Nikita Prokopov

Client-server synchronization is the next frontier. Now that DOM/UI rendering is more or less solved on a frontend, and efficient servers are easy to write, we need a good understanding and solid model on how to pass data around in a reliable, efficient and easy-to-use way. What makes it interesting is that there’s no good answer to that question yet, so a lot of discussions, papers and libraries are happening right now. Another thing is that it seems that we’ll need to change the way we think about data, and the change will affect client, server, DB and maybe even our programming languages. 

2017

ReactiveConf

Client and server need to talk

Even though I believe programming UI can be made simple, right now, front-end is hard. We’re at the very beginning of our path to the future web: simple, error-prone, pleasant to use. In this talk, we’ll see how practices we have today in back-end programming, such as immutability, use of database engines, query languages and functional programming, can help us build JavaScript UIs. Examples include DataScript, Elm, Om, ClojureScript, Relay and more

For the past ten years Nikita Prokopov has been building web interfaces, backends and distributed systems in Clojure, Erlang, Python, Java.