Node+JS Interactive: Full Schedule

October 10 -12 - Vancouver, BC
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6:00am PDT

Fun Run (Pre-registration Required)

Date: Wednesday, October 10
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 AM
Location: Meet at the Olympic Torch by the Thorlow St. entrance to the convention center.
Registration Cost: Complimentary; pre-registration required.

For those early morning joggers, we’ll be hosting a fun run on the first day of the conference. Not an early morning jogger, but like to get up early? Come join us too! You’ll run, jog, walk your way around the beautiful city of Vancouver with your fellow JavaScript friends.

Please click here to register.

Wednesday October 10, 2018 6:00am - 7:00am PDT
Olympic Torch by Thorlow St.

Event Experiences

7:00am PDT

Registration

Wednesday October 10, 2018 7:00am - 7:30pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer

Registration & Breaks & Meals

7:30am PDT

Merge Q&A Session / Town Hall

The Node.js Foundation and JS Foundation recently announced an intent to merge. A Q&A session will be held onsite at Node+JS Interactive in the West Ballroom. Questions should be submitted in advance anonymously via this Google Form or by email at pr@nodejs.org.

Wednesday October 10, 2018 7:30am - 8:30am PDT
West Ballroom A

Event Experiences

7:30am PDT

Office Hours

Come learn about Node.js!

Wednesday October 10, 2018 7:30am - 9:00am PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

7:30am PDT

Continental Breakfast

Wednesday October 10, 2018 7:30am - 9:00am PDT
West Ballroom D

Registration & Breaks & Meals

7:30am PDT

Node Community Corner

Wednesday October 10, 2018 7:30am - 6:00pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

8:50am PDT

Keynotes: Welcoming Remarks - Jory Burson, Standards Liaison, Bocoup & Tracy Hinds, Head of Platform, Samsung NEXT

Speakers

Jory Burson

Community Manager, OpenJS Foundation

Tracy Hinds

Director, Community Committee, Node.js Foundation

Tracy is the Head of Platform at Samsung NEXT International, and the Node.js Community Committee director on the Node.js Foundation Board by most other hours–she loves people as much as code. She's constantly scheming about the next conference she’s organizing and talking tech... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 8:50am - 9:00am PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Programmers Don't Like People...or Do They? - April Wensel, Founder, Compassionate Coding

Since the early days of computing, the prevailing stereotype has been the isolated, sedentary, sleep-deprived, antisocial programmer. The culture that has developed around this harmful stereotype has led to unbalanced and ineffective teams, destructive behavior in our communities, and the high incidence of burnout among developers.

Software may be built on machines, but it’s built by and for human beings. If we want to create more useful software and enjoy more sustainable and fulfilling careers, we must make time to care about the wellbeing of our collaborators, our users, and ourselves.

This talk will inspire you to care more about the people in your life—including yourself—and give you a practical framework for making more compassionate choices on a daily basis in order to become a more effective—and happier!—developer.

Speakers

April Wensel

Founder, Compassionate Coding

April Wensel is the founder of Compassionate Coding, a socially conscious business that’s bringing emotional intelligence and ethics to the tech industry. She has spent the past decade in software engineering and technical leadership roles at various startups in Silicon Valley... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 9:00am - 9:20am PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

9:20am PDT

Keynote: But Why? - Sarah Novotny, Head of Open Source Strategy, Google Cloud

From Open Standards (ecma262) to Foundations (CNCF), Platforms (Node.js) to Libraries (Angular), Google is engaged in improving the status quo for Open Source Software. We will discuss Google's Open Cloud strategy as well as some of the projects we invest in to improve the JavaScript ecosystem and democratize the cloud technologies to run it.

Speakers

Sarah Novotny

Head of Open Source Strategy for GCP, Google

Sarah Novotny leads an Open Source Strategy group for Google Cloud Platform. She has long been an Open Source community champion in communities such as Kubernetes, NGINX and MySQL and ran large scale technology infrastructures before web-scale had a name. Novotny currently sits on... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 9:20am - 9:30am PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

9:30am PDT

Keynote: Create, Deploy and Scale: Building Enterprise Grade Cloud Native Node.js APIs - Chris Bailey, Chief Architect, Cloud Native Runtimes, IBM

Node.js makes it easy to rapidly build applications and microservices and to deploy those to cloud platforms. However as those applications grow and become more complex, it becomes increasing hard to deliver highly responsive, scalable solutions. Additionally, whilst nearly all Node.js applications are now deployed to the cloud, very few of those exploit the full potential of modern cloud computing platforms.

For years, IBM has been committed to making Node.js enterprise ready through key contributions to the community. Join Chris Bailey as he shares how IBM is expanding those contributions to open source projects aimed at helping you build enterprise grade APIs, and cloud native Node.js applications.

Speakers

Chris Bailey

Architect, Cloud Native Runtimes and Frameworks, IBM

Chris is the Chief Architect for Cloud Native Runtimes at IBM, leading teams that contributing to open source communities for the Node.js, Java and Swift runtimes. Chris has worked on runtimes, programming languages, and application frameworks for almost 20 years, and has most recently... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 9:30am - 9:40am PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

9:40am PDT

Keynote: From “Open Source” to “Development in the Open” - Chris Dias, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Microsoft’s history with Open Source Software actually began long ago, but recent projects like Visual Studio Code and TypeScript are some of the most popular, most active, and most “open”. What do these projects do differently, and what can we all learn from them?

Speakers

Chris Dias

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Chris Dias is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft working on Visual Studio Code, TypeScript, and Azure. VS Code and TypeScript are two of Microsoft’s flagship open source projects, enabling developers on Mac, Linux, and Windows to easily build and deploy modern Node applications... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 9:40am - 9:50am PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

9:50am PDT

Keynote: Contrasting Approaches For Tech Transformation - Alex Grigoryan, Senior Director of Software Engineering, Application Platform and Online Grocery, Walmart

There are multiple paths you can take when transforming the technology stack: do you make the change in pieces or at once? Do you build out a POC or the framework first? Should the transformation be mandatory or optional? Walmart Labs tried two completely different approaches to tech transformation and learned some surprising information along with valuable lessons for the future.

Speakers

Alex Grigoryan

Sr Director of Software Engineering, Application Platform and Online Grocery, Walmart

Alex is the head of engineering for the Online Grocery business and the Application platform team at WalmartLabs. Online Grocery is currently the fastest growing business within Walmart and Application platform is responsible for the development of Electrode, an open source project... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 9:50am - 10:10am PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

10:10am PDT

Keynote: Can the Web Save the Internet of Things? - Rob Tiffany, Founder and CEO, EnterpriseIoT

IoT has failed to live up to its potential because it’s too complicated, requires too many esoteric skillsets, is too expensive and isn’t secure. Enough already! It’s time to use the open, proven, W3C technologies that we all understand. The world doesn’t need another wire protocol. It needs simplicity to drive value for business and society. Join Rob as he illustrates how the future of the Internet of Things will be based on the web that’s all around us.

Speakers

Rob Tiffany

Founder and CEO, EnterpriseIoT

Rob is the Founder and CEO of EnterpriseIoT, a company focused on building the Internet of Humans & Machines with a distributed Edge Computing system that uses the power of Digital Twins to deliver value to business & society. Prior to EnterpriseIoT, Rob served as the CTO at Hitachi... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 10:10am - 10:30am PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

10:30am PDT

Redesigning Nodejs.org - Adam Miller, LinkedIn & Manil Chowdhury, InVision

The Node.js website has not had a significant content and Information Architecture (IA) update since early 2014, and a lot has changed since then! Design trends have shifted, the competitive landscape has become more crowded, and the Node.js project has achieved new heights in the developer community. The world runs on Node.js, and the Website Redesign initiative has been working hard to ensure the condition of its public image matches the quality of its code.

Wednesday October 10, 2018 10:30am - 11:00am PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

10:30am PDT

Coffee Break

Wednesday October 10, 2018 10:30am - 11:00am PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer

Registration & Breaks & Meals

11:00am PDT

Leaving the CDN Behind: Building a JavaScript SDK in a Serverless World - Daniel Brain, PayPal

Last year at PayPal, we open-sourced our suite of cross-domain JavaScript libraries — including xcomponent, post-robot, and other tools we use to power our cross-domain web components.

This year we've been upleveling our SDK from a static CDN script to a fully dynamic resource, embracing serverless principles and shipping a custom-tailored JavaScript bundle for each client. We'll talk about:

- How we're running webpack and babel on the server to dynamically transpile and bundle our code.
- How we're using npm to deploy and activate new code, and avoiding redeploying entire pools of servers.
- How our SDK is tailored to load only the code, images, configuration, and localization each client needs, without lazy-loading slowing down our renders.
- How we're shipping our SDK with evergreen versioning while keeping it upgradeable and future-proofed.

Speakers

Daniel Brain

Lead Engineer, PayPal

Daniel has been an engineer at PayPal for over 5 years, and is currently a lead engineer in the Checkout team at PayPal. He leads a team of engineers in delivering the PayPal Checkout SDK and large partner integrations.

Daniel Brain JS SDK Talk 2018 pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 11:00am - 11:30am PDT
West Ballroom A

Functions as a Service (Serverless)

Experience Level Intermediate

11:00am PDT

I'm Afraid Your Browser Has Been Talking to the Robots Again - A Gentle Intro to WebUSB - Suz Hinton, Microsoft

The browser’s capabilities have snuck up on us over the years, and it’s turned into a full-blown operating system! "But wait," I hear you protest, "it’s not like the browser can talk to stuff I have plugged into my USB ports!". Ah! But it can!

The new WebUSB spec has arrived and is already supported in at least one browser today. The previous hacks of connecting browsers to robots and other hardware will soon be a thing of the past. WebUSB as a first class API citizen opens up some great opportunities to create new and delightful experiences with robotics.

I’ll introduce you to the WebUSB API, its history, and compare it to the previous ’hacks’ to demonstrate why this is such a big deal for you, as a web developer. There will be real hardware shown on stage ready to inspire you to think outside of the box of what browsers are really meant to be used for.

Speakers

Suz Hinton

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Suz is a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. An established public speaker with many years experience, Suz specializes in accessibility, hardware, JavaScript, and cloud computing. She likes dreaming up fun electronic projects in her spare time and is currently trying to push the... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 11:00am - 11:30am PDT
West Meeting Room 118-120

IoT

Experience Level Intermediate

11:00am PDT

What's New in Node.js Core? - Franziska Hinkelmann, Google

Node.js 10 just entered Long Term Support (LTS). Let’s look at some exciting new features and what the future holds for Node.js Core.

Speakers

Franziska Hinkelmann

Software Engineer, Google

Ph.D. software engineer working at Google on GCP, previously Chrome V8. Node.js TSC member. ❤️ JavaScript. she/her

Wednesday October 10, 2018 11:00am - 11:30am PDT
West Ballroom C

Node.js Project

Experience Level Any

11:00am PDT

Passwords Are Dead, Long Live Passwords! - Alejandro Oviedo

Passwords have been used as the main method of authentication since the WWW was born. Their biggest flaw is that their effectiveness depends on their entropy, and humans are a bad source of entropy. Progress has been made at this time as multiple factors for authentication are now more and more common. This talk is about the Web Authentication API that is being worked on, how it fits in the current ecosystem of web apps and why it's important for users.

