JS GameDev Summit

JS GameDev Summit 2023

It's never been easier to make your own web game, but it's still extremely difficult. What game should you make? Which engine should you choose? Let's discuss how to answer these problems and ways to leverage the unique platform that is the web.

How to Make a Web Game All by Yourself

Matt Hackett

GraphQL Galaxy

GraphQL Galaxy 2022

Building with GraphQL for the first time can be anywhere between daunting and easy-peasy. Understanding which features to look for in your client-side and server-side tooling and getting into the right habits (and ridding yourself of old habits) is the key to succeed with a team of any size in GraphQL. This talk gives an overview of common struggles I've seen numerous teams have when building with GraphQL, how they got around common sources of frustration, and the mindset they eventually adopted, and lessons learned, so you can confidently stick with and adopt GraphQL!

Your GraphQL Groove

Phil Pluckthun

Remix Conf Europe

Remix Conf Europe 2022

This talk introduces the new Flat Routes convention that will most likely be the default in a future version of Remix. It simplifies the existing convention as well as gives you new capabilities.

Remix Flat Routes – An Evolution in Routing

Michael Carter

React Advanced

React Advanced Conference 2023

What if you could use code the same way you use Netflix or Spotify?  Imagine your entire code base organized as small components on the cloud, where you can import only what you need into any workspace. In fact, you can create an ad hoc workspace where you can use and modify only the components you need and export them back. In order to use code on demand, components need to be independent entities, which means that they have to include their source code, configuration and dependencies. This allows you to version them independently and import them into small dynamic workspaces which are then made much easier to navigate, setup and build. Independent component versioning also makes for independent teams, because this separates publishing updates from consuming them.  When all your organization’s components are in the cloud, teams can discover them, discuss changes and visualize relationships, making collaboration between teams much simpler.  Alongside its many advantages, this paradigm shift brings about considerable challenges, which may explain why this is not the standard way to manage code today. This talk is about the tools and methodologies required to overcome these challenges.

Code on Demand: The Future of Code Collaboration

Gilad Shoham

React's component model and one-way data flow give us a great mental model for building our apps, but debugging React apps can still be confusing. React's internals are a black box, and it's often hard to understand why components rendered or what caused errors. The Replay time-travel debugger makes it easier to debug React apps by letting you inspect what's happening at any point in time. But what if we could go beyond the usual debugger features, and build new debugging features that tell us more about what React is doing? Let's see how Replay's API makes that possible.

Building Better React Debugging with Replay Analysis

Mark Erikson

How many times have you had to wait for your backend team to finish building the API so you can start your tasks? What if all you needed to move that task to in progress was the API contract? What if there was a library that did this for REST and GraphQL APIs and, at the same time, taking your tests to the next level? Join me and prepare to enhance your developer experience while learning all the battle-earned experiences of using one of my favorite libraries: Mock Service Worker.

All You Need Is a Contract…

Daniel Afonso

Rogule is an emoji based open source online roguelike game that started life as a 7DRL game jam entry. It has now grown to around 1,500 games per day. In this talk I'll cover the weird tech (ClojureScript), the motivation, game mechanics, and the future of Rogule.

Rogule: Tales From the Dungeon of a Web Based Rogulelike

Chris McCormick

Using UDP in the Browser for faster Client/Server Connections

Yannick

In this talk, I will share my experiences with using machine learning to identify cheaters in multiplayer games. We will also discuss the potential of machine learning in game development.

Machine Learning in Game Development

Denis Kondratev

This talk will cover designing, playtesting, and iteration. After listening to this talk you'll find out about how to prepare for and run your playtest, how to analyze the results and further iterate on your games, and I'll tell you about my personal experience regarding the topic, which I have gained while working on CIDA's boardgame.

