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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
10 mo on HNRailsConf 2016 - Turbolinks 5: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Native! by Sam Stephenson
Confreaks
6 HN recommender · 2017–2020
10 mo on HNJavaScript: The Good Parts
Google TechTalks
11 HN recommender · 2009–2020
9 mo on HNPete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices -- JSConf EU
JSConf
9 HN recommender · 2014–2025
8 mo on HNDan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel at react-europe 2015
ReactEurope
12 HN recommender · 2015–2022
7 mo on HNHey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!
InfoQ
9 HN recommender · 2014–2022
6 mo on HNChris McCord - Keynote: Phoenix LiveView - Interactive Apps without Javascript - ElixirConf EU 2019
Code Sync
4 HN recommender · 2019–2024
6 mo on HNOAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (in plain English)
OktaDev
7 HN recommender · 2019–2026
6 mo on HNJake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks, requestAnimationFrame, ...
JSConf
7 HN recommender · 2018–2023
6 mo on HNRiftSketch: Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript and Three.js
Brian Peiris
5 HN recommender · 2014–2020
6 mo on HNInteractive programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript
Bruce Hauman
6 HN recommender · 2015–2020
6 mo on HNBuild a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5
Chris McCord
7 HN recommender · 2020–2025
6 mo on HNDjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson
Google for Developers
6 HN recommender · 2009–2026
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 HNPete Hunt: React - Rethinking Best Practices (updated) - JSConf.Asia 2013
JSConf
5 HN recommender · 2014–2024
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
4 mo on HNJavascript in 2015
Glen Maddern
3 HN recommender · 2015–2017
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 HNJavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts - The First 3.5 Hours
Tony Alicea
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
5 mo on HNReact.js Conf 2015 - Immutable Data and React
Meta Developers
5 HN recommender · 2015–2022
4 mo on HNNetflix JavaScript Talks - Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions
Matt Marenghi
5 HN recommender · 2014–2016
4 mo on HNProgressive Performance (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)
Chrome for Developers
4 HN recommender · 2016–2018
4 mo on HNAnders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart
DartlangTV
4 HN recommender · 2014–2024
4 mo on HNJordan Walke - React to the Future
ReasonConf
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
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 HNElixirConf 2018 - Keynote - Chris McCord
ElixirConf
6 HN recommender · 2018–2019
4 mo on HNReact Today and Tomorrow and 90% Cleaner React With Hooks
React Conf
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
4 mo on HNBrendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
Lex Fridman
5 HN recommender · 2021–2023