Tyranny of Choice

1. Tyranny Tyranny Tyranny O f C h o i c e
2. Matthew Bergman @FotoVerite
3. HOW MANY CHOICES A DAY DO YOU MAKE WHEN PROGRAMMING
4. 1 5
5. 1 0
7. I B E T 1 MOST DAYS
8. WE USUALLY HAVE OUR GOTOS
9. Frameworks
10. Precompilers
11. LIBRARIES
12. S t y l e s ;
13. Modules
14. EXPERIMENT AN Let try
15. IF I ASKED YOU TO CREATE A WORDPRESS SITE WHAT WOULD YOU DO
17. Look Familiar?
19. BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA? WHERE TO START?
20. LUCKILY IN JS YOU DO!
21. WHEN NEW PROBLEMS ARISE THOUGH WE BEGIN WITH M o d u l e s
22. NPM HAS 17,307 MODULES 11/09/12
23. NPM HAS 17,308 MODULES
24. H O L Y S H I T
25. That’s More Than Homebrew 2 , 0 0 2 F o r m u l a s
26. That’s More Than Magic 1 2 , 2 4 6 C a r d s
27. THIS IS ONLY GOING TO G R O W
28. 0 4000 8000 12000 16000 20000 N P M M O D U L E S
29. THAT’S A LOT OF C H O I C E S
30. IF I ASKED YOU TO USE A CONTROL FLOW LIBRARY WHAT WOULD YOU DO
31. A S Y N C
32. IF YOU SEARCHED FOR CONTROL FLOW ON NPM-WWW YOU’D GET 20 MODULES
33. NONE ARE ASYNC
34. WE ASSUME THAT PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE
35. WE ASSUME THAT PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE THE SKILLS THAT WE HAVE
36. There has to be a better way than this Q u e s t i o n s , w e m i g h t a n s w e r t h e m G o o g l e
37. THE PROBLEM IS NOT NPM-WWW
38. P R O B L E M
39. DISCOVERY M o d u l e s M o d u l e s M o d u l e s M o d u l e s M o d u l e s M o d u l e s M o d u l e s DISCOVERY DISCOVERY DISCOVERY DISCOVERY
40. I LIKE THE IDEA OF MANY MODULES WORKING TOGETHER
41. We need Small Wheels Modules should do one thing Substack Tiny modules are fun... because they are easy I just spin everything out into lots of tiny modules Substack Substack
42. DO ONE THING AND ONE THING ONLY MODULES SHOULD module.export = function() {... }
43. WE DON’T WANT A MONOLITH
44. R A I L S Overshadowing Means no real innovation S I N A T R A PUMA WEB-MACHINE
45. BUT
46. THE REASON PEOPLE USED RAILS IS BECAUSE IT MEANT
47. L e s s D e c i s i o n s
48. L e s s Technical Debt
49. L e s s T i m e
50. EVERY CHOICE HAS A C O S T
51. AND
52. EVERY ACT OF CHOOSING HAS A C O S T
53. TECHNICAL DEBT ACCRUES BEFORE AND AFTER CHOICES
54. WE HAVE FINITE TIME
56. W E N E E D T O STREAMLINE D E C I S I O N S
57. I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO MAKE FIFTY DECISIONS TO START A PROJECT
58. IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT DEPENDENCIES
59. It’ about M O D U L E S M O D U L E S M O D U L E S C ONNECTING C ONNECTING CONNECTING
60. Make sure you build your libraries in a layered fashion to reduce complexity. See sockjs => shoes => mdm => boot Raynos S t a c k o v e r f l o w “
61. DISCOVERY DISCOVERY DISCOVERY DISCOVERY DISCOVERY
62. NEEDS TO BE ORGANIC
63. NEEDS TO BE FUN
64. NEEDS TO BE THOUGHTFUL
65. THERE ARE COMMON PATTERNS TO DISCOVERY DISCOVERY DISCOVERY DISCOVERY DISCOVERY
66. LETS START SIMPLE
67. BLOG-POSTS
68. UM... NODEJITSU?
69. PLANETNODE
70. TRAINING SITES
71. CODEACADEMY
72. JS FOR CATS?
73. PODCASTS
74. WE HAVE ONE PODCAST AND ONLY ONE PODCAST
75. N O D E U P
77. NODE IS A YOUNG COMMUNITY THESE THINGS TAKE TIME
78. C O M M U N I T Y TAKES TIME
79. BUT
80. WE NEED TO CREATE THESE RESOURCES NOW
81. BECAUSE
82. WE DON’T WANT A MONOLITH
83. AND
84. WE NEED TO THINK
85. BIGGER
86. WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THE PREVIOUS GENERATION
87. A LOT OF THESE METHODS ARE TIME SENSITIVE
88. AND N P M HAS UNIQUE CHALLENGES UNIQUE
90. H E A L T H COMMITS STARS FORKS
91. COMMITS STARS FORKS IF IT DOES ONE THING WELL WHY ARE YOU ADDING TO IT
92. COMMITS STARS FORKS DITTO
93. COMMITS STARS FORKS SERIOUSLY WHO USES STARS
94. WE NEED A NEW WAY TO JUDGE THE HEALTH OF A MODULE
95. VIEWING DEPENDENTS BOTTOM TO TOP
96. GOODNESS INDEX NPM-WWW
97. BETWEEN AUTHORS Collaboration
98. USED IN PRODUCTION MODULES
99. A GROWING COLLECTION OF APPS AND THEIR MODULES
100. VISUALIZATIONS WOULD BE AWESOME
101. MODULES ARE THE INGREDIENTS FOR YOUR APP YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW THEY FIT TOGETHER
102. WE NEED TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS WE CAN TO DISCOVER THE TOOLS WE NEED
103. WE HAVE FINITE TIME
104. Node project has never had to have any of the conversations that the Apache project had to have. Mikeal Rogers L X J S 2 0 1 2 “
105. THIS MEANS WE HAVE NEW CONVERSATIONS THAT WE NEED TO HAVE
106. THESE PROBLEMS ARE NOT EASILY SOLVED.
107. STOP... DEMO TIME
108. @FOTOVERITE