The Secret to Good Game Iteration

Tamta Asatiani

This talk explores the usage and impact of the Gamepad API in the web gaming space. The Gamepad API lets you connect and use various gaming controllers with browsers, but since this API is in very early stages, tracking different controller inputs across browsers becomes extremely challenging. For this very purpose I have released an open source library which provides support for button press, axis movement events as well as vibration play effect in browsers. We’ll be focusing on how we can leverage this library for providing better gaming experiences to consumers on the web.

Using the Gamepad API for a Better Gaming Experience on the Web

Arun Michael Dsouza

Having worked for 7 years on popular .io games like Krunker.io, Diep.io, and Ev.io, I've seen the multiplayer web game market grow and evolve on the bleeding edge of web tech over the years.

Lessons From 7 Years of .IO Games: What Works, What Doesn’t Work, Where to Go From Here

Nathan Flurry

TS Congress

TypeScript Congress 2023

There is a wall that we all hit when developing more sophisticated types: how can I 'abstract out' certain commonalities in my type-level logic? How can I make my types more reusable and composable? How can I make my types more expressive? This talk will introduce the fundamentals of Higher-Kinded Types, a compelling concept hitherto underutilized, and explore how they can significantly enhance the expressiveness of library semantics, leading to a more intuitive developer experience (DX). We'll demonstrate how HKTs can provide an elevated abstraction level, allowing you to model complex domain problems more naturally and in a type-safe manner. Join us to understand how leveraging HKTs can elevate your TypeScript coding practice, optimizing the semantics and delivering a more potent and featureful library interface.

The Potential of Higher-Kinded Types for Library Semantics

Michael Poteat

How do you generate types dynamically? How do you write a script that creates some typescript code? The approach most people would recommend is to use Abstract Syntax Tree manipulations. I was working on a deadline to implement types for our OpenAPI client, and I would have missed our release window. I needed something different and easier to build. Luckily, a friend recommended me a library I didn't know: code-block-writer. I fall in love with it at first sight.

Generating types without climbing a tree

Matteo Collina

React Summit

React Summit 2023

GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that can help you write code faster and spend less time writing repetitive code.This session will cover some interesting use cases for Copilot that could shine a light on its possibilities. This ranges from prompting Copilot to suggest a function based on a comment, learning how to use a new framework, tackling a security or accessibility bug, better documenting your code, translating  code from one language to another, etc.Agenda: Introduction to CoPilot - What is Copilot - How can you use it - How it can help you write code faster - Copilot Labs experimental features I will pick examples from the React ecosystem and show how we can fix Security Vulnerabilities and Accessibility issues in some components.

Improving Developer Happiness with AI

Senna Parsa

Node Congress

Node Congress 2023

Building search into applications can be quite easy. This talk has been really fun for audiences because I often get audience members involved, often building out the code themselves, while they try to stump each other by naming the hardest things to find. The application is hosted in a Code Sandbox, so the audience takes the code home with them. Also, I can do the same presentation with movies, if the organizers prefer.

Game Changer! Building Search Into Your Applications

Karen Huaulme

TechLead Conference

TechLead Conference 2023

The field of developer relations or DevRel is rapidly increasing in popularity, with roles for developer advocates, evangelists, program managers, and directors appearing seemingly everywhere. It could very well be that you too have colleagues who work in the field. DevRel is a unique discipline aligned with every part of the business from engineering and product, to marketing, and even sales, and acts as a bridge between the company and the wider developer community. Our aligned incentives with engineering leadership are especially obvious in the fact that we exist to serve and enable developer audiences, whether external or internal.For engineering teams, working closely with your DevRel teams provides a great opportunity to better understand your developer audiences, raise the profiles and skills of your colleagues, and make your company more attractive for hiring. Yet, despite many DevRel teams being highly technical, because of DevRel’s perceived lack of focus, our departments are often dismissed as “just marketing” by engineering.In this talk I will answer the question of “what is it that DevRel people do”, and present some approaches for how DevRel and engineering can best collaborate and break down silos to benefit everyone, from the company to the wider developer community.

