Nordic.js is a single track conference with talks by internationally renowned speakers and rising stars in the JavaScript community. You’ll hear about fun experiments, learn about the latest in JavaScript, and connect with other passionate developers.
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What does it take to boost the web performance of our websites and applications in 2022? How do we deal with web fonts, images and videos, third-party scripts, CSS and JavaScript delivery in times of Core Web Vitals and HTTP/3? In this session, we’ll look into some of the useful front-end techniques and tools to keep in mind when optimizing for performance and Core Web Vitals in 2022.
Vitaly loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. Born in Minsk, Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany. While writing algebra proofs and preparing for software engineering at nights in the kitchen, at the same time he discovered passion for typography, interface design and writing.
After working as a freelance designer and developer for 6 years, he co-founded Smashing Magazine back in 2006, a leading online magazine for designers and developers. His curiosity drove him from interface design to front-end to performance optimization to accessibility and back to user experience over all the years.
Vitaly is the author, co-author and editor of all Smashing books (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/books), and a curator of all Smashing Conferences (https://www.smashingconf.com). He currently works as creative lead of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com) and front-end/UX consultant in Europe and abroad, working with European Parliament, Haufe-Lexware, Axel-Springer and a few other companies.
Less productivity, missed project deadlines and wasted money: that’s what you get for letting your developers work on open-source projects. Or do you really? In this talk you will learn about the value that an investment in JavaScript ecosystems provides to businesses on different levels.
By example of organisations who benefit and give back to the open-source projects around JavaScript libraries, you will see why paying your team to spend time on OSS might be the best business decision you will make this year.
Jessy is a Staff Software Engineer at Meroxa. They have contributed to open-source throughout their career, including the EmberJS ecosystem. She has organized JavaScript community events and workshops in her hometown Berlin for many years and is a CSS, comic and coffee enthusiast.
Everything we do, from the way in which we write our emails, to the method in which we provide negative feedback and evaluate performance, governs the performance of our teams. And understanding how culture impacts our efficacy as a team can drastically improve our day-to-day collaboration.
In this session you'll learn: How different cultures communicate, How different cultures evaluate performance and give constructive criticism, How different cultures make decisions, How different cultures trust, How different cultures perceive time.
Emma is a software engineer at Spotify and an American living in Sweden. She is a cohost of the Ladybug Podcast and author of Decoding The Technical Interview Process. Emma is also an instructor at LinkedIn Learning and Frontend Masters.
As JavaScript applications get more and more complex, improved performance is on everyone's minds. In the meantime, computers are evolving: CPU hardware is scaling with multi-core, big.LITTLE rather than frequency. Where does JavaScript stand in this new world and how can it adapt? What role will WebAssembly play in this? What are the current tools and techniques developers can use to develop performant JavaScript applications and what is in store for the future? These are the few questions that we will answer in the course of this presentation.
Ujjwal is a Compilers Hacker at Igalia serving as a co-chair of TC39 and co-editor of ECMA-402, a Node.js Core Collaborator, a TC39 Delegate and an International Speaker. He loves to talk about open source software, decentralization, cryptography, JavaScript and web standards.
Do you know what’s really going on in your node_modules folder? Software supply chain attacks have exploded over the past 12 months and they’re only accelerating in 2022 and beyond. We’ll dive into examples of recent supply chain attacks and what concrete steps you can take to protect your team from this emerging threat.
Basic knowledge of Node.js and how to install an NPM package
The issue of security of third-party code is important for all developers to understand in 2022. Attendee takeaways from this talk:
Feross is the founder and CEO of Socket, where he's working on a new approach to supply chain security by auditing every package on npm to detect suspicious changes and block supply chain attacks without slowing the development process. Feross is the author and maintainer of WebTorrent, StandardJS, and 100s of other open source projects. His software is downloaded 500+ million times per month. He was a lecturer at Stanford where he created the course CS 253 Web Security.
Creating 3D experiences on the web can be something that sounds very daunting. I’m here to remove this idea from your mind and show you that the 3D world is for everyone. For that, we will get a model from the 3D software Blender into the web packed with animations, accessibility controls and optimized for web use so join me in this journey as we make the web more awesome.
Basic react knowledge
It's something that can make any website amazing to use and it's also something gaining traction that people think is really hard and I want to show it's not nearly as hard as we think
Sara is a Frontend Developer from Portugal 🇵🇹 living in Berlin 🇩🇪. She work at Remote and make a lot of random projects because she believes that the web needs some dumb shit (we love all your dumb shit /Nordic.js team). She also wrote a book called The Opinionated Guide to React.
