Saturday, September 13
11:50 am – 12:20 pm
Performance Optimization Automation for Client-Side Applications
In today’s responsive world, user experience and application performance is becoming more important than ever. Performance optimization has long been considered a task that requires careful manual “tuning” of several application components, as well as continuous testing. In some cases, the effort involved may outweigh performance gains, and this is when developers must walk the tight rope between benefit and cost. With the advent of automated build tools and task runners like Grunt, automating these tasks has become possible. In this session we will cover examples of some of the most common approaches, as well new and more radical methods including unCSS, combining media queries, bunching up API calls, automatic sprite image generation, and others.
Matthew LancasterSpeaker