The perfect cross-platform
@yrezgui for RivieraDev
@RivieraDEV
Make some noise !
Yacine Rezgui
French Tunisian
Lead Front end @ import.io
Lives in London
DevRocket UK meetup
@yrezgui
History of the web
But what is HTML5 ?
Thanks to it, we have powerful apps now
- Inbox by Gmail
- Slack
- Sqwiggle
- Import.io
Let's replace
Native Apps !
So powerful, that we said...
But...
Reasons ?
- Ugly interface like a GeoCities page
- Slow like Windows Vista
- Poor features like a Blackberry
- Not the same API coverage everywhere
How can we fix that ?
Just keep focusing on
this talk
Ugly design ?
Ugly design ?
For God sake, hire a designer !
Bootstrap is a boilerplate, you need to personnalise it
Slow like Windows Vista ?
Slow like Windows Vista ?
- WebWorkers
- Canvas
- ASM.js
- CSS3 animations
Poor features like a BlackBerry ?
Poor features like a BlackBerry ?
- Web APIs
- Chrome & Firefox Apps
- Atom Shell & Node Webkit
- Firefox OS
- PhoneGap
Chrome & Firefox Apps
- Installed apps (local files)
- Can be opened outside of the browser
- Access to low-level APIs (Network, FileSystem, etc.)
AtomShell & Node Webkit
- Chromium Engine with NodeJS embedded
- Access to all NPM packages (155 686 today)
- Update system, Multiplatform
Firefox OS
- Made only with Web technologies
- Debug like you debug your website
PhoneGap & Crosswalk
- Made only with Web technologies
- Debug like you debug your website
Not the same API coverage everywhere ?
- Chrome, Firefox and Opera are best friends
- Microsoft Edge (IE 11 is good)
- Safari isn't that bad (otherwise PhoneGap)
It's easier to do 3d in Web than styling the <select> element...
Web Components
Create your own elements
- HTML imports
- Templates
- Custom Elements
- Shadow DOM
Google Music built with Polymer
Bonus
I ❤ React
WhatsApp web with ReactJS
React Canvas
React Native
Just do it !
