FrontEndNorth 2018 begins with opening remarks, including a word from our headline sponsors and details of our fantastic competition prizes.

The line between design and development is getting blurrier, and our approach to web design is becoming more modular. How do we keep track of it all?

Building an OfflineFirst application means creating something that works fast and well, regardless of whether your device is connected, experiencing a network glitch, or offline completely.

For the longest time, I’ve felt frustrated with how client-side form validation worked both technically and more importantly from an end-user perspective.

When we have come to learn JavaScript in the past, a large emphasis has been put on understanding the prototypical inheritance model and how you apply object orientated patterns such as encapsulation to a language which lacks a class type.

Web development moves fast, and as a digital team we want to deliver the best work we can as quickly as we can. But universities are slow: for every big decision there’s a committee or a steering group to deal with.

This talk explores how we can use familiar tools, React and JavaScript, to build applications across platforms.

Digital innovation is a phrase that’s bandied around a lot, but what does it mean to innovate?

It might seem easy but selling the concept of how important this ‘Front-end’ thing is to clients is an increasing challenge and shouting out buzzwords and acronyms isn’t helping anyone.

Inlining a web page’s critical CSS to optimise usable load time is already established good practice, but taking it from a manually run local script to a continuous integration pipeline can be daunting.

6 years ago, Craig gave a talk about pointless stuff. 5.5 years ago, Craig gave a talk about Paul Daniels’ approach to web design. After a 5 year hiatus, Craig is back again to talk about something new.

Closing remarks including the announcement of the competition winners!