Speakers from companies like Slack, IBM, Okta, Docker and Intrinsic come together twice a year to give highly-technical talks about , and culture, delivered live and distributed for free online. JavaScript software Below, five popular talks about JavaScript from the last event that have just been published: Conversational Interfaces, JavaScript and W3C of Slack discusses the shift in application design from web and mobile interfaces to the expanding fields of bots and AI. How will your application interact with these new interfaces, whether the end consumer is a human or an API? Tomomi Imura JSON Web Tokens Suck of Okta gave a comprehensive and controversial talk about how JWTs are inferior to session cookies. He covers recent JWT security vulnerabilities, OWASP recommendations for local storage, regulatory compliance and potential CSRF issues. Randall Degges recently hosted the developer-focused Iterate conference, and you can find those videos on the . Okta Developers Okta Developers YouTube channel The Long Road to Async/Await in JavaScript walks us through the history and future of asynchronous code in JS, covering callbacks, promises, generators/yield and async/await. His analysis includes error handling, promise rejection, browser support, code refactoring and API promisification. Thomas Hunter II Hooray for Arrays! Tips and Tricks for JavaScript’s Best Object of IBM starts with the basics of JS arrays and their helper functions, as well as the catches and gotchas that trip up entry-level as well as more experienced developers. Those new to JavaScript will get a great overview of how arrays are handled; more experienced developers will be introduced to edge cases with nulls, length, and new ES6 features. Erin McKean Jest as a Platform of Docker discusses Jest, an easy-to-setup JavaScript testing framework, and how to cherry-pick testing features and integrating your test tooling on top of Jest. Using existing legacy test frameworks and codebases, cherry-picked Jest features can simplify your testing infrastructure without rewriting it. Rogelio Guzman Next steps: Over the next few weeks, we will be publishing the remainder of the videos to . our YouTube channel If you’d like to attend in person, check out our conferences in and . Ottawa San Francisco
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