Web Development Videos Hacker News Recommends

talk#21

What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU

JSConf

“The tool he created to display the event loop in real time is fantastic.”

16 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#30

Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivity

You Gotta Love Frontend

“you can (and I heartily recommend doing so) watch the "Rethinking reactivity" video here”

15 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

lecture#113

Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years

YUI Library

“I urge you to watch this. It really is worth it!”

10 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

talk#116

RailsConf 2016 - Turbolinks 5: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Native! by Sam Stephenson

Confreaks

“I highly recommend this talk on managing the complexity of basecamp and sharing a codebase between web and native apps.”

6 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

talk#146

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Google TechTalks

“This video changed my mind”

11 HN recommenders · 2009–2020

talk#237

Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices -- JSConf EU

JSConf

“See Pete Hunt's famous talk”

9 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#263

Dan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel at react-europe 2015

ReactEurope

“One of my favourites I watched recently was Dan Abramov introducing React hot loading, Redux and Redux Dev Tools in the same 30 minute talk”

12 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

talk#326

Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!

InfoQ

“this video gives a pretty good explanation in ~30 minutes”

9 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

talk#389

Chris McCord - Keynote: Phoenix LiveView - Interactive Apps without Javascript - ElixirConf EU 2019

Code Sync

“Great talk about it from the developer here”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

talk#390

OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (in plain English)

OktaDev

“it was a requirement for new joiners to watch this in their first week”

7 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

talk#486

Jake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks, requestAnimationFrame, ...

JSConf

“actually making it both entertaining and easily grokable!”

7 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

demo#487

RiftSketch: Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript and Three.js

Brian Peiris

“this was an impressive demo of someone coding their environment in the Rift.”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2020

demo#557

Interactive programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript

Bruce Hauman

“I still marvel at Bruce Hauman's demo”

6 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

tutorial#562

Build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5

Chris McCord

“the demo completely blew my mind”

7 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#588

DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson

Google for Developers

“a brilliant (and hilarious) talk”

6 HN recommenders · 2009–2026

talk#599

Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On

Curry On!

“He makes a strong case for Elm not as a language-to-rule-them-all, but as a tool for the average programmer”

7 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

talk#626

"Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP" by Evan Czaplicki

Strange Loop Conference

“I highly recommend Evan's Strange Loop talk”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

talk#629

Pete Hunt: React - Rethinking Best Practices (updated) - JSConf.Asia 2013

JSConf

“Pete Hunt did a great job then, explaining how the false separation of concerns between HTML and JS really is unavoidable.”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

talk#679

Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl

InfoQ

“it's not really outdated. It's a short talk, but it talks a little about Node's philosophy and I highly recommend watching it.”

5 HN recommenders · 2011–2018

talk#727

The Web That Never Was - Dylan Beattie

NDC Conferences

“Edit 2: finished, it is definitely worth watching.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#744

[JSConfUS 2013] Steven Wittens: Making WebGL Dance

JSConf

“It's a fantastic, FANTASTIC tour of 3D graphics fundamentals.”

5 HN recommenders · 2013–2021

tutorial#804

Javascript in 2015

Glen Maddern

“This video really opened my eyes to what it could do”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2017

talk#813

Cheng Lou - On the Spectrum of Abstraction at react-europe 2016

ReactEurope

“This talk is incredible food for thought”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

talk#815

Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook

Meta Developers

“these talks, they are the ones that sold me on React”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

talk#852

Building a Better Web Browser - James Mickens - Harvard CS Colloquium 2015

Paul Irish

“which I definitely think this still the most forward-looking browser architecture out there”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

course#874

JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts - The First 3.5 Hours

Tony Alicea

“they are the holy grails of online education for me. Rigorous -- but not boring or too long.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

talk#890

React.js Conf 2015 - Immutable Data and React

Meta Developers

“there's a great conference talk on this topic by Lee Byron from Facebook”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

talk#921

Netflix JavaScript Talks - Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions

Matt Marenghi

“have a look at this presentation about Observables at Netflix as it's quite mind changing”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

talk#1008

Progressive Performance (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)

Chrome for Developers

“Take a look at this talk on why mobile devices are so much slower than desktop devices”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

interview#1009

Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart

DartlangTV

“Debate (almost 10 years ago) TypeScript vs. Dart about the best way to improve JavaScript”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

talk#1011

Jordan Walke - React to the Future

ReasonConf

“I'd highly recommend Jordan Walke's (creator of React) talk on the ideas behind ReasonML”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#1031

dotJS 2019 - James Long - CRDTs for Mortals

dotconferences

“the same one who made a great talk on using CRDTs called CRDTs for Mortals”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#1063

10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU

JSConf

“Ryan Dahl's great talk on design mistakes he made with node.js is something I think about all the time”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#1106

ElixirConf 2018 - Keynote - Chris McCord

ElixirConf

“you can't ignore it, the coolest thing happening right now about server-side rendering”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2019

talk#1122

React Today and Tomorrow and 90% Cleaner React With Hooks

React Conf

“It's absolutely worth the watch, even if you're somewhat familiar with hooks.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

podcast#1143

Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160

Lex Fridman

“a real gem of an interview, in my opinion”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

explainer#1183

How is this Website so fast!?

Wes Bos

“Here is Wes Bos taking a deeper dive into the intricacies of technologies used to accomplish this”

4 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#1201

DjangoCon 2022 | From React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product: we did it, and it's awesome!

DjangoCon Europe

“This recent talk from Djangocon "React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product" might be of interest”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

talk#1223

Mark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014]

JSConf

“Algorithms do play an important role as you can see in this great presentation”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2018

talk#1237

Om Next - David Nolen

ClojureTV

“David Nolen does a great job talking about the trade offs and the evolution of everything in this talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2015

talk#1304

"Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky

Strange Loop Conference

“Any discussion about incremental UI should include Yaron Minsky's talk about Jane Street's OCaml framework, incr_dom from 2016”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#1317

RailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson

Confreaks

“Even if you're not a Rails developer it's worth watching.”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#1335

Lin Clark - A Cartoon Intro to Fiber - React Conf 2017

Meta Developers

“ReactConf 2017 is excellent”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2018

talk#1375

Keynote - JSON Graph: Reactive REST at Netflix

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

“gives a very nice summary of when and how you might prefer RPC to REST”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

demo#1441

Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

Google

“their demo exhibits a wow factor that is undeniable”

4 HN recommenders · 2009–2025

talk#1461

Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson

Ruby on Rails

“I highly recommend you watch the first half hour of DHH Rails World talk on Rails 8 even if you aren’t a Ruby dev”

6 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#1523

CheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli

WebAssembly NA

“This is honestly one of the coolest things I've seen”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

tutorial#1537

Monad - FunFunFunction #21

Fun Fun Function

“I saw a video by MPJ/Funfunfunction [0] and it finally made sense.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2021