Speakers

Alejandro Oviedo

Senior Javascript Engineer, Kinsta

Alejandro is a developer who loves learning new things. He is passionate about education, electronics, Open Source, and community-driven events.

passwords are dead long live passwords pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 11:00am - 11:30am PDT
West Ballroom B

Security

Experience Level Intermediate

11:00am PDT

Office Hours

Come learn about Node.js!

Wednesday October 10, 2018 11:00am - 12:20pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

11:00am PDT

Intro to Web Components & Polymer Workshop - John Riviello & Chris Lorenzo, Comcast

Web Components are a set of web platform APIs that allow you to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags to use in web pages and web apps. With libraries such as Polymer that is built on top of Web Components, it is now possible to easily create fast Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) without the overhead of a framework. This workshop is a hands-on introduction to Web Components and the Polymer library. You will learn how to build your own components with both vanilla JavaScript and Polymer using the newly released Polymer 3.0 library, as well as assemble a simple PWA using existing open source Web Components. John & Chris will also cover Custom Properties (CSS Variables), which are supported natively in all of today's modern browsers and polyfill for older browsers by Polymer, to style our custom elements.

Speakers

Chris Lorenzo

Distinguished Engineer, Comcast

Chris has worked at Comcast since 2007 -- currently as a Distinguished Engineer. He enjoys building/motivating teams and ramping up new projects including XFINITY Home and XFINITY xFi using the latest patterns and web primitives. Besides coding in Javascript, he loves spending time... Read More →

John Riviello

Distinguished Engineer, Comcast

John Riviello created his first hypertext document on the Internet in 1996 and has been obsessed with building for the web ever since. He spends his days as Distinguished Engineer and Lead Front-end Developer at Comcast, where he works on the Xfinity customer websites and web applications... Read More →

Introduction to Web Components & Polymer Workshop JS Interactive pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 11:00am - 12:50pm PDT
West Meeting Room 121-122

Progressive Web Apps and Offline First, Workshop

Experience Level Beginner

11:40am PDT

GraphQL - Accelerated - Matteo Collina & Mathias Buus Madsen, NearForm

GraphQL is a query language that is rapidly gaining wide adoption across the community.

It combines type validation with a query and filtering syntax that makes it easy to get up-and-running with a powerful web API in almost no time. Features like running parallel queries or update-all become much easier, because they are first class citizens of GraphQL. Add to that a vibrant community that keeps creating excellent tooling and documentation, it’s clear why GraphQL has become so popular with developers.

Every abstraction has a cost, and GraphQL is no exception. The added complexity and a new schema format to parse and execute mean new performance bottlenecks. In addition to performance issues, the wrong use of GraphQL can lead to architectural bottlenecks.

Instead of viewing this as a problem we took this as a challenge.

In this talk we’ll cover what GraphQL is, why it’s great and how we made it run a lot faster on Node.js, in fact *much* faster, using different performance techniques that we have learned in the last few years.

Speakers

Mathias Buus

Chief of Research, Beaker Browser

Mathias Buus is a self taught JavaScript hacker from Copenhagen that has been working with Node.js since the 0.2 days. Mathias likes to work with P2P and distributed systems and is the author of more than 650 modules on npm. He is also the Chief of Research at Beaker leading the technical... Read More →

Matteo Collina

Technical Director, NearForm

Matteo is Technical Director at NearForm, where he consults for the top brands in the world. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Application Platforms for the Internet of Things". Matteo is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee focusing on streams, diagnostics... Read More →

GraphQL Accelerated @mafintosh @matteocollina pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 11:40am - 12:10pm PDT
West Meeting Room 118-120

Application Development and APIs

11:40am PDT

Going FaaSter: Function as a Service at Netflix - Yunong Xiao, Netflix

The FaaS revolution is taking the world by storm. Customers love the no-ops and ergonomics of this new paradigm. They enable a revolution in developer velocity, allowing engineers to deploy code to production much faster than before. At Netflix, these features are a perfect fit for the Netflix API Platform, which provides engineers the ability to write and deploy tier-1 services using JS without having to manage infrastructure or operations. However, there are trade-offs to consider. Most offerings today are great for latency intensive tasks, but not for fully fledged services that need to be latency sensitive, reliable, and elastically scalable. Learn about the architecture and internals of Netflix’s JS FaaS platform, which lets engineers deploy JS functions as production services, capable of delivering latency-sensitive services right in the heart of every request to Netflix.

Speakers

Yunong Xiao

Director, Serverless Computing, Tencent

Yunong is Director of Serverless at Tencent Cloud. He is a staunch Serverless champion, having first worked on it in 2011. Previously he was leading the architecture of the Netflix API Serverless Platform - making microservices more accessible to developers and enabling container... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 11:40am - 12:10pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Functions as a Service (Serverless)

Experience Level Any

11:40am PDT

N-API: The Next Generation Node.js API is Ready! - Michael Dawson, IBM & Arunesh Chandra, Microsoft

The Native module ecosystem for Node.js is an important factor in the rapid growth of Node.js. The N-API is now a supported feature and is designed to provide ABI stability across Node.js releases. This will reduce friction in upgrading to newer Node.js versions in production deployments. In addition, it will reduce the maintenance cost that module maintainers previously had to take on due to the fast pace of changes in the v8 APIs. This talk will provide a progress update on this community project, the roadmap, and why now is the right time to get involved.

Speakers

Arunesh Chandra

Sr. Program Manger @ChakraCore, Microsoft

Arunesh Chandra is working on growing Node.js by extending it to use the ChakraCore engine. He is also working on supporting new ideas in the community like N-API and VM Diversity for Node.js and bringing innovative diagnostic tooling like Time-Travel Debugging to Node developers.Past... Read More →

Michael Dawson

Node.js Community Lead, IBM

Michael Dawson is an active contributor to the Node.js project and chair of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee(TSC). He contributes to a broad range of community efforts including platform support, build infrastructure, N-API, Release, as well as tools to help the community... Read More →

Node+JSInteractive 2018 N API is ready pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 11:40am - 12:10pm PDT
West Ballroom B

Node.js Project

Experience Level Intermediate

11:40am PDT

Formalizing Asynchronous Context - Mike Kaufman & Mark Marron, Microsoft

JavaScript programming heavily utilizes asynchronous callbacks to enable throughput and responsiveness. While this programming model has been very useful, up until recently, it has always been defined informally and based on developer intuition. As a result, simply discussing async code execution is challenging, and building libraries, tools & systems that depend on “async context” are challenged with subtle inconsistencies in behaviors. To address this, we have been working with the Node.js Diagnostics Working Group to formalize the concepts and semantics of the asynchronous programming model in Node. In this talk you will learn about the Continuation Model for modeling the semantics of asynchronous programming and how these semantics provide a clear way to reason about the asynchronous code execution in Node.

Speakers

Mike Kaufman

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Mike Kaufman is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, currently working on the Chakra JavaScript engine and working with the Node.js Diagnostics Working Group. Mike has a broad software industry perspective informed from over 20 years of experience, including work on developer... Read More →

Mark Marron

Principal Research SDE, Microsoft

Mark Marron is a Principal Research SDE at Microsoft Research where he works on a range of programming language and software engineering topics. He is currently leading work on the Bosque Programming Language project. His other work includes cloud runtimes, low-overhead diagnostic... Read More →

AsyncContext JS Interactive Vancouver 2018 public pptx

Wednesday October 10, 2018 11:40am - 12:10pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Testing Tools and Infrastructure

12:20pm PDT

Create an Engaging Native Mobile App with Vue and NativeScript - Jen Looper, Progress

Do you have a beautiful website built with Vue.js? Great! Now you need a mobile app to engage your users even further. Or, better yet, you need to offer different, yet complimentary functionality, while retaining shared code between your website and mobile app. Welcome to the beautiful world of Vue.js and NativeScript, which, paired together on the web and on mobile, make for a great user experience.

In this talk, you’ll learn about my experience building Elocute, a web app for language teachers with a paired mobile app that students use to perfect their spoken language skills. You’ll discover how to build for the web and mobile platforms using NativeScript and Vue, making the most of the best of both platforms - data entry on the web, and speech-to-text on mobile. Let’s learn about how Vue can be used to build for the web and for mobile apps, sharing the love.

Speakers

Jen Looper

Senior Developer Advoate, Progress

Jen Looper is a Google Developer Expert and a Senior Developer Advocate at Progress with over 15 years' experience as a web and mobile developer, specializing in creating cross-platform mobile apps. She's a multilingual multiculturalist with a passion for hardware hacking, mobile... Read More →

ns vue 46 pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 12:20pm - 12:50pm PDT
West Meeting Room 118-120

Application Development and APIs

Experience Level Intermediate

12:20pm PDT

Zero to Production with the Serverless Framework - Diana Lee, BeApplied

Have you ever dreamt of getting an entire, functionality-rich service to production in a number of days? At Applied, we use the Serverless Framework to cut costs & deploy microservices with speed, efficiency and accuracy. This workshop will introduce you to the world of serverless (What, When & Why) and walk you through deploying your first production-ready application. It condenses specific lessons Diana has learnt from shipping full APIs in days; from 0 to production, and concepts scattered across numerous online resources.

You will not only walk away with a formidable understanding of how Serverless & cloud services like AWS Lambda work, but also a methodology to quickly solve everything you would worry about when building an app (code quality, testing, CD, authorisation, databases, etc), so you can truly focus on building business logic. Basic knowledge of NodeJS & CLI / Git required

Speakers

Diana Lee

Principal Engineer - Integrations Lead, BeApplied

Diana is a Principal Engineer and the first hire at Applied, a company focused on radically improving hiring, making it fairer, faster and better. She has been involved of every aspect of the platform; from DevOps & continuous deployment, to shipping integrations with other hiring... Read More →

Serverless Framework Diana BeApplied pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 12:20pm - 12:50pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Functions as a Service (Serverless), Workshop

Experience Level Any

12:20pm PDT

N-API Birds of a Feather - Arunesh Chandra, Microsoft; Michael Dawson, IBM; Nicola Del Gobbo, Packly & Gabriel Schulhof, Intel of Canada, Ltd.

Are you working on a Node native add-on using N-API? Or maybe thinking of starting one? This is a great opportunity to consult with the team behind this compelling new technology and to discuss experiences with fellow N-API add-on developers. Ask questions, make suggestions, and learn how you can help shape the future of N-API.

Bring your project and N-API team members will be available to help answer questions, make suggestions, and offer tips. If you don’t have a project, team members can answer your questions and help make sure you get off to a solid start.

This is also a great chance for N-API add-on developers to share experiences, lessons, and best practices with fellow N-API add-on developers.

If you’re interested, please join us!

Wednesday October 10, 2018 12:20pm - 12:50pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

12:20pm PDT

HTTP/2, One Frame At A Time - Irina Shestak, MongoDB

In this fresh off the press episode of Node.js Files, I will take you to a set of Node.js' implementation of HTTP2. Its quirks, its benefits, and its workings explained and illustrated. How do we get from an established connection to TLS decryption? How does the concept of session come in to play? How does node handle memory usage when it comes to HTTP2? And what are these frame things everyone keeps talking about? This and more explained in HTTP2, one frame at a time. Coming to theatre near you from Fall 2018.

Speakers

Irina Shestak

Fullstack Engineer, MongoDB

Irina is a Berlin via London via Vancouver software developer who is, oh hey, hello, really into node.js. On the reg, she writes javascript for MongoDB's Compass team and maintains a few open source projects. Irina was fortunate to speak at conferences all over the world, including... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 12:20pm - 12:50pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Node.js Project

Experience Level Intermediate

12:20pm PDT

Server-Side Rendering with Docker - Owen Buckley, The Greenhouse I/O

Server-Side Rendering can be a valuable technique for delivering great user experiences quickly and for improving SEO, even for Single Page Applications. However, even with all the great tools available for implementing SSR, there are still challenges around implementing it, in particular around operational overhead and general technical complexity, all of which can be daunting.

