Web Summer Camp 2017

The biggest news this year is adding a JS track @ Web Summer Camp. It is imagined as an opportunity for frontend web professionals interested in JavaScript to participate in hands-on workshops spread over 3 days. Learn more in the blog posts.

*Web Summer Camp 2017 is sold out! Stay tuned for the next edition!

Workshop prerequisites

In order to actively participate in hands-on workshops, you need to bring your own laptop with a processor capable of hardware virtualization and at least 4 GB of RAM (8 GB is highly recommended). Regular hard disk will do, but having an SSD is an advantage. As for software requirements, you need to have the latest version of VirtualBox 5.x installed.

Please note that if your laptop is not capable of hardware virtualization and doesn’t meet the requirements, you will only be able to listen to the workshops, but you will not be able to participate hands-on in the workshops and get the maximum value out of it.

If you will still be having problems with your setup, our Help Desk crew will be there on August 29, 18:00-19:30 to sort out any last minute issues.

Program

DAY 0 – Tuesday, Aug 29
18:30 - 19:30	Help Desk / Hanging Out A special Help Desk for PHP, eZ, and JS tracks will be organized, with hanging out over complimentary welcome drinks. Hanging out will be held in front of the conference halls (one floor below reception). Help Desk will be organized in one of the halls.

DAY 0 – Tuesday, Aug 29

18:30 - 19:30

Help Desk / Hanging Out

A special Help Desk for PHP, eZ, and JS tracks will be organized, with hanging out over complimentary welcome drinks.

Hanging out will be held in front of the conference halls (one floor below reception). Help Desk will be organized in one of the halls.

DAY 1 – Wednesday, Aug 30
7:30 - 8:30	Morning recreation In a few words: easy-going, fun, and recreational. Go for a swim early in the morning and start the day afresh.
8:00 - 9:20	Registration & Coffee Hangout In front of the conference halls (one floor below reception).
9:20 - 9:30	Shortest Opening Keynote Ever
9:30 - 12:45 (coffee break 11:00-11:15)	They came for the offline-first, but they stayed for the performance (Intermediate) by Jason Lengstorf There's a big push for offline-first development, with a new buzzword — "Progressive Web App", or PWA — making the rounds for the last year or two. But a lot of what's being said sounds like the coding equivalent of "eat your vegetables!" What's in it for ME? Quite a bit, it turns out. In this talk, Jason will share the surprising ways online apps will see huge benefits when they're built to support offline users. Learn how to ace the Lighthouse test with just a few simple changes and how you can easily create offline-first apps with just a few lines of code; also how going offline-first will improve the connected experience, including better performance, increased stability and reliability, improved user experience, and more! So, in addition to eating your vegetables — you know, making your web apps usable for people with slow and unreliable connections or whatever — you'll ALSO see your apps get even better for connected users. And all with minimal development effort required.
12:45 - 13:45	Lunch Restaurant On, across the conference halls (one floor below reception).
13:45 - 17:00 (coffee break 15:15-15:30)	Universal JS web applications with React (Basic) by Luciano Mammino Since we started seeing JS on the server side, the developers' dream has been to reduce the gap and the cost of switch between frontend and backend. Today with Node.js, React, and a whole ecosystem of tools, this dream is becoming true! In this workshop, Luciano is going to discuss Universal (a.k.a. Isomorphic) JS and present some practical examples regarding the major patterns related to routing, data retrieval, and rendering. He will use Node, React, webpack, Babel, and React Router, and give you a series of examples to get you started easily with this new technology trend.
20:00	All Aboard Dinner Join us for dinner at the wonderful Oleander restaurant next to the Hotel Eden pool and the romantic promenade. Enjoy the lovely ambience of the restaurant's terrace in the pleasant company of other participants and companions. Dinner is in the ticket price. Do not forget to wear your websc pass at all times.

DAY 1 – Wednesday, Aug 30

7:30 - 8:30

Morning recreation

In a few words: easy-going, fun, and recreational. Go for a swim early in the morning and start the day afresh.

