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This is a list of must-watch videos devoted to JavaScript

2020

  1. David Neal: JavaScript: Past, Present and Future [47:26]

2019

  1. Rich Harris: Rethinking reactivity [36:44]
  2. Mathias Bynens & Sathya Gunasekaran: What's new in JavaScript? [36:32]
  3. Maxim Koretskyi: JSConf EU: A sneak peek into super optimized code in JS frameworks [23:20]
  4. Una Kravets: CSS Houdini & The Future of Styling [25:42]

2018

  1. Jake Archibald: In The Loop [35:11]
  2. Malte Ubl: Designing very large JavaScript application [28:55]
  3. Ryan Dahl: 10 Things I Regret About Node.js [26:41]
  4. Mathias Bynens & Benedikt Meurer: JavaScript Engines: The Good Parts™ [23:09]
  5. Ronen Amiel: Build your own webpack [39:38]
  6. Addy Osmani: The Cost Of JavaScript [20:07]
  7. Erin Zimmer: Further Adventures of the Event Loop [21:15]
  8. Laurie Voss: npm and the Future of JavaScript [55:00]

2017

  1. Lin Clark: A Cartoon Intro to Fiber [31:47]
  2. Yoav Weiss: Caches All the Way Down! [30:58]
  3. Franziska Hinkelmann: JavaScript engines - how do they even? [25:13]
  4. Anjana Vakil: Immutable data structures for functional JS [26:32]

2016

  1. Brendan Eich: JavaScript in 2016: Beyond Harmony [15:31]
  2. André Staltz: Brains as building blocks [21:26]
  3. Cheng Lou: On the Spectrum of Abstraction [35:31]
  4. Anjana Vakil: Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript [29:56]
  5. Kyle Simpson: Advanced Async and Concurrency Patterns in JavaScript [39:42]

2015

  1. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer: Using ECMAScript 6 today
  2. Brendan Eich: ECMAScript Harmony: Rise of the Compilers [19:17]
  3. Andreas Gal: Dirty Performance Secrets of HTML5 [14:15]
  4. Andre Staltz: What if the user was a function? [32:19]
  5. Gilmore Davidson: Time zone of your life [23:40]
  6. Elijah Manor: Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells [29:15]
  7. Dan Abramov: Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel [30:40]
  8. Brain Ford: Problem solving in the open source world [29:57]
  9. Kris Kowal: A General Theory of Reactivity [35:38]

2014

  1. Ilya Grigorik: Website Performance Optimization (Udacity course) [1:13:57]
  2. Mark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [27:41]
  3. Neil Green: Writing Custom DSLs [29:07]
  4. Eric Bidelman: Polymer and Web Components change everything you know about Web development [36:12]
  5. Alex Russell, Jake Archibald: Bridging the gap between the web and apps [48:40]
  6. Scott Hanselman: Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler [25:56]
  7. Jafar Husain: Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions [26:38]
  8. John-David Dalton: Unorthodox Performance [43:39]
  9. Gary Bernhardt: The Birth & Death of Javascript [29:22]
  10. Addy Osmani: Memory Management Masterclass [55:06]
  11. Reginald Braithwaite: Invent the future, don't recreate the past [39:16]
  12. Kyle Simpson: Syncing Async [42:25]
  13. Ariya Hidayat: JavaScript and the Browser: Under the Hood [29:13]
  14. Jafar Husain: Version 7: The Evolution of JavaScript [1:11:53]
  15. David Nolen: Immutability: Putting The Dream Machine To Work [22:05]
  16. Pete Hunt: OSCON 2014: How Instagram.com Works [40:18]
  17. Philip Roberts: JSConf EU: What the heck is the event loop anyway? [26:52]
  18. Mark Stuart: Paypal: Web Security in Node.js and Javascript Apps (SPAs) [29:11]

