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Web development Videos Recommended on Hacker News (160)
Web development is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 160 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 441 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Web development: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, frontend frameworks, CSS, HTML, web components, browsers, Chrome DevTools, Node.js, WebAssembly, web APIs, full-stack frameworks.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU: “The tool he created to display the event loop in real time is fantastic.” — an HN commenter, 2018.
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14 mo on HNWhat the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU
JSConf
16 HN recommender · 2015–2025
13 mo on HNRich Harris - Rethinking reactivity
You Gotta Love Frontend
15 HN recommender · 2019–2026
10 mo on HNCrockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years
YUI Library
10 HN recommender · 2013–2022
9 mo on HNPete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices -- JSConf EU
JSConf
9 HN recommender · 2014–2025
7 mo on HNHey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!
InfoQ
9 HN recommender · 2014–2022
6 mo on HNJake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks, requestAnimationFrame, ...
JSConf
7 HN recommender · 2018–2023
6 mo on HNInteractive programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript
Bruce Hauman
6 HN recommender · 2015–2020
6 mo on HNEvan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On
Curry On!
7 HN recommender · 2015–2023
5 mo on HN"Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP" by Evan Czaplicki
Strange Loop Conference
5 HN recommender · 2014–2026
5 mo on HNIntroduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl
InfoQ
5 HN recommender · 2011–2018
4 mo on HNThe Web That Never Was - Dylan Beattie
NDC Conferences
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HN[JSConfUS 2013] Steven Wittens: Making WebGL Dance
JSConf
5 HN recommender · 2013–2021
5 mo on HNCheng Lou - On the Spectrum of Abstraction at react-europe 2016
ReactEurope
5 HN recommender · 2016–2022
5 mo on HNHacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook
Meta Developers
5 HN recommender · 2014–2024
5 mo on HNBuilding a Better Web Browser - James Mickens - Harvard CS Colloquium 2015
Paul Irish
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HNAnders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart
DartlangTV
4 HN recommender · 2014–2024
4 mo on HNdotJS 2019 - James Long - CRDTs for Mortals
dotconferences
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HN10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU
JSConf
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
4 mo on HNBrendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
Lex Fridman
5 HN recommender · 2021–2023
4 mo on HNHow is this Website so fast!?
Wes Bos
4 HN recommender · 2024–2025
4 mo on HNMark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014]
JSConf
4 HN recommender · 2014–2018
4 mo on HN"Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky
Strange Loop Conference
4 HN recommender · 2018–2022
4 mo on HNRailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson
Confreaks
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNMonad - FunFunFunction #21
Fun Fun Function
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HNJames Mickens on JavaScript
tablet reader
3 HN recommender · 2018–2025
3 mo on HNNordic.js 2014 • Douglas Crockford - The Better Parts
Nordic.js
3 HN recommender · 2014–2023
3 mo on HNFlexbox vs. CSS Grid — Which is Better?
Layout Land
3 HN recommender · 2018–2020
3 mo on HNRyan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation
stri8ted
3 HN recommender · 2016–2023
3 mo on HN"Building a Toolkit for Design" by Matthew Griffith
elm-conf
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNDaniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr.: The Live Web. Drag 'n drop in the cloud
JSConf
3 HN recommender · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNRyan Dahl - History of Node.js
phxtagsoup
3 HN recommender · 2011–2013
2 mo on HNMonads and Gonads
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2013–2022
3 mo on HNKeynote: What is a Component (and Why)? - Luke Wagner, Distinguished Engineer, Fastly
The Linux Foundation
3 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HNWhy Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022
GOTO Conferences
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNBrowser hacking: Let's make "Cookie Clicker" playable in Ladybird!
Andreas Kling
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HNMakepad: Designing modern UIs with Rust - Rik Arends - RustNL 2023
RustNL
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024