How principles impact my work, selection of tools and code that I write. This talk is a work-in-progress for me as well, but I believe it is way too easy for us to use new frameworks and tools only for the sake of using them. This talk won't answer all your questions but it may help you look at things in a different way.

1. Simplicity
@krzychukula

2. 1. Simple
2. Principles and Ideas
3. Tools and Code

3. Do you like …?

4. Simple vs Easy

5. Simple == One Thing

6. Easy == Familiar

7. Simple Complex

8. Easy
Hard

9. Simple Complex
Easy
Hard

10. Simple Complex
Easy
Hard

11. Simple Complex
Easy function
Hard

12. Simple Complex
Easy
Hard

13. Simple Complex
Easy
Hard Physics

14. Simple Complex
Easy
Hard

15. angular-typescript-react-babel-boilerplate

17. angular-typescript-react-babel-boilerplate

18. Simple Complex
Easy boilerplate
Hard

19. Simple Complex
Easy
Hard

20. Simple Complex
Easy
Hard FP

21. Simple Complex
Easy function boilerplate
Hard FP Physics

22. 2. Principles and Ideas

23. Avoid Magic

24. Avoid GWT

25. Avoid Zone.js

26. Obscure Spells

27. Avoid DI Frameworks

29. Magic has Costs

30. Innovation Tokens

31. Choose Boring Technology
Dan McKinley

32. One Innovation Token

33. CV

34. CVDD

35. CV Driven Development

36. Sunk Cost Fallacy

37. The Law of the Instrument

38. If the only tool you have is a hammer,
everything looks like a nail.
Abraham Maslow, 1966

39. If the only tool you have is a RX.hammer,
everything looks like a stream.
Krzysztof Kula, 2016

40. If the only tool you have is a Angular,
everything looks like a directive.
Krzysztof Kula, 2016

41. If the only tool you have is a React,
everything looks like a component.
Krzysztof Kula, 2016

42. Framework Developers

44. “Our strategy around recruiting is to find the best
and brightest engineers. We don’t bring them in
specifically because the engineer knows Erlang,”
Jamshid Mahdavi

45. “Our strategy around recruiting is to find the best
and brightest engineers. We don’t bring them in
specifically because the engineer knows Erlang,”
Jamshid Mahdavi

46. “Our strategy around recruiting is to find the best
and brightest engineers. We don’t bring them in
specifically because the engineer knows Erlang,”
Jamshid Mahdavi

47. WhatsApp now has 900 million
monthly active users.

48. ~50 engineers

50. Learn New Things

51. Surgeon

52. scalpel-chainsaw-boilerplate

53. Checks

54. First, do no harm

55. Self Contained Systems

56. Progressive Enhancement

57. Surgeon

58. 3. Tools and Code

59. 1. Editor
2. Code Style
3. Builds
4. Libraries
5. this
6. DI

60. Editor

61. Learn C The Hard Way

63. THE RULES
15 min
HTML/CSS
No previews

64. Editor

65. JavaScript Standard Code Style

67. It just works.

69. Builds

70. npm install -g webpack

71. npm install -g webpack

72. npm install
npm start

73. Self Contained Systems

74. <script src=”//cdnjs…

75. thisless

76. You Don’t Know JS
Kyle Simpson

77. function

78. DI Without Magic

79. function (config) {

80. Most Important

81. Avoid Magic

82. Learn New Things

83. Be Like a Surgeon

84. Thanks!
@krzychukula

85. We’re Hiring!
SmartRecruiters

86. Questions?

87. • Web dev in 2016: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/694198210894520320
• You could be better: https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/698958921717964800
• Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
• Beyond Features by Dan North: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz5HBtDl-1A
• Choose Boring Technology by Dan McKinley: http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
• Law of the Instrument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
• http://codeinthedark.com/
• http://standardjs.com/
• XKCD Standards: https://xkcd.com/927/
• You Don’t Know JS by Kyle Simpson: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
• 8 Lines of Code by Greg Young: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/8-lines-code-refactoring