JSconf Workshops

Modern browsers, including those on mobile, have new abilities that will let us use hardware and sensors, while having a deeper integration with the native platform behind the browser including our own native installed apps on the store. This practical workshop will surprise you with new features available today through real code that you can test with your own computer or mobile device.

In this workshop, we’ll first learn about what are WebComponents and how we can create one now using native browser APIs. Then, we’ll learn about what Polymer is and how to use it. Finally, we’ll all work together in creating our first WebComponent with Polymer and why not publish it on Github as well.

Taking various technologies for a ride, this workshop aims to create an application that would allow us to connect to an external resource (in this case, a Wordpress Blog), process the data we'd get and ultimately upgrade or create a new user experience. We'll use Node.js with a couple of modules, client-side JavaScript and a bit of PHP.

In this workshop we'll build an app for Mac and Windows using Node-Webkit, taking advantage of Webkit, Express and Socket.io to create a complex native app in just a few dozen lines of code.

We'll learn about how different our approach should be when developing enterprise applications using Javascript (browser and server) compared to smaller projects. Pablo will cover advantages and disadvantages, tips and unanswered questions he came up with when working on PAMI's platform. He'll also talk about the skillsets and tools that worked best for him to deal with this kind of development. This workshop would be ideal for architects, project leaders and developers willing to use JavaScript on their companies.