Twin Cities Software Symposium
March 6 - 8, 2015
Build Modular, Standards-Based Progressive Web Apps
Friday - Mar 6 5:00 PM CST - SALON B
Web Components change the way you build web applications and think about front-end architecture. Finally, web developers have a sane way to scope and modularize not just their JavaScript, but also the HTML5 and styling. The approach is elegant, encourages compatibility between frameworks, and piggybacks on the web browser's success as an open and extensible runtime. The Polymer framework demonstrates how frameworks can and should evolve in a Web Components world.
In this session, I'll provide an overview of Polymer, and demonstrate the creation of Web Components using the framework. Data binding, true encapsulation of code and style, and dynamic HTML imports are all ready for your use. You will leave with a solid understanding of Polymer basics, and real-world examples of Polymer being used in production today. You will be able to guide your current development to better align with upcoming web standards, and to understand how they will change the way we build and deploy web applications. I'll also show you examples of a large personal project using Web Components to build an entire iOS application.
If the web browser is growing up, then Web Components are the browser leaving home. Finally.
Danny Brian
Designer, Developer, Mentor
About Danny Brian
Danny Brian got his programming start as a backend developer, wrangling Perl to do all sorts of things for which it was never intended. He wrote some books on software development and document-oriented databases. Eventually he found his true calling: Front-end development. In this “new career” Danny has worked as a designer, Flash developer, and application architect. Today Danny's projects include mobile game development with both HTML5 and the Unity platform. His goal? “To build stuff that people actually like, that stick around for more than a few years, and to help others do the same.”