Computer, build me an app - Rich Harris - JSConf EU 2018

Frameworks exist because writing maintainable apps in vanilla JavaScript is hard. But frameworks aren’t free: downloading and parsing those extra bytes slows things up, just when your users are deciding whether to stick around.

Instead of choosing between bulky frameworks and maintainability nightmares, what if we could tell the computer ‘here are the blueprints, now you write the code’? In this talk we’ll discover a new breed of tools, such as Svelte, that let you do exactly that.

[jclipperton]

This gentleman is a brilliant speaker and everyone is right, the gods of demo really screwed him over.

[EDUSidekick]

The fact that Rich maintained an absolute excellent composure during this is amazing. He continued delivering an amazing and elegant talk. Anyone who wrote him off because of that doesn't deserve to have Svelte in their life. :P

[PtmaroctVids]

<h1>Hello world</h1>
*CROWD GOES WILD*
*LOUD APPLAUSE FOLLOWS*

[andreasbohrnsen]

This guy is so brilliant. Really hurts me to see him struggling so much with the demo.

[KP]

Those editor problems made me lose my sh*t when just watching the video. Can't imagine being on stage. R. Harris is much calmer than me.

[MarcusHammarberg]

"I bring a message of great import" - nice one

[frankie_goestohollywood]

Fantastic lecture Rich Harris....I would have lost my s**t if I was going thru what you just did on stage...quite flabbergasted at his ability to remain calm - well done

[conoroflanagan]

Clicking on the component and going straight to the code file was pretty cool

[jakadirnbek]

The fastest DOM operation is the one that isn't performed.

[ThatGuyAnonymous]

I could listen to this man talking all day 👌

[sodomousprime]

The cartoon at the start was brilliant.

[PhilipAlexanderHassialis]

Oh gods, even VS.Code Svelte plugin today still fudges up occasionally. Glad to see it was a feature all along since the beginning.

[elitetatsuya]

This shows why Stackblitz is needed in the general web industry

[cdnuzzo]

He handled the demo mishap very well. I know that feeling.

[RoxGame]

as an game developer and trying to learn about web i found svelte most easiest powerful framework exist until now, thank you

[kiwihour]

"What if it was a compiler?"
Svelte: "Allow me to introduce myself"

[leonf.]

Looks like I slept through the second JS era.

[ZohaibSibteHassan]

I’ve seen a very few speakers with such good story telling skills.

[aadlr]

Great point about the inability in React to track down compiled CSS styles at 10:42

[ObiWanStrombli]

This guy is brilliant, svelte is AMAZING and he had a bad run with this presentation. This compiler has made my passion project development so simple and fun!