Pete Campbell

Presentations

Better Web Applications With Brunch.io

There are many frameworks and libraries that help you to build web applications...but that's not enough. Other problems arise when you try to combine everything into a single application. Do you want to spend your time writing new code or assembling your app?

Friction matters in web development. Brunch.io is the grease that makes creating complex web applications easier. It is an automatic "assembler" for HTML5 applications, allowing you to create projects that combine different languages, template systems and other libraries into your app. With Brunch.io, you'll spend less time managing your application and more time developing it.

In this session, we'll learn about the challenges you'll encounter in trying to build a web application from scratch. We'll discuss solutions to these problems and then see how Brunch.io makes this process even easier. We'll learn about Brunch plugins, skeletons and generators that help you create applications using a variety of languages (CoffeeScript, Roy), template libraries (Handlebars, Mustache, Eco) and CSS compilers (LESS, Sass). And finally we'll examine a real Brunch application to see how everything works together and how easy it is to add new features.

JavaScript Safari Expedition - Libraries, Projects and Frameworks...Oh My!

There is so much happening in the JavaScript world that it is impossible to keep up. There are literally hundreds of libraries and projects that you should know..but how can you find them? Why does every project have a name that says nothing about what it does? We need a guide to make sense of it all! JavaScript Safari Expedition to the rescue!

In this session, we'll learn about JavaScript frameworks, engines,templates, CSS processors, loaders, graphic libraries, physics engines, transpilers (eg CoffeeScript), and testing. We'll see the biggest projects that you've heard about (or not). When our safari ends, you'll know about many of the wonderful things that can be done in JavaScript, the biggest names in the land, and where you should go for your next expedition (or web application).