The document summarizes frontend web development trends from 2015 to 2016. It notes the increasing complexity of frontend business logic, finalization of ECMAScript 6, popularity of React and Redux, death of Java and Flash, and increasing production use of HTML5 APIs. Emerging trends included WebAssembly support in browsers, experiments with functional languages and static types, and the increasing popularity of web-based editors.

1. Frontend 2015-2016
Viktor Turskyi
JSLab 2016

2. YEAR 2015

4. Increasing complexity of FE business logic

5. ECMAScript 6 finalized

6. ES6 everywhere

7. Deprecated _escaped_fragment_

8. Goodbye "undefined is not a function"

9. Node v4.0 (september 2015) merged Node and IO.js

11. React-Native (iOS and Android)

12. Redux (React Europe 2015)

13. Facebook switches to Babel

15. A lot of JavaScript courses

16. Microsoft Visual Studio Code

18. Death of Java and Flash

19. Popularity of Isomorphic apps

20. Lost simplicity of Web development

21. YEAR 2016

22. End of support of IE 8, 9, 10, 11 (only security upd)

23. No outdated browsers
Chrome
Firefox
Safari
Edge
Opera
Android Chrome
iOS Safari

24. Increasing popularity of web-based editors

25. React native main priority for Facebook

26. High level frameworks
Based on:
● React
● React-Router
● Redux
● Relay

27. react --platform=web app.js

28. Increasing production use of HTML5 APIS
Service workers API
Notification API
Network API
GeoLocation API
Video API
etc

29. WebAssembly support in browsers

30. Experiments with functional languages

31. Static types

32. Not sure about
● Relay/GraphQL
● BAAS
● Web Components
● Isomorphic apps

33. Interesting facts:
Ruby is still alive :)

34. Questions?

35. Viktor Turskyi (koorchik)
viktor@webbylab.com
https://twitter.com/koorchik
https://github.com/koorchik
http://webbylab.com