What Engineering Leaders Should Know About DevRel (But Were Too Busy to Ask)

Zan Markan

React Day Berlin

React Day Berlin 2022

Monorepos is a hot topic in the TypeScript/JavaScript community these days, but getting a high performing monorepo setup from the ground up can be challenging. In this talk, we will see how Turborepo can help you to move your monorepo tasks at light speed.

Supercharging Your Dev Experience With Turborepo

Bruno Paulino

Production errors can be tricky, especially when you can’t reproduce them easily or they don't happen very often. In this talk, we’ll go through a case study of a quantity mismatch Shopping Cart issue and what troubleshooting steps we took to solve it. Then drawing from that issue some lessons that we can all learn from as frontend developers.

Lessons Learned From Troubleshooting a Shopping Cart Issue

Hussien Khayoon

Designers and developers work on different timelines—designers look to the future while developers build from what’s already been designed. They speak different languages and follow different processes. How can we bridge these gaps and build a more collaborative development process? This talk will showcase how design systems can improve communication between cross-functional teams—while boosting productivity and innovation.

Accelerate Innovation

Cristobal Chao

Here and there, people talk about "Personalization". Content creators, marketers, designers, and product owners evaluate the possibilities and alternatives to handle custom scenarios while offering powerful experiences to the users. And we, the developers, have some ways to help with that. Let's talk about personalization, the benefits, the challenges, and how we can manage and offer personalized experiences in our Remix projects.

Your Personal Remix!

Facundo Giuliani

React Advanced Conference 2022

The transition from a monolithic architecture to a service based approach began a number of years ago. The advantage of a service based approach is to increase agility and shorten the build and release development cycle. And more recently the rise of micro frontends means that this approach not only encompasses backend application but also frontend development. However one side effect is increased complexity of the codebase. Resulting in challenges in terms of visibility into how components relate, who owns a component and the impact of activities on dependent components. This session will touch on these challenges and what is needed to maintain individual developer velocity.

Understand Your Codebase to Innovate Faster

Simon Waterer

React Summit 2022

A look into Preview.js, an open-source extension for Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ and WebStorm that lets you preview individual React components instantly, updated as you type.

Improving Developer Happiness with Preview.js

François Wouts

Monorepos have been around for some time but only recently gained popularity in the JavaScript community. The promise of easily sharing code, better enforcing organizational standards, greater developer mobility due to common tooling, and more is very appealing. Still, if approached naively, a monorepo will quickly turn into a huge mess: skyrocketing slow CI times, spaghetti dependencies among projects, hard to navigate, and ultimately leading to frustration. In this talk, we will look at the available tooling, how to kickstart a new React monorepo in particular, and we will learn the key ingredients required to build a successful, long-running monorepo that scales.

Fast React Monorepos with High Quality DX

Juri Strumpflohner

JS Nation

JSNation 2022

In today's world, it's no surprise that "Content is King". It helps in telling a story and helping you reach out to more people. Most of the time, developers aren’t the ones managing this content. Hence, modeling content efficiently becomes crucial. Doing it well makes the content delivery process smooth for the team. But how does one go on with modeling content? What are the things that one should take care of? I’ll answer such questions in this talk, and share my approach to content modeling as a JavaScript developer.

Content Modeling 101

Harshil Agrawal

TypeScript Congress 2022

Using real-life open-source examples, we'll explore the power of TypeScript to improve your users' experience. We'll cover best practices for library authors, as well as tips and tricks for how to take a library to the next level. This talk will cover:  - how to leverage the type inference to provide help to your users; - using types to reduce the need and complexity of your documentation - for example, using function overloads, string literal types, and helper (no-op) functions; - setting up testing to ensure your library works (and your types do too!) with tools like tsd and expect-type; - treating types as an API and reducing breaking changes whilst shipping enhancements; - I'd draw on my experience with libraries like nuxt3, sanity-typed-queries and typed-vuex and show what we managed to do and what I'd do differently in future.

