An airhacks.fm conversation with Mark Struberg (@struberg) about:

Frontends for backends, JSF 2, Vaadin, vue.js, Angular,

ReactJS, deep linking with JSF 2,

JSF 2 with modularised backends, productive JSF, data binding and data validation with JSF 2,

the limits of JSF components, JSF architectures, JSF is not suitable for building offline SPAs,

JSF is a server centric framework and therefore requires CPU resources,

don't fork JSF components -- contribution is better for maintainability,

Thomas Andraschko is #2 contributor to primefaces,

building HTML 5 offline applications with JavaScript,

the Java EE-stic approach to frontends, "Progressive Web Apps without frameworks #nomigrations #webstandards #noslides", using vanilla WebComponents to write serious applications,

Mozilla Developer Network is set of collective set of web standards tutorials and documentation,

building WebComponents without polymer, using pure, semantic HTML 5 for maintainability,

CSS grid and Flex Box are available in all browsers, angular release strategy and semver,

web standards playlist,

MicroFrontends with ES 6 modules, Vaadin WebComponents, UI5 WebComponents from SAP, npm is no more a requirement,

lit-html and hyperhtml for convenient templates,

ES 6 template literals, using rollupjs to create a common set of libraries,

Shadow DOM for encapsulation, "Mozilla brings Microsoft, Google, the W3C, Samsung together to create cross-browser documentation on MDN", the golden age for Java Developers,