JSNation 2024
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JS on the Big Screen: Making TV Apps
The ever-expanding landscape of JavaScript applications has now reached the big screen - yes, you heard it right, you can build TV apps with JavaScript!
The TV operating space is a mess; there’s more fragmentation than the Android ecosystem, and that’s saying something. Each manufacturer has tried to reinvent the wheel by making their own OS. At the moment, the main players are Android TV, tvOS, WebOS, Tizen, among a whole myriad of others.
This makes it a unique place where Javascript and web technologies can become a uniting factor and save you from the stress of trying to develop and maintain handfuls of apps for the big screen.
We’ll talk about how to build TV apps, what JS frameworks can help in this, and explore the challenges that come hand-in-hand with TV app development, namely performance bottlenecks and focus management using remote controls.
The TV operating space is a mess; there’s more fragmentation than the Android ecosystem, and that’s saying something. Each manufacturer has tried to reinvent the wheel by making their own OS. At the moment, the main players are Android TV, tvOS, WebOS, Tizen, among a whole myriad of others.
This makes it a unique place where Javascript and web technologies can become a uniting factor and save you from the stress of trying to develop and maintain handfuls of apps for the big screen.
We’ll talk about how to build TV apps, what JS frameworks can help in this, and explore the challenges that come hand-in-hand with TV app development, namely performance bottlenecks and focus management using remote controls.