JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development Applying the magic of compilers to the frontend
Aug 31, 2018
52:43
KBall and Chad Hietala meet up at JSConf and talk about compilers for the frontend, Ember’s binary opcodes, webassembly, and the future of performance optimization for the web.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
Performance gains from compilers in JavaScript:
Glimmer
- The Glimmer Binary Experience
- The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast
- Experiments porting Glimmer VM pieces to WASM
The performance costs of parse/compile:
Precompilation:
Moving sourcemaps to webassembly:
A11Y:
Opportunities for Angular, Vue, etc
Ember
- The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks
- Github Stars !== Usage: React is still blowing Vue and Angular Away
- issue: Latest version of angular-cli shows ember-cli help
- #dadt (Dojo already did that)
- Ember RFCs
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