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In 2013, Pinterest built an in-house modular component framework on top of Backbone / Django. In 2016, we pivoted to using React. Here are some obstacles we overcame to make our app faster and easier to reason about.

Have you ever felt like a fraud and the whole world is going to find out that you're really not as competent as other people think? Do you feel like your success is because of luck or timing but not your own skills? Then you are not alone! This concept is well known and is called the Impostor Syndrome. It's not limited to software development but it's very common in our field. Most people have experienced this at some point in their lives but don't talk about since they think they're alone. In this talk I'm gonna tell my story of suffering from the Impostor Syndrome and share my advice on how to overcome it.

If there's anything that decades of psychology research have shown us, it's that human cognition is full of bias and fallacy. Even smart software engineers are not immune to being humans. In fact, there's so many things keeping us from being the best developers we could be, preventing us from planning our work effectively to assembling the best teams to being productive in that open office.

Co-curator for JSConf EU, the project lead of Apache CouchDB and co-inventor of Hoodie. He lives in Berlin and likes to change the world.

The debut JSConf Iceland drew 400 attendees from around the globe. Two tracks over two days and a bonus "Experience Iceland" day made this a one-of-a-kind community event. We want to thank the team, volunteers, speakers, sponsors and everyone who bought a ticket. Thanks to you, this dream became a reality. JSConf Iceland will be back March 1-2, 2018. Look for updates on Twitter and our website: https://twitter.com/jsconfis http://jsconf.is

https://2018.jsconf.is/speakers/anna-henningsen/ Node.js has been around for 9 years now, so you might think we’re getting closer to holding a finished piece of software in our hands. Yet somehow, despite placing a high value on stability, it is seeing a record number of commits and new contributors. With the Node 10.0.0 release just around the corner, it’s worth taking a closer look at what has been changing and where Node.js is headed: HTTP/2 support, ES Modules, N-API, async_hooks and a Promise-based standard library are just some of the upcoming gems that this talk will put in the spotlight.

https://2018.jsconf.is/speakers/dan-abramov/ React 16 was released several months ago. Even though this update was largely API-compatible, the rewritten internal engine included new long-requested features and opened the door for exciting future possibilities. In this talk, Dan will share the React team’s vision for what the future of React might look like, including some never before seen prototypes. Whether or not you use React, Dan hopes that you will find something valuable in this talk, and that it sparks new conversations about building delightful user interfaces.

https://2018.jsconf.is/speakers/michael-henretty/ Around 10 years ago, we had to reinvent the web to cope with tiny, touchable screens. In many ways we had to rethink the definition of a web application. These revisions yielded powerful new features like push notifications, and (usable) offline support. With the rise of Voice Assistants [1], it's time to rethink the web once again. I would like to propose a new protocol for how voice assistants can interact with websites. The hope is to provide a viable alternative to the current "app store" model of the leading voice ecosystems. Instead, what if websites could advertise services that are voice enhanced, allowing voice assistance to find and interact more naturally with web content? To illustrate the idea, I will compare the use case of booking an airline ticket using a screen reader vs. a website enhanced with VoiceHTML. 1.) https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/intelligent-virtual-assistant-iva-market

https://2018.jsconf.is/speakers/david-khourshid/ As the number of possible states in your app grows, developing UIs can become exponentially more complex. With the help of finite automata, or finite state machines (FSMs), you will be able to manage your app's states in a simple, robust way, and even visualize them! In this session, we will discover how FSMs and statecharts can take your UIs to the next level, with innovative techniques for implementing, testing, and visualizing your app's finite states in a robust, automated way, with plenty of use cases, demos, and resources.