Modern JavaScript For Web Dinosaurs - Ryan Preece

Back in the day, you'd roll out some jQuery and build websites with the best of them. But nowadays terms like "Webpack" and "React" and "Node" kept cropping up, and the new code you see looks nothing like the JavaScript you thought you knew... Uh oh - you've become a web dinosaur!

If you've been out of the game for even a little in frontend development it can be a huge trial to get back in. In this session I'll take you on a trip from basic jQuery all the way up to React and explain how we got from Point A to B. It'll be packed with examples - so not matter what year your JS knowledge is from, you'll walk away feeling less like an extinct dinosaur and more like a state-of-the-art web developer.

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[bmiller]

Ryan, you did a fantastic job and the talk is good. It perfectly summarizes the state of modern web development and explains a lot. What it doesn't address (perhaps that should be another talk) is why we needed to import thousands of lines of all of theses libraries and dependencies when a few lines of good ole fashioned vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and CSS would have done the trick...And how that is all somehow "better". I think I'll stay a dinosaur.