The problem with JavaScript
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Do you feel the JavaScript fatigue? Do you find it difficult to understand all the new approaches that come out every single day? You are not alone. JavaScript is a great tool, but its simplicity is its biggest enemy. This talk will uncover why we hate what we hate in JavaScript, how JavaScript could be best utilized, and what it could actually do. We will talk about communities, open source projects, and the companies behind them, and we will talk about the problem with JavaScript.
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The problem with JavaScript
- 1. THE PROBLEM WITH JAVASCRIPT Armagan Amcalar PHPKonf Istanbul, May 4, 2019
- 2. ARMAĞAN AMCALAR Senior Manager @ Wayfair Building and leading teams for almost 10 years Passionate about open source Lonca, a software craftsmanship school for women International speaker dashersw dashersw
- 3. IF YOU THINK SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH JAVASCRIPT, OR ITS USERS, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. …and you are not wrong dashersw
- 4. WHAT YOU’LL GET FROM THIS TALK
- 5. JUST A LITTLE HISTORY …FOR CONTEXT
- 6. <html> <head> <title> Add New Customer </title> </head> <body background="blue_marble.gif"> <img src="billlog2.gif"> <server> if ( project.lock() ) { project.lastID = 1 + project.lastID; client.customerID = project.lastID; project.unlock(); } </server> <h1>Add a New Customer</h1> <p>Note: <b>All</b> fields are required for the new customer</p> <p>ID:</p> <server> write("<STRONG><FONT COLOR="#00FF00">" +project.lastID + "</FONT></STRONG>"); </server> </body> </html>
- 7. DHTML FIRST GENERATION OF JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPERS dashersw
- 8. BROWSER WARS OH THOSE INNOCENT DAYS… dashersw
- 9. 2005-2006 — JQUERY AND OTHERS SECOND GENERATION OF JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPERS dashersw
- 10. 2008 — GOOGLE CAME ONBOARD. AND CHANGED EVERYTHING. dashersw
- 11. dashersw REMEMBER, WITH GOOGLE, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.
- 13. CHROME IS TO IE & FIREFOX WHAT APPLE IS TO NOKIA & MOTOROLA. dashersw
- 14. CAN YOU IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT STACKOVERFLOW AND GITHUB? THEY CAME OUT IN 2008. WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE? dashersw
- 15. 2010 — BACKBONE & ANGULAR, MVC FRAMEWORKS THIRD GENERATION OF JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPERS dashersw
- 16. NO ONE UNDERSTOOD WHAT MVC IS. IT WAS A BROKEN COPY OF BACKEND MVC FRAMEWORKS, WHICH ARE ALREADY BROKEN. dashersw
- 17. WELCOME CORPORATIONS GOOGLE, MICROSOFT AND FACEBOOK DISCOVER OPEN-SOURCE dashersw
- 18. WHAT IS TRULY OPEN SOURCE? dashersw
- 19. VIRTUAL DOM HINT: IT’S A BAD IDEA. dashersw
- 20. COMPONENT DESIGN HINT: IT’S NOT ENOUGH. dashersw
- 21. ENTER SVELTE THE MAGICAL DISAPPEARING FRAMEWORK dashersw
- 22. WHEN WILL THIS HYPE END? BABEL WEBPACK COFFEESCRIPT GULP GRUNT SASS TYPESCRIPT EMBER FLOW REDUX ROLLUP SERVER-SIDE RENDERING dashersw
- 23. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? dashersw
- 24. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? dashersw
- 25. THIS IS GENERATIONAL HELLO GEN Y PEOPLE! dashersw
- 26. PROBLEMS WITH ATTENTION, DEDICATION, EFFORT AND OWNERSHIP dashersw
- 27. TECHNOLOGICAL CHOICES ARE DRIVEN BY LUST. dashersw
- 28. THE CURSE OF JAVASCRIPT dashersw
- 29. BARRIER TO ENTRY IS LOW YOU CAN DO ANYTHING IN JAVASCRIPT IT RUNS EVERYWHERE dashersw
- 30. BY NOW, JAVASCRIPT IS A META- LANGUAGE dashersw
- 32. BUT INSTEAD OF GOING FORWARD, WE ARE GOING IN LOOPS! dashersw
- 34. WE DID THAT, IT DIDN’T WORK, WE INVENTED SINGLE-PAGE APPLICATIONS BECAUSE IT DIDN’T WORK. dashersw
- 35. WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING PROBLEM? dashersw
- 36. GENERATIONS CHANGE. WE DON’T STUDY THE PAST. YET WE KNOW BETTER. dashersw
- 37. WHAT IS THE SOLUTION? dashersw
- 39. DON’T BELIEVE, EXPERIMENT. WORK WITH FALSIFIABLE TRUTHS. dashersw
- 40. RISE ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS. dashersw
- 41. HOW TO CHOOSE A TECHNOLOGY dashersw
- 42. SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO AMOUNT OF BOILERPLATE INTUITIVENESS CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ITS CODE? CAN YOU DEBUG IT? CAN YOU FORK AND CUSTOMIZE IT? dashersw
- 43. React Vue Svelte
- 44. NUMBER OF QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ON STACKOVERFLOW IS NOT A GOOD METRIC. NUMBER OF ISSUES ON GITHUB IS NOT A GOOD METRIC. dashersw
- 45. YOU DON’T WANT A TECHNOLOGY THAT REQUIRES CONSTANT GOOGLING FOR THE MOST TRIVIAL THINGS. dashersw
- 46. WHY ARE YOU PROGRAMMING? dashersw
- 47. TO CREATE VALUE. AND THE ONLY METRIC YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT IS PRODUCTIVITY. dashersw
- 48. BEING UNCOOL IS COOL. dashersw
- 50. THANK YOU! LET’S KEEP IN TOUCH! ARMAĞAN AMCALAR armagan@amcalar.com dashersw dashersw