web evolution: Fluent 2015

many interesting stories / videos from Fluent 2015 conference:

Finding new in the Web - O'Reilly Radar
by Simon St. Laurent

"Fluent 2015... brought together a variety of stories about front-end engineering – some technical, some social, some more intricately intertwined.

From the very first day, it was clear that React was the big technical story of the conference, taking the place that Angular (which is still clearly important!) had had the previous year.

...JavaScript, often specifically ECMAScript 6 (ES6), the latest release. Brendan Eich talked about a world in which compiling to JavaScript has become normal, and how that frees much of the future development of JavaScript and the Web..."