I took some notes throughout this talk, felt like sharing them: ### Why did Tim Burners Lee invent the web? - "Information Management: A proposal": Wanted peo

I took some notes throughout this talk, felt like sharing them: ### Why did Tim Burners Lee invent the web? - "Information Management: A proposal": Wanted people to standardise and network on their notebooks - Idea of hypertext server - First browsers invented stylesheets, built-in scripting - Next innovations were inline images - Was there a standardization process? ### How did web programming work? - HTML - PHP invented as a standardised scripting language in 1995 - GUI wizard for frontend was invented - Frontpage 1996: First web GUI wizard - Javascript was invented as a scripting language for the netscape browser - CSS was invented - Accessibility was codified into law - ASP.NET 2002 --> Active Server Pages is too messy, not object oriented - Developed by microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic websites, applications and services - Sends BLOB of UI state from server to client --> Client performs action --> Updated BLOB is sent back to server to process updates --> New UI state is rendered and sent to client --> ... - Ruby On Rails 2004: Invention of server side programming - Schema migrations, automated tests, `.yaml` as config - Javascript is reborn 2008 - Web 2.0 --> Companies can extract value from user generated content - They want good UIs because that attracts users - Google maps is reverse engineered --> AJAX: Asyncronous Javascript and XML - Requests in the background, update page dynamically - JQuery: Compress web API across browsers --> simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation across different platforms - Browser dev tools? - Firebug 2007: Invention of inspect element with console, HTML view, network tracers - Responsive Design and Mobile? - Had to create mobile specific design --> Mobile first design standardized in 2010 - Invention of Node (javascript moves to the server) - Javascript is everywhere -  - Sophistication explosion 2015: Instagram used webpack and npm in 2013 so - Typescript: Javascript with types - Kubernetes: We need to learn cloud orchestration - Webpack module bundler: We need bundling systems because typescript is compiled - What reduces load on web developers? 2020-? - What if browsers handle framework / build jobs - HTTP3, web transport - Type erasure: run typescript in a browser without compiling - CSS nesting: Bake SASS into the browser (e.g. nest selectors) - Metaframeworks? So many frameworks we use frameworks to manage our frameworks. - NextJS, SvelteKit, Astro, etc. - SvelteKit: Supports both serverside (ASP.NET) and clientside (Javascript) rendering - Cloud Edge Delivery