Events

March 2020 – Classic Combo: CSS & HTML

This month we have two great speakers, our first will cover CSS testing and our second will talk about the future of HTML.
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February 2020 – Fake it till you break it

We're back for our first event of the decade!
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December 2019 – Design System Double-header

For our final event of 2019, Thursday the 5th of December, we have special guests Stuart Robson and Lily Dart for a design system double header!
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November 2019 – Back to basiCSS

We're getting back to some frontend topics this month with a CSS special!
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October 2019 – Play, Code, Create

This month we are delighted to welcome artist Brendan Dawes with his talk Play, Code, Create.
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September 2019 – Diversity and inclusion in our industry

This month is a very important topic for our industry. We have two amazing speakers showing us some ways we can help make the web and our industry a more diverse and inclusive place for everyone.
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August 2019 – August Extravaganza

We have two very different talks this month, first up we have Stuart Holmes talking about the Design process of a website then we have Peter Grainger giving his talk 'Contain yourself - Docker for…
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July 2019 – Mario Kart!

Do you enjoy CSS? Do you enjoy retro games? Have you ever wanted to combine the 2, in such a way that the CSS Working Group will cry and ask you to stop? Then this is the talk for you!
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June 2019 – A Design System for Everyone

This month we are joined by Amy Hupe and Tim Paul from GDS talking about all the excellent GOV.UK Design System
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May 2019 – Making GitLab a PWA

Up next, we have our very own Sam Beckham who will be talking about 'Making GitLab a PWA'
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March 2019 – CSS Animation

Let's get those websites moving with some CSS magic
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February 2019 – lightning talk event!

For our next, event we thought we'd do something a little different! We want to encourage you to speak, so we are running our first lightning talk event!
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January 2019 – What the JAMstack?

For our first event of 2019 we have Jamie Bradley talking about all things JAMstack! (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup)
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December 2018 – Playing with web Bluetooth and home automation

This month Luke Bonaccorsi will be giving two talks about the fun you can have with physical devices on the web.
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November 2018 – Talking the talk

Sophie Koonin is travelling up to give her talk 'Talking the talk: how to prepare and give great conference talks'. Just in time for our conference's call for papers opening ;)
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October 2018 – All about your wellbeing

A double bill to mark Geek Mental Help Week will have local speakers Robin Hall and Ade-Lee Adebiyi talking about mental health in the workplace, and creative confidence and impostor syndrome.
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September 2018 – Grid and Intersection Observer

We've got Jo Franchetti, web developer advocate for Samsung Internet and codebar organiser, talking on not one but two subjects! First CSS Grid, then our fave JavaScript API: Intersection Observer.
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August 2018 – Securing your site like it's 1999

This month we have Katie Fenn who will be talking about 'Securing your site like it's 1999'!
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July 2018 – Empathy in Accessibility

This month, Craig Abbott will be taking us through tips, techniques and tools that will make our websites more inclusive and accessible.
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June 2018 – Professional Progression

This moth we are super excited to welcome Gavin Elliott who will be talking about 'Professional Progression'!
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May 2018 – The State of GraphQL in 2018

This month we have Jamie Barton with a two part talk - an introduction into GraphQL then after the break he'll talk about tooling, communities and give us some examples.
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March 2018 – Reacting to change

Ben Cooper will show us the basics of Functional and Reactive programming, and how a major shift in JS is changing the way we use it.
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February 2018 – Idea to execution and beyond

This month we've got Ashley Baxter and her talk 'Idea to execution and beyond'. Ashley will be giving us a high-level run through of what it takes to ship a product, touching on each stage from idea,…
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January 2018 – Alexa Skills (or The Unexpected Virtue of Laziness)

This month we have Aswini Kumar Dasikatalking about Alexa Skills (or The Unexpected Virtue of Laziness).
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December 2017 – Opening Silos in Big Brilliant Corporations

Nikos and Joe will tell you how the BBC is reinventing itself into a culture of embracing constant change and how the GEL team is helping open the silos between teams.
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November 2017 – Rethinking Reactive Architectures

Dylan Schiemann has been working on the Dojo js framework for more than 13 years. Want to know the techniques, tools, architecture and philosophy behind the recent ground-up rewrite? Look no further!
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October 2017 – CSS in a component filled landscape

Lewis will help you make some sense of the variety of tools available to you to "component-ise" your CSS, from CSS modules, CSS in JS solutions, and styled-components.
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September 2017 – Greased Lightning

Our next event is all about going really, really fast. We'll be looking at some tips and techniques to get your sites both loading fast, and running fast.
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August 2017 – Universally Isomorphic JavaScript

Kaspars Žarinovs will take us through Isomorphic/universal JavaScript; why it's so important and how to implement it. From code reuse and abstraction to tools and frameworks – he's got you covered.
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July 2017 – Tools: GIT & Chrome Debugging

