Javascript is the language of the web, it has always been, and always will be. Or maybe not, or maybe not so absolutely... let's travel in time to find out.

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Software Engineer at heart, mostly JIT compiler engineer (Mono, Unity3D, V8 in Google), now deploying Virtual Reality worlds on the web in Hyperfair, and Robotics enthusiast as a hobby.

This is the story of Cirpo's journey with JavaScript. It’s about the things that he wishes he knew since the beginning, his “ah-ah that’s how it works! moments that guided him to coding in a more expressive and declarative way. It's a love letter for this powerful language, a talk that bounces between the technical and the personal perspectives. Cirpo's hope is that everyone in the room, even experienced developers, will learn a bit more about writing more idiomatic and consistent JS code, learning from the mistakes he made and that he still witness every time he sees other devs start using it.

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Alessandro Cinelli (a.k.a. cirpo) is currently working in London as DX Engineering Manager at DAZN. He loves playing with programming languages and give back to the community. These days he is busy co-organizing tech events with @WEBdeLDN in London.

Four years ago I started a wonderful adventure: I tried to build my first mobile application with JavaScript. The first encounter was ugly and I kind of accepted the fact that hybrid mobile applications are cheap, slow and limited brothers of native ones (I was mistaken!). However, due to financial efficiency, I was bumping into it again and again. I tried all popular JavaScript solution for Hybrid Mobile apps and ended my journey through the hybrid mobile applications with a happy end. I want to share with you the recipes we've learned, tell my story and warn regarding the possible pitfalls. We'll look into the React Native, Cordova, PWA's and compare them with native applications looking into the experience we've got working with them on real projects.

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Senior JavaScript developer at DataArt Active public speaker at Austria, Germany, Poland, Ukraine Open Source contributor Node.js Wroclaw meetup organizer

Having a bunch of IoT-ready and remotely controllable devices only makes sense if the controls are intuitive and the control surface is easily accessible. In the beginning of 2018, we started implementing such a user interface for our office building using only JavaScript with frameworks like BabylonJS and React. This interface displays the real-time state of our numerous devices, offers control panels for managing them and also incorporates other services, like AWS and a calendar-API. We now want to show you how our microservice-application fits into the the IoT-landscape and the overall architecture of our office building automation infrastructure and want to talk about the pitfalls we encountered and the lessons we learned. There is no prior knowledge required about BabylonJS, building automation or even JavaScript - the talk focuses on our experiences, our lessons learned and our architecture on a higher level, and does not go into technical details.

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Anna Backs is a software developer and IT-consultant. She is part of small team building an interactive 3D-control panel for managing the IoT devices in her company's office building. In her free time she walks her dog and drinks coffee.

Christina Zenzes is a consultant and software dev. She is part of a team that is developing an interactive control panel for managing all IoT devices in her company’s office building. She likes to grow plants on her balcony, pet cats, cook, and eat.

This talk will be a quick run-through of the Mixed Reality (MR) concepts, i.e both Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), but specifically from a web developer’s perspective. Even though MR is graphics-heavy, modern libraries like WebVR, AFrame VR and Web XR make it really easy for a web developer working with HTML and JavaScript, to follow through and use existing tools to start building useful Mixed Reality applications that can be accessed on the web. We’ll close the talk with a demo and behind-the-scenes of how it’s built. Bonus: Tools and resources to use in your MR apps.

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Srushtika Neelakantam handles DevRel for Ably Realtime. She is a passionate tech advocate, with a keen interest in real-time and web technologies! She is a regular speaker at tech conferences worldwide and a co-author of “Learning Web-Based Virtual Reality” published by Apress. She is a champion of the open web, officially supported by Mozilla's Tech speaker and Reps programs.

RxJS has become almost a standard in the emerging reactive Front-End world. If you're not using it right now, you probably played with a few operators. In the talk we're going to rewrite RxJS from scratch, seeing behind the curtains which are the core components and the ideas of the library. You'll see how to build Observables, Subscriptions and Operator, then we'll introduce Schedulers and how they're used in RxJS. If you fancy Reactive Programming or simply you want to learn something new then... this talk is for you!

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I’m a pasta eater biped working at DAZN with hands-on experience as a Full Stack Developer, iOS Developer and UI/UX Designer. My areas of expertise are JavaScript and Front-End technologies. I like Functional & Reactive solutions both for programming and architectures. I use spaces, not tabs.

