JSConf México 2020. A solid dev community raising the hand.
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A solid dev community raising the hand.

Logo JSConf Mexico 2020

Finally, the JavaScript conference in México was held; it was planned to be physical, but you now.

Approximately 20 hours of content and more than 1300 developers from 27 countries get together to listen, ask, and learn about our favorite language.

Day 1

We started the conferences with a journey to the past, an overview of the ten past years of web evolution by Eva Ferreira.

“Oda a la decada++” by Eva Ferreira

JavaScript is everywhere, and Machine Learning is not the exception. Maybe you want to play Pacman — the old and famous game, but isn't that cool without touching the keyboard?

This Image is taken from the site Play Pacman.

Jenn Creighton shows us that our emotions are not an anti-pattern. Sentiments matter definitely.

Maths are always present in web development, even if you don´t notice. Berenice Ramos reminded us about that before passing the stage to another Machine Learning talk. As you can see, ML is hot!

The day finished with the workshop “From lazy to performant,” where we got some ideas to get better code in React.

Day 2

We started the morning with the talk; DevTools, the CCS advocate in your browser by Chen Hui Jing. CSS can be picky and need lots of attention.

CSS can be picky.

The following conference was about Async JS, which is pretty useful to optimize our web apps' performance just in time to give the microphone to Maximiliano Firtman. Max once again put the dots on the I’s — as we say, meaning put this very clear, hacking performance means happy users.

Web Performance Optimization by Maximiliano Fortman.

By the way, Chrome in iOS is not Chrome!

It’s not the Chrome rendering or JavaScript engines — the App Store rules forbid that. It’s the iOS system version of WebKit wrapped in Google’s own browser UI.

The following talk was ¿Why WebAsembly? by Miguel Useche and, last but not least, “Starting a thread: pin the right questions.” by Dora Makszy.

Mozilla also was present at this conference.

At the end of the second day, we attended the workshop, “First steps on Redux without hating it.” Pretty cool, I can say.

Day 3

We started the third — and last day with the talk “React is hard but not why you may think, a map of React” by Sara Vieira.

Immediately after, Benjamin Morales talked about “Microframeworks or how to evolve an extensible frontend.”

Microframeworks & iframes are taking place in our development days.

Web Accessibility sometimes is forgotten or not taken into consideration at all when we deliver our apps, and Marjorie Figueroa gave us a kindly reminder of the importance of this with her talk “Accessibility ¿how do I eat this? “.

Web is part of our day by day.

Then the famous Tracy Lee talked about Web Performance, understanding key lighthouse metrics.

Leonidas Esteban ended the conference cycle with the talk “From JS to React.”

And the very last workshop was about “Creative Coding …with React” by Ian Sikes, a talk about three.js, WebGL, shaders, lights, and objects running smoothly on the browser.

And that’s it! A lot of fun can say.

Conclusion

What I saw in this edition was the inclusion of different soft skills related talks. Besides the conferences, we had the opportunity to attend different workshops, so in my humble opinion, in my humble opinion, a rounded experience.

A bit biased to the React side, I guess, is the organizer’s favorite JS framework.

JSConf México in numbers.

All the recordings and presentations can be found on the site jsconf.mx

Stary health, Alex.