We've got two great speakers this month Chris Kemper will be talking to us about git and Damian Nicholson will be taking us on a tour of Chrome's developer tools!
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June 2017 – Build email like it's 2017

HTML email is an often overlooked area of frontend development, and it's usually something people dread. Well dread no more! The next Frontend NE will inspire a whole new love you never thought you…
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May 2017 – Adventures in Accessibility Testing

Phil Sherry recently reworked some GOV.UK stuff with a view to making it more accessible. From how he went about this, to how he tested his work, this talk is bound to be an eye opener!
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April 2017 – Migrating from Angular to React: A tale from the trenches

Jack Franklin will be taking us through 'Migrating from Angular to React: A tale from the trenches'.
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March 2017 – Getting touchy - an introduction to touch and pointer events

Patrick H Lauke will cover the basics of handling touch in JavaScript. Touch screens are finding their way onto laptops and even desktop computers so it's getting more and more important to get to…
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February 2017 – CSS Grid Layout

We're really please to have Rachel Andrew back up in her native North East to give us the low down on CSS Grid Layout, which is due to land in browsers in only a couple of months.
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January 2017 – From a React point of Vue

We've got two fantastic speakers this month, Andrew Willis is going to take us through using Vue.js and Ali Sheehan-Dare will be talking about isomorphic apps with React.
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December 2016 – SVG with Chris Coyier

That's right, we've only gone and got Chris(tmas) Coyier to talk to us about SVG at Frontend NE this Christmas!
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November 2016 – The Web on Day 10,000

We've got another exciting talk lined up for the next event. Microsoft's Martin Beeby will be taking us through 'The Web on Day 10,000'.
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October 2016 – Accessibility for developers

Alistair Duggin is coming all the way from London, to talk to us about accessibility. He’ll explain what accessibility is and the different ways that people interact with websites and the barriers…
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September 2016 – Typescript – JavaScript on Steroids

This month is all about TypeScript. It's to Javascript what SCSS is to CSS. Join Christos Matskas as he shows you how to leverage its powerful features to develop scaleable, modular and powerful code.
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August 2016 – The State of JavaScript

We've got Jack Franklin treating us to his talk on 'The State of JavaScript', where he'll explore, discuss and criticise the current state of web development with JavaScript.
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July 2016 – Charts and D3

Chris Price will be taking us through creating D3 components: a journey of pain, joy, frustration and enlightenment.
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June 2016 – Graduation Day

This month we're all about the youth of the industry, as we invite some recent graduates to share their experiences.
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May 2016 – May the fourth be with you

This month we have a special Star Wars themed event on Wednesday May the 4th with Ben (Kenobi) Cooper talking about the force! Actually, no, he'll be talking about frontend rendering performance.…
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April 2016 – The JS Strikes Back

The boundaries between frontend and backend continue to blur. Node.js and Web Sockets are two great examples of a frontend technology controlling things behind the scenes.
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March 2016 – Weird Browsers

March the 3rd is a day of firsts. There was the first edition of TIME magazine, the first game of indoor hockey, and it's the first Frontend NE with an international speaker!
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February 2016 – Javascript Javascript Javascript!

This month we welcome back two Frontend NE favourites, Andrew Humphries and Jonny Hamilton. They've both talked at Frontend NE before and did an absolutely sterling job. Jonny's back to talk to us…
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January 2016 – Updating your toolset

We're kicking the new year off in style with Kerry Gallagher and Richard Powell, who'll be sharing how using new tooling and frameworks has allowed them and their team to level up as developers.
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December 2015 – Introduction To flexbox

This month, Luke Jackson will be taking us back to CSS-Land with a two-part tour of Flexbox.
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November 2015 – The Panel

We're deviating from our usual plan to bring you something a little bit special this month.
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October 2015 – Web components and ES6

This month we’re learning about the future. It’s a pretty javascript-heavy event again as we talk about PolymerJS, web components and the next version of the Javascript standard, ES6.
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September 2015 – Be a better team player

A big part of our jobs is working with designers and backend developers. So we've invited two talented people from their respective fields to talk about working together.
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August 2015 – Angular vs React

Written and maintained by the engineers at Google, Angular is by far the most popular Javascript MVC. Despite its popularity, it's not without its flaws. React is the new kid on the block, developed…
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July 2015 – Task runners are awesome!

It was only a matter of time before we covered task runners. They’re an integral part of our workflow here at Frontend NE and they truly are awesome.
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June 2015 – CSS selector bonanza!

Libby Gardener and Richard Carter will be taking us on a journey of all the weird and wonderful CSS selectors. Ever wondered how to use nth-child, or been baffled by a selector that could only be…
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May 2015 – Controlling Backbone with Marionette

It's a bit more Javascript-heavy this time around as we look into Marionette. A framework that helps simplify your backbone.js code.
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April 2015 – The power of SCSS

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