Web Development Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 2

talk#1562

James Mickens on JavaScript

tablet reader

“James Mickens is a national treasure. Go watch his talks on YouTube and read everything he writes.”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#1632

RailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella

Confreaks

“A really great presentation, including numbers and real world backup data, plus conceptual overviews.”

4 HN recommenders · 2016

talk#1637

Nordic.js 2014 • Douglas Crockford - The Better Parts

Nordic.js

“It's possible to write javascript without `this`, a style preferred e.g. by Douglas Crockford, explained in the video below.”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

talk#1698

Servo Architecture: Safety and Performance

linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia

“This video is one of the most exciting I have seen with regards to web browser performance, and it's Mozilla”

3 HN recommenders · 2017

talk#1753

ClojureScript for Skeptics - Derek Slager

ClojureTV

“completely sold me on trying it out”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2017

explainer#1757

Flexbox vs. CSS Grid — Which is Better?

Layout Land

“Here's a great explanation from Jen Simmons that really helped me understand the differences”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

talk#1767

Bruce Hauman - Developing ClojureScript With Figwheel

ClojureTV

“it's a very visual demonstration of what hot-reloading code and interactive development can bring”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

talk#1793

Dan Abramov: Beyond React 16 | JSConf Iceland

JSConf

“That clock animation is pure genius”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

explainer#1829

2016/2017 MUST-KNOW WEB DEVELOPMENT TECH - Watch this if you want to be a web developer

LearnCode.academy

“Watch this brilliant video, I think the author nailed it”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2017

talk#1878

Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation

stri8ted

“There is a sort of palpable energy in (Ryan Dahl) node.js original presentation.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#1910

ClojureScript in the Age of TypeScript — David Nolen

ChariotSolutions

“David Nolen gave a relevant talk[0] about the workflow they use to integrate Clojure and React Native for mobile and web development”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

talk#1931

CSS Grid Changes EVERYTHING - Amazing Presentation

Coding Tech

“The speaker is good but I think I like it just because it fixes the relationship between HTML and CSS.”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2019

talk#1965

High Performance Web Sites and YSlow

Google TechTalks

“Everything they produce about the subject (and I don't just mean the plugin) is solid gold.”

2 HN recommenders · 2009

talk#2011

"Building a Toolkit for Design" by Matthew Griffith

elm-conf

“For those who want a fresh perspective on CSS, layout and styling, check out this talk by Matthew Griffith”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

demo#2077

Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr.: The Live Web. Drag 'n drop in the cloud

JSConf

“Dan Ingalls himself presenting his continued work in the browser at JSConf US 2012”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

talk#2088

Ryan Dahl - History of Node.js

phxtagsoup

“He didn't want to use an ecosystem that had existing blocking code.”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2013

talk#2124

Erlang Factory SF 2016 Keynote Phoenix and Elm – Making the Web Functional

Erlang Solutions

“My Erlang Factory keynote also goes into the design considerations and PubSub layer optimizations that sits underneath Phoenix.Presence”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

explainer#2144

PHP doesn't suck (anymore)

Aaron Francis

“I was quite surprised to see how far PHP has come since I used it many years ago”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

talk#2163

Monads and Gonads

Google TechTalks

“what I thought to be one of DC's greatest talks”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

talk#2239

Speed Up Your JavaScript

Google TechTalks

“the fundamental ideas are still the same.”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

talk#2292

Keynote: What is a Component (and Why)? - Luke Wagner, Distinguished Engineer, Fastly

The Linux Foundation

“I thought this keynote presentation[0] by Luke Wagner at Wasmcon was great and covered it very well.”

3 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

talk#2382

Andy Bell – Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager

Hey! Presents

“I'd really encourage you to watch this talk by Andy”

2 HN recommenders · 2023

talk#2468

Google I/O 2011: Chrome Dev Tools Reloaded

Google for Developers

“I am Sold. I am switching to WebDev tools.”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2012

talk#2519

Why Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022

GOTO Conferences

“It gives the major reasons why one would prefer one over the other”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

tutorial#2533

Browser hacking: Let's make "Cookie Clicker" playable in Ladybird!

