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Who is this Loser?

Who is this Loser?



....where I met....

...then came Google

Currently Working on the Web


 

Cool Story Bro



My History

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My Bias

"So how does the team changes work at Google?"









             
                                                Random Developer

"ZOMG, why did they do that to you?"


Native Community


vs 


Web Community

Why Did I Change Teams?

  • Native Apps
    • Android
    • iOS
    • Nokia Qt
    • Windows Phone (Pre-8)
    • Blackberry
  • KirinJS
    • Javascript Backend for Logic
    • Native UI for Each Native Platform
  • WebOS
  • HTML5



Imposter Syndrome


 


Friendly Colleague
"It's great that you don't take anything at face value. The rest of use just accept it as it is"



Three Pillars


Tooling

Performance

User Experience





Tooling

Yeoman.io

The Awesome



  • Quick and easy HTTP server
  • Best Practices
    • JS minification
    • CSS minification
    • HTML minification
    • Image Optimisation
    • Live Reload (ZOMG)



Single Page Web Apps

Ignore Templating




PHP
NodeJS
Ruby (probably)
.....



 




And just like that Grunt and RequireJS are out, it’s all about Gulp and Browserify now

http://www.100percentjs.com/just-like-grunt-gulp-browserify-now/





Choice Paralysis

Cross Device Testing

Edge Inspect
GhostLab
Remote Preview

I Made Things Worse


... but it can still be ...


Ultimately We Still Have a Toolchain


It's just you have to make it, no combined efforts


My First Passion for the Web





Performance

The Types



Load Time Performance



Run Time Performance





PageSpeed Insights


Main Things it Looks For


  • Caching Objects
    • Cache-Control Header (Super Easy)
  • Image Compression
    • Kind of easy...
    • Raster
    • SVG
  • Render Blocking JS
    • Not bad
    • <script async src="...." type="text/javascript" />
  • Render Blocking CSS
    • .......

Above the Fold


Challenges with this...



  1. Selecting the CSS
    1. Write up on CSS Tricks
    2. @addyosmani Critical Module
  2. Load said CSS
    1. ....Asynchronously

Async CSS isn't Like Other Async






Switch off Javascript for the LOLz

...or Cheat




Inline All the Things.

Now I know what you're all thinking

...What About the cache?


Well . . . . . it seems to be worse.


Caching requires regular repeat users.
Mine just bail (I'm rubbish)


One load time takes a hit (bad browser, bad),
which I'll talk about in a moment

plus.....it's CSS

Webpagetest.org





PerfMatters








https://github.com/gauntface/webperf-monitor

Run Time YAY





60fps

The Story of Matt Getting Slapped in the Face by Perf




Slight Aside





SSL

Security



Meh Carrot

Yes it's important


SW Carrot

Om Nom Nom

CA





Short Certificate Chain
Moneys / Type of cert



startssl.com

Things to Look Out For



HSTS Header (Strict-Transport-Security)

OCSP Stapling

SSL Session Cache and Timeout

SPDY

SSL Still Causes a Hit







User Experience

I spent weeks

*WEEKS* 

Building This



Touch on the Mobile Web




ZOMG - WTH


Focus on the Web





outline: 0;





*sigh*

But Hover Will Go











and Focus Has Hope

Touch Events



Pointer Events

TouchEvents

then there's iOS Safari


Key Takeaways


  • Screw Everyone Else
    • Look around at tools, pick thing which likes fine. Use It.
    • Find a framework you think looks cool? DON'T GOOGLE IT FOR COMPARISONS
  • Page Load Performance
    • It's super important
    • Try the tools and fix the easy wins
      • More advanced == probably much bigger wins
  • UX
    • Web is Learning / Growing
    • Plenty of changes still happening

If I look back at Native and Web





Web has the disadvantage of being 
the first thing everywhere.
Me

Native - There is largely only one right





Web - There is a community approved general direction of sort of best practice for today, but check back tomorrow

The Biggest Issue?




"The Web Can't Do That"

Thank You Very 

Much for Having Me

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