Some of the biggest things to happen in frontend in the past decade have also affected the overall architecture of our applications. Typesafety has become a requirement for production applications, and is easily achievable with the right patterns & toolchain. Jamstack & serverless architectures empower frontend developers with fullstack superpowers, and enable them to move quicker while also reducing the burden on the backend/infrastructure teams. And real-time collaborative environments are now fully achievable thanks to CRDTs and other data structures & tools.
In this track, we will explore these topics and more, to discover not only how they enable and empower your frontend teams, but also what it means for backend developers and infrastructure teams.
From this track
Everyone Can Be a Full-Stack Engineer
Wednesday Oct 26 / 10:35AM PDT
Serverless infrastructure makes it easier than ever to eliminate the boundary between frontend and backend. When engineers own the entire stack, they can focus less on rebuilding the same infrastructure and more on what matters: the user experience.
Alex Cole
Software Engineer @convex_dev, previously @Asana
Building Typesafe APIs with tRPC & TypeScript
Wednesday Oct 26 / 11:50AM PDT
When developing modern APIs, there a few options to choose from. REST is not a standard but instead style. Trust is constantly broken between the API and client. gRPC and GraphQL provide standards but require complex tooling.
Brian Douglas
Co-founder & CEO @saucedopen, previously led Developer Advocacy by showcasing newest features @Github
What the Data Says: Emerging Technical Trends in Front-End and How They Affect You
Wednesday Oct 26 / 01:40PM PDT
Over the last 30 years of web development a predictable cycle has appeared in the adoption, commoditization and eventual abstraction of major new technical trends in web development.
Laurie Voss
Data Analyst @Netlify
Panel: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend
Wednesday Oct 26 / 02:55PM PDT
Each of the track speakers joins together in a panel about how the front-end is changing in today’s high velocity, domain-focused teams.
Brian LeRoux
Co-founder & CTO @Begin, created and maintains OpenJS Architect, maintains Enhance.dev
Brian Douglas
Co-founder & CEO @saucedopen, previously led Developer Advocacy by showcasing newest features @Github
Laurie Voss
Data Analyst @Netlify
Alex Cole
Software Engineer @convex_dev, previously @Asana
Enhance: SSR for Web Components
Wednesday Oct 26 / 04:10PM PDT
Building web apps is often characterized as painful, complex, and time consuming. There are many tools, libraries, frontend frameworks, and opinions about how to fix that problem… but they come with a catch. The frontend ecosystem is fractured into incompatible niches.
Brian LeRoux
Co-founder & CTO @Begin, created and maintains OpenJS Architect, maintains Enhance.dev
