JS Kongress Munich #DeepTrack: 2020, April 15-16

The DeepTrack is all about sharing knowledge, discussing and working on all kinds of topics around JavaScript (for example the Future of JavaScript, WebAssembly, and Tooling as well as Scaling, Modern APIs, Massive Platforms, Microservices, Architectures, Event Sourcing, Stream-oriented architectures, Cloud Native Computing and API First) and having fun with like-minded people in a safe environment.

This is not a CFP, everybody from the community who owns a ticket has the opportunity to contribute to the #DeepTrack.

This year we are making the JS Kongress again to the place for the JavaScript language interested people, the experts and core team members of various frameworks, tools and engines to discuss the Future of the language JavaScript. The overall idea is to have a creative space, to share ideas, work together, discuss and listen to each other - face to face. JS Kongress provides just enough structure to empower attendees to share their expertise. This gives our participants the opportunity to have an unfiltered exchange of innovative ideas.

Don’t wait to reserve your seat at JS Kongress – the event sells out every year.
This is not a CFP, everybody from the community who owns a ticket has the opportunity to contribute to the #DeepTrack.
Register your seat at JS Kongress 2020

Previous contributions to the #DeepTrack have been made from TC39, v8, webpack, Google, Bloomberg, and other core team members. Watch this video [25:24 min.] to see the outcome of 2019's #DeepTrack. The panel is discussing decorators, top-level await, threads in WASM, WebAssembly and JavaScript working better together ... (click "play" for watching the video)

Who is it for? What's the plan?

We invite everyone who wants to contribute to join us at the JS Kongress in Munich (2020, April 15-16). We plan to do a second track (besides the main track) in an unconference style with round tables and office hours (see conceptual explanation) on all kinds of topics around the future of JavaScript (which also includes WebAssembly and Tooling). Everyone can propose a topic related session whatever topic they’d like to discuss with other developers, experts and users.

Who will join in 2020 for the #DeepTrack? (first proposals available)

• Tobias Koppers @wSokra (founder and core team of webpack)
• How to cook with RxJS by @meeroslav
• Are you sure you're not a Micromanager by @yegor256

How to contribute

Unlike traditional conferences as it is on the main track, the schedule for the #DeepTrack is decided and created by the participants. Before the conference days, everybody is invited to introduce his session on our GitHub repository. For submitting your contribution open a new issue at the JS Kongress Github Repository. The idea is to give an introduction to your topic, tell the people about what they can expect and have a place for communication about the topic before, during and after the conference.

Session format

We strive for interactive sessions. Contributions where you want to discuss, where you want to work with others together, where you want feedback for are gladly seen. The final format is depending on the contributors wish and the number of participants to the individual proposals. This could be an unconference with a lot of participants or round tables and office hours with less participants. The topics from 2017 and 2019 can be used for orientation:

• What's coming in TC39? We want your help!
• Lifetime of a JavaScript language feature
• V8 startup snapshot
• Good, predictable performance
• Making sure that a new Chrome version does not break your website

Find all sessions submitted for 2020 here and all previous topics and contributors here

Note: This is not a CFP, everybody from the community who owns a ticket has the opportunity to contribute to the #DeepTrack.

Location

On both days of the JS Kongress we have reserved the west part of the Alte Kongresshalle, the so-called flat construction. There we have different rooms with different capacities. Based on the number of interests and participants the format and rooms will be assigned.

Conceptual explanation

For getting a common understanding about the topics “Unconference”, “Round Tables”, “Office hours” Unconference An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the meeting. Anyone who wants to initiate a discussion on a topic can claim a time and a space. Unconferences typically feature open discussions rather than having a single speaker at the front of the room giving a talk, although any format is permitted. The participants pitch their topic ideas and define the schedule based on their interests. A facilitator will guide through the whole process. Round Tables Round table is a form of academic discussion. Participants agree on a specific topic to discuss and debate. It’s common to define timeboxes for that. Each person is given equal right to participate, as illustrated by the idea of a circular layout referred to in the term round table. Office Hours At Office Hours you’ll find experts and speakers ready to chat, help you with projects and answer questions. This is a timeboxed format. E.g. 1h per speaker/expert.

Impressions - Recap of JSK 2017 and JSK 2019

For getting a better impression of the Deep Track, take a look on what happened on the first deep-track in 2017 and the second edition in 2019. Here's an overview about the Teams and the topics discussed in the deep-track:

Participants

• Google V8 Team: @v8js (Benedikt Meurer, Marja Hölttä, Michael Hablich, Mathias Bynens, ...)
• Google (Martin Splitt)
• webpack Core Team Members (Tobias Koppers and Johannes Ewald)
• TC39 (Daniel Ehrenberg‏)
• Mozilla (Lin Clark)
• Rust lang Core Team–former npm Inc, nodejs, mozilla (Ashley Williams)
• Microsoft (Brian Terlson)
• Google Dev Expert—Formerly W3C, MSFT. INFJ (Rachel Nabors)
• Founder of compose.us (Joern Bernhardt)
• Bloomberg (Lilit Darbinyan)

Topics discussed in 2019

Here are some topics which have been discussed on JS Kongress 2019:

• [v8 team proposal] Surfacing JavaScript engine signals (i.e. optimization, deoptimization, etc.)
• Plugins and extension systems
• TC39 -- AMA
• TC39 -- Immutable values, operator overloading, and custom numeric literals
• TC39 -- What's coming with classes?
• [v8 team proposal] AMA on V8 with @verwaest and @bmeurer
• [v8 team proposal] JavaScript WeakRefs
• JavaScript & SEO - opening up a black box
• Untangling crash stacks with pasta

Topics discussed in 2017

Here are some topics which have been discussed on JS Kongress 2017:

• Roll it up, shake it out: The future of Rollup.js
• [V8 Team Proposal] The future of WebAssembly: Discuss current threading proposal
• [V8 Team Proposal] The future of WebAssembly: Current thinking on integration with the DOM/JS
• [V8 team proposal] Lifetime of a JavaScript language feature
• [V8 team proposal] The future of WebAssembly
• [V8 team proposal] V8 startup snapshot
• [V8 team proposal] Good, predictable performance
• [V8 team proposal] Making sure that a new Chrome version does not break your website
• What's coming in TC39? We want your help!
• [webpack team proposal] WASM from developer-perspective
• [webpack team proposal] ESM in browsers vs bundlers
• [webpack team proposal] Webpack build time improvements
• [webpack team proposal] Is it a good idea to overload require()/import?
• WebVR corner
• [webpack team proposal] How to share non-JS stuff on NPM