Piérre will take a friendly deep dive into what web3 is and what it isn't. Clear out confusions such as what decentralization really is and environmental impacts if the new webz. As he usually do, it will be historical sprinked with some inspirational demos and audience involvement. And if everything goes as planned, everyone in the audience will have to have a wallet with some freshly minted Reimertz x Nordic.js tokens at the end of the call that they can use to get into an exclusive token-zone somewhere at the Nordic.js 2022 conference area (haha, we'll see about that /Nordic.js-crew).
An open mind and some true love for Javascript and the open web.
For some web3 is a fluke, for others, it's the next revolution of the internet. Either way, the topic is really interesting and the tech around it quite amazing. I'd like to explore that with the audience.
Piérre is leading engineering at HIFI Labs where they basically merge tech and music sprinkled with web3. He is both a coder and designer and he love creating things.
Interviewing for technical positions is challenging for both the company and the candidate. Top candidates spend tens of hours studying algorithm problems ahead of interviews, demonstrating that simply being a great software engineer does not prepare you to interview for a software engineering role.
A recent study out of North Carolina State University found that candidates perform worse in algorithm interviews when being watched, and the effect is exacerbated for women. As a result, many companies are passing over qualified candidates and potentially exaggerating the gender bias in the industry. The JavaScript community is especially poised to benefit from different interviewing styles because of the language’s accessibility to newcomers and it’s breadth of applications.
I’ll be talking about alternative approaches to assessing technical competency including code reading, code review, and pairing exercises. These approaches aim to remove performance anxiety, align the interview more closely with the role, reduce false negatives, and support underrepresented groups.
Not much, mostly you need to be able to empathize with the experience of being grilled during a live-coding algorithm-based technical interview.
This talk is relevant for anyone who has influence over how their company administers technical interviews. Any engineer could take the advice from this talk back to their company and suggest improvements to their interview process.
Carly is an Engineering Manager at Galileo Health where she supports the patient-facing team in delivering a higher quality, more reliable healthcare experience to a broad range of patients. She loves React, Typescript, and automation of all sorts. Outside of work, you can find her skiing, solving the NYT crossword, or at the local dive bar.
If you want to improve your releasing experience, test the water early on and be able to roll back easily, you are in the right place! Feature Flags could help you with all of that, at the flick of a switch. In this talk, you will learn all about Feature Flags, its benefits, how to implement it with success within your company’s engineering processes, and its challenges. Don’t care about any of that but want to see some fun flags from around the world? You are absolutely welcome to join too.
Desy (she/her) rhymes with Messi (the football player). Based in the UK, she is a Senior Frontend Engineer at Prolific, an online platform that connects researchers with instant, high quality, global research participants. She loves building a user-centric product and making a real impact. She is a Golden Retriever pup mum, a big foodie and a collector of cute stickers.
Let's compose an orchestra of accessible web concertos. ARIA roles and attributes are a foundational part of web development. Opera arias are self-contained vocal pieces. Together, we can be more intentional about ARIA's instrumentation, to help create more self-contained accessible web experiences. In this talk we will look at how ARIA function alone and interact with one another. Learn how to compose a set of patterns for bringing the full power of ARIA to your web apps, and give your application a voice!
Any web developer will be able to follow along!
Accessibility is critical, and we all use ARIA, but we can all benefit from learning more about ARIA under the hood and capitalizing on better ARIA readlines and patterns!
Emma is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google, currently hacking on the open source and Angular teams. She cares deeply about making the world more accessible, usable and beautiful through technology!
We are at a crossroads, now is the time to start be very picky with what we invest our time in. I will share a story how I decided to only spend time on clients that have a reasonable probability of success at creating a sustainable society by implementing a few guiding principles. These led me to quite an adventure including policemen arriving at my doorstep.
JavaScript guru since 1997, loves open source, CEO Iteam, co-founder of Öppna skolplattformen. I want to save the world with JavaScript.
Deno is a JavaScript server side runtime that touts web platform compatibility, TypeScript support, and out of the box tooling as some of its key features. Since its introduction in 2018 it has grown and evolved rapidly. This talk explores Deno's newest and most interesting features. This talk will also describe how to get started with Deno if you are coming from another runtime such as Node.js.
Colin Ihrig is an engineer at Deno Land, a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, a libuv maintainer, a hapi.js core team member, a TC39 delegate, an author, and an international conference speaker.
