Building WebApps Like It's 1972 | JSConf EU 2019

The year is 1972 and GUI applications like no one has seen before
are being built in Smalltalk: bitmaps graphics, draggable elements,
drop-down menus, collapsable windows ; all of them and many more
coming straight from the future, powered by asynchronous message
passing, object orientation, and functional programming. An
unprecedented cocktail to be later rediscovered as the Actor-model.
Fast forward to the present day, and typical web applications are
modeled as monolithic deeply nested structures, resembling the
medium the web was built for (HTML), but leaving us handicapped to
build outstanding user facing applications. Let’s explore together
what we can learn from the early days of UIs, languages like Erlang
and Smalltalk, the Actor-model, and how we can apply some of these
principles and ideas today to take our UIs back to the future