Recap of JS Open Day NYC 2015

Last Friday I had the opportunity to attend JS Open Day – a full day conference about the future of JavaScript and the web – at the Microsoft offices in New York City. There was a ton of great content shared! Below is a quick recap of each of the talks.

Javascript is... #JSOpenNYC #JSOpenDay pic.twitter.com/SNYJIv650a

— Carlos Raiti Mendoza (@carlosrmendoza) December 11, 2015

Talk #1 - Responsive Web Design by Daniel Mall (@danielmall)

• Overview: Tools to build a more consistent and elegant user experiences.
• Resources
  • http://patternlab.io/ - create atomic designs systems
  • http://typecast.com/ - test out fonts
  • http://httparchive.org/ - track website performance
  • http://www.webpagetest.org/ - test a websites performance
• Projects
  • http://www.danielmall.com/work/

Talk #2 - Interactive Music in the Browser by Yotam Mann (@yotammann)

• Overview: Presentation of a library (Tone.js) built to make working with the Web Audio API simpler.
• Resources
  • https://github.com/Tonejs/Tone.js - Web Audio Framework
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_API - Web Audio API
• Projects
  • jazz.computer

Talk #3 - Hardware & Testing by Sus Hinton (@noopkat)

• Overview: Projects created using JS and hardware were presented. Speaker discussed approaches of extending continuous integration testing to hardware.
• Resources
  • https://travis-ci.com/ - continuous integration system
  • http://johnny-five.io/ - JS robotics framework
• Projects
  • http://noopkat.com/

Talk #4 - JS NYC/Jersey Meetups Overview by Jed Schmidt (@jedschmidt)

• Overview: Presentation and overview of BrooklynJS, ManhattanJS, QueensJS, and JerseyScript meetups.

Talk #5 - Electroknit! - Pixel to Textile by Mariko Kosaka (@kosamari)

• Overview: Reversed engineered a 1980s knitting machine to work with JavaScript.
• Slides: http://kosamari.com/presentation/openjsday-12-11-2015/#/0
• Projects
  • http://kosamari.com/projects - overview of projects created by presenter

Talk #6 - Art & Code by Jennifer Schiffer (@jennschiffer)

• Overview: Discussed code as art and presented a few projects developed using pixel art.
• Projects
  • http://jennmoney.biz/pxon/ - proposed standard to create pixel art

Talk #7 - Angular 2.0, Worth the Wait? by Joel Hooks (@jhooks)

• Overview: Discussed some aspects of Angular 2, which official release date is unknown but should be soon.TypeScript, React, and RxJS were discussed as technologies picking up a lot of traction as the community awaits Angular 2.
• Slides: http://cloud.egghead.io/2S393M0x3l2S
• Resources
  • https://egghead.io/technologies/angular2 - Angular 2
  • https://egghead.io/technologies/es6 - ECMAScript 6/2015
  • https://egghead.io/technologies/typescript - TypeScript
  • https://egghead.io/technologies/rx - RxJS
  • https://egghead.io/technologies/react - React

Talk #8 - The State of the Web by Christian Heilmann (@codepo8)

• Overview: Provided take on weaknesses and strengths of JS in the browser and the current state of development environment for developers.
• Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/fixing-web-and-js-gaps

You can use Javascript... #JSOpenNYC #JSOpenDay pic.twitter.com/7FKQFzP38c

— Carlos Raiti Mendoza (@carlosrmendoza) December 11, 2015