I Can't Believe It's JavaScript

My talk for the JS Monthly London meetup about the cool, new and surprising things we can develop with JavaScript these days. Includes Robots, Internet of Things and Virtual Reality.

Transcript

1. Peter O’Shaughnessy
2. Why JavaScript is a toy language, 2010 “JavaScript is a toy language”
3. Graph by loggly - data from Github
4. “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript” Atwood’s Law
5. Desktop Apps
6. Post: bit.ly/sound-machine-with-electron Desktop Sound Machine
7. Slack
8. Atom
9. “You could see it as a minimal Chromium browser, controlled by JavaScript” electron.atom.io
10. 60 FPS Mobile Games
11. Demo: www.goodboydigital.com/runpixierun/ Video: youtu.be/G3pQ6jrY_9M Run Pixie Run
13. www.pixijs.com “A fast 2D graphics library that uses WebGL if available, or falls back to canvas”
14. Demo: bit.ly/winter-rush Post: bit.ly/60fps-mobile-game Winter’s Rush
16. “A 3D library with renderers for WebGL, <canvas>, <svg> and CSS3D” three.js threejs.org
17. Robots
18. Video: youtu.be/VCjbUJzYYvI Post: bit.ly/robot-arm-javascript Kinect-Controlled Robot Arm
20. johnny-five.io “A JavaScript robotics programming framework” Johnny-Five
21. Video: youtu.be/3oWdOhVAHgM nodecopter.com Dance Mat Drone
23. github.com/felixge/node-ar-drone “A node.js implementation of the Parrot AR Drone networking protocols” ar-drone
24. Video: youtu.be/SGquE_ywE8g Post: bit.ly/mozilla-drone-bluetooth Mobile Web App Drone
26. Web Bluetooth API Spec: webbluetoothcg.github.io/web-bluetooth/ Google Developers post: bit.ly/chrome-bluetooth-api “An API to discover and communicate with devices over Bluetooth”
27. Internet of Things
28. Video: youtu.be/Nb8I68d8adM Connected Coffee Machine
30. “An internet-connected microcontroller programmable in JavaScript… compatible with Node.js and NPM” tessel.io
31. Post: pebblecode.com/blog/hack-day-hackball/ Smart Table Football
32. github.com/pebblecode/pinhead
33. Wearables
34. bit.ly/pebble-js-tutorial Pebble Weather App
35. developer.getpebble.com/docs/pebblejs/ Pebble.js “Pebble.js lets you write beautiful Pebble applications completely in JavaScript”
36. cloudpebble.net
38. Virtual Reality
39. Video: vimeo.com/114942905 Post: labs.pearson.com/prototypes/interactive-vr/ VR Fire Safety Training
41. Web VR webvr.info mozvr.com “An experimental Javascript API that provides access to Virtual Reality devices, such as the Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in your browser”
42. LeapJS github.com/leapmotion/leapjs “JavaScript client for the Leap Motion Controller”
43. • Desktop apps • 60 FPS mobile games • Robots • Internet of Things • Wearables • Virtual Reality • and more
45. @poshaughnessy @pebblecode