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Cycle iterations: how did the HolyJS conference go, and what about the next



In sports there is an expression “after the game is before the game”: from the moment when the match ends, it's time for players to prepare for the next one. The conference preparation cycle looks similar. Only this weekend, HolyJS 2018 Moscow died down - and we are already announcing the May HolyJS 2019 Piter (and now, at the start of sales, the cheapest tickets are).

Because of this, we decided to combine both topics: we will tell you how Moscow’s HolyJS went, and in this story you will be able to understand if you want to go to St. Petersburg. What were the differences of this HolyJS from the previous ones? How did the reports go and what was interesting besides them? Finally, for what at JS conference could solemnly hand over a T-shirt "JAVA"? All answers - under the cut.

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Two differences from previous HolyJS were known before the start. First, the new site, and secondly, for the first time all the tickets were sold out, and we had to stop the sale. Well, that is, as "had to" - theoretically it would be possible to sell more, but the participants would become very closely.

But in the end it turned out to be crowded, but not to such an extent that it became a big problem. There is even an opinion that such a density is for the better: the participants socialized more actively than if everyone sat in different corners.

The difficulty arose only in those cases when the hall turned out to be crowded on especially popular reports. In this case, another new product of this season, the demo stage, helped: a small open stage right in the hall, which served two important roles at once. During the breaks, it was used by sponsoring companies to give a small technical presentation or to take stock of the competition (it is more convenient to do this with microphones than on a stand). But during the presentations, it became possible to display the most popular of them on the screens of this scene - and allow viewers who had no place in the hall to watch the live broadcast in the hall while drinking coffee.

There was also a novelty among the stands: in addition to the sponsoring companies, this time the PiterJS community also participated . At their booth, in addition to the Code for the Dark contest, which is already traditional for HolyJS, one could try one more time. Alexander Korotaev , who earlier sensationalized the browser version of Heroes of Might and Magic, now made a new game:



As you can see, it also has a connection with the "Heroes". But this time, the project took noticeably less than two years.


Reports




There is a difficulty: the conference went on for two days, if you start to describe how to write reports from it, then no one will finish reading the text to the end. In addition, we have not yet fully gathered viewer feedback, which allows to determine the leaders. So instead of detailed coverage, we limit ourselves to individual facts.


There are pictorial abstracts of some reports: we are not sure that they will help those who did not see the report, but you can admire anyway.


Other




And what was valuable, in addition to reports? For example, traditionally for HolyJS - discussion areas, where you could properly ask any speaker. Since this time it was a bet on the authors of the tools, these zones became particularly relevant: is it often possible to ask Michel Weststrate directly about the intricacies of MobX? It came even to the point that someone brought a laptop with a specific problem in the working draft, but they usually still asked about more general things.

And the BoF sessions, where the same Weststrate talked about the stete, and Tomas Watson and Ujjwal Sharma from the Node.js Core team talked about Node, and it was possible not only to listen to them reverently, as on reports, but to discuss with them.

And the party where the band "Scientific and Technical Rap" performed. To describe how the public accepted their ironic IT songs, we’ll give only one detail: we even liked the English-speaking speaker, who nagulit texts and translated them on the go.

More on the site was attended by the leading podcasts "Frontend Youth" and "Frontend Weekend". Tweets from the scene actively appeared in the first podcast, for the second one several interviews were recorded on HolyJS - in general, follow their next releases.


There was something for people not present at the site. For viewers of online broadcasts (and limited free on YouTube , and paid with a choice of all the reports), we interviewed the speakers, so that during the breaks between the presentations a boring cap did not hang for half an hour. We have already done this before, but now we tried to change the short 15-minute interview format to half an hour, but it often turned out “well, we just got to the most interesting.” It seems that this was the right decision - with people like Ari Lerner or Ilya Klimov , there is something to talk about for half an hour.


And what about “JAVA”?


Okay, tell. Like last time, the program committee conducted the activity of “TCXX”: you could write your own proposal for improving ECMAScript. In addition to the main prize for the best offer, there were nominations for “game” and “button accordion”. The “JAVA” shirt was given in the “game” category, but the proposed solution itself was even more impressive than this shirt: “let’s have a back to appear in cycles except the continue option, and then we can go back to the previous iteration”. Truly game!


HolyJS 2019 Piter


What can we say about the next HolyJS?


In general, the conference cycle continues to be executed, and we move on to the next iteration! And then this post can be considered the very same option back: it allows you to survive the last iteration again.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/431322/

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