars, evaluating compatibility, performance, expressiveness and project health, while comparing statistics and user experience with traditional server-side templating techniques.
Client-side unit testing can be a painful thing to test in all browsers, so as a “lazy developer” I like to do as little as possible. We’ll dive into how we can automate this process and what tools are out there to help us and how I use these on Modernizr.
In just 30 months, node.js has gone from an obscure toy to the most watched development platform on GitHub. Once the next stable version ships, significant focus will move to improving the community-driven ecosystem of modules, making it easier to navigate and contribute. In this talk, Jed will introduce the two faces of NPM, the official node.js package manager: NPM the ecosystem, for finding existing modules and developing and publishing your own modules, and NPM the tool, for managing and streamlining node.js workflows for your own projects.
In this session, we’ll take a look at all of the possibilities and explore what works and where — from the simplest effects, to creative usability enhancements including the combination of CSS with mobile Javascript frameworks.
In this session we will explore ways you can implement and combine HTML APIs such as websockets, web workers, local storage, and geolocation to make awesome web apps.