PickVidsBest Web development Videos
The 160 Web development videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 10 introductory, 105 intermediate, 36 for a general viewer, and 9 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include JSConf, Google for Developers, Meta Developers.
A more beautiful web is... Internet Explorer TV commercial
A one-minute 2012 Microsoft television commercial for Internet Explorer 9, set to Alex Clare's 'Too Close'.
[JSConfUS 2013] Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke: JS Apps at Facebook
Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke present how Facebook builds JavaScript apps, in the talk where React was first publicly announced at JSConf US 2013.
Coding in Stenography, Quick Demo
A short unscripted demo of writing FizzBuzz in JavaScript with a generator function on a steno keyboard, typos included.
Progressive decoding: JPEG vs JPEG XL vs AVIF
A short side-by-side demo of a large image loading over a slow connection in JPEG, progressive mozjpeg, JPEG XL and AVIF.
pointerpointer.com's use of voronoi, canvas, and javascript
Paul Irish explains how pointerpointer.com works.
Douglas Crockford: Monads and Gonads (YUIConf Evening Keynote)
Douglas Crockford's YUIConf 2012 evening keynote tries to explain monads in a way programmers can actually understand, in the context of JavaScript.
dotJS 2012 - Brian Leroux - WTFJS
Brian Leroux's dotJS 2012 talk WTFJS is a quick, humorous tour of JavaScript's odd behaviors and quirks.
Meteor Screecast
The original 2012 screencast introducing Meteor, a JavaScript framework for building web apps quickly.
React.js Conf 2015 - The complementarity of React and Web Components
Andrew Rota of Wayfair argues at React.js Conf 2015 that React and native Web Components complement each other.
Maciej Ceglowski - The Website Obesity Crisis [Web Directions 2015 Keynote]
Maciej Ceglowski's Web Directions 2015 keynote on website bloat, arguing that pages have grown far heavier than their content justifies.
RailsConf 2011: Aaron Patterson, "Double Dream Hands: So Intense!"
Aaron Patterson's RailsConf 2011 talk on Rails 3.1 performance, showing why deeper Rack middleware stacks slow Rails and how a shallower pipeline helps.
React without memo
A React Conf talk by Xuan Huang previewing React Forget, a compiler that automatically memoizes components.
Google Chrome Speed Tests
Google's 2010 Chrome ad filmed web page rendering with a high-speed camera, comparing it with a potato gun, a pirate ship and lightning.
The Website is Down #1: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude
A comedy video in which a salesperson demands that a web developer fix a down website, with the two talking past each other.
Before Flutter | Rubber Duck Engineering | Episode #100
A Rubber Duck Engineering episode on the years before Flutter, covering web projects and three JavaScript frameworks that influenced it, and the early DOM-based, network-loaded Flutter.
React.js Conf 2016 - Ben Alpert - What Lies Ahead
Ben Alpert of the React team talks at React.js Conf 2016 about where React is heading.
Google I/O 2011: Writing Web Apps in Go
A Google I/O 2011 talk by Andrew Gerrand and Rob Pike on building and deploying a web application in Go.
Interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails and more
Steve Yegge is interviewed at Google's Kirkland office about the birth, growth and future of his Rhino on Rails project, a Rails clone on the Rhino JavaScript engine, and other web development topics.
!!Con 2020 - Playing Breakout… inside a PDF!! by Omar Rizwan
Omar Rizwan's short !!Con talk about writing a Breakout game in JavaScript that runs inside a PDF.
Safari: iPhone Development Platform
A short PCWorld news clip from WWDC 2007 in which Steve Jobs announces Safari as the development platform for iPhone apps.
Unreal Engine 3 in Firefox with asm.js
Mozilla's short demo of Unreal Engine 3 running in Firefox, ported by Mozilla and Epic in four days using Emscripten and asm.js.
Classic Teams vs new Teams side by side video
A short Microsoft promo comparing classic Teams with the rewritten new Teams side by side, claiming faster startup and better performance.
How Google is building a browser monopoly
TechAltar's eight-minute video arguing that Chrome is becoming the new Internet Explorer as Google leverages its browser position.
Keynote: The Road To LiveView 1.0 by Chris McCord | ElixirConf EU 2023
Chris McCord's ElixirConf EU 2023 keynote tracing LiveView's evolution from simple form validation to full apps, with code examples and live demos of what 1.0 will offer.