X-platform web dev in Spotify

Slides for a lightning talk given at mloc.js Budapest in February 2013 (see http://mloc-js.com/2013/ for more info).

This talk shows the existing Spotify clients and how we have used web technologies to develop features. This made it possible to decouple the development of the client code from the iteration on public-facing features.

Transcript

1. February 2013
   in Spotify.
   X-platform web dev
   

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2. @jmperezperez
   Frontend Web Developer
   Spotify - Stockholm
   José Manuel Pérez Pérez
   About me
   

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3. What’s Spotify
   How we use web technologies
   Cross-platform challenges
   What’s this talk about
   

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4. Desktop client
   

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5. Mobile clients
   

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6. TV
   

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7. Easy development, no dependencies
   Monitor and deliver updates with no overhead
   We would like to achieve this:
   as Spotify grows
   Evolving the product
   

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8. Web is the answer
   

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9. Allowing 3rd-party integrations
   Spotify Apps
   

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10. Making it possible to use web development everywhere
    Hybrid clients
    

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11. Whole client, not only a component
    Web player
    

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12. Team ownership
    Code reuse + Cross platform development
    Web development is helping us with:
    Web
    

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13. DRY
    Sharing code
    

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14. Hide the native layer - Common API
    Structure the code properly
    Keep in mind performance
    Cross-platform development
    Things to have into account
    How to
    

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15. February 2013
    @jmperezperez
    Thanks!
    

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16. February 2013
    jobs.spotify.com
    developer.spotify.com
    @SpotifyPlatform
    More info
    

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