React Native - Under the hood - Connect.tech 2016

React Native under the hood
Presented at Connect.tech 2016, Atlanta GA

Abstract:  ReactNative is a way to create native applications for iOS, Android and Windows devices in JavaScript. In this session, we will look under the covers at the technology that enables ReactNative to drive native user interface components. We will look at a typical developer workflow and the way ReactNative is tied to developer tools. We will round it off with ways to deliver updates to your app without needing to submit updates to the app store.




Direct Link : https://doc.co/D8fsNT

Velocity NY 2016 - Using Chrome Traces to Measure Web and Performance

Velocity Conference, New York, September 19-22



Title
Using Chrome traces to measure rendering performance of web pages and mobile apps

Abstract
Ten years ago, increasing the performance of a website usually meant tweaking the server-side code to spit out responses faster. Today, it is mostly about ensuring that content is delivered to the user as fast as possible. However, it is still very hard to measure the user experience in terms of the smoothness and runtime performance of a website.
Chrome has excellent devtools that help fixing rendering performance issues in web pages. Parashuram Narasimhan demonstrates how to create scripts that use the same source of information as the devtools to automatically measure metrics like frame rates, paint times, and layout calculations and explains how this method is being used to continuously track rendering performance of web apps. Topics include:
  • How to leverage the same source that Chrome DevTools use to collect trace information about a web app’s performance
  • Understanding the events in a Chrome trace and tips and tricks to parse and aggregate them into usable metrics
  • How to plug this back into any web performance system like WebPagetest or Speedcurve so that this information can be monitored continuously