Level: Introductory to Intermediate
Ted Neward
Director, Developer Relations
Smartsheet.com
In this session, that's exactly what we'll do: examine the tools, techniques, and tradeoffs of building an application in JavaScript, top to bottom.
With the prevalence of JavaScript as both a development language and as a "transpiling" target (where to "transpile" something is to compile it from one language into another), it has become possible to write a modern application--client, server and even code residing in the database itself--in nothing but JavaScript. In this session, that's exactly what we'll do: examine the tools, techniques, and tradeoffs of building an application in JavaScript, top to bottom.
You will learn:
- New tools for building applications
- A better understanding for when JavaScript-based approaches are appropriate and superior, and when they're not