Nordic.js is an international two-day JavaScript conference taking place on 2-3 Oct 2025. Founded & organized by @jede, @javve & @martinaelm since 2014.
”We want the animation to feel like it is going in the desired direction” - Tobias Ahlin about the new Page Transition API, or Shared Element Transitions, which is a proposal for a new web API that aims to enable native-like transitions between views in both SPAs and MPAs alike.
“We want to enable teams to be secure by default” - Feross Aboukhadijeh (@feross) about the risks of using third-party packages and how we as a unity should become better at checking the open source code for vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks.
”Communicating isn't just about speaking, it's also about listening.” - Emma Bostian (@EmmaBostian ) about how to communicate efficiently in cross-cultural teams, and how cultures differ in giving feedback, making decisions, trusting, and perceiving time.
”Why is it so hard to make JavaScript fast?” - Tadeu Zagallo (@tadeuzagallo ) about how JavaScript Virtual Machine has evolved over the years. He also talked about how we can make our JavaScript faster by knowing how everything works ”under the hood”.
Here are the slides for my lightning talk at @nordicjs!
Talking about how Node.js Working Groups help maintain / improve the project and how to participate / join the conversation 💚
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”Exceptions are the worst way of dealing with errors” - Matthias Le Brun (@bloodyowl ) about handling complex UI code and the challenges with optionality, fallibility, and asynchronicity.
The venue at @NordicJS is beyond spectacular 💯 🌈 ⭐️
- The "booths" don't feel like booths. They're authentic and legit fun.
- The entire place is accommodating, colorful and very vivid
Organizers have really done it well @martinaelm@javve@jede@majaasperolind 👏🏽
”I started the hard way, then I found the easy way and kept going the easy way.” - Charlie Gerard (@devdevcharlie ) demonstrates how to use motion detection for complex gestures to build interactive applications - in a few lines of JavaScript code.
”The best debugging tool is knowing something well” - Jenn Creighton ( @gurlcode ) about debugging asynchronous JavaScript. She talks about common mistakes, why those mistakes are done, and how we can avoid them.
Colin Ihrig about Deno which is a JavaScript server-side runtime that touts web platform compatibility. The talk explores Deno's newest and most interesting features and how to get started.
“It just works” - Debbie O’Brien, @debs_obrien, about the developer testing tool Playwright which helps developers test their applications and get a simple view of how the application works
”We have the power to save our future and to fuck it up” - Christian Landgren, @Landgren, about how developers can contribute to a sustainable society by implementing a few guiding principles.
So much fun giving my talk at #nordicjs. Audience were amazing. Loved the interaction and energy here. Excited to see more people join the @playwrightweb community and write more tests and have fun doing it 😍
ALT Me on stage with computers on the stage
ALT Me on stage with lots of people watching and my photo on the screen
”React is mostly secure by default” but Liran Tal, @liran_tal, shows us how React applications get hacked in the real world and teaches us how to be more aware when developing.