In this presentation, we’ll take a look at how Docker can help soften some of the thornier parts of implementing SSR, while maintaining great User Experiences (UX) and just as importantly, promoting good Developer Experiences (DX).

Speakers

Owen Buckley

UI Architect, LendingClub

Owen Buckley is an energetic and enthusiastic (open source) software developer and entrepreneur specializing in web application architectures, developer tools, and building strong teams. He is most passionate about teaching others about technology and how it can help improve their... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 12:20pm - 12:50pm PDT
West Ballroom B

Testing Tools and Infrastructure

Experience Level Intermediate

12:50pm PDT

Lunch (Attendees on Own)

Wednesday October 10, 2018 12:50pm - 2:20pm PDT
Streets of Vancouver

Registration & Breaks & Meals

1:00pm PDT

BoF: Troubleshooting Node.js Production Issues with llnode - Matheus Marchini, sthima

Ever had trouble fixing issues in your Node.js production application? Sometimes those issues can't be reproduced in development or staging environments, and in this cases having a debugger which can be used in production is extremely helpful. llnode is a lldb plugin which enables inspection of Node.js processes and core dumps. In this workshop, you'll learn how to use llnode to find and fix issues faster and reliably, without bloating your application with logs or compromising its performance.

Speakers

Matheus Marchini

Lead Software Engineer, Sthima

Matheus is a Software Engineer passionate about Open Source and Diagnostics/Observability related tools. He's a Node.js Core Collaborator and member of the Diagnostics and Build Working Groups, and he's committed to helping improve the state of diagnostic tools for production environments... Read More →

llnode 101 pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
West Meeting Room 121-122

Performance, Workshop

1:30pm PDT

Mentor Program Stories - Dan Shaw, D Shaw LLC

Hear stories about the Node.js mentor program and learn how to get involved.

Were you a part of the mentor program as a mentor or mentee? Come share your story with us! Email ladyleet@nodejs.org to get on the agenda or just show up and share

Wednesday October 10, 2018 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

2:20pm PDT

Automated Accessibility Testing - Dylan Barrell, Deque

In the last couple of years, the accessibility community has started to change. Awareness is picking up. Major tech and retail companies are talking about and investing in accessibility conferences. There's also more regulations around accessibility, such as the New European directives, the ACAAct, the Ontario AODA, Section 508 and the U.S. ADA. Just as the physical world should be accessible for people with disabilities, it's now time that the internet provides that same equality and opportunity.

In this talk, I will discuss and demo the axe JavaScript ecosystem: the automated, open source accessibility tool which will empower you to take accessibility into your own hands.

Speakers

Dylan Barrell

Chief Technology Officer, Deque

Dylan is Deque's Chief Technology Officer and has been focussed on accessibility for almost a decade. He created the first browser-based developer tool for accessibility and is motivated to make accessibility a standard part of the development process.In addition to his work experience... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 2:20pm - 2:50pm PDT
West Ballroom B

Accessibility

Experience Level Any

2:20pm PDT

Building your Own Internet of Things with JavaScript: From Constrained Device to Secure Gateway - Ziran Sun, Samsung

With huge popularity and maturity JavaScript has gone beyond the web and made its mark on the Internet of Things world. This talk will walk you through an end-to-end secure Internet of Things system built using JavaScript language. Technical challenges and our solutions from various aspects of the system will be discussed. An introduction to JerryScript, an ultra-light JavaScript engine from Samsung, will be given to address the issue of resource restriction in constrained devices. It is followed by the gateway solution based on Node.js technology working towards a decentralized secure connection with privacy and interoperability in mind. This talk is supported by code demos throughout.

Speakers

Ziran Sun

Principle Engineer, Samsung

Ziran Sun is an Open Source Engineer at Samsung Research UK. She has been involved in a few open source projects, including webinos, blink/chromium and IoTivity. Currently, Ziran is looking at 5G network related areas.

BuildingIoT JSInteractive pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 2:20pm - 2:50pm PDT
West Ballroom A

IoT

Experience Level Intermediate

2:20pm PDT

Cross-platform Progressive Web Apps - Simon MacDonald, Adobe

Progressive Web Apps are the new hotness with Google pressing hard to make them the de facto choice for building mobile applications. Support for PWA’s is quite good in Chrome, FireFox, and Edge but what's to be done about Safari and iOS where many of the key API's are not supported. Six months ago I would have told you to wrap your PWA in an Apache Cordova/PhoneGap container to polyfill the missing functionality. Now Apple has moved aggressively to support PWA’s in desktop Safari and iOS 11.3 but there are still some quirks. In this talk, I'll show you how to create a PWA that runs on the web, Android, and iOS from a single code base. Take advantage of some new tools to easily deploy and test your PWA.

Speakers

Simon MacDonald

Head of Developer Experience, Begin

Simon has over twenty years of development experience and has worked on various projects, including object-oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition and unified messaging. His current focus is contributing to the open-source Architect project to enable developers... Read More →

cross platform pwa 19 23 28 38 pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 2:20pm - 2:50pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Progressive Web Apps and Offline First

Experience Level Beginner

2:20pm PDT

Clean-up Your Service Mess with Service Mesh - Brian Redmond, Microsoft

Microservices and containers are powerful technologies. That said, they bring a number of challenges in distributed systems including routing & service discovery, failure handling and circuit breaking, observability & performance management, and testing complexity

Developers can solve these challenges with JavaScript in each microservice. But this takes them away from the true focus the service

The concept of Service Mesh (eg - istio, conduit, linkerd) aides microservices development by adding an infrastructure layer that handles service-to-service communication via distributed proxies. Each microservice will now have its own sidecar that handles communication and can be managed centrally

In this session, we will show how application architects and developers can use Service Mesh to easily add complex network routing, logging, TLS security, testing, & much more to their applications

Speakers

Brian Redmond

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

I am a Principal Product Manager working on our Cloud Native Platforms and AKS. My role is to support our customer and community efforts. I have been working in technology for over 25 years and have a mixed background from application development to infrastructure. I am based in Denver... Read More →

NodeJSInteractive pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 2:20pm - 2:50pm PDT
West Meeting Room 118-120

Testing Tools and Infrastructure

Experience Level Intermediate

2:20pm PDT

Master Serverless with JSF Architect - Brian LeRoux, Begin

Cloud functions have been taking the industry by storm. Always available, scale transparently, only pay for the compute you use (100% utilization) and deploy instantly with zero downtime. However, getting started is fraught with complexity and configuration. In this workshop you will quickly learn all the angles of 'serverless' technology using Amazon Web Services:

- A Brief Introduction to Amazon Web Services
- Introduction to JSF Architect
- Intro Web Dev: HTML and JSON with API Gateway
- Intro Web Dev: Custom Domains with Route53 DNS
- Test Driven Intro to DynamoDB: Setup and DB Design
- Test Driven Intro to DynamoDB: Reads
- Test Driven Intro to DynamoDB: Writes
- Scheduled Functions
- Build and deploy a JSON API
- Build a Slackbot: Slash and Mentions
- Build a Slackbot; Buttons and Menus
- Closing Thoughts and Next Steps

JSF Architect tames AWS complexity and gets you immediately productive deploying live to isolated staging and production environments. We will set up a CRON function that runs on an interval completely in the cloud. We'll create a website on a brand new domain and be deploying to in seconds complete with user auth and state. We'll create a stateless restful JSON API. We'll close the workshop by building a completely functional bot for Slack.

Speakers

Brian LeRoux

CTO, Begin

In 2007ish Brian created wtfjs.com and later in 2009 at the first JSConf introduced PhoneGap. In 2012 he stewarded the creation of Cordova at the Apache Software Foundation as Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems. Currently, he is the CTO and co-founder of begin.com from which arc.codes... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 2:20pm - 4:10pm PDT
West Meeting Room 121-122

Functions as a Service (Serverless), Workshop

Experience Level Any

3:00pm PDT

Designing Accessibility for Other Developers- Sarah Higley, SitePen

The moment you step into any large project or open source venture you must accept that code you write will be used in ways you did not originally intend. Part of creating any good UI library is figuring out how to design it to be flexible enough to suit a range of needs while still baking in best practices. This is especially relevant in the case of accessibility: an area that can be crucial to users but is often overlooked.

Take a journey through an office full of all the developers you never hoped to work with, but will encounter nonetheless: the caveman coder, a contractor here to smash your code until it “works”; the blunderer, a dev who always knows just enough to break your builds; the horde of interns, hired last week to “help”; and finally the inventor: the “let’s just roll our own” developer who will abandon your library if it doesn’t support a host of custom features, plus a pony. Then find out how to hint, nudge, and wrangle them into coding accessible UI components for the good of the web.

Speakers

Sarah Higley

JavaScript Developer, SitePen

Sarah Higley is a JavaScript developer at SitePen, currently working on developing widgets for the Dojo 2 web framework. She started working on web accessibility in 2014, and now spends an unhealthy amount of time reading about WCAG updates.

a11y component design pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 3:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
West Meeting Room 118-120

Accessibility

3:00pm PDT

WebAssembly: Of Portability, and Performance - Deepti Gandluri, Google

WebAssembly is a portable binary instruction format, it is an emerging standard being developed in the WebAssembly community group. Support for WebAssembly has now shipped in major browsers, and is enabled by default in Node.js 8. Though WebAssembly is designed to run on the web, it is also desirable that it executes well in JavaScript VMs like Node.js. Let's talk about where WebAssembly is now, some practical use cases, and what is in store for the future.

Speakers

Deepti Gandluri

Software Engineer, Google

Deepti is a Software Engineer at Google working on WebAssembly. She is currently working on implementing WebAssembly future features in V8, Chrome's JavaScript engine. Deepti previously worked on Native Client, and x86 simulators. She also enjoys tiny electronics projects, and sewing... Read More →

WebAssembly JS Interactive 2018 pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 3:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Application Development and APIs

Experience Level Any

3:00pm PDT

Bridging the Designer-Developer Gap, PWA Edition - Antoinette Janus, PBS Kids

Progressive web applications are all the rage. React, Vue, and Angular dominate the developer field. Recently, Safari announced support for web manifests in their browser, Chrome support pre-existing the announcement. Job postings require developers to know some level of a web application framework. With all of the mentioned buzz around PWAs, developers strive to include these technologies. Problems lie when communicating this excitement and necessity to designers. This panel shares knowledge about what a PWA is, why they matter, and further why they matter to designers. This talk covers the broad strokes of performance (such as first paint, asset management), a brief walkthrough of a web manifest in terms of a designer, and how website audits (such as lighthouse, sonarwhal) are mutually beneficial to both designers and developers.

Speakers

Antoinette Janus

Software Engineer, PBS Kids

Antoinette Janus is a Software Engineer at PBS Kids. Outside of work, she is working on multiple projects, including a headless WordPress x React client portfolio rebuild, Daily_ToDo (Electron x React), and many small-scale projects including her Zelda Music Maker (https://acjanus.co/zelda-song-generator... Read More →

bridging the gap antoinette janus pptx

Wednesday October 10, 2018 3:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Progressive Web Apps and Offline First

Experience Level Any

3:00pm PDT

Node.js Meets Docker - Shaun Warman, PayPal

As PayPal has journeyed to a cloud-native environment, Shaun has led the Node.js Docker effort in revamping the deployment architecture for all applications built on Node.js. Using Docker allows for immutable, composable Node.js deployments in a nice declarative fashion. In this session, we'll cover Docker image best practices, container startup, and process management, signal handling for graceful shutdowns, injecting environment variables and mounting files as well as new ways to version dependencies across environments to better Node.js build and deployments.

