The 90s Called and They Want Their Websites Back
summary
Recreates a Japanese purikura photo booth as a static React app exported to Netlify, using Photon (WebAssembly, 4–10× faster than JS) for image filters and Fabric.js for canvas sticker layers; images stay client‑side so nothing is stored. Build uses create‑react‑app tweaks, deploys from GitHub on each push, and instruments Datadog RUM for quick A/B checks. Demo works on desktop and mobile after fixing touch/drag bugs discovered by testers, showing the JAMstack approach can reproduce that 90s quick‑launch feel.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 1:23Speaker Intro
- 3:27History of Early Internet
- 4:01Geocities
- 11:13CMS's and Web 2.0 - Rest of the 00s
- 12:04JavaScript frameworks/libraries
- 12:59Say Hello to the JAMStack
- 19:35React App Rewired
- 21:58Fabric
- 22:40Deploying
- 24:03Testing
