Programming principles for front-end developers

About the session

Front-end development has evolved from building pages with HTML to building complex applications using the web platform, yet many developers miss out on powerful programming principles that can help improve their code quality, productivity and effectiveness.

This talk goes over time-tested rules of thumb like the rule of three, the single responsibility principle and other pragmatic guidelines that aren't taught in front-end contexts but offer immediate benefits. We'll go over how they can be applied to typical front-end work like UI component design, state management and data handling.

As someone who had to find and learn these maxims in the wild to discover how useful they are, this is the talk I wish I had when I just started out: pragmatic, useful and directly applicable to the work front-end devs do.