Speakers

Shaun Warman

Staff Software Engineer, PayPal

A Staff Software Engineer at PayPal working out of Austin, Texas on the node.js core team. Most recently working on nodejs application deployment architecture using Docker. You can find me speaking internally at PayPal and around the Austin meetup scene.

JSInteractive ShaunWarman pdf

JSInteractive ShaunWarman pptx

Wednesday October 10, 2018 3:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
West Ballroom B

Testing Tools and Infrastructure

Experience Level Intermediate

3:00pm PDT

Effectively Leverage nodejs/help Repo - Gireesh Punathil, IBM

While the issue tracker in nodejs/node repo covers identified bugs in the core, nodejs/help is where users can raise issues in all other categories: asking questions, general help with usage of node, debugging and resolving a problem etc. I would like to talk about how to effectively make use of this repo and share some best practices, for improved user experience on consumption of Node.js

Wednesday October 10, 2018 3:00pm - 3:40pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

3:40pm PDT

Math In JavaScript Can Be Awesome - Dominic Kramer, Google

New libraries such as TensorFlow.js (js.tensorflow.org) are powerful tools for utilizing machine learning in JavaScript. However, their capabilities extend beyond machine learning.

In this talk, Dominic Kramer will be demonstrating how these libraries are making JavaScript an awesome platform for mathematics and scientific computing in areas beyond machine learning by showing concrete examples of using the libraries to explore other interesting areas of mathematics.

Speakers

Dominic Kramer

Software Engineer, Google

Dominic Kramer is a software engineer at Google and is part of the Node.js Team that works on creating tools that improve the Node.js development experience. These tools include a trace agent, debug agent, and logging and error reporting libraries.In addition to his software engineering... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 3:40pm - 4:10pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Artificial Inteligence and Machine Learning

Experience Level Any

3:40pm PDT

Service Workers and Their Role in PWAs - Ipsha Bhidonia, Mozilla

Progressive Web Applications have gained unparalleled momentum in the tech world and are currently one of the hottest trends in Web Development. Find out how PWA attempts to combine features offered by most modern browsers with the benefits of mobile experience and how service workers make them fast, reliable & engaging. In this session we dive into what’s in store beyond providing the offline experience, push and background sync features. This talk examines how Service Workers fill the gap between web and native, and how they give better performance and user experiences.

Speakers

Ipsha Bhidonia

Tech Speaker, Mozilla

Ipsha is a software engineer at Gemalto by profession, a Mozilla tech speaker by heart, and an advocate for a free and open web by passion. She likes traveling to new places and meeting people with different perspectives of the world. When not at work she speaks at technical conferences... Read More →

JS interactive 2018 pptx

Wednesday October 10, 2018 3:40pm - 4:10pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Progressive Web Apps and Offline First

Experience Level Intermediate

3:40pm PDT

Automated Performance Testing With WebDriver - Christian Bromann, Sauce Labs

This talk will look into solutions to automatically capture and assert the performance as part of your functional tests using WebDriver and Chrome DevTools technologies. By looking into the workflow of a browser driver, you will learn not only how a WebDriver actually automates web pages, you will also get insights on how you need to tweak this setup to start capturing live tracing data from the browser.

Analyzing the performance of a web application is hard and can’t be done by just looking at the raw captured data. Therefore you will learn how tracing data is structured and which Node.js tools you can use to compute the important user experience metrics out of it. With this knowledge, you will be able to ensure that your PWA stays within your defined performance budget every time you run your end-to-end test in CI/CD.

Speakers

Christian Bromann

Staff Software Engineer, Sauce Labs

Christian Bromann is a member of the Open Source Program Office at Sauce Labs and is working on various open source projects related to test automation and Node.js. He represents the company as Advisory Committee representative at the W3C and the WebdriverIO project as core contributor... Read More →

Automated Web Performance Testing with WebDriver pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 3:40pm - 4:10pm PDT
West Ballroom B

Testing Tools and Infrastructure

Experience Level Intermediate

4:10pm PDT

TSC Panel - Michael Dawson, IBM; James Snell, nearForm; Anatoli Papirovski, Postmates; Anna Henningsen; Myles Borins, Google & Matteo Collina, NearForm

Wednesday October 10, 2018 4:10pm - 4:40pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

4:10pm PDT

Coffee Break

Wednesday October 10, 2018 4:10pm - 4:40pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer

Registration & Breaks & Meals

4:40pm PDT

Building Great CLI Experiences in Node - Jeff Dickey, Heroku

There is a renewed interest in CLI applications to help automate common tasks and improve developer experience by building on top of APIs. Compared to web apps, CLIs are much faster to build and work great for developer tools and admin interfaces. Jeff will introduce the oclif CLI framework built from the Heroku and Salesforce CLIs to show you how to create flexible CLIs of your own easily.

Speakers

Jeff Dickey

Heroku CLI Lead Engineer, Heroku Salesforce

Jeff is a native Oregonian and has spent the last four years building the Heroku CLI and core of the Salesforce CLI.

Node+JS Interactive Talk pdf

oclif githubcli mp4

Wednesday October 10, 2018 4:40pm - 5:10pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Application Development and APIs

4:40pm PDT

Internationalize your Web Applications with Globalize.js - Alolita Sharma, AWS

Globalize.js is one of the most popular open source JavaScript internationalization libraries used by web applications today. This library is leveraged both by large enterprises and by startups to support i18n and L10n. It interfaces with client platforms (e.g., via React) and server implementations (e.g., via Node.js). Globalize.js uses Unicode CLDR data and closely follows the UTS#35 specification. This talk will introduce the key features of Globalize.js and then highlight new capabilities, performance optimizations, and data distribution mechanisms that have been added recently. The talk will also cover feature requests yet to be implemented and how you can contribute to Globalize.js.

Speakers

Alolita Sharma

Apple AIML Observability Engineering, Apple

Alolita Sharma is an OpenTelemetry Governance Committee member, CNCF Observability TAG co-chair and CNCF Governing Board member from Apple. She leads Apple’s AIML observability teams. She contributes to open source and open standards at OpenTelemetry, Unicode and W3C. She has served... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 4:40pm - 5:10pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Internationalization

Experience Level Any

4:40pm PDT

Bringing JavaScript Back to Life - Joyee Cheung, Igalia

Have you ever wondered how your JavaScript objects are laid out in the memory? This talk will give you a tour of llnode, a project under the Node.js Foundation that is directly based on this knowledge. It will cover the new JavaScript API of the project that allows you to bring JavaScript objects back to life from a terminated process, and how llnode restores JavaScript objects from raw process memory under the hood.

Speakers

Joyee Cheung

Software Engineer, Igalia

Joyee currently works on the compilers team at Igalia remotely from Hangzhou, China. She is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee and regularly contributes to Node.js core.

Wednesday October 10, 2018 4:40pm - 5:10pm PDT
West Ballroom B

Node.js Project

Experience Level Intermediate

4:40pm PDT

Speed Networking and Mentoring

Open to all, this community event will pair seasoned veterans with anyone hoping to expand their network and gain some valuable insider’s perspective on tech or community. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register.

Wednesday October 10, 2018 4:40pm - 5:50pm PDT
West Meeting Room 202

Event Experiences

4:40pm PDT

A New Way to Profile Async Activity in Node.js - Mathias Buus & David Mark Clements, nearForm

Node.js works best in heavily-I/O-related contexts and often acts as a mediator between many data streams and interfaces. Due to JavaScript’s evented nature, most I/O is performed asynchronously. Especially when our Node.js process is a networked application. If we can measure asynchronous activity in a decoupled way, we can find out where an application is waiting.

This means we can diagnose I/O problems in external infrastructure! This workshop introduced an innovative visualization tool that diagnoses various infrastructural and architectural issues.

Attendees will learn the following:

* How to identify and reduce latency in your servers
* Finding and fixing significant asynchronous bottlenecks
* Using Node.js to identify problems in your server architecture
* How to debug asynchronous behavior
* When (and how) to use development profiling vs APM-based production profiling

Speakers

Mathias Buus

Chief of Research, Beaker Browser

David Clements

Principal Architect, NearForm

Wednesday October 10, 2018 4:40pm - 5:50pm PDT
West Meeting Room 121-122

Testing Tools and Infrastructure, Workshop

Experience Level Intermediate

4:40pm PDT

Office Hours

Come learn about Node.js!

Wednesday October 10, 2018 4:40pm - 6:00pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

5:20pm PDT

Cover Your Apps While Still Using npm - Tierney Cyren, NodeSource

In the front-end and Node.js ecosystems, we’ve had two extinction-level events: left-pad and pinkie-promise.

These events were both caused by something simple - a module became temporarily unavailable. Something seemingly innocuous caused thousands of developers and businesses builds to break and installs to fail. They weren’t prepared, and many were eager to blame npm as the single point of failure of the entire JavaScript ecosystem.

In reality, npm has made it dead-simple for developers and organizations to make sure their modules and highly available. The majority of the ecosystem isn’t aware of this, nor do they implement it effectively.

In this talk, we’ll go over how the dependency tree works at a high level, how you can get bitten by it, and how you can cover your apps - both as developer and as a business.

Speakers

Tierney Cyren

NodeSource

Tierney is a Co-chair of the Node.js Community Committee, and a member of the Node.js Evangelism Working Group. He worked on contributing to Node.js at college in his spare time, and now writes tutorials and articles for the Community, with the goal of always enabling and empowering... Read More →

Wednesday October 10, 2018 5:20pm - 5:50pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Application Development and APIs

5:20pm PDT

Fail Faster: Adding Circuit Breakers to your APIs - Craig Freeman, Kenzan

Node.js is known for it’s ability to provide fast responses, which makes it a perfect candidate for an orchestration layer. API failures happen to the best of us and the trick is to be prepared for them. Circuit breakers are a way to prevent upstream dependency issues from cascading down to your other microservices by providing a mechanism for fast fault detection. When this happens, the circuit breakers will trip, causing subsequent requests to the dependencies to respond with a failure status code before another request can be made. This allows you to handle your failed requests quicker, which results in a better overall user experience until the breaker can reset. This talk covers the relationship of circuit breakers to a typical microservices ecosystem as well as demonstrates the pros and cons of this approach.

Speakers

Craig Freeman

Technical Architect, Kenzan

Craig Freeman is a front-end architect for Kenzan, a software engineering, and digital consulting firm. He's been developing for the web in various capacities since 1998. He specializes in scalable and well-tested UI development for anything from small marketing sites to enterprise... Read More →

Fail Faster Adding Circuit Breakers to your APIs pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 5:20pm - 5:50pm PDT
West Ballroom B

Application Development and APIs

Experience Level Intermediate

5:20pm PDT

npm and the Future of JavaScript - Laurie Voss, npm, Inc.

npm has more than 10 million users, and they download 7 billion packages a week. We also ran a direct survey of 16,000 JavaScript devs this year. That gives us more data about what JavaScript users are doing and where the community is going than anybody else. Let us tell you about yourselves, without bias, without trying to sell you on something. This talk is about what tools you use, what the community believes best practices really are, what frameworks are on the rise and which are on the wane, and where the major pain points are for devs right now. Let us help you plan your technical choices in 2019.

