Fronteers Videos

When Fronteers was founded in 2007, front end as a profession was still in its infancy. These days, we can safely say it is a grown-up profession. Although we can always do better! More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2013/sessions/on-power-and-responsibility

In this talk Peter will demonstrate step by step how to transform a simple piece of JavaScript to a state where you can change the code while running it. This is particularly handy for visual applications, or applications with continuous data stream processor like a chatbot. This principle is then generalized in a library. He'll explain the basics, how it works, fixes for certain edge cases, and some open issues. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2013/sessions/real-time-recompilation

The Flexible Box Layout module, called “flexbox” for short, is the most fully developed and well supported of CSS3’s wide array of new techniques for creating page layouts. Web developers are itching to use it, and with good reason—flexbox allows you to create fluid, responsive layouts without having to worry about crazy percentage grid widths, negative margins, float drop, and all those pesky CSS layout quirks we’ve dealt with for over a decade. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2013/sessions/flexbox

Wouldn't it be great if your browser anticipated what you wanted before you asked for it? Web pages could arrive before you finished typing the URL. Science fiction? Not at all. This talk uncovers several techniques available to browsers and web developers today to move us closer to an instantaneous web experience. Preresolve, prefetch, prerender, preload, and other predictors: What do they all mean? Which browsers support them? How do web developers take advantage of them, and make sure not to break them? More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2013/sessions/pre-browsing

Where is the web heading? What will we as frontend developers do in a few years? Will Google, Apple or the NSA win? More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2013/jam-session/the-future-of-the-web

At the 2012 Jam Session Roman showed and tried to explain how to animate pseudo-elements.

This time he showed five demos of things you thought are not possible in CSS, but he didn't tell you how he did them. Instead, he tried to motivate you not to look into the sources of all the cool demos you happen to see in the internets, to skip the explanations and step-to-step tutorials in favour of your own exploration and experimentation. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2013/jam-session/dont-look-into-the-source

How to manage front-end development process within team of developers and designers effectively? Odnoklassniki.ru, world ‘Top 10’ social network, will share their experience in solving this question using open Source front-end documentation engine.

Source was created to help front-end developers, designers, programmers and testers to become more productive and create best interfaces for the product.

Their solution suits well for the big development teams, growing web projects, outsourced projects maintained by freelancers and web studios to optimize development time. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2013/jam-session/source

After years of web technologies evolving, we finally have the power to move beyond individual frameworks. Tools become less relevant, and methodologies prevail. Bridge JavaScript with other web techs and operate on unified terms regardless of tools you use.

Nowadays, methodologies like BEM or Web Components bring semantics back and make it a first-class citizen, while underlying DOM-based structures are just the "byte code" for the browser to operate on.

Max discussed ways to uplift your code from framework level to methodology level, with some nice examples. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2013/jam-session/semantic-javascript

A comparison between the workflow and habits of a scientist and a front-end developer. What can we learn from each other? More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2013/jam-session/science-it-works-bitches

A short introduction on how to apply test-driven development methodologies to CSS and HTML using http://jakobloekke.github.io/tdcss.js/ More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2013/jam-session/test-driven-css