Intelligently Organizing Large JavaScript Projects
ÜberConf
Denver · June 19 - 22, 2012
About this Presentation
Using the same techniques we've learned over the last decade of Java and other OO languages, find out how to think about and organize a large JavaScript code base intelligently.
It often only took one or two lines of JavaScript to implement that site counter we were all so proud to show off a decade ago. Now, creating advanced web applications requires literally thousands of lines of complex JavaScript and, with the popularity of Node.js, the server side is equally daunting.
We know how to handle big projects in Java, Ruby, Python, and the like. We know how to organize our code and use frameworks to help the process. But how do we apply that knowledge to JavaScript?
In this talk, Johnny will explain and demonstrate tools, practices, frameworks, and patterns that work to making large JavaScript applications understandable, maintainable and fun!
Vice President, Engineering at MapVine
Johnny has been working with web technologies for over ten years. He is currently the head of software engineering at a sales intelligence startup in Denver call MapVine.
MapVine is an advanced sales demand software platform built on the JVM and NodeJS. It allows companies to map products, rules and customers across their enterprise to generate interest before even contacting the target user.
Before coming to MapVine, he functioned as the lead engineer on the Common Services Tier at Time Warner Cable. This tier provided services and a common API for everything from streaming video to scheduling billing orders and had over a dozen constituent applications. Combined with other customer-facing portals, the traffic on sites Johnny was responsible for was well into the millions of requests per day. Prior to working at Time Warner Cable, Johnny helped create the primary OSS at Dash Carrier Services resulting in a VOIP platform that powered the nations leading next generation emergency network.
Johnny lives in Denver with his wife and two sons. He enjoys riding his bike and playing music and volunteers monthly at a local recovery organization in the north Denver area.