Preserving the Architecture of the Web with Stefan Tilkov
by Jen Simmons on
There’s a lot of pressure these days to use a JavaScript framework to create every website. “Which one is best?” people ask, “Which one should I use?” Stefan Tilkov joins Jen Simmons to talk about the architectural style of the web, and how to understand to best create an application on the web. What is the role of each of the technologies available?
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You can build something that’s very similar to the way you built applications in the past when they were native applications running on Windows or on the Mac… You can escape from the web if you decide to build 100% of your application in JavaScript. You can deliver something through the web and exploit the platform, but you are losing all of the other benefits, and I find that very sad.
- “How to embrace the browser”, Stefan Tilkov's presentation at EnhanceConf
- “REST: I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Does”, Stefan Tilkov presenting about REST at GOTO Amsterdam 2014
- ROCA: A collection of simple recommendations for decent Web application frontends
- Postel’s law: The Robustness Principle
- Stefan Tilkov's talk at EnhanceConf: "How to embrace the browser"
- Roy Fielding
- REST: Representational state transfer
- Roy Fielding’s REST thesis
- A Brief Introduction to REST by Stefan Tilkov
- SE Radio Episode 98: Stefan Tilkov on REST
- Jeremy Keith's talk, "Resilience", on subjects similar
- SE Radio podcast