TypeScript for Library Authors: Harnessing the Power of TypeScript for DX

Daniel Roe

React Advanced Conference 2021

Content is a crucial part of what you build on the web. Modern web technologies brings a lot to the developer experience in terms of building content-driven sites, but how can we improve things for editors and content creators? In this workshop you’ll learn how use Sanity.io to approach structured content modeling, and how to build, iterate, and configure your own CMS to unify data models with efficient and delightful editor experiences. It’s intended for web developers who want to deliver better content experiences for their content teams and clients. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

How to create editor experiences your team will love

Lauren Etheridge

Knut Melvær

Call it "kickstarting", "scaffolding", "bootstrapping" or simply "typing words in a terminal and getting files to start with", this is often the first opportunity for a framework to either delight or disappoint developers. How easily can they get up and running, can they extend it with their ideal toolchain and how well will it scale? In this talk we'll explore the limitations of current solutions and examine the ways we set out to improve the developer onboarding experience of Shopify's new Hydrogen React framework and SDK. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

The Forest for the (Abstract Syntax) Trees

Matt Seccafien

"In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream." The same goes for your super-brand-new-revolutionary project: Documentation is the key to get people speaking about it.Building well-fitted documentation can be tricky. Having it updated each time you release a new feature had to be a challenging part of your adventure. We tried many things to prevent the gap between doc and code: code-generated documentation, live examples a-la-Storybook, REPL...It's time for a new era of documentation where people-oriented content lives along with code examples: this talk will guide you from Documentation Best Practices – covered from years of FOSS collaborative documentation – to the new fancy world of Components in Markdown: MDX, MDJS, MD Vite, and all.Let's build shiny documentation for brilliant people! <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

The Legendary Fountain of Truth: Componentize Your Documentation!

m4dz 

Google &amp; Facebook Engineers are able to search over their gargantuan codebase using an internal code search engine. The search engine accelerates the ability of their developers (both old &amp; new) to understand any part of their codebase &amp; start contributing immediately! What about the rest of us? In this talk, I'll walk through the different types of code search, tools &amp; software, and advanced tips &amp; tricks to navigate any type of codebase easily. With the advent of large code repositories and sophisticated search capabilities, code search is increasingly becoming a key software development activity. Every developer in the world that spends an insane amount of time reading rather than writing code should have access to the best code search tools that amplifies their productivity. The audience will walk away with everything they need to confidently onboard, navigate &amp; understand any small, medium-sized and daunting codebase. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Supercharging Developer Productivity With Advanced Code Search

Prosper Otemuyiwa

Why are we devs so obsessed with decoupling things that are coupled nature? tRPC is a library that replaces the need for GraphQL or REST for internal APIs. When using it, you simply write backend functions whose input and output shapes are instantly inferred in your frontend without any code generation; making writing API schemas a thing of the past. It's lightweight, not tied to React, HTTP-cacheable, and can be incrementally adopted. In this talk, I'll give a glimpse of the DX you can get from tRPC and how (and why) to get started.

Full-stack & typesafe React (+Native) apps with tRPC.io

Alexander Johansson

Vue.js Live Conference

Vue.js London Live 2021

Optimising developer experience with Nuxt 3 - a tour through the ways the new version of Nuxt will save time and make your life easier. We'll explore the new nitro-powered isomorphic fetch, dive into Nuxt 3's more powerful dynamic routing, and along the way tour a host of other features that will give you superpowers. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Optimising Developer Experience with Nuxt 3

JSNation Live

JSNation Live 2021

Retool is a front-end as a service tool that is similar to React and can be 10x faster than coding a web app from scratch. We’ll focus on how and why it is used for internal tools at some of the fastest growing companies and take a minute to walk through how it works, where it’s a good fit and where it’s not. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

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