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– J E F F AT W O O D “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” 4

T H E N E W A G E O F T H E W E B 5

T H E N E W A G E O F T H E W E B 6

T H E N E W A G E O F T H E W E B 7

W H Y T H E C H A N G E ? 8

T H E U S E R E X P E R I E N C E

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T H E W O R L D O F T H E B R O W S E R J A VA S C R I P T G O T L U C K Y 18

– J E F F AT W O O D “If you want your software to be experienced by as many users as possible, there is absolutely no better route than a web app.” 19

– C S S “You’re welcome” 20

var distances = [100, 10]; // total x/y distances to move var duration = 1000; // animate for one second var steps = [(distances[0]/duration), (distances[1]/duration)]; var timeElapsed = 0; var element = document.querySelector('.myElement'); var interval = setInterval(function () { if (timeElapsed > duration) { // cancel interval clearInterval(interval); return; } else { // move element element.style.top = parseInt(element.style.top, 10) + steps[0] + 'px'; element.style.left = parseInt(element.style.left, 10) + steps[0] + 'px'; // increase time elapsed timeElapsed += 50; } }, 50) 21

.myElement { position: absolute; transition: all 1s linear; } .after { top: 100px; left: 10px; } 22

– H T M L 5 “Don’t forget to thank me too.” 23

T H E F R O N T- E N D H T M L , C S S , J S 24

– J E F F AT W O O D “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” 25

T H E F R O N T- E N D E N G I N E E R 26

W E B S I T E P E R F O R M A N C E 27

"47% of consumers expect a web page to load in 2 seconds or less" 28

"1 second delay in page response can result in a 7% reduction in conversions" 29

– S T E V E S O U D E R S "80-90% of the end-user response time is spent on the frontend" 30

A C C E S S I B I L I T Y 31

- T I M B E R N E R S - L E E “The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.” 32

M A I N TA I N A B I L I T Y 33

– N I C O L A S G A L L A G H E R "Despite CSS being so hard to maintain, it's often the part of the [Front-end] stack people are least interested in protecting from tech debt." 34

B R O W S E R S 35

– D O U G L A S C R O C K F O R D "Browsers are the most hostile software development environment imaginable" 36

C U R I O S I T Y 37

R E S P O N S I V E W E B D E S I G N

• Backbone.js • AngularJS • Ember.js • KnockoutJS • Dojo • YUI • Agility.js • Knockback.js • CanJS • Maria • Polymer • React • cujoJS • Montage • Sammy.js • Stapes • Epitome • soma.js • DUEL • Kendo UI • PureMVC • Olives • PlastronJS • Dijon • rAppid.js • DeftJS + ExtJS • Aria Templates • Enyo + • SAPUI5 • Exoskeleton • Atma.js • Ractive.js • ComponentJS • Vue.js

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F R O M D E S I G N T O I M P L E M E N TAT I O N

L O G I C A L C R E AT I V I T Y 42

F R O N T- E N D E N G I N E E R C U LT I VA T I N G T H E 43

A L L O W E X P E R I M E N TAT I O N 44

A C C E P T C U R I O S I T Y 45

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G I V E R O O M T O G R O W 47

F R O N T- E N D E N G I N E E R H I R I N G T H E 48

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J AVA S C R I P T N I N J A H I R E T H E D O N ’ T 50

J AVA S C R I P T D E V E L O P E R H I R E T H E D O N ’ T 51

F R O N T- E N D E N G I N E E R H I R E T H E 52

F R O N T- E N D D E V E L O P E R H I R E T H E 53

U I D E V E L O P E R H I R E T H E 54

S O F T WA R E D E V E L O P E R H I R E T H E 55

F R O N T- E N D E N G I N E E R I N T E R V I E W I N G T H E 56

F R O N T- E N D E N G I N E E R I N T E R V I E W T H E 57

S E R V E R - S I D E E N G I N E E R C O N V E R T I N G T H E 58

– S T E V E S O U D E R S "Asking backend developers to do front-end engineering is a mistake. Front-end engineering is an established discipline." 59

R E S P E C T T H E R O L E 60

F I N D T H E I R G E N I U S

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– J E F F AT W O O D “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” 63

T H A N K S ! @ K L A M P I N G 64

R E F E R E N C E S • http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/ • http://www.fatagnus.com/nate-koechley-talks-about-professional-frontend-engineering/ • http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/10/07/node-js-and-the-new-web-front-end/ • http://www.computedstyle.com/2010/12/hiring-front-end-engineers.html • http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2007/08/15/what-makes-a-good-front-end-engineer/ • http://css-tricks.com/interviewing-front-end-engineer-san-francisco/ • http://blog.codinghorror.com/all-programming-is-web-programming/ • http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-performance-golden-rule/ • http://blog.kissmetrics.com/loading-time/ • https://twitter.com/necolas/status/343077206471348224 • http://www.codehesive.com/ninjarockstars/ • http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/08/27/web-performance-for-the-future/ 65