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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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4 mo on HNHow is this Website so fast!?
Wes Bos
4 HN recommender · 2024–2025
4 mo on HNDjangoCon 2022 | From React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product: we did it, and it's awesome!
DjangoCon Europe
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HNMark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014]
JSConf
4 HN recommender · 2014–2018
3 mo on HNOm Next - David Nolen
ClojureTV
3 HN recommender · 2015–2015
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 HNLin Clark - A Cartoon Intro to Fiber - React Conf 2017
Meta Developers
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
4 mo on HNKeynote - JSON Graph: Reactive REST at Netflix
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
4 HN recommender · 2015–2023
4 mo on HNGoogle Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009
Google
4 HN recommender · 2009–2025
3 mo on HNRails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson
Ruby on Rails
6 HN recommender · 2024–2025
3 mo on HNCheