John-David Dalton wants to improve JavaScript performance. To do so, he has developed some unique and unconventional techniques. He has also developed a “utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, and extras,” called Lo-Dash.
We’ve come a long way down the JavaScript road. Gone are the days of ‘just hack it’ for the web – architecting even a small project in JavaScript can be a challenge. Thankfully, there are several frameworks to help you; the most popular currently is AngularJS.
JavaScript’s prototypes are a simple and elegant way to represent a very simple form of inheritance in an object-oriented program. This talk introduces examples of semantics from other programming systems, such as mixins, singleton metaclasses, aspect-oriented programming and heterogeneous inheritance.
Learn how a company can be built completely on JavaScript and succeed. This presentation covers the most important aspects of using Node.js and JavaScript, for basically everything there is in a fast-moving company, including planning for scalability and performance.
These days it’s easy to get started building a Single Page Application (SPA). Dozens of frameworks are clamouring to pitch their trivial “hello world” and “todo list” examples. But the moment you step outside the predefined path and begin actually crafting something for a real business, you face an explosion …
JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, yet it remains predominantly sequential and web applications until recently have been unable to utilize hardware parallelism. The goal of Parallel JavaScript is to change that.
