JSFoo 2017

JSFoo is a conference about JavaScript and everything related.

About the conference: JSFoo is a JavaScript conference hosted by HasGeek.

Theme this year: The broad theme this year is going to be Building Reliable Web Apps. Please refer to the Topics section below for the subject of talks and workshops we are looking for.

##Format
We are inviting proposals for:
Full-length 40 minute talks.
Crisp 15 minute talks.
Sponsored sessions, of 15 minutes and 40 minutes duration (limited slots available; subject to editorial scrutiny and approval).
Hands-on Workshop sessions, 3 and 6 hour duration.

##Selection process
Proposals will be filtered and shortlisted by an Editorial Panel. Please make sure to add links to videos / slide decks when submitting proposals. This will help us understand your speaking experience and delivery style. Blurbs or blog posts covering the relevance of a particular problem statement and how it is tackled will help the Editorial Panel better judge your proposals. We might contact you to ask if you’d like to repost your content on the official conference blog.

We expect you to submit an outline of your proposed talk – either in the form of a mind map or a text document or draft slides within two weeks of submitting your proposal.

Selection Process Flowchart

You can check back on this page for the status of your proposal. We will notify you if we either move your proposal to the next round or if we reject it. Selected speakers must participate in one or two rounds of rehearsals before the conference. This is mandatory and helps you to prepare well for the conference.

A speaker is NOT confirmed a slot unless we explicitly mention so in an email or over any other medium of communication.

There is only one speaker per session. Entry is free for selected speakers. As our budget is limited, we prefer speakers from locations closer home, but will do our best to cover for anyone exceptional. HasGeek provides these limited grants where applicable: two international travel and accommodation grants, three domestic travel and accommodation grants. Grants are limited and made available to speakers delivering full sessions (40 minutes or longer). Speaker travel grants will be given in order of preference to students, women, persons of non-binary genders, and individuals for Asia and Africa first.

##Topics
Updated (19 April 2017): We are currently looking for talks in the following topics:

Testing: Testing tools and strategies; test driven development and testing culture; continuous integration and testing workflows; and case studies around testing your application.

Performance optimization: Performance analysis tools and techniques; best practices for building performant applications; browser, NodeJS, and framework internals; network protocols; and performance case studies.

Debugging: Tools for locating and fixing bugs in JavaScript applications; real world post-mortems of bugs that affected your organization; and using telemetry for debugging.

Immutability, type checking, and alternative programming languages: Alternatives to vanilla JavaScript; functional programming and immutability; types and type systems; and real-world case studies of introducing alternative programming languages and tools in your organization.

Build tooling: Build tools and automation, including task runners, linters, JavaScript bundlers, CSS pre- and post-processors, continuous integration tools, static analysis tools, and optimization tools.

Crash and performance monitoring: Monitoring applications for crashes and performance issues while in production.

##Commitment to open source
HasGeek believes in open source as the binding force of our community. If you are describing a codebase for developers to work with, we’d like for it to be available under a permissive open source licence. If your software is commercially licensed or available under a combination of commercial and restrictive open source licences (such as the various forms of the GPL), please consider picking up a sponsorship. We recognise that there are valid reasons for commercial licensing, but ask that you support us in return for giving you an audience. Your session will be marked on the schedule as a “sponsored session”.

##Important dates
Deadline for submitting proposals: 15 June 2017

**Conference dates: ** 15–16 September 2017

##Contact
For more information about speaking proposals, tickets and sponsorships, contact info@hasgeek.com or call +91 76763 32020.

Note: We aren’t accepting any new talks.

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Rahat Khanna

@mappmechanic

Demystifying Web Components as the Weapon for Web Convergence

Submitted May 19, 2017

The web is evolving at light speed and all the web applications are trying to catch up. It has become very difficult for a new developer or even an existing developer to decide which Framework or Tool to choose for his next project. Angular, React, Ember, Vue are few of the myriad of options available, and some time evaluating few of these for the best fit is unending.

All the browsers have come to a stage where they are almost implementing most of the new Web Standards and now developers do not need to invest much time in Browser Compatibility. Although all the front end frameworks like React, Angular, Vue & Ember have different core architectures but they are converging on a common principle design pattern i.e. Component Driven architecture. Web Components with the customElements v1 API released on most popular browsers are the solution to take standardisation of the web to the next level.

Web Components can help us build standard re-usable custom html elements with bundled CSS, HTML & JS (for behaviours). It will enable all developers to build performant, maintainable web apps unlocking the full potential of the browser.

Potential Benefits of Web Components

  • Perfectly reusable components across all browsers & even with multiple frameworks like React, Ember, Vue
  • Reduction of efforts in maintenance and upgradation with new features
  • Single File with bundled HTML & CSS
  • Drive the principle of Composition for component driven approach in building web apps
  • Standardisation of the Web

Web Components have already been taken into production use by several big companies such as Google, GitHub, Comcast, Salesforce and General Electric. Some of the more high profile sites using Web Components are Youtube Gaming, Google Patents, Google Music and GitHub.

We all web developers have a contribution towards the community to reduce the pain of new people learning development and making an endeavour to work towards standardisation. In this way we can spend more time in building great and engaging User Experiences rather than learning all of these different platforms and frameworks.

Outline

The session would be divided into 3 main section:

  1. What are web components?
  2. How to develop a reusable Web Component?
  3. How to use it with Angular & ReactJS ?

The detailed points to be covered in each of the section would be as follows:

What are Web Components

  1. Problem with burst of Frameworks
  2. History of Web Components
  3. How will Web Components change the Web
  4. Architecture of a Web Component
  5. Main parts of a Web Component
    1. HTML Templates
    2. Shadow DOM
    3. Custom Elements
    4. HTML Imports
  6. Browser Support for Web Components

Developing a Simple reusable Web Component

  1. Polyfills or Support Libraries like Polymer, x-tag
  2. Building a basic Infinite List component
    1. Component Structure
    2. Making a Template
    3. Adding Shadow DOM
    4. Inputs & Outputs (Events)
    5. Using it in a Vanilla JS Project

Using new Web Component with Angular & React

  1. Using it with Angular 2
  2. Using it with ReactJS

Requirements

Laptops with NodeJS & Chrome Browsers

Speaker bio

I am a UI Developer working with Apple Inc, previously have worked with Flipkart & Genpact. Sound expertise on Front End Technologies having a vast experience of developing 200+ websites, building numerous Enterprise Hybrid Mobile Apps, architecting User Interface Solutions, authoring a popular book on Ionic Framework and conducting 30+ Global Trainings on latest frameworks and technology tools.

International Trainer for Ionic/Cordova & Angular - Invited by MIMOS, Malaysia (Funded by Ministry of Science & Technology, Malaysian Govt) for Training Workshop

Slides

https://www.slideshare.net/secret/leTVkuVuqtgi7C

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JSFoo is a forum for discussing UI engineering; fullstack development; web applications engineering, performance, security and design; accessibility; and latest developments in #JavaScript. Follow JSFoo on Twitter more