Speakers

Laurie Voss

Co-founder and COO, npm, Inc.

I’ve been a web developer for 22 years and I’m currently the co-founder and COO of npm, Inc.. I care deeply about making the web bigger, better and accessible to everyone.

npm future of javascript pdf

Wednesday October 10, 2018 5:20pm - 5:50pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Testing Tools and Infrastructure

Experience Level Any

5:50pm PDT

Booth Crawl

Visit with sponsors and connect with old and new friends over food and drinks.

Wednesday October 10, 2018 5:50pm - 7:30pm PDT
West Ballroom D

Event Experiences

7:00am PDT

Registration

Thursday October 11, 2018 7:00am - 5:40pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer

Registration & Breaks & Meals

7:30am PDT

Job Fair

Node+JS Interactive is hosting a job fair to help you connect with sponsoring companies who are looking for experts like you. Come join us in the Sponsor Showcase on Thursday, October 11 from 7:30-9:00 am and learn about the great opportunities our sponsors have available. Connect directly with potential new teammates and learn about these great organizations.

Thursday October 11, 2018 7:30am - 9:00am PDT
West Ballroom D

Event Experiences

7:30am PDT

Continental Breakfast

Thursday October 11, 2018 7:30am - 9:00am PDT
West Ballroom D

Registration & Breaks & Meals

7:30am PDT

Office Hours

Come learn about Node.js!

Thursday October 11, 2018 7:30am - 10:50am PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

7:30am PDT

Node Community Corner

Thursday October 11, 2018 7:30am - 4:10pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

9:00am PDT

Building Websites for the Invisible Majority - Keerthana Krishnan, Baker Hughes

The Internet is still a luxury in certain parts of the developing world.Barely half the world is connected online but this is a trend that is rapidly changing. It is estimated that from South Asia alone, nearly a billion users are set to be added to this ecosystem by 2020, bringing with it a ton of new challenges including:
* How can we build websites for someone who is illiterate?
* How can we improve our current internationalization models until they fit seamlessly into our website experience?
* How are our current designs and methods failing in creating a welcoming experience for brand new users, especially those who have never used the Web before in any form?
The talk will provide specific case studies and user stories to illustrate these points so we can begin to examine the Internet as being a truly global medium that has no borders

Speakers

Keerthana Krishnan

Software Engineer, Baker Hughes

Keerthana Krishnan is a software engineer at Baker Hughes, a GE company. Keerthana is an international speaker at events like Open Source Summit Europe 2017 in Prague, DebConf16 in Cape Town and FOSSASIA 2017 in Singapore. She participated in Google Summer of Code 2016 as an intern... Read More →

KeerthanaK BuildingWebsitesForInvisibleMajority Latest pdf

Thursday October 11, 2018 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
West Ballroom A

Community and Developers

Experience Level Any

9:00am PDT

N-API on JerryScript - Gabriel Schulhof, Intel of Canada, Ltd.

N-API is the new Node.js ABI-stable, VM-agnostic API. Its major focus is to remove the need for recompiling native add-ons when switching from an older Node.js version which supports N-API to a newer version which also supports N-API. JerryScript is a lightweight JavaScript engine with a focus on minimizing memory consumption, intended for resource-constrained devices such as IoT and fitness trackers. In this talk, I will outline the work involved in bringing N-API-based Node.js addons to JerryScript while retaining source code compatibility, and the cross-pollination this effort has caused between JerryScript and Node.js.

Speakers

Gabriel Schulhof

Software Engineer, Intel

I have worked with JavaScript for the past seven years, first on the client side as part of the jQuery Mobile development team, and then on the server side as part of the Node.js collaborators and later the Node.js Technical Steering Committee. I am part of the API working group... Read More →

N API on JerryScript pdf

Thursday October 11, 2018 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
West Meeting Room 118-120

IoT

Experience Level Intermediate

9:00am PDT

Standardizing JavaScript - a Look at Ecma and TC39 - Jory Burson, Bocoup

JavaScript is an openly standardized programming language, but what does that mean and how does it work? This talk will provide a brief introduction to Ecma, the standards body home to the JavaScript specification and its standardization efforts, what it means to create and implement open standards, and describe TC39’s role and impact on the world of web standards. We’ll also take a look at the future of web standards, and how the process is evolving to fit the needs of modern developers.

Speakers

Jory Burson

Community Manager, OpenJS Foundation

Thursday October 11, 2018 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
West Ballroom C

Standards

Experience Level Any

9:00am PDT

Scaling Webpack to Thousands of Concurrent Builds - Charlie Robbins, GoDaddy

Building JavaScript for the web is easier than it's ever been with babel, webpack & rollup doing all the heavy lifting for individual builds – but what if you need a lot of builds across multiple environments like development, test, and production? Introduced at Node.js Interactive 2016 Warehouse.ai is an open-source distributed build system supporting webpack, babel, and browserify that aims to make Serverless front-end deployments & rollback easy.

This talk will cover the challenges (and solutions) for Warehouse to scale webpack & npm install to thousands of daily builds with high bursts of concurrency during peak hours.

- Important details of the npm Registry HTTP API.
- How to scale compute bound Node.js worker systems in production with NSQ & kubernetes.
- How to handle complex user-defined webpack configs.
- How to make webpack builds reproducible over time for safe rollback.

Speakers

Charlie Robbins

Senior Director, Engineering, Charlie Robbins

Charlie is a Senior Director of Engineering at GoDaddy where he is leading convergence around JavaScript and Node.js across several products through the UX Platform team. Charlie was previously the founder and CEO of Nodejitsu (acquired by GoDaddy in 2015). An open source enthusiast... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
West Ballroom B

Testing Tools and Infrastructure

Experience Level Intermediate

9:00am PDT

Hands-on Intro to Kubernetes & OpenShift for JS Hackers - Ryan Jarvinen, Red Hat

Learn to build and deploy cloud native Node.js applications on Kubernetes and OpenShift through a series of hands-on lab examples.

Bring a laptop with the following: http://bit.ly/nodejs-on-k8s#/laptop-setup

This interactive session involves using kubectl, oc, curl, and common command-line tools to interact with Kubernetes APIs. By the end of this lab, you’ll be deploying, scaling, and automating JS-based distributed solutions using containers, Kubernetes, and other popular open source tools for distributed computing.

These examples are designed to show NodeJS developers how to maintain speed and productivity with a container-based development workflow.

Speakers

Ryan Jarvinen

Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Ryan Jarvinen is a Developer Advocate and Open Source Evangelist, focused on app development and security in the Kubernetes community and container space. Ryan works remotely from Sacramento, California, as a part of Red Hat’s OpenShift team. Ryan is a frequent conference speaker... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 9:00am - 10:50am PDT
West Meeting Room 121-122

Testing Tools and Infrastructure, Workshop

Experience Level Intermediate

9:40am PDT

Effective Agile Processes: It’s All About People - Bryan Hughes, Microsoft

Almost all software development these days follows some sort of agile process methodology. And yet, some teams are noticeably more effective than others. Why is that?

Agile is a tool like any other, and using it effectively requires skill and experience. At the end of the day, software is written by people for people, and effective agile implementations embraces this.

This talk will cover values and mindsets that make for effective processes, and tips and tricks for effective sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives.

Speakers

Bryan Hughes

Staff Software Engineer, Patreon

Bryan Hughes is a staff engineer at Patreon, long-time member of the JS community, and tech activist.Bryan is the creator of Raspi IO which provides Raspberry Pi support for the Johnny-Five JavaScript robotics library. Bryan also created RVL, a distributed wireless LED lighting system... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 9:40am - 10:10am PDT
West Ballroom A

Application Development and APIs

9:40am PDT

Finding Your Voice: Building Screenless Interfaces with Node.js - Nara Kasbergen, NPR

OK Google, ask Alexa to check if Siri can recommend Cortana a movie to watch with Bixby. Voice assistants are one of the biggest emerging technologies in 2018. At NPR, our interest in voice-based interfaces is obvious: they're a natural fit for our audio-first content. But given that it's still such a new field, the development process is anything but straightforward. What's a Lambda, and do you have to use it? How does the Alexa platform differ from, say, Google Home, and can you develop one app for both? In this talk, we'll run through these confusing, high-level questions, and then go over some real-world code samples for a Node.js API that powers a voice-based UI. Finally, we'll discuss the mistakes we made, the things we wish we'd done differently, and the things we wish we'd known up front as we set out on our journey to build a next-generation voice UI framework in-house at NPR.

Speakers

Nara Kasbergen Kwon

Sr. Manager, Engineering, HashiCorp

Nara Kasbergen is a senior engineering manager at HashiCorp, where her team develops the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF), an open source library which allows practitioners to use familiar programming languages to provision cloud infrastructure, giving them access to the... Read More →

Finding Your Voice Building Screenless Interfaces with Node.js pdf

Thursday October 11, 2018 9:40am - 10:10am PDT
West Ballroom B

IoT

Experience Level Intermediate

9:40am PDT

Panel: Don't Break the Web! - Evolving JS While Keeping Developers Sane - Moderated by Maggie Pint, Microsoft

TC39 as a committee has a long history with amazing high points, and a couple of lows as well. Over time the committee has evolved from a small group of contributors to a large gathering representing every corner of the JavaScript ecosystem. The committee’s one mission is to deliver incredible JS language features for the whole community, without breaking the web. Come hear from TC39 delegates (members) about the complexities of evolving the ECMAScript programming language, how the TC39 process works, and how TC39 is working to involve the community. Opportunities will be available for the audience to submit questions for the committee.

Moderators

Maggie Pint

Senior Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft

Maggie Pint is a software engineering lead in Azure's Production Infrastructure Engineering (PIE) organization. Her team works on improving the engineering systems experience for Microsoft's web developers. Maggie also coordinates open source and inner source education and incentive... Read More →

Speakers

Myles Borins

Developer Advocate, Google

Myles Borins is a developer, musician, artist, and maker They work for Google as a developer advocate serving the Node.js ecosystem Myles cares about the open web and healthy communities

James Snell

Principal Engineer, Cloudflare

James is a core contributor to Node.js, a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, co-chair of the Web-Interoperable Runtimes Community Group, and a principal engineer at Cloudflare working on the Workers runtime.

Brian Terlson

Microsoft

Thursday October 11, 2018 9:40am - 10:10am PDT
West Ballroom C

Standards

Experience Level Any

9:40am PDT

Tales From the QA Crypt - Jennifer Voss, Elsevier

An anthology of QA horror stories from the past, and how to avoid such situations with TDD. When tests are built in from the beginning and not tacked on after features are built, fewer defects are created and development moves faster. JavaScript has all the tools required to cover your automated testing needs, and writing tests in the same language as your app is a no-brainer. We'll cover the tools available today and the logistics of merging your QA and dev teams.

Speakers

Jennifer Voss

Software Engineering Lead, Elsevier

Jenn is a Software Engineering Lead on the Precision Medicine team at Elsevier. Based in Philadelphia, she is responsible for building cutting-edge products that reach millions of users. She is a Google Developer Expert in web technologies, and organizer of LibertyJS, PhillyJSDev... Read More →

Jenn Voss Tales from the QA Crypt pdf

Thursday October 11, 2018 9:40am - 10:10am PDT
West Meeting Room 118-120

Testing Tools and Infrastructure

Experience Level Any

10:20am PDT

The Art of Building Node.js Projects at Scale - Raymond Feng, IBM

It's super easy to start developing in Node.js, but challenges will get in the way as your project grows with more and more modules, components, developers, teams, and releases. If you are building on an open framework or large-scale application, you probably have increasing number of hmm moments in deciding between Be less opinionated and Don't repeat yourself. This talk will share our experience in building LoopBack 4 with TypeScript and illustrate techniques, tools, and patterns proven to faciliate developing Node.js projects at scale. What's even better is that LoopBack 4 builds an extensible and composable foundation with a set of design patterns into the framework to help you create open APIs or applications that are positioned to scale in various perspectives.

