The state of the JavaScript Community
summary
A survey of concrete problems and wins: open source tooling that millions depend on sees three projects abandoned after single maintainers burn out; npm, Greenkeeper and small modules power rapid reuse while creating fragile dependency trees; a hoodie offline first backend predates service workers and demonstrates working offline-capable web apps; diversity is dire with 20–25% women in tech and maybe 1–10% in open source; standards and Node core lack inclusive governance, and industry incentives favor short-lived Silicon Valley projects.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 3:50Building software is an act of representation
- 4:39Success hides failure Success makes complacent
- 12:03Togetherness
- 14:06Experimentation: Small Modules
- 14:34The Web
- 15:51Hoodie
- 16:34Progressive Web Apps
- 18:21W3CWHATWGECMA
- 19:13Silly Con Valley
- 20:35What's the point of innovation if you're not building a better society?
- 20:52The Community as an Ally
- 23:29Why Care?
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