JavaScript is everywhere. JavaScript VMs improve by leaps and bounds. Performance graphs are breaking through the ceilings of expectations. And yet from time to time we still find ourselves wondering whether ‘===’ is faster than ‘==’.
JavaScript as a language is changing and because of it our tooling will be changing. Many people look at polyfills and transpilers as a stopgap. However, these types of tools are quickly becoming part of our everyday toolset, and the next generation of tooling will be even more awesome.
The days of noisy “linters” and glorified spell checkers for JavaScript are over. Static source code analysis tools are now accurate and trustworthy. They can find complex inter-procedural coding defects a human would never see. This presentation discusses the leap forward in JavaScript code analysis. This video presents real live …
This presentation is about a new platform for server-side JavaScript applications on the Java Virtual Machine, using the node programming model, APIs, and the module ecosystem. These Java/JavaScript hybrid applications can leverage capabilities of both environments, accessing the latest node frameworks while taking advantage of the Java platform’s scalability, manageability, …
Deploying your Ember application can be tricky and slow if it is tied into your backend. this presentation discusses tools and strategies for lean JavaScript apps deployment in the context of Rails and Ember.
The rapid adoption of Node.js has resulted in a significant amount of patterns and approaches from the community, some which work and others that have completely failed. This session will highlight the anti-patterns of Node.js, such as Callback Hell, how to write better applications and the lessons Ben has learned …