Speakers

Raymond Feng

STSM, Architect, IBM

Raymond Feng is an STSM & Architect at IBM, responsible for developing LoopBack (loopback.io), a popular open source API framework in Node.js. Prior to the current role, he was a co-founder at StrongLoop (acquired by IBM in 2015), a startup dedicated to enabling Node.js for enterprise adoption. At StrongLoop, Raymond co-created the LoopBack framework in 2013, envisionin... Read More →

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Thursday October 11, 2018 10:20am - 10:50am PDT
West Meeting Room 118-120

Application Development and APIs

10:20am PDT

The State of Node.js - James Snell, nearForm

This talk will continue a Node.js Interactive tradition of presenting the latest state of Node.js core. New features, significant initiatives, and major upcoming changes will be presented. What has the Node.js project accomplished over the last year and where is it going in the next?

Speakers

James Snell

Principal Engineer, Cloudflare

Thursday October 11, 2018 10:20am - 10:50am PDT
West Ballroom A

Node.js Project

Experience Level Intermediate

10:20am PDT

Offline First: Making Your App Awesome When the Network Isn't - Teri Chadbourne, Protocol Labs

Let’s get real; networks are flaky, and your awesome web app isn’t so impressive when you lose your connection. From healthcare solutions in the developing world to entertainment for the daily commute, the Offline First approach to web development is transforming the user experience. It’s time to stop treating shoddy connections as an error condition and start building with real-world network constraints in mind. In this beginner-friendly session, you’ll learn to build an offline-capable Progressive Web App using only client-side JavaScript and easy-to-use tools: PouchDB, Apache CouchDB™ and Service Worker. With this simple offline first approach, you’ll treat your users to a super-speedy app that shines in all network conditions and thrives in the real world.

Speakers

Teri Chadbourne

Community Manager, Protocol Labs

Teri Chadbourne is a full-stack web developer and developer advocate who's passionate about crafting developer communities through events. A co-organizer of Offline Camp, she's an active contributor to the Offline First movement. Teri is a Community Manager at Protocol Labs, where... Read More →

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Thursday October 11, 2018 10:20am - 10:50am PDT
West Ballroom C

Progressive Web Apps and Offline First

Experience Level Beginner

10:20am PDT

Please Wait... Loading: A Tale of Two Loaders - Myles Borins, Google

Modules were first standardized in ECMAScript 6 in 2015. As of December 2017, you can now use ESModules (ESM) in 3 out of 4 of the major browsers. Node.js has traditionally shipped an implementation of Common.js (CJS), you use it in your Node.js code today via require. There are vast differences between the two module systems that make it quite difficult to utilize Common.js code in an ESModule and vice versa. Implementing modules correctly in Node.js will have a significant impact on the future of JavaScript, the wrong decisions could cause fractures in the ecosystem. This talk will dive into some of the more nefarious edge cases and the ways the Node.js project has navigated them. The talk will also look into joint efforts with the Web platform as we attempt to find a single pattern that can work on both the client and server.

Speakers

Myles Borins

Developer Advocate, Google

Myles Borins is a developer, musician, artist, and maker They work for Google as a developer advocate serving the Node.js ecosystem Myles cares about the open web and healthy communities

Thursday October 11, 2018 10:20am - 10:50am PDT
West Ballroom B

Standards

Experience Level Intermediate

10:50am PDT

Bringing User Feedback to Node.js - Dan Shaw, D Shaw LLC

"Over the past year a team of individuals have been working with the Node.js Community Committee to provide better opportunities to the Node.js community to connect with the Node.js project and provide feedback. The groups started by supporting the needs of the Benchmarking WG, helping create a formal survey and sharing the results. Now there are several focus areas and area leaders covering general user scenarios, tooling developers, and the enterprise use case. We are preparing another major survey for community feedback around Promises. We'll share what's worked and what has not and how you can get involved."

Thursday October 11, 2018 10:50am - 11:20am PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

10:50am PDT

Coffee Break

Thursday October 11, 2018 10:50am - 11:20am PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer

Registration & Breaks & Meals

11:20am PDT

From Parentheses to Perception: How Your Code Becomes Someone Else's Reality - Jenna Zeigen, Slack

We, humans, create software for other humans to use and enjoy. But how does code become neurons firing in someone else’s brain? This talk will take us on the journey this information takes, from the mind of the programmer to the mind of a web app user. We’ll follow the ideas starting as code, going through HTML, CSS, and JavaScript interpreters and compilers and becoming pixels in a browser through the browser’s rendering process. The saga continues with how a human will view these pixels, first becoming neural signals that then paint a meaningful, interactive picture in their mind that they perceive as reality.

Speakers

Jenna Zeigen

Senior Frontend Engineer, Slack

One morning, Jenna awoke to find that she had transformed into a programmer. She's been psyched about coding ever since. When she's not teaching pixels to party or using JavaScript to help you find the important things in Slack, Jenna enjoys climbing, coffee, cognitive science, and... Read More →

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Thursday October 11, 2018 11:20am - 11:50am PDT
West Ballroom B

Application Development and APIs

Experience Level Intermediate

11:20am PDT

Using Node.js and React with Drupal CMS at Edutopia - Eric Hestenes, George Lucas Educational Foundation

At the Foundation, our goal is to shine a light on what works in preK-12 education. On edutopia.org the Edutopia team recently developed a decoupled solution that combines Node.js/react with jsonapi and the Drupal CMS. Along the way we found impediments to progress, roads that needed paving, but we also learned a few tricks that may help others along this new path. Eric will share a case study with insights from work on Edutopia: data migrations; mapping and resolving routes from old content to new; faking jsonapi versioning; enabling previews using jsonapi to access the Drupal CMS from javascript; improving performance with redux state management; creating the perception of speed; and handling of files and responsive imagery outside of jsonapi.

Speakers

Eric Hestenes

Director of Engineering, George Lucas Educational Foundation

Eric Hestenes is Director of Engineering at the George Lucas Educational Foundation and manages software development and operations for edutopia.org. He has worked with many open source CMS projects and also lead the open government project Peer to Patent that was featured on Whitehouse.gov... Read More →

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Thursday October 11, 2018 11:20am - 11:50am PDT
West Ballroom A

Application Development and APIs

Experience Level Intermediate

11:20am PDT

Wiring the Internet of Things with Node-RED - Nick O'Leary, IBM

Node-RED is an open-source visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things. Built on top of Node.js, it provides a light-weight, browser-based editor that makes it easy to integrate different streams of both physical and digital events.

It is ideal to run at the edge of the network, such as on a Raspberry Pi, but also within the cloud. It provides a framework for adding new nodes to its palette, extending its capabilities. Originally developed by IBM team, it is now a project of the JS Foundation.

The project has recently introduced version control directly within the editor allowing it to integrate closely with a developer's regular workflow.

This talk will introduce Node-RED and show how it can become an invaluable tool for creating IoT solutions. The talk will demonstrate a complete developer workflow from development to production with an application that deploys across devices.

Speakers

Nick O'Leary

CTO, FlowForge Inc

Nick O’Leary is the co-founder and CTO of FlowForge Inc. He is the co-creator of the Node-RED project, a low-code programming tool for event-driven applications. He previously worked at IBM where he got to do interesting things with interesting technologies and also play with toys... Read More →

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Thursday October 11, 2018 11:20am - 11:50am PDT
West Ballroom C

IoT

Experience Level Any

11:20am PDT

Building Foundations of the Node.js Community - Tierney Cyren, NodeSource

Node.js is an amazing project in terms of code - it’s evolved rapidly to cover an immense landscape, from web apps, desktop apps, APIs, IoT, robotics, and beyond. There’s something else that Node has also been absolutely killer with, though: the community.

One really awesome thing is that the Node.js community has an established community for building the Node community. How meta is that? The Node.js project is sectioned off into different Working Groups (WGs) that are tasked with different objectives - the one that was tasked with building the community was the Evangelism WG.

That said, there’s a transition happening. The Evangelism WG planted the seed Node.js Community efforts. Now, the Community Committee has taken this a step further and is mobilizing to start exploding the awareness and understanding of Node and its diverse ecosystem.

Attendees will gain an understanding of what the Node.js Community Committee is, what it's goals are, and how they can start getting involved.

Thursday October 11, 2018 11:20am - 12:00pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

11:20am PDT

Vue Vixens Workshop - Jen Looper, Progress

Vue Vixens is an initiative that aims to create full-day workshops to teach Vue.js to under-represented foxy people in a cool and fun way. It is based on the successful model pioneered by Shmuela Jacobs for the Angular community (ng-girls.org) who was in turn inspired by the Rails Bridge and Django Girls initiatives. The format will be self-driven code labs completed in a workshop format in groups with mentoring by conference-goers and speakers who volunteer to help. The goal of the program is to familiarize women and those who identify as such in a supportive and inclusive location with Vue.js and general web and mobile programming concepts. Welcome to the skulk!

Speakers

Jen Looper

Senior Developer Advoate, Progress

Thursday October 11, 2018 11:20am - 12:30pm PDT
West Meeting Room 121-122

Community and Developers, Workshop

Experience Level Beginner

12:00pm PDT

Temporal: Keep Time on your Side  - Philipp Dunkel, Bloomberg

JavaScript’s Date API has been causing agony for over 20 years now. It’s time to replace it with something better.  

* Learn about the current state of the TC39 temporal proposal
* Goals and Rationales 
* Current State
* Practical Uses 

Speakers

Philipp Dunkel

Software Engineer, Bloomberg

Philipp is a software engineer at Bloomberg who has previously been in the Austrian startup world. He has been doing JavaScript since 1996 and his passion is improving the lives of coders through better tools. He also apologises for all the pain he caused by creating the fsevents... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
West Meeting Room 118-120

Application Development and APIs

12:00pm PDT

The Winding Road Towards JS Interoperability - Dylan Schiemann, SitePen

First, there were the browser wars, then the JS library and framework wars. The JS ecosystem struggles at seamless interoperability without performance and complexity consequences. This talk looks at standards and trends moving us towards a world of easier interoperability!

We’ll explore how the combination of ES Modules, web components, and a number of other emerging patterns, standards, and tools help move us closer to a world where we do not debate which framework to use, but rather how we get to a world where we make nice things that work together more efficiently, regardless of our overall application architecture or framework of choice. And discuss what’s still missing. And we’ll quickly review how well some of today’s frameworks perform from an interoperability perspective (Hint: Not as well as they could).

Speakers

Dylan Schiemann

CEO, SitePen

As CEO of [SitePen](https://sitepen.com/) and co-founder of [Dojo](https://dojo.io/), Dylan Schiemann is an established presence in the JavaScript and open source communities. Under his direction, SitePen has become the definitive source for enterprise organizations that are focused... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Application Development and APIs

Experience Level Intermediate

12:00pm PDT

Machine Learning in the Browser with deeplearnJS - Lian Li, Container Solutions BV

Even if you've never done anything with machine learning, you have probably already heard that it's very powerful, adaptive and will change our way of thinking about computing forever.
But how can you, a web developer, who's never been interested much in statistics benefit from the ML hype?

