FITC Toronto 2014

2014-04-27 00:00:00 2014-04-30 00:00:00 America/Toronto FITC Toronto 2014 FITC is the intersection between Creative Technologists, Designers, Developers and all-around awesome thinkers from various innovative industries across the globe. Toronto FITC Toronto

Presentation

jQuery to Javascript: Growing Beyond the DOM

April 27 2014, 4:15 - 5:00pm Room: Toronto II

Web Dev

Overview

Sooner or later, we all have, or will have to join a “completed” project only to find jQuery soup: functions within functions nested inside AJAX callbacks. It sucks. How did our beloved front-end language bring us here? Why did we even need jQuery? Couldn’t we just use vanilla JS?

In this session we’ll be going over JavaScript holistically, from some of the original patches and polyfills, to present-day gotchas and quirks, and into the future looking at how the hot new HTML5 APIs and ES6 specs will change this landscape moving forward.