2013

  1. Nat Duca, Tom Wiltzius: Jank Free: Chrome Rendering Performance [40:53]
  2. Ilya Grigorik: Automating Performance Best Practices with PageSpeed [46:58]
  3. Eric Bidelman: Web Components [32:39]
  4. Alex Komoroske, Matthew McNulty: Web Components in Action [41:28]
  5. Paul Lewis, Peter Beverloo: Device Agnostic Development [40:44]
  6. John McCutchan, Loreena Lee: A Trip Down Memory Lane with Gmail and DevTools [42:09]
  7. Joe Marini: Upgrading to a Chrome Packaged App [43:49]
  8. Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices [29:31]
  9. Martin Kleppe: 1024+ Seconds of JS Wizardry [31:01]
  10. Yehuda Katz: A tale of two MVC's [31:06]
  11. Vyacheslav Egorov: Performance and Benchmarking [25:41]
  12. Brendan Eich: JavaScript at 18: Legal to Gamble [25:44]
  13. Mathias Bynens: JavaScript ♥ Unicode [26:12]
  14. Mark Trostler: Testable JavaScript - Architecting Your Application for Testability [45:35]
  15. James Shore: The Definitive Guide to Object-Oriented Javascript

2012

  1. Ryan Sandor Richards: Garbage Collection & Heap Management [32:57]
  2. Addy Osmani: Scaling Your JavaScript Applications
  3. John-David Dalton: Lo-Dash [25:08]
  4. Gary Bernhardt: WAT [4:17]
  5. Angus Croll: Break all the rules [31:29]
  6. Nicholas Zakas: Maintainable JavaScript [47:04]
  7. Douglas Crockford: Principles of Security [59:52]
  8. Brian Leroux: WTFJS [18:26]

2011

  1. Douglas Crockford: Level 7: ECMAScript 5: The New Parts [57:18]
  2. Douglas Crockford: Section 8: Programming Style and Your Brain [1:06:45]
  3. Ryan Dahl: Introduction to Node.js [1:06:33]
  4. Alex Russell: Learning to Love JavaScript [1:03:25]

2010

  1. Douglas Crockford: Volume One: The Early Years [1:42:08]
  2. Douglas Crockford: Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript [1:30:22]
  3. Douglas Crockford: Act III: Function the Ultimate [1:13:28]
  4. Douglas Crockford: Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax [1:33:54]
  5. Douglas Crockford: Part 5: The End of All Things [1:24:42]
  6. Douglas Crockford: Scene 6: Loopage [51:52]

2009

  1. Nicholas Zakas: Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture [52:22]
  2. Douglas Crockford: JavaScript: The Good Parts [1:03:47]

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What is this?A curated list of must-watch conference talks and videos about JavaScript, covering topics like engines, performance, reactivity, and language history.
Is this a tutorial or just a list of links?It's just a curated index of video talks with speaker names, titles, and durations, organized by year from 2009 to 2020 - no original written content.
How is the list organized?Entries are grouped into sections by year (newest first, 2020 down to 2009), each listing speaker, talk title, and video length in brackets.
Is this list still updated?The most recent entries are from 2020, so it hasn't been actively maintained with new talks since then.
Where should a beginner start?There's no explicit beginner path, but talks by Douglas Crockford (e.g. 'JavaScript: The Good Parts') and foundational pieces like 'What the heck is the event loop anyway?' are good starting points for understanding JS fundamentals.
Are the talks vetted for quality?The list is curated by selection rather than a formal review process - it's a hand-picked set of talks the maintainer considers worth watching, spanning major JSConf, dotJS, and similar conference recordings.
What topics does the list cover?It spans JavaScript engine internals, performance optimization, async/reactive patterns, Node.js history, functional programming, Web Components, and the evolution of ECMAScript.
Who are the featured speakers?Notable speakers include Douglas Crockford, Brendan Eich (JS creator), Ryan Dahl (Node.js creator), Dan Abramov, Addy Osmani, and Lin Clark among many others.
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