How to avoid React, may be.

Submitted Feb 1, 2019

Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

This is not one of those “use other frameworks” evangelism talks. I’ve seen my share of decisions being made to use a front-end only approach even though it’s not quite needed.

In this talk I’ll share some of these decision making stories, and how to actively avoid “just” using a framework and doing your best to reduce the on going JavaScript warming and save the world.

Outline

A tiny library to make it easy to create DOM nodes in JavaScript
Tiny “refresh-on-change” library
New browser APIs that are very useful (intersection observer, mutation observer etc.)
Finally look at using all the above to build a fast, light-weight page, possibly a clone of a popular web application.