Talks

• A Look At Modern Web APIs You Might Not Know

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    by Julian Burr

    @jburr90

  We’ve become so accustomed to aiming for developing native apps to get access to certain advanced features and functionality that it’s easy to miss that a lot of that has been adopted slowly but surely by our web browsers over time.

  In this talk, we’ll have a look at some of these Web APIs, how they work, and how you can use them to progressively enhance the experience of your users in a real-life context.

  

• New Wave of JavaScript: A Taxonomy of Runtimes and their Web-interoperability

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    by Ben Taylor

    @taybenlor

  In the last few years there’s been an explosion in the ways you can run JavaScript. Node has its new dinosaur cousin Deno. They’re both based on V8 from Chrome. Everybody is talking about Bun, which is faster apparently. It doesn’t use V8, so what’s the deal with that? There’s JavaScript on Cloudflare, and a bunch of other Serverless providers. How will this impact bundling, and other front-end tooling? Does the same JavaScript work on all of them? What’s the difference? What’s going on?

  In this talk we’ll look over the history of JavaScript engines in browsers, and what makes them different. Then we’ll look at JavaScript outside of browsers, featuring Node. Finally, we’ll explore the new wave of JavaScript engines and look at how they’re trying to become Web-interoperable. I’ll explore this all through the lens of how it impacts front-end developers primarily. If I get distracted I might accidentally start talking about WebAssembly. It’ll be a ride!