Lee Byron

As the web turns 30, Lee takes us back to its inflection point in 1999, with PHP and the LAMP stack, followed by a journey of the abstractions, syntax, and mental models that brought us here.

The mental model for building for the web largely hasn’t changed in the last 20 years, but we’ve incorporated complexity, richness, grown our community a thousand fold, and scaled to billions. 

This year the web turns 30, and we look back at the steady march forward of better abstractions, better syntax, and better mental models that brought us here.

2019

React Conf

Let's Program Like It's 1999

The mental model for building for the web largely hasn’t changed in the last 20 years, but we’ve incorporated complexity, richness, grown our community a thousand fold, and scaled to billions.

The mental model for building for the web largely hasn’t changed in the last 20 years, but we’ve incorporated complexity, richness, grown our community a thousand fold, and scaled to billions. This year the web turns 30, and we look back at the steady march forward of better abstractions, better syntax, and better mental models that brought us here.

Full Stack Fest

We're gunna program like it's 1999

ReactEurope

The Future of the Web

I want to talk about building apps (of all kinds), the kind of problems we often confront, and how we can embrace immutability to rethink established best practices. This is a sort of sequel-in-spirit to my 2015 talk about Immutable.js. Come for the gifs and over-eager ravings of a bowtie-wearing know-it-all; stay for the deep-dive on algorithmic techniques, musings on the origins of architecture and the human psychology of people who make things; leave with a new way of building high quality apps.

2018

Immutable Application Architecture

2017

Relay Modern

GraphQL is a query language that lets client applications concisely describe the data they require, and a server-side library that binds to your existing application code. GraphQL powers Facebook's mobile applications and is the data language of Relay. Learn more about GraphQL and how it might simplify your data driven applications.

2015

React Rally

Exploring GraphQL

At React.js Conf last January, we introduced the idea of GraphQL: a data fetching language that allows clients to declaratively describe their data requirements. Let's explore more of GraphQL, it's core principles, how it works, and what makes it a powerful tool.

Immutable data unlocks powerful memoization techniques and prohibits accidental coupling via shared mutable state. It's no accident that these are the the same benefits provided by React.

Persistent data structures provide the benefits of immutability while maintaining high performance reads and writes and present a familiar API.

Learn about how persistent immutable data structures work, and techniques for using them in your React applications with Immutable.js, a library of fully persistent immutable data structures.