How thinking small is changing software development big time

The world is changing fast. More precisely, the world is changing at increasing speed. This means things that were not possible five years ago come into reach. Incumbent organizations need to adapt fast to keep up with new competitors that use new technologies easier, faster and better than they do. As a result, every aspect of software changes towards smaller. Even smaller teams or even micro-teams, less management, flatter organizations, even shorter cycles, and smaller components.

How to Pack your Webpack

A strategy on how to properly configure webpack for your project

Svelte: the last framework we need?

Dexter shares his love for svelte, what sets it apart from other frameworks and shows how it enables him to create truly reactive apps.

Serverless gives you wings

How serverless empowers frontend teams to get so much done without needing a backend specialist and enables teams to move super fast.

Modern Solutions for e2e testing

A new day brings a new framework. This rule applies also for e2e testing tools, which is cool yet frightening. How to swim but not sink in plenty of testing frameworks and have a solid e2e test coverage with minimal effort? Anastasia is going to share her insights on this which might be helpful for every developer who does care about software quality improvement paired with automated testing.

Practical A11Y for Web Apps

Accessibility (A11Y) is an often misunderstood topic by developers. We also tend to not see the importance and if we see it, we struggle on getting started because it’s such broad topic. What can we do to improve?

In this talk Bob will explain web accessibility and why it’s such a critical part of our job.

He will explain how to get started in testing and improving your apps using tools and methods that are market standard.

There will be real-world examples from his daily job and he’ll share how to tackle common pitfalls.

After this session, you’ll have enough knowledge to start fixing your front-end’s most low hanging A11Y issues.

Micro-interactions with React Spring

In her own words, Emma is a UX Engineer with a passion for design. She has recently transitioned into a UX Engineering role at LogMeIn where she builds Design Systems with React.

But, you're not Facebook

This talk started as a humorous joke in twitter and quickly took the React community by surprise. In a very interesting way, Kitze will explore the current trend to over-engineer solutions to common problems in web applications.

Beats, Rhymes and Unit Tests

Hip Hop and Unit Tests. A match made in heaven? Through a mix of audio, video and live performance, Tony will explore Web Audio in an attempt to convince the audience of its suitability for audio transcription. This is a fast paced and highly engaging talk with a crescendo you won’t forget.

GraphQL Without a Database

Your frontend developers are pushing to get started with GraphQL, but you don’t have the backend capacity to migrate your existing REST APIs to GraphQL? Or you want to have a GraphQL API next to your existing endpoints that are based on REST, without having to rewrite all your controllers? In this talk I’ll show how to wrap existing REST APIs into one single GraphQL endpoint on both the client and server side. This allows you to access the power of GraphQL without having to change any of your existing code or connect to a database.

DX is the new black. Learnings from using Nuxt and Storybook at scale.

Last year we started the rebuild of a big e-commerce platform. The main goal was to increase the performance of the application but also to enhance the daily comfort of the developers. The rebuild was done using Nuxt and Vue, and to create a good developer experience we used Storybook to work on the components in an agnostic way. In this talk I will explain how we mixed all these tools together and how we are able to develop great code with a big team.

Refactor your life

Noer and Sima share with you 3 main insights they have gained while teaching programming to people with a radically different background. Sima Milli will share her personal story.

Blazor with WebAssembly

One of the latest technologies targeting front-end development that is gaining quite some traction isWebAssembly.

And the latest development stack for it is Blazor! While it’s still in preview mode, it’s considered as prettyinnovative as far as WebAssembly goes.

In this session, you’ll learn what Blazor is, how it uses WebAssembly, and how to get started with it all.

By coding some examples, we’ll be able to investigate several aspects of Blazor’s support forWebAssembly, such as: dependency injection, data access, routing, editing and validation and MVVM.

Come along and discover if this new technology is something for you!