Augmented Reality's popularity is growing at an ever increasing rate, and it might seem as if native iOS and Android developers are the only ones who have the skills to keep up. Fortunately, a platform called Viro was created to enable web and mobile developers to develop cross-platform AR/VR experiences through the React Native framework. We'll take a brief look at what AR is and how it works, and then take a deep dive into Viro and everything it provides to get you moving rapidly with AR development. We'll focus on a few very interesting pieces that Viro provides, such as 3D models, portals, image recognition, and real life object recognition. By the end of this session, you will have the skills and inspiration to start working with AR immediately!

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Alex is a Chattanooga-based developer working for Airship. He works primarily with React and React Native, but has a passion for mobile development in general. He's also a musician (percussionist) and is an avid foodie.

While about 51% of the world’s websites are in English, only about 25% of web users are English speakers. With half of the world’s population online, internationalisation is as relevant as ever! Let’s explore how i18n gets made on the web and what we should keep in mind or avoid when making the web more accessible to the world.

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Originally from Nicaragua, Eli is a London-based web engineer, speaker and community organiser. She is currently helping make banking better for everyone at Monzo and occasionally helps teach underrepresented minorities to code. When she's not working you can probably find her at meetups, conferences or on Twitter.

Allowing for change is especially important when designing your frontend applications, where high user expectations meet the fast-paced JavaScript ecosystem. For example, have you ever tried migrating from Angular to React while hitting your deliverables and without compromising performance? Change is intimidating. In this talk, we will show how the principles of evolutionary architecture* can be applied to UI to prioritize changeability. We’ll consider several approaches to making a modern UI application more evolvable, such as the micro-frontends pattern, and examine specific “fitness functions” that will keep you and your team honest to your evolvability goals. We’ll also discuss the tradeoffs you make when you choose a more evolutionary frontend architecture, and provide a framework for thinking about how much future change you’ll need to account for. *evolutionaryarchitecture.com

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Giamir and Rufus are software developers, Agile consultants, and frontend advocates. They lead the internal frontend community at ThoughtWorks and draw inspiration and insights from the real-world experiences of their peers across the world.

Speech recognition is all around us. From the smartphones in our pockets to the devices at the heart of our digital homes, we’re never far from speech recognition technology. Not only does it enable new ways of interacting with computers, it’s also set to reshape Human Computer Interaction for people requiring assistive technologies. The humble web browser is no exception. The speechRecognitionAPI enables developers to incorporate advanced speech interactions into today’s web applications. But is it any good? Combining two of his passions, Tony sets out to discover if the speechRecognitionAPI can be used as an aid in transcribing hip-hop lyrics during the writing process. After an introduction to the broader technology, a mix of audio, video and live performance tells the tale of creating an MVP transcription application to aid in the writing of new songs. As a development project, each iteration of the app is accompanied by a set of unit tests. The final unit test is executed live, resulting in a crescendo you won’t want to miss.

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Code changes lives. With the advancement of AI, it's time to strap in and get ready for the new ride. As developers, we're hitting a new gear in what machines can do, and more importantly, what we say they will do. Here's a story of creating an indecent content checker, NSFW JS. The story of the limitations, expectations, and joy of creating an open source project that utilizes Machine Learning to help do something useful at scale. Discover the power of tomorrow's technology.

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Gant Laborde is a software consultant, adjunct professor, published author, and award-winning speaker. He volunteers as a mentor, an “open sourcerer”, and aspires to one day become a mad scientist. His JavaScript prowess is prevalent through blogs, videos, and maintainer status in popular repositories. Follow Gant’s adventures at http://gantlaborde.com/

PWAs bring the best of both mobile and native apps to user. PWAs equipped with service workers provide features like offline availability, push notifications etc. Now with modern web APIs, PWAs are beyond the browsers; in Hardwares. Consider turning bulb on/off with your PWA, sounds cool? Lets learn how to, in this talk!

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Trishul is a professional frontend developer; writes React code for living and volunteers for Mozilla to justify his existence. He promotes PWAs to developers #teamWeb. He loves to talk about modern Javascript and tries to use it to solve all of his problems, even the domestic ones. He is an expert in developing browser extensions. You may know him for his Measure-it extension with 20K+ users. He also creates Youtube tutorial videos, to help developers to understand and get started with various Webextension APIs

React Hooks are going to change the way we write React components and apps. Let's explore together a real world refactoring of an app with hooks, introducing the concept and exploring how the mental model of components has to evolve breaking the dichotomy of stateful class vs stateless "functional" components. We are going to deep dive in the code of the app, a quite busy stateful component, looking at how we could use hooks to refactor it.

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Webmaster before it was cool. Pixel pusher, javascript-something, conference organiser, father of two, but mostly known for yelling at clouds. Tech Lead at Condé Nast International.