Andreas Kling

“At one point, he deletes half the HTML file to isolate where in the site the problematic code is.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

talk#2649

Makepad: Designing modern UIs with Rust - Rik Arends - RustNL 2023

RustNL

“Greg Johnston, creator of Leptos, has made a video with performance comparisons”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

commentary#2674

Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam

MegaLag

“one of the best pieces of investigative journalism I've seen on youtube”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

talk#2700

Douglas Crockford: The JSON Saga

YUI Library

“JSON by being so simple actually became really easy to use.”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

talk#2702

Pete Hunt - The Secrets of React's Virtual DOM (FutureJS 2014)

Codegram

“Pete Hunt did a great talk on what actually makes React / virtualdom different from other databinding approaches.”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

commentary#2718

Humans can't read URLs. How can we fix it? - HTTP 203

Chrome for Developers

“I think they make a compelling argument for hiding most of the url in part to prevent phishing”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#2729

Zero to $10 Million with React Native + Next.js - Fernando Rojo - (Next.js Conf 2021)

Vercel

“His video at Next.js Conf was really informative”

2 HN recommenders · 2022

talk#2751

Yehuda Katz - Why Rails is Hard (Railsberry 2012)

applicake

“I've seen an interesting talk[1] by Yehuda Katz: "why rails is hard".”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2014

tutorial#2755

How to use uBlock Origin to protect your online privacy and security | uBlock Origin tutorial 2018

The Hated One

“Here is a good tutorial on how to use ublock origin in advanced mode.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#2775

The Truth about Rust/WebAssembly Performance

Greg Johnston

“did a pretty good video about this a few weeks ago[0]”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#2782

Sebastian Markbage: Minimal API Surface Area | JSConf EU 2014

JSConf

“I found this talk on the topic very interesting”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

documentary#2819

GraphQL: The Documentary

CultRepo

“Listen to what the developers tell which problems they had to solve when they invented GraphQL.”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

demo#2836

Imba is Underrated: Building a counter in 49 seconds

We Deserve Less

“It demonstrates how CSS styling, code, and HTML works together in this language”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

talk#2906

Elm Europe 2017 - Richard Feldman - Scaling Elm Apps

Elm Europe

“Just watch rfeldman's talks about how to structure large Elm projects”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#2913

Ryan Dahl: Node JS

JSConf

“it's kind of refreshing to see the original node.js presentation, where using javascript is sort of a side-note”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

talk#2928

"Make the Back-End Team Jealous: Elm in Production" by Richard Feldman

Strange Loop Conference

“Watch this conference to get a sense of what Elm does.”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2017

demo#2950

Ruby on Rails demo

tenthconcept

“I think a good example to follow for your project is the original Rails announcement video by DHH”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#2955

Debugging The Web (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)

Chrome for Developers

“Paul Irish has a great roundup here”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

talk#2971

Developing the best free photo editor - Ivan KUCKIR - Web2day 2019

Web2day

“here's a cool talk about it: the whole thing is just 2MB of JS written by one guy!”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

talk#3021

The economics of open source by C J Silverio | JSConf EU 2019

JSConf

“For those wondering what's wrong with npm, I can recommend this C J Silverio talk”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

talk#3031

Keynote: Flutter (Dart Developer Summit 2016)

Google for Developers

“I'm looking into Flutter/Dart from Google for building iOS/Android apps from the same codebase.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2018

talk#3128

dotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?

dotconferences

“Maybe relevant to watch this video for a first hand report of burnout from a coding rockstar”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2016

talk#3155

Scaling the Linear Sync Engine

Linear

“This talk by Karri about Linear's "sync engine" is also a good watch”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#3160

React Helsinki February 2020

Fraktio

“I remember watching an early video of their founder explaining the architecture in more detail”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2025