The UtahJS Conference is an one-day event with dozens of great presentations.

The 2019 UtahJS Conference will be a one-day event with dozens of great presentations. This year will be our biggest yet!

UtahJS

Like everyone else, you probably have some pretty good startup ideas in your head. Probably wrote some code to feel it out. Most people don't get past that part. Instead learn how to find problems and use your engineering talents to help solve them and actually get something started.

Ideas are useless, find problems instead

Learn about how you can quickly get started with Firebase, and utilize some of its tools in your next project.

Come learn about Firebase, built on top of and ran by Google Cloud Services. Firebase has numerous ala carte tools and services.

Firebase Services:
- Authentication (user auth store out of the box)
- Database (Firestore and Real-Time, NoSQL style)
- Storage (Google Cloud storage bucket)
- Hosting (website hosting w/ HTTPS out of the box)
- Functions (Serverless Functions)

Come learn about how you can quickly get started, and utilize some of these tools in your next project.

Firebase: The Best Free-ish Platform for Projects

Conway’s Law tells us that organizations that design systems will create systems that are replicas of the communication structures within the organization. By extension, if we want to create inclusive and accessible products for our customers, we need to create inclusive and accessible organizations within our company. 

In this session, we will break down the core principles of inclusivity and web accessibility. We will also discuss how those principles apply to the products we build and to the ways that we work.

Building Inclusive Products and Cultures

Lessons learned from moving from a Coldfusion monolith server to a Node.js micro-service system.

I Screwed Up So You Don’t Have To

At Anonyome Labs we have a unique web application architecture. We use your device as the backend. This provides some great benefits for privacy and security. One major benefit is that all your data is on your device. Encrypted with keys on your device. 

Learn how this is accomplished along with its downsides and upsides.

Using your phone as your backend!

Kristie is a designer turned full stack JS developer, currently working on the video team at Pluralsight. She likes CSS, cats, and not breaking things in production.

Setting Yourself Up For Failures: Resiliency and Sad Path UX

Come with me on an adventure with a heroic robot, a mad scientist, a feminist, a pilot, and our monster: imposter syndrome.

Come with me on an adventure with a heroic robot, a mad scientist, a feminist, a pilot, and our monster: imposter syndrome. 

Let me share how a sci-fi movie from 1956, starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen, taught me how to recognize imposter syndrome not as the monster hellbent on ruining my romance with an ever-evolving frontend ecosystem, but as a tool to prevent burnout.

"Forbidden Planet" Cured my Imposter Syndrome

What is it about timing in Vue? On breezy, sunny days it’s effortless and almost magical, and when the rainclouds move in, it’s more like connecting to the internet via telephone. 

Let’s look a little more closely into what makes this framework tick and see if we can’t persuade our minds to weather the storm, together.

Watching Bears from the Dumpster

There’s a thread amongst all skilled practitioners: specific habits, routines, and processes that wrap uncertainty and create confidence. 

Oscar-winning actors rehearse, pro-drivers do laps, chefs prep. 

This talk will help you recognize and design habits and routines that embed confidence in the body.

Mechanically Confident

All of us want to grow our skills, knowledge, and potentially our careers. One of the most effective patterns for growth I have experienced is to teach. 

Want to become a manager? Teach! Want to become a senior developer? Teach! You get the idea, however, so many developers never take advantage of their surroundings and actually teach.

Teach To Grow

React, Vue, JQuery, Angular(2)... There are a lot of libraries and frameworks available to web developers today that provide a myriad of benefits and solutions, but they all have a learning curve.

This talk will teach you how to accomplish all of this without having to import any packages, learn any libraries, or set up any framework environments using JavaScript functions that are natively available and supported in all major browsers.

Framework Free - Functional HTML Rendering and State Management in Vanilla JS

Bubble sort? Merge sort? Quicksort? Whether you're preparing for an interview or just trying to understand the code you're working with, this session is for those that want to get an introduction to algorithms. 

We'll review Big O Notation and work through binary search, quicksort, k-nearest neighbor, and breadth-first algorithms.

Algorithms and JavaScript for Beginners

This talk aims to overview tools and strategies for improving inclusivity in our applications. This will cover:
- Accessibility
- i18n
- Performance
By making inclusivity a primary focus in our development, our products will bring a better experience for an increased amount of users and for our own communities.