Rendering is one of the most important parts of any frontend application. But what happens when we need to render DOM elements without any kind of Framework? During the talk, we will analyze what are the challenges and the solutions of creating a complete frameworkless rendering engine.

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Francesco Strazzullo is a Front-End Engineer, speaker and writer for codingjam.it. When not working for Flowing or his personal github projects, Francesco likes to relax playing with his Playstation or cooking some strange ethnic dish for him and his friends

WebAssembly is a new virtual machine embedded in the browser. It doesn't transpile to JavaScript like its forerunners; it produces a new binary format, like the old assembler, executed in a dedicated VM into your browser. Genius, it exposes a bridge between JS APIs and WebAssembly executables. Last browsers engines developments allow very fast exchanges between JS and WASM code. So, let's start with a projet that need a huge computing time. We will develop the core code in Rust, compile it to WASM using LLVM, and we will display the results in a front view powered via JavaScript. No need to know how does it work, we will see it together. This talk takes place in a new series named #StartFromNowhere: let's start from front-end developers skills, and deep dive into a new technology. In 45', let's learn the basics.

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m4dz is a strange animal. Through many lives, he always tried to teach to others what he learnt himself. Previously a web developer (nobody's perfect), concerned about privacy, a respect of private data, and cyber security. He's now Tech Evangelist at alwaysdata. He tries to inform about present and future of digital issues. His favorite book always remains «Alice in Wonderland».

How does React really work? Let's find out. We'll write a simplified version of React from scratch, based on the real source code, including: jsx, fibers, reconciliation, hooks, and more.

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Ten years writing all type of software. Currently more web dev than anything else. I ?? JS.

Don’t you hate it when your process is stuck processing 200k rows and other requests are not processed?! Outrageous! But there’s a new and simple way of preventing this. Diego built sr so you can keep the modules you import in another process and prevent this scenarios!

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Senior Backend Developer @ Inalambria. WebTorrent Core Member. Node.js Advocate.

Webpack has been around for a while, people talk about it like it does anything and everything! It can’t! But, it can be a huge benefit to the code you write with your team and thus, improve the performance of your web applications. We just need the right configuration. But how does it do this? By the end of this talk you’ll have a better understanding of how webpack works, then you can decide if you want to use it!

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Tara is a software engineer at Europe’s leading online social learning platform, FutureLearn. She’s a STEM ambassador and is passionate about encouraging and inspiring young people from diverse backgrounds to consider a career in tech. Tara is supported by Mozilla's Tech speaker programme and outside of work you’ll find her supporting her local church.

When we take on a big refactoring, we often get this uncomfortable feeling of doubt. A little demon appears on our shoulder and asks "Did you remember to make all the changes? Are you sure? Sure sure?". We check the code again, run the tests and all is passing. Great. But that demon is still there, still nagging "Are you super sure? The tests were passing last time too...". In this talk, we will see how Elm can free us from those moments of self doubt. We will start with a short introduction of the language, explaining its design and philosophy. We will then start a full-on refactoring in the biggest Elm codebase in the world. We will see how the Elm compiler can help us make this sort of changes in a confident and predictable way. At the end of the talk, you will have a good understanding of how Elm works and what advantages it can bring to your toolset.

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Ju was born in China, moved to Italy as a kid, grew up eating a lot of pasta, and started messing around with computers. He now lives in London and works for NoRedInk. He loves solving hard problems and building amazing products. When he’s not doing that, he’s probably rock climbing.

As developers, when we start with vue.js or nuxt.js we see ourselves in a world full of opportunities and decisions, so we never know which way is the best to go forward with the project. This talk will have the purpose of present few different ways that you can architecture your application for small, medium and big projects and then think about scalability.

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There is no question that the going is tough when it comes to open source projects. Building the excitement, community and hype is an undertaking unto itself - let's not talk about monetization & sustainability. Often times, just as your project is starting to get off the ground and generate real business - newer and cooler disruptors enter the playing field - and it gets hard to keep the momentum going, all while fending off giants that want a piece of the pie. This talk is going to give some real world insight on what's involved in really building a sustainable open source project, even when the hype is dwindling and the dust settles. This will be based upon lessons learned from leading the Cloud Native & OSS community in Israel, as well as the Cloudify community as my former day job.

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Sharone Zitzman is a marketing technologist and open source community builder, who likes to work with teams building products that developers love. Having built both the DevOps Israel and Cloud Native Israel communities from the ground up, she spends her time finding the places where technology and people intersect and ensuring an excellent developer experience, backed by a culture focused on engineering excellence and quality. Sharone heads up Developer Relations at AppsFlyer as her day job. You can find her on Twitter or Github as @shar1z.