You Really Don't Need All that JavaScript, I Promise
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JavaScript is your behaviour layer; the way to add interactivity to your sites, to provide a slick and delightful user experience, to make everything fast and easy and clean. But at some point everything changed: the tail started to wag the dog instead and development became Javascript-first.</br> We'll talk about how you maybe shouldn't rely on JS as much as you're told to, and some practical strategies for how to build sites without reaching for a JS framework as first, last, and only tool for making the web happen. **What will the audience learn from this talk?**</br> How to build sites without necessarily reaching for a framework, how that's what the frameworks encourage, how everyone is already thinking the same as you, and a bit about <portal> **Does it feature code examples and/or live coding?**</br> No live coding. There are some code examples but only in passing **Prerequisite attendee experience level:**</br> Some parts will be most useful if you have some front-end web development experience; some is for everyone
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JavaScript is your behaviour layer; the way to add interactivity to your sites, to provide a slick and delightful user experience, to make everything fast and easy and clean. But at some point everything changed: the tail started to wag the dog instead and development became Javascript-first. We'll talk about how you maybe shouldn't rely on JS as much as you're told to, and some practical strategies for how to build sites without reaching for a JS framework as first, last, and only tool for making the web happen.
What will the audience learn from this talk? How to build sites without necessarily reaching for a framework, how that's what the frameworks encourage, how everyone is already thinking the same as you, and a bit about <portal>
Does it feature code examples and/or live coding? No live coding. There are some code examples but only in passing
Prerequisite attendee experience level: Some parts will be most useful if you have some front-end web development experience; some is for everyone
About the speakers
Member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force, podcaster, developer and author