In this talk, I want to give you the tools to build a small self-learning application that runs completely in the browser with deeplearn.js

Speakers

Lian Li

Engineering Manager & Cloud Native Engineer, Container Solutions BV

Lian always wanted to save the world.After a failed attempt at becoming a lawyer, she decided to do something with computers instead. Working as a Fullstack Software Engineer, she got into attending tech events and giving talks on Machine Learning. During this time, she fell in love... Read More →

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Thursday October 11, 2018 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Artificial Inteligence and Machine Learning

Experience Level Beginner

12:00pm PDT

Node Generator: Realizing Rapid Low-Code Prototyping of Node-RED Connectors - Kazuhito Yokoi, Hitachi, Ltd.

Node-RED is a popular visual programming tool for industrial IoT use cases like environment monitoring, device connections, and edge computing. In 2016, Node-RED became a project of JS Foundation to develop in the open community. Currently, Node-RED has been used in productions for both edge and cloud. Because of low-code development, Node-RED is suitable for rapid prototyping in PoC phase. But developing connectors (Node-RED nodes) is a time-consuming task because it requires HTML and JavaScript skills. To solve the problem, Hitachi developed "Node Generator" in Node-RED projects. Once developers define API specification using Swagger known as the standard format for REST API, the tool can automatically generate connectors. The tool will reduce the time in PoC phase dramatically. In this session, he talks about the details of the tool and demonstration to show benefits for developers.

Speakers

Kazuhito Yokoi

Software Engineer, Hitachi, Ltd.

Kazuhito Yokoi is a member of the Node-RED project under the OpenJS Foundation. To improve the code quality and add new features, he joined the Node-RED project in 2017 and has added over 300 commits and 10,000 lines of code.In his job, he supports a railway brake manufacturer and... Read More →

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Thursday October 11, 2018 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
West Ballroom B

IoT

Experience Level Beginner

12:00pm PDT

Node.js Error Handling Done Right - Ruben Bridgewater, NearForm

It’s weekend and you are out at a lake with your family. You get a call from your boss that the application is down and the customers complain all over. You hurry home to fix the issue right away but you can’t find it and decide to revert to the last working state. Later you spend half your sprint searching and fixing the problem.

We all have run into issues like this before and our logs did not provide enough information to figure out what the problem is about. You saw a lot of errors but some had no stack trace and if they did, they were often useless because of the asynchronous JS nature hiding the actual call site.

But why all this pain when our life could be peaceful by using best practices in error handling? This is a journey into the asynchronous debugging horrors and the simplicity that async / await in combination with error classes can bring into that world.

Thursday October 11, 2018 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

12:30pm PDT

Lunch (Attendees on Own)

Thursday October 11, 2018 12:30pm - 2:00pm PDT
Streets of Vancouver

Registration & Breaks & Meals

1:00pm PDT

JS Party LIVE at Node + JS Interactive!

The much loved podcast JS Party is hosting a live show at Node+JS Interactive! It will happen during the lunch hour on the second day. Come join the group to discuss the latest in JavaScript!

Thursday October 11, 2018 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Event Experiences

1:00pm PDT

Node.js Mentor Program Stories - Dan Shaw, D Shaw LLC

Thursday October 11, 2018 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

2:00pm PDT

Building High Performance React Applications - Joe Karlsson, Best Buy

React is built with performance in mind. But when is React slow? In this talk we’ll discuss common bottlenecks in React and when you might be making your program work harder than it should. We will discuss how Best Buy builds components that stay fast, even during the enormous stress of Black Friday traffic. You will learn practical ways to speed up your real world React applications today.

Speakers

Joe Karlsson

Developer Advocate, SingleStore

Joe Karlsson (He/They) is a Database Engineer turned Developer Advocate (and massive data nerd) currently working at SingleStore. He empowers developers to think creatively when building applications with a massive amount of data, through demos, blogs, videos, or whatever else developers need. Joe's career has taken him from building out database best practices and demos for MongoDB, architecting and building... Read More →

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Thursday October 11, 2018 2:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Application Development and APIs

Experience Level Intermediate

2:00pm PDT

The Cloud Provider Lift and Shift: Staying Mobile with Node.js and Kubernetes - Cabell Maddux, QxMD

We know the delicate stack decision-making dance to adhere to ‘use the right tools for the job’ (of course, w/ Node.js in the mix). Critical cloud provider decisions try to thread the performance, convenience, and pricing needle. Top availability here, great tools there, and discounts everywhere, makes those choices tough. Tight coupling early on makes ultimately the finding the right provider even more difficult.

However a Kubernetes cluster, usually only a few clicks away, makes it possible to build, test, lift, and shift providers. In this talk, we’ll discuss the importance of being mobile to take advantage of the features and pricing that fit your needs. We’ll dive deep into lifting and shifting your Node.js project from one provider to another with Kubernetes. Finally, we’ll design a lift and shift-ready Node.js app to test performance and analyze pricing on AWS, GCloud and Azure.

Speakers

Cabell Maddux

Software Engineer, QxMD

Cabell helps build practice-changing tools for healthcare professionals at Vancouver-based QxMD. He leads up development of the QxMD Analytics platform, which leverages usage data from the QxMD community to provide insights to improve quality of care and digital academic research... Read More →

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Thursday October 11, 2018 2:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Performance

Experience Level Intermediate

2:00pm PDT

Panel: Building a Secure Ecosystem for Node.js - Moderated by Liran Tal, Nielsen

Over the last year, the Node.js security working group has been working to build trust and make the ecosystem safer through a number of initiatives. During this panel discussion, members of the working group, security researchers, and companies deploying Node.js will discuss some of the key challenges and progress to make the Node.js platform and ecosystem safer. We’ll cover it all including security reporting, internal triaging processes, CVE assignment, and current and future initiatives to strengthen security measures in the ecosystem.

Moderators

Liran Tal

Developer Advocate, Snyk

Known for his open source and JavaScript security initiatives, Liran Tal is an award-winning software developer, security researcher, and community leader in the JavaScript community. He's an internationally recognized GitHub Star, acknowledged for his open source advocacy, and has... Read More →

Speakers

Michael Dawson

Node.js Community Lead, IBM

Stephanie Evans

Content Manager for Back-end Web Development, LinkedIn

Stephanie Evans is the Content Manager for Back-end Web Development at LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com, where she oversees Node.js courses that range from helping developers build their first server to testing, securing, deploying, and maintaining Node apps. She’s worked in education... Read More →

Vladimir de Turckheim

Software Engineer, Sqreen

V. works as a software engineer at Sqreen where he builds a tool to secure web applications. He used to be a professional security auditor and a web developer in agencies. He is one of the most active members of the Node.js Security Working Group where he handles the security... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 2:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
West Ballroom B

Security

Experience Level Beginner

2:00pm PDT

Reading the Repo: A Workshop on Clear, Effective Communication Techniques - Jory Burson, Bocoup & Tracy Hinds, Samsung NEXT

Building from the topics discussed at last year's Node.js Interactive Keynote Panel on Sustaining an OSS Ecosystem and the Maintainer Group Therapy breakout session, this workshop will cover tried and true communication patterns and techniques to help Open Source developers connect deeply and empathetically with one another. We'll identify our own communication patterns, learn to identify patterns in others, and practice adapting those patterns as needed in order to have better conversational outcomes. Come prepared to talk, listen, and connect!

Speakers

Jory Burson

Community Manager, OpenJS Foundation

Tracy Hinds

Director, Community Committee, Node.js Foundation

Thursday October 11, 2018 2:00pm - 3:50pm PDT
West Meeting Room 121-122

Community and Developers, Workshop

Experience Level Intermediate

2:00pm PDT

Office Hours

Come lean about Node.js!

Thursday October 11, 2018 2:00pm - 3:50pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

2:40pm PDT

A React Point of Vue - Divya Sasidharan, Lucro Global LLC

At a glance, React and Vue are like two peas in a pod. They are lightweight component-based libraries for building user interfaces and can be used fairly interchangeably to build scalable web applications. Though they are noticeably different in terms of syntax, their key differences lie in their respective ways of thinking. As a React developer learning Vue, adapting to the idiomatic way of writing Vue is a challenge that requires a sound understanding of the philosophy behind the framework. In this talk, we will examine the nuances between the two frameworks and cover common mistakes that React developers make when switching from React to Vue.

Speakers

Divya Sasidharan

Developer Advocate, Netlify Inc

Divya is a web developer who is passionate about open source and good documentation. She most recently made the switch from React to Vue and has slowly but surely grown to enjoy the Vue. You will most likely find her in the sunniest spot in the room with a cup of tea in hand and puns... Read More →

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Thursday October 11, 2018 2:40pm - 3:10pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Application Development and APIs

Experience Level Intermediate

2:40pm PDT

JS Behind the Firewall - Glenn Hinks & Roberto Marte, American Express

For several years now there has been a quiet revolution going on behind some of the best known financial company firewalls. You will probably just be surprised that these well-known names are even in this space. American Express is more closely aligned with the startup than you think. You would recognize all the current technologies that big enterprise uses. All the current full stack technologies node, react, web pack ... are in use at the big enterprise. Enterprise is quickly moving into the progressive application space. There are many challenges when you have a profitable mature organization. I'm going to discuss the differences between using the current full stack technologies, adopting best practices, using Node.js as your backend, and page performance. Amex is doing its best to turn around the way it works and give back to the community. This is a very new thing for Amex.

Speakers

Glenn Hinks

Lead American Express Cardshop, American Express

I graduated in 1991, no google, no iPhones, no www. Things have gotten much better, I started off writing software for fly by wire aircraft, moved into satellite & communications, worked in investments, tried my very best at startups and am still having a wonderful time. For the last... Read More →

Roberto Marte

Card Shop Framework Leader, American Express

Roberto Marte is a long time full stack develop that has made worked on many of the current and previous frameworks. Roberto really enjoys his job and has made many open source contributions. Roberto is currently the American Express Card Shop Framework Leader.

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Thursday October 11, 2018 2:40pm - 3:10pm PDT
West Meeting Room 118-120

Application Development and APIs

Experience Level Any

2:40pm PDT

Optimize Your JSON Payload Efficiency x10 times - Gireesh Punathil, IBM India

JSON has become the defacto standard for transporting data and metadata - anything from function arguments to large multimedia blobs and from query results to API data exchange media. In Cloud deployments, we foresee an exponential increase of JSON payload across distributed end-points, causing performance bottleneck in the application. In this talk, I present truly asynchronous version of standard JSON APIs that is highly scalable, fault-tolerant and highly consumable. The key functions of these APIs are to perform marshaling / un-marshaling of massive data incrementally and yielding back to the application occasionally, improving the overall concurrency of the system, improving concurrency level by 10 times above 1MB of JSON data.

Speakers

Gireesh Punathil

Software Engineer, IBM India

Gireesh Punathil is a member of Node.js Technical Steering Committee, member of Java Community Process Executive committee, and an Architect in IBM India Software Labs, predominantly in Node.js and Java. In 18 years of his career, he has been porting, developing and debugging web... Read More →

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Thursday October 11, 2018 2:40pm - 3:10pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Performance

Experience Level Intermediate

2:40pm PDT

Building a Threat Model & How npm Fits Into It - Adam Baldwin, npm

Who might want to attack your application? If they tried, how would they succeed? Answering these questions is an important exercise that helps you understand how to keep your application secure, so you can sleep at night.

