JavaScript 2099: The Future and Present of JS
Channel: Boston WP
Date: 2016-07-28

JavaScript is evolving faster than a dinosaur in a theme park. Promises, modules, decorators, iterators, ES6, ES2016 and beyond. What did you miss while you were fighting to keep your site IE7 compatible? What’s coming next? Why should WordPress Developers even give a hoot? We’ll demonstrate the power of these new features, and the tools that allow you to use tomorrow’s JS syntax today.

Christopher Plummer

Christopher Plummer is a technologist at Upstatement with a passion for education, accessibility, performance and JavaScript frameworks. Chris started programming games for the TI-86 graphing calculator before he took a detour to work as a set designer and prop master. In 2014 he earned his Master’s Degree in Interactive Digital Media at Northeastern University and went on to work at DockYard and Upstatement. The past year Chris has been integrating the WP Rest API and Ember.js for enterprise clients. He also dabbles in Clojure, Processing and Arduino and was a programming tutor at Northeastern.

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