To make NodeJS successful, we need everyone's help. And everyone isn't here.
This talk had a huge impact on me when I was still working in restaurants, listening to podcasts and talks during my shifts, and learning to code at night. Although I'm more privileged than many, I have no college degree and come from a background and industry completely different than most folks in tech. I never dreamt that I could be able to work with the Node.js collaborators. Watching this talk gave me hope that not only could I one day be welcome in the Node community, but that I could be valuable to it. Seeing that people were fighting to create a community that I could participate in moved me so much, and planted a seed in my head which is now bearing fruit after years of hard work. Thank you, Ashley!
Rewatching this talk now is crazy for me, because I see faces in it that I have met and had lovely conversations with. I would never have guessed this was possible without seeing someone get up on stage and say "We want you, we need you!"
Feeling like an imposter? Are you the worst developer you know? Take a deep breath, exhale, watch this talk. Brenna challenges the idea of what success in this industry looks like, and asserts that we can be great developers without having to sacrifice the important things in life. This is a feel good talk that I certainly needed to see right now!
A heavy hitter in terms of widely viewed conference talks. She answers the questions "What is Functional Programming?", "What benefits can it give me?", and "How do we approach this in JS?". It is a very well put together talk that can help introduce you to these concepts for the first time.
One of my favorite talks from JSConf EU 2019. Thoroughly entertaining, plus Una sings us a song at the end! In this talk you will learn about Houdini, a new set of low level JS APIs coming to browsers which exposes access to the CSS rendering engine of your browser. It's really powerful stuff that will change how we style web pages in the future.
With over 1MM views, this is possibly the most watched JS conference talk of all time? For good reason too, Philip does a great job breaking down the complex topic of the JS Event Loop in an approachable way. If you haven't watched this one yet, definitely do! If you're new to JS, watch it now and then keep coming back to it every few months or so. You'll glean more from it over time. If you're an JS expert, this talk can help you deepen your understanding of the language.
This is an interesting talk if you find the Free and Open Source Software world fascinating like I do. Henry gives background into how he came to be involved with Babel. If you follow the OSS JS world, you may know that Henry is currently a full-time OSS maintainer for Babel. His journey is fascinating to me. I think it represents a very interesting time in the world of OSS where we are examining the feasability of supporting the people and projects that the community (and corporations) rely on. Also checkout Henry's talk Open Source: Charity or Business? (2019) which talks about the complications of working on OSS fulltime.
This is a long one at 90 minutes. But it is packed full of information about React Hooks straight from the source. If you aren't entirely sure what the big deal is with Hooks, or why they were introduced when the lifecycle methods "work fine", this talk will help you understand why people are so excited about them.
A great look at the 10 most popular languages and how they got that way. Richard asks the question, "What do they have that functional programming doesn't?". It's a fascinating talk that imagines a future where a Functional Programming langauge cracks the top 10.