Audio Streaming - Using WebRTC for building your own Voice AIs

The Google Assistant is super popular. Businesses want their own voice AI. Unless you are a manufacturer for tv setup boxes or headphones, you probably don't need to use the Google Assistant, you can integrate a (voice supported) conversational AI within your own existing web/mobile app with the use of Dialogflow and Cloud Speech to Text (STT), Cloud Text to Speech (TTS).

However, implementing audio streaming within (web) applications can become difficult. It's not that the Google APIs are hard to use; those APIs are pretty straightforward. The problem is the combination of all required technology; A front app, WebRTC, microphone streams, audio encoding, sample rates, websockets, a back-end app, Google streaming APIs...

Lee Boonstra, developer advocate for Conversational AI, (and author of the ultimate audio streaming to Speech APIs - guide), will guide you how to implement your own conversational AI within your web application.

The Future of Real-time | Offline | Data

Complexity, and the consistent attempts to reduce complexity, are at the core of the evolution of technology. As technology evolves, we then find harder problems to solve and are presented with new challenges. In the client space, we’ve seen innovation that has addressed how we deal with modern application concerns like real-time and offline data while at the same time GraphQL has continued to gain in market share.

What happens when we take the advancements that GraphQL has introduced as a paradigm and combine them with a mental model that all data should be local and offline first, with eventual consistency to your database as a second thought? In this talk, I’ll talk about a data store paradigm that allows developers to work with a single, local database and source of truth, and the idea that you should not have to make more than one write action to have (eventual) consistency across the client and server.

The state of WebAssembly

Sendil is an experienced developer, speaker and author. He is passionate about JavaScript, Java / Kotlin and Rust. Most importantly, he is very active in the WebAssembly scene. He is the co-founder of WASM-tools and creator of popular projects: KHipster, Webpack-scaffold-PWA, and more.

State of the Vuenion 2020

The growth of Vue continues and we are almost ready for Vue 3. As ever Evan You will deliver the State of Vuenion 2020, if we are lucky maybe we see some Typescript code from him ;)

Scalable Vue Graphics for the Modern Web

The Future of Vue's Test Utils

With an expanded Vue Test Utils team and with Vue 3 on the horizon, we’ll talk about our plans for 2020. What’s coming in v1?

Introduction into the Composition API

Gregg Pollack is the founder of VueMastery.com, the Ultimate Resource for Vue.js developers. Previously he founded Code School, an online software programming school, Envy, a web application development firm, and Starter Studio, Orlando’s first technical accelerator now in its ninth class.

Composition API Best Practices

Thorsten will be speaking about Composition API and emerging best practices. Are you ready for some expert level tips?

Making eCommerce sexy again with Vue Storefront and Composition API

Vue Storefront is currently the biggest Open Source eCommerce frontend that works with any backend platform and already has more than 60 live shops. For the past 2 years we are constantly improving our solution but we came to the point where architecture became a limitation... so we decided to do a rewrite and use the latest Vue features. As one of the first big projects in the world on Vue 3 we had a chance to explore and adapt new amazing patterns brought by Composition API. During this talk you will learn how using new Vue 3 features can bring developer experience to a completely new level!

Serverless with Vue and Node.js

We will dip into Serverless, Jam Stack and more.

Climate change and the tech community

An inspirational talk about climate change what we as a community can do to prevent further climate change

Application Shortcuts with a Renderless Event Component

Vue Announcer - Content Loading That Isn't Broken

How Vue-Announcer can help you create Accessible Single-Page Applications. Vue-Announcer announces useful information for screen reader users. Learn how to use this plugin to customize receive alerts and notifications as users navigate your application.

Team First

Producing high quality work is dependent on a well-organized team, especially in a high-pressure environment like an ad agency or a production studio. At a certain scale almost every team struggles with cultural differences, perceived pressure from management or misaligned definitions of success. Over the years Tim has learned that you are more successful if you understand what motivates people and he created a framework (yes, he's a developer) to deal with projects in complex environments that he calls "Team First".

