66: Custom Elements & Skate.js

Summary

Atlassian leaders Trey Shugart (@treshugart) and Jonathon Creenaune (@jcreenaune) chat with us about how and why they created Skate.js. Skate is a lightweight Web Components wrapper created to help the needs of a large and diverse technology stack while providing simplicity and almost no-barrier-to-entry. Only focusing on Custom Elements, Skate has made its code base easy for companies to buy into.

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October 20 | 10:00am PT | Banfield, Lombardo, & Wax

The Design Sprint is the first, and for some projects the most significant, phase of a design thinking process. It gets the entire product design and development team on the same page, reduces the risk of downstream mistakes, and generates vision-lead goals for the team to measure their success. Join Richard Banfield, C. Todd Lombardo, and Trace Wax as they explain why and how Design Sprints work and how you can use Design Sprints to enhance your own design process.

Resources

• Skate.js - https://github.com/skatejs/skatejs
• Custom Elements Polyfill - https://github.com/polymer/CustomElements
• skate.js website - http://skate.js.org/
• Skating with Web Components - http://slides.com/treshugart/skating-with-web-components#/
• Skate on Hipchat - https://www.hipchat.com/gB3fMrnzo
• Contributions file- https://github.com/skatejs/skatejs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Panelists

• Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) - Front End Development Lead at Deloitte Digital & Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies
• Danny Blue (@dee_bloo) - Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital
• Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro) - Wearables & HTML5 Google Developer Expert & Partner at Stickman Ventures or random person who keeps finding Hangout link. You decide