Async JavaScript is mind-bending to write, even worse to debug. In this talk, we'll explore why async bugs are difficult, what common missteps create those bugs, and how to debug async code with the debugger.
Jenn Creighton is a senior software engineer at Netflix on the NodeJS Platform Team. In her free time, she produces and hosts Single-Threaded, a podcast for software developers. She can be bribed with croissants. Find her online @gurlcode.
When talking about devices that use motion detection, what usually comes to mind is sensors that trigger lights or alarms but rarely anything more than that. However, the human body can execute a lot more complex gestures that are not detected by these systems. What if I told you, you could build interactive applications using personalized motion detection in a few lines of JavaScript code?! In this talk, I’ll show you how building such a system doesn’t have to be as complicated as it sounds!
Charlie is a senior developer advocate at Stripe, a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and the author of a book about TensorFlow.js. In her spare time, she explores the field of human-computer interaction and builds side projects using machine learning, AR/VR, hardware and creative coding. When she’s not coding, you’ll find her on a hiking trail or at the pub.
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Attending Nordic.js this year felt like experiencing the first Conference 2.0. Everything was a perfect amount of awesomeness, wackyness and fun. I’ll definitely be there next year.
Piérre Reimertz - Nordic.js 2019
Nordic.js is a single track conference with 8-10 talks per day by internationally renowned speakers as well as rising stars. Previous speakers include names like Douglas Crockford, Alice Bartlett, Tom Dale, Soledad Penadés, Bert Belder & Jake Archibald.
With a bunch of developers, designers and creatives descending to Stockholm for the event, and both structured and informal networking sessions provided, it’s a brilliant opportunity for you and your team to forge new professional contacts and make new friends.
Online videos of all sessions, with integrated slides and audio will be made available to all attendees after the event. This ensures no one will miss a thing and your whole office can benefit.
We will have two lightning talk sessions scheduled, all conference attendees are welcome to contribute. Each talk should be around 5 minutes long - you can apply for a slot when you get to the conference, why not share some learnings from a project you’ve been working on or maybe take a firm stance on tabs vs spaces? Start preparing!
Nordic.js is created by developers for developers. Our ambition is to inspire and to get inspired, to meet and learn from others and to bring our community closer together.
To give more people, especially those who couldn’t afford a ticket of their own, a chance to join the conference, we are now releasing our Diversity Tickets. The Diversity Ticket are actually two tickets, one that you buy for yourself and one that you give to someone from an underrepresented group in tech. This person is someone who could also benefit from the knowledge, experience and connections that Nordic.js offers, but for different reasons might not otherwise have been able to attend. The idea is inspired by JSConf.EU and our aim is to contribute to making tech and Nordic.js a more diverse place. Everyone who buys a Diversity Ticket will be publicly thanked and will be put up on the site as a Diversity Sponsor.
Anyone from an underrepresented group in tech is invited to apply. You can apply for a Diversity Ticket here.
MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database platform, designed to unleash the power of software and data for developers and the applications they build. Headquartered in New York, MongoDB has more than 35,200 customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded over 265 million times.
Funnel is a fast-growing Software as a Service company with a Swedish flavour of around 250 people. Our no-code platform helps marketing teams around the world collect, prepare and analyze all their marketing data with ease.
Schibsted is a family of digital brands with a mission to empower people in their daily lives. We do this by providing leading online marketplaces, building world-class media houses, and helping great companies scale.
Working at the intersection of technology & entertainment, we're continuously building innovative viewing experiences across global and iconic brands, including the newly launched Discovery+. As a pure tech organization, we’re building world-class products from the ground-up in a cutting-edge environment.
We help forward-thinking organizations develop resilience and take control of their futures. We bring together strategy, design, engineering and data to produce results. We help clients put data to work, rethink customer experiences, or design entirely new business models. We unleash a culture of innovation and create digital products and services that make companies and societies future capable.
Bryntum’s powerful suite of web components reduces complexity for developers to prevent them from having to reinvent the wheel. The Bryntum library includes Gantt chart, data grid, scheduler, and calendar widgets. All Bryntum components integrate seamlessly with React, Angular, and Vue and work perfectly with vanilla JS apps.
Nordic.js is so good I stole one of the posters just to prove people I spoke there 😂
Sara Viera - Nordic.js 2019
Over the past six years over 100 wonderful people have spoken at the conference. Are you interested in speaking at Nordic.js 2022? Check out the call for speakers page.
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