A SHORT HISTORY
OF
Frontend Development

Raul Matei - Frontend Developer @ Evozon

Evozon OpenDays

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Lynx

Chrome

the Three Layers of THE
FRONTEND Development

appeared in early '90s
 

is a markup language for describing web documents

and it uses <tags> to define the content

HTML
Hyper Text Markup Language

released in '96
is the styling layer of any known webpage

it uses selectors, properties & values to specify how a HTML element should look like

CSS
Cascading Style Sheets

CSSpre-processors

extendable, expressive & dynamic

CSS

by using
variables / functions / mixins
nesting / imports / code inheritance

LESS

SASS (SCSS)

Stylus

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JAVASCRIPT

• appeared in '95
• created in 10 days by Brendan Eich @ Netscape
• Functional / Object-based / dynamic / highlevel programming language
• succeeded where other languages have failed
  (Java Applets, Adobe Flash)

what can we do with it?
web pages interactivity / image processing
templating engines / MVC frameworks & libraries
data manipulation / complex logic / 2D & 3D games
vision detection / audio manipulation / voice commands
webservers / CLIs / build tools / QA Tools
OS independent desktop programs
hybrid mobile application / email clients / browsers

OPEN SOURCE

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benefits

friendly environment
transparency & open discussion
flexibility & freedom
code quality
improve your development skills & experience
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