From the talk given at RED Academy June 14, 2016 --- In the dark ages of the web, it wasn’t enough to know how to “build a web page”; we were WEBMASTERS. Since then, the development community has gone through trends from Javascript to Flash to PHP to Flash again and now back to Javascript and the pace of change has never been faster. So where do we go from here? Join us to learn about some of the latest trends in web development and which skills are in demand for web developers today.

1. javascript is eating the
world
... and your baby!

2. who am i?
pro web developer, musician, teacher
web dev instructor @ RED
started web dev in 1996 while
working at ISP
worked in large corporations, small
businesses, startups, and freelance
currently running my own startup

3. where we've been...

4. 1996

5. I'm a f*cking webmaster
https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/

7. then things got
more complex...
ca. 2000

8. around this time...
we started to see the
emergence of
"front-end developers"

9. ..and
"back-end developers"

10. all was right with the
world.

11. June 29, 2007

12. Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone
http://bit.ly/eating-iphone

13. April 29, 2010

14. Thoughts on Flash
http://bit.ly/eating-thoughts-on-flash

15. a perfect storm of opportunity for
javascript
when Jobs declared that iOS would never support Flash, he changed
the development landscape
mobile web viewing was doubling each year (ca. 2007-2010)
devs started moving back to javascript to accomplish animations and
complex data loading
open source mentality increasing in popularity
node.js gaining mind-share, express.js released, socket.io released

24. let's not even talk about
CSS...

25. where we are...

26. February 28, 2015

27. javascript framework fatigue
http://bit.ly/eating-js-framework-fatigue

28. y u no choose
framework?
gotta choose something,
right?!

30. Blaze is dead.
http://bit.ly/blaze-is-dead

32. where we're going...

33. so what's the new hotness?

34. things are stabilizing.
new framework releases are slowing
(gradually)
"preferred stacks" are emerging (react
+ redux + webpack + express)
abstractions on top of standard
libraries are starting to get adopted
(apollo, feathers, meteor)
many api providers are publishing
nodejs client code

36. this is the golden age
it's never been easier to pick up programming
developers have their choice of work environments
freelancing is a viable and sustainable option
large corporations are revising remote-work policies
communication has never been easier or more prolific
developers are in high demand all over the world

37. welcome.

38. Questions?
Comments?
Concerns?
Musings?
Anecdotes?
Poems?
Keep in touch!
David Fudge
rkstar@mac.com
github: rkstar
twitter: @_rkstar
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