In this talk, Adam will teach you what threat modeling is and how to build threat models for your organization and applications. Because npm is such a critical part of how your developers build JavaScript applications, Adam will show you how npm fits into your threat model and how to use npm's tools to keep your JavaScript secure.

Speakers

Adam Baldwin

Sr. Product Manager, Supply Chain Security, GitHub

Adam Baldwin is a Senior Product Manager focused on supply chain security at GitHub. A security focused leader with over 25 years of experience, Adam has spent his career building companies, breaking into companies, managing teams, designing products, and talking about security non-stop. Previously... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 2:40pm - 3:10pm PDT
West Ballroom B

Security

Experience Level Any

3:20pm PDT

Machine Powered Refactoring: Leverage AST’s to Push your Legacy Code (& the Web) Forward - Amal Hussein, Bocoup

Web apps are evolving targets which show their age via varying degrees of code cruft. Tech debt is an expected side-effect of living production web apps, and the challenge lies in paying down the debt while still pushing forward.

Enter Abstract Syntax Tree’s...

AST’s enable developers to parse input code into a predictable tree data structure that can be easily traversed, manipulated and then regenerated in place. Transpliers such as BabelJS use this powerful pattern to transpile ES2015+ down to a baseline of ES5.

While this 1:1 transpiling is the most common usage of ASTs, they can also be leveraged to supercharge the transformation of your legacy code to meet the conventions, libraries, and/or design patterns your team is using today.

Amal aims to demystify the process by breaking down the steps of how to build your own custom AST based transforms.

Happy Traversing!

Speakers

Amal Hussein

Engineering Manager, npm

Thursday October 11, 2018 3:20pm - 3:50pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Application Development and APIs

Experience Level Any

3:20pm PDT

Performance Optimizations for Progressive Web Apps - Chris Lorenzo, Comcast

Struggling to get your website to load in less than 5 seconds on a mobile phone? Switching pages are a little sluggish? You’re not alone! Most web developers can build a responsive site, but fail to meet performance requirements for mobile. Using the latest PRPL pattern and Progressive Web API’s, you can provide a compelling alternative to native apps, as long as you focus on performance from the beginning.

This talk will cover why the performance of your site is so important and dive into the Chrome performance tools to explain exactly how a browser loads a site and what causes things to slow down. Lastly, we’ll cover how to create your own PWA with service workers and app installs.

Speakers

Chris Lorenzo

Distinguished Engineer, Comcast

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Thursday October 11, 2018 3:20pm - 3:50pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Progressive Web Apps and Offline First

Experience Level Intermediate

3:20pm PDT

Node.js Applicative DoS Through MongoDB Injection - Vladimir de Turckheim, Sqreen

Applicative Denial of Service is mostly known through Regexp abuse. Most people do not know that other applicative DoS can be exploited through diverse means. In this talk, we will see how a malicious user can obtain a MongoDB injection and use it to prevent an application from responding.

Intro: Applicative DoS
I. From SQL injections to NoSQL injections
II. Exploiting a NoSQL injection to obtain a DoS
III. Protecting an application from MongoDB applicative DoS

When speaking about security in the Node.js world, most efforts have been in direction of the choice of packages. However, most security issues are not coming from third-party modules but from misuse of them.

This talk aims at showing how fragile an application can be and how one should protect it.

Speakers

Vladimir de Turckheim

Software Engineer, Sqreen

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Thursday October 11, 2018 3:20pm - 3:50pm PDT
West Ballroom B

Security

Experience Level Intermediate

3:50pm PDT

CommComm Panel - Tracy Hinds, Samsung NEXT; Adam Miller, LinkedIn; Tierney Cyren, NodeSource; Agiri Abraham; Waleed Ashraf, Relayr

Thursday October 11, 2018 3:50pm - 4:10pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer (Community Corner)

Node Community Corner

3:50pm PDT

Coffee Break

Thursday October 11, 2018 3:50pm - 4:10pm PDT
West Level 1 Ballroom Foyer

Registration & Breaks & Meals

4:10pm PDT

Keynote: Developing Code, Confidence and Community with Girl Develop It - Corinne Warnshuis, Executive Director, Girl Develop It

Join GDI's Executive Director to hear inspiring stories of empowerment from the community, and find out how to get involved in your local chapter (in one of 60 US cities).

Speakers

Corinne Warnshuis

Executive Director, Girl Develop It

Corinne is a passionate advocate for community-centered movements and believes in their power to change the world. She is the first Executive Director of Girl Develop It, a national nonprofit that empowers women through affordable and accessible programs focused on web and software... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 4:10pm - 4:30pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

4:30pm PDT

Keynote: Controlling Tesla Model 3 from Node.js - Alex Roytman, Founder and CEO, Profound Logic

JavaScript is capable of some pretty amazing things that many people aren’t even aware of. I decided to demonstrate this by controlling my Tesla Model 3 using Node.js and a tablet. I was able to quickly write an application that let me control the car by doing things like honking the horn and unlocking the car.

In my efforts, I used the Profound.js framework, which simplified building the user interface and the application logic to integrate with the car.

In this session, I will walk you through the Tesla application I created and demonstrate how the free Profound.js development framework made it possible. As I recreate the application in real time, I’ll take your questions about Node.js, JavaScript, and Profound.js, as well as give a live demo of remotely contacting my Tesla Model 3!

Speakers

Alex Roytman

Founder and CEO, Profound Logic

Profound Logic (http://www.profoundlogic.com) founder and CEO, Alex Roytman, is an innovator in the field of using JavaScript for real-world business applications. He works diligently to bring new technologies like the latest in Node.js and HTML5 to enterprise clients.Alex and his team are always working hard to create cut... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 4:30pm - 4:35pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

4:40pm PDT

Keynote: Node for Max—Bringing Node to Desktop Creative Software - Sam Tarakajian, Product Engineer, Cycling '74

The Max application allows our users to define complex, interactive multimedia for installations, performances and design. While the core is written in C++ with the JUCE framework, we've started using JavaScript and Node to build extensions like file browsing, package management and search. Our latest work with Node is a user-facing package called Node for Max, which allows our users to write custom Node applications that run in parallel with the main Max application. With this tool, users could monitor a Max installation remotely, or design a generative music algorithm in JavaScript, or build a network of Max patches that communicate with each other. We're excited to talk about our technical approach and some of the creative possibilities that we envision.

Speakers

Sam Tarakajian

Product Engineer, Cycling'74

Sam Tarakajian is a Brooklyn-based developer and artist, focusing on interface design for musical and creative tools. He's best known for his YouTube tutorial series, "Delicious Max/MSP", where he tries, sometimes successfully, to bring humor to teaching Max. As an engineer at Cycling... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 4:40pm - 4:45pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

4:50pm PDT

Keynote: JavaScript: Enterprise Adoption and Usage - Garth Hansen, Software Engineer, The Walt Disney Company

Despite being over two decades old, not until recent years has JavaScript really been acknowledged as a first-class citizen within corporate enterprise software. Join us as we look at some of the hurdles JavaScript has overcome in order to reach its current level of adoption and glance into JavaScript architecture and tooling being used today within The Walt Disney Company.

Speakers

Garth Henson

Software Engineer, The Walt Disney Company

Garth is a JavaScript engineer and Software Architect who has recently found a love for public speaking. Having worked in the JavaScript ecosystem for over a dozen years, he enjoys sharing his experiences with others through his appearances at tech conferences, university tech talks... Read More →

Thursday October 11, 2018 4:50pm - 5:10pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

5:10pm PDT

Keynote Panel: Node.js at Massive Scale - Yunong Xiao, Netflix; Jessica Chan, Pinterest; Mike Hiskes, Lowe's ; AD Slaton, Turner Broadcasting System; Kris Borchers, JS Foundation

Hear directly from four diverse companies on how they leverage Node.js to power their digital infrastructure and the lessons they've learned from running Node.js at massive scale.

Moderators

Kris Borchers

Speakers

Jessica Chan

Senior Software Engineer, Pinterest

Jessica Chan is a senior software engineer at Pinterest focusing on the web platform. She works to build and maintain the web infrastructure that serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide. She launched one of Pinterest's first Node.js production systems and built a template rendering... Read More →

Mike Hiskes

Principal Architect, Lowe's

Mike Hiskes is Principal Architect for Lowe’s Digital Platforms. Mike is leading the transformation of Lowe’s digital technologies by utilizing cloud native technologies. One of the first steps in this was moving eCommerce from a traditional JSP front end to Node.js backed... Read More →

AD Slaton

Principal Architect, Turner Broadcasting System

AD Slaton is Principal Architect at Turner Broadcasting System, where he is the leader of the CNN Digital Architecture Organization. AD is a technology leader with over a decade of diverse experience building world-class software. He is a technology expert with a proven track record... Read More →

Yunong Xiao

Director, Serverless Computing, Tencent

Thursday October 11, 2018 5:10pm - 5:40pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

5:40pm PDT

Keynote: Closing Remarks - Myles Borins, Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Platform & Ziran Sun, Principal Open Source Engineer, Samsung

Speakers

Myles Borins

Developer Advocate, Google

Myles Borins is a developer, musician, artist, and maker They work for Google as a developer advocate serving the Node.js ecosystem Myles cares about the open web and healthy communities

Ziran Sun

Principle Engineer, Samsung

Thursday October 11, 2018 5:40pm - 5:50pm PDT
West Ballroom C

Keynote

6:00pm PDT

Happy Hour Sponsored by Telus (Pre-registration Required)

Node + JS Happy Hour is an opportunity for Node + JS Conference attendees to mingle and network after the conference in a casual and open environment, and get to know the TELUS Digital team. Drinks and appetizers will be provided.

Agenda
6:30pm: Doors Open
7:00pm: Open networking
10pm: Event ends

To attend, please register here.

Thursday October 11, 2018 6:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
TELUS Garden 510 West Georgia St Vancouver, BC V6B 2A3 Canada

Event Experiences

9:00am PDT

Code & Learn (Pre-Registration Required)

Code & Learn events allow you to get started (or go further) with Node.js core contributions. Experienced contributors help guide you through your first, second or third commit to Node.js core.

If you are looking to become a part of the Node.js community or curious to learn how to contribute to Node.js core, this is a must-attend event. Please be sure to register for the event in advance as space is limited. This event is free to attend and is happening after the official Node+JS Interactive conference.

How to Register: Pre-registration for this session is required. When you register for Node+JS Interactive, you will be given the option to register for this during check out.

Friday October 12, 2018 9:00am - 12:00pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Add-on Event

1:00pm PDT

Node.js Collaborator’s Summit (Pre-registration Required)

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The Node.js Collaborator’s Summit is a day and a half event that follows the Node+JS Interactive conference. This is a Node.js community-organized event where individuals involved in the Node.js project will collaborate and discuss subject matters important to them, whether it’s next steps with HTTP/2, diagnostics, modules, website redesign, mentor initiatives, etc.

Both days are open to the public, but the discussions will be highly focused on the Node.js project and its community. This event moves quickly and there will be no onboarding with topic discussions. Non-collaborators often participate as observers.

How to Register: Pre-registration for this summit is required. When you register for Node+JS Interactive, you will be given the option to register for this during check out.

Friday October 12, 2018 1:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
West Ballroom A

Add-on Event

9:00am PDT

Node.js Collaborator’s Summit (Pre-registration Required)

Saturday October 13, 2018 9:00am - 5:00pm PDT
Room 119-120

Add-on Event