What is Nuxt 2020?!

With the increasing popularity of Nuxt.js the core team and authors have not been sitting still. In February Sebastien will talk about the progression and plans for Nuxt.js in 2020.

Deep Dive into Nuxt.js

Pooya will be diving into Nuxt.js. Nuxt.js is a free and open source web application framework based on Vue.js, Node.js, Webpack and Babel.js. The framework is advertised as 'meta-framework for universal applications'.

An Animated Guide to Vue 3 Reactivity and Internals

Sarah Drasner is an award-winning Speaker, Head of Developer Experience at Netlify, Vue core team member, and Staff Writer at CSS-Tricks.

Vuelidate version for Vue 3.0

How to apply validations using Vuelidate and its ecosystem in combination with the new Composition API

Authentication from Scratch

Test-Driven Development with Vue.js

Testing a component can be counter-intuitive. It requires a mental shift to wrap your head around the differences between testing components and testing plain scripts, knowing what to test, and understanding the line between unit and end-to-end tests.

TDD makes everything easier. Instead of writing tests by examining all bits and pieces of a finished project, and trying to guess what you should cover, you’re doing the opposite. You’re starting from actual specs, a list of things that the component should do, without caring about how it does it. This way, you’re ensuring that all you test is the public API of your component, but you’re also guaranteeing you don’t forget anything.

In this talk, we’ll cover why TDD is an ideal method for testing Vue components properly, and we’ll do it together live. We’ll deep dive into why TDD works the way it does, and how it can bring you full confidence over iterating on your Vue projects. At the end of the talk, you will know exactly what to test in your Vue components, and how to do it efficiently.

Vuetify 2+

About new features in Vuetify 2+ and a showcase of the work that went into upgrading the version and highlight key features.

New Vue. New Compiler. Let’s unbox

Rahul is the creator and runner of An Awesome Conf in Bangalore, he is part of the Vue.js Core team focusing on rollup-plugin-vue and vue-issue-helper

You might not need Vuex

Vuex ORM – Relational data management in Vue

Have you ever encountered a situation where you're handling a quite complex relational data structure in your Vue application? Like users have many posts, posts have many comments? This talk will dive into managing such complex data in Vue, the pain points, the possible solutions, and how Vuex ORM can help you with it.

BootstrapVue - The road to 2.0 and Beyond

BootstrapVue is one of the most popular component libraries in Vue.js land. During this talk, I'll tell my story of joining BootstrapVue during a major release phase. Lessons learned about the importance of proper documentation and A11Y for component frameworks and the state of BootstrapVue and our plans.

Micro Frontends: Composing a Greater Whole

What you'll love in Vue 3

Performant Components through Customization

Most current UI libraries provide great user experience with a vast of components. But when it comes to heavy customization and non-standard scenarios, especially for E-Commerce, they become hard to manage, scale or even slow down performance. How to create a UI library that provides users the most possible freedom in customizing components, while keeping our performance and scalability to the fullest? How much customization freedom is enough? What other lessons learned, during building StorefrontUI, that can help other Vue developers in building their own system?

Announcement related to Vue CLI UI

Guillaume - better known as Akryum - has been working a new 'side'-project and he's about to reveal it for the first time!

vue-router and its techniques

Balancing the pro's and con's of the new vue-router

Building Blazing Fast Sites with Gridsome

Vue.js is an amazing library for building user interfaces, but it (purposefully) lacks some of the bells and whistles of a full framework. That’s where Gridsome comes in! Gridsome is a framework built on top of Vue, that provides you features like pre-rendering, a centralized GraphQL data store, and a plethora of performance and developer experience improvements out of the box. In this talk, we’ll walk through the features of Gridsome and the reasons you should or shouldn’t consider reaching for it on your next project.

Full Static with Nuxt

Static pre-rendering is an overlooked feature of Nuxt. You can use it for more than your average blog. Here's why