JavaScript and The Monomyth

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JavaScript and the Monomyth

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@tiandavis

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JS Dynamic Prototypical Functional Familiar

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JS Dynamic Prototypical Functional Familiar

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IDEAS THAT SPREAD, WIN -Seth Godin

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JS Browsers

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JS Servers

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JS Hybrid Mobile Apps

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JS Games

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JS Drones

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JS Micro Controllers

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JS Atwood’s Law Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

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Have we seen this before?

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Monomyth The Hero’s Journey

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The Hero’s Journey

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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. -Jospeh Campbell

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Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. -Jospeh Campbell

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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. -Jospeh Campbell

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The thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center. -Jospeh Campbell

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Departure Initiation Return

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Departure Initiation Return

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Departure Initiation Return

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Departure The Call to Adventure

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Brendan Eich Recruited to bring scheme to the browser.

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Departure Refusal of the Call

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Scheme

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Scheme ! ! JAVA WITHOUT CLASSES?

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JavaScript

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Common Mythic Element Lone Animal Chased Into Enchanted Foreﬆ

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Star Wars Princess Leia’s R2D2 distress hologram requesting rescue

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The Matrix Neo “follows the white rabbit” to the nightclub where he meets Trinity

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Dune House Atreides follows exclusive spice mining contract to Arrakis

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JavaScript Create Scheme for the Browser

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Departure Supernatural Aid

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Tight Release WRITES JAVASCRIPT IN 10 DAYS

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Internet Explorer + VBScript Intense. Fear. Netscape Killer

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Departure Crossing the Threshold

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Brendan Eich Rewrites JavaScript.  Extracts SpiderMonkey.

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Microsoft JScript released with IE3

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JavaScript JScript is Douglas Crockford

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Common Mythic Element The Mentor

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Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi

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The Matrix Morpheus

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Dune Duncan Idaho

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JavaScript Douglas Crockford

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Rhino Created Java Fork of SpiderMonkey

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Departure Belly of the Whale

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Brendan Eich Mozilla Project March ‘98

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Aol. Buys Netscape March ‘99

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Aol. Closes Netscape July ‘03

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Brendan Eich Creates Mozilla Foundation July ‘03

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SpiderMonkey Firefox is its new home Feb ‘04

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Brendan Eich CTO Mozilla Corporation Aug ‘05

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Departure JavaScript no longer tied to a speciﬁc browser.

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Departure JavaScript now funded indeﬁnitely.

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Departure Initiation Return

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Initiation The Road of Trials

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The DOM is a MESS Many Browser Vendors Many Browser Bugs

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No Separation of Concerns Embedded CSS Inline JavaScript

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JavaScript Organization

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JavaScript Organization

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Initiation The Meeting with the Oracle

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John Resig BarCamp NYC Jan ‘06

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Non-Obstrusive JavaScript Birth of a Beﬆ Practice

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Cross Browser JavaScript We Dared to Believe

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Common Mythic Element The Oracle

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Star Wars Yoda

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The Matrix The Oracle

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JavaScript John Resig

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Initiation Temptation away from the true path

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The Framework Wars

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jQuery versus MooTools

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jQuery versus Prototype

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jQuery versus ExtJS (Sencha)

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jQuery versus Dojo

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KEEP! CALM! AND! CODE! ON

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Common Mythic Element Failed Hero

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Star Wars Biggs

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The Matrix Morpheus once believed Cypher was “The One”

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JavaScript MooTools, ProtoType …

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Initiation Atonement with the Father

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The Framework Wars

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jQuery.noConﬂict May ‘08

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jQuery The Effect

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From MooTools My Swtich from MooTools to jQuery

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Initiation Apotheosis God-Like

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May ‘08 Douglas Crockford

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Sep ‘08 Microsoft

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Mid ‘09 Douglas Crockford JSON

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Mid ‘09 Ruby on Rails

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Oct ‘09 SVG RaphaelJS

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FLASH DEAD IS

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ISH…

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R.I.P. Flash Java Applets Silverlight

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The web is not a movie.

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The web is not a plugin.

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The web is not a single vendor.

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The web is not a single technology.

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The “truthiness” of these things is part of what makes the web better.

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Initiation The Ultimate Boon

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Initiation Cross Browser JavaScript is a REAL Thing

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Initiation “Real” Developers Use JavaScript Now

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Departure Initiation Return

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Return Refusal of the Return

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John Resig Resigns Mozilla Corporation & Fulltime Work on jQuery

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Lightweight Mobile Optimized DOM Libraries

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Zepto.JS

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Zepto jQuery 9kb 84kb

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jQuery 2 71kb IE6, IE7, IE8

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Return The Magic Flight

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Designer Languages

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CoﬀeeScript or JavaScript

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GWT May ‘06

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Objective-J Late ‘08

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CoffeeScript Dec ‘09

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Dart Aug ‘11

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ClojureScript Aug ‘11

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TypeScript Aug ‘12

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Common Mythic Element Wearing Enemy’s Skin

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Star Wars Luke and Han wear stormtrooper outﬁts

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The Matrix Neo jumps into Agent Smith’s skin

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JavaScript GWT uses Java to write frontend code

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package com.example.foo.client;! ! import com.google.gwt.core.client.EntryPoint;! import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;! ! public class Foo implements EntryPoint {! public void onModuleLoad() {! GWT.log("Hello World!", null);! }! }

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Common Mythic Element The Shapeshifter

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Star Wars Han Solo

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The Matrix Cypher

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JavaScript CoffeeScript

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Return Rescue from Without

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NO Flash on iOS devices

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Adobe drops support for Flash on mobile devices

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Drops support for IE6

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Return Crossing the Return Threshold

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JavaScript Organization

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JavaScript Organization

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JavaScript Organization Micro MVC Libraries

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JavaScript Organization Backbone

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JavaScript Organization KnockOut

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JavaScript Organization Spine

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JavaScript Organization JavaScript MVC (CanJS)

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Open Sources V8 JavaScript Engine

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JavaScript on the Server is Legit Now. Node.JS

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Canvas HTML5

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WebSockets HTML5

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LocalStorage HTML5

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WebRTC HTML5

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Browser Normalizers Gain Popularity HTML5

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Socket.IO Normalizers

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Store.JS Normalizers

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MicroControllers

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Drones

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MongoDB BSON

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Return Master of Two Worlds

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JavaScript Frontend Backend

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Workﬂow, Security, API Backend

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Core Business Logic Frontend

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Common Mythic Element Two Worlds: Mundane vs. Special

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Star Wars Planetside vs. Death Star

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The Matrix Reality vs. The Matrix

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JavaScript Backend vs. Frontend

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Single Page Applications

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Modern Frontend Frameworks

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Designer Language Optional…

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JavaScript is now for SERIOUS engineers.

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Return Freedom to Live

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Return Frontend development is now a legitimate software profession.

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Return Focus on the Frontend or the Backend. The choice is yours.

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Return JavaScript is the most popular language on the planet Earth.

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JAVASCRIPT IS LEGITIMATE

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JAVASCRIPT IS FULLSTACK

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JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE

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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE…? JS

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Thanks.

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Tian Davis @tiandavis tiandavis.com/talks