8:00 - 9:20

Registration & Coffee Hangout

In front of the conference halls (one floor below reception).

9:20 - 9:30

Shortest Opening Keynote Ever

9:30 - 12:45

(coffee break 11:00-11:15)

They came for the offline-first, but they stayed for the performance (Intermediate)

by Jason Lengstorf

There's a big push for offline-first development, with a new buzzword — "Progressive Web App", or PWA — making the rounds for the last year or two. But a lot of what's being said sounds like the coding equivalent of "eat your vegetables!" What's in it for ME? Quite a bit, it turns out. In this talk, Jason will share the surprising ways online apps will see huge benefits when they're built to support offline users. Learn how to ace the Lighthouse test with just a few simple changes and how you can easily create offline-first apps with just a few lines of code; also how going offline-first will improve the connected experience, including better performance, increased stability and reliability, improved user experience, and more! So, in addition to eating your vegetables — you know, making your web apps usable for people with slow and unreliable connections or whatever — you'll ALSO see your apps get even better for connected users. And all with minimal development effort required.

12:45 - 13:45

Lunch

Restaurant On, across the conference halls (one floor below reception).

13:45 - 17:00

(coffee break 15:15-15:30)

Universal JS web applications with React (Basic)

by Luciano Mammino

Since we started seeing JS on the server side, the developers' dream has been to reduce the gap and the cost of switch between frontend and backend. Today with Node.js, React, and a whole ecosystem of tools, this dream is becoming true! In this workshop, Luciano is going to discuss Universal (a.k.a. Isomorphic) JS and present some practical examples regarding the major patterns related to routing, data retrieval, and rendering. He will use Node, React, webpack, Babel, and React Router, and give you a series of examples to get you started easily with this new technology trend.

20:00

All Aboard Dinner

Join us for dinner at the wonderful Oleander restaurant next to the Hotel Eden pool and the romantic promenade. Enjoy the lovely ambience of the restaurant's terrace in the pleasant company of other participants and companions.

Dinner is in the ticket price. Do not forget to wear your websc pass at all times.

DAY 2 – Thursday, Aug 31
7:30 - 8:30	Morning recreation In a few words: easy-going, fun, and recreational. Go for a swim or a run early in the morning and start the day afresh.
8:30 - 9:30	Coffee Hangout In front of the conference halls (one floor below reception).
9:30 - 12:45 (coffee break 11:00-11:15)	Working with JavaScript module systems (Intermediate) by Marijn Haverbeke You'll be walking through the history of the way people have been managing dependencies in JavaScript, taking a look at how the various approaches work and why they were invented. The focus will be on "modern" module systems – CommonJS and ES6 modules – and how and when to use these without destroying your debugging experience or page-load speed.
12:45 - 13:45	Lunch Restaurant On, across the conference halls (one floor below reception).
13:45 - 17:00 (coffee break 15:15-15:30)	Supercharged React Native development with Shoutem (Intermediate) by Željko Rumenjak & Domagoj Rukavina React Native is an awesome technology for building native mobile apps. However, creating an app still remains a cumbersome task. Did we reach the maximum of development efficiency? Shoutem designed an architecture to eliminate all the boilerplate steps when building an app with its open-sourced plugins, cloud storage, and automated publishing of app to both stores. In this workshop, Tomislav will show you how to create and publish a unique production-ready application.
17:00 - 18:00	Web Battle Unconference session – a participant-driven meeting where anyone who wants to present a topic can claim a brief time to do so. A special award awaiting the highest-rated speaker!
20:00	All Aboard Dinner Join us for dinner at the wonderful Oleander restaurant next to the Hotel Eden pool and the romantic promenade. Enjoy the lovely ambience of the restaurant's terrace in the pleasant company of other participants and companions. Dinner is in the ticket price. Do not forget to wear your websc pass at all times.

DAY 2 – Thursday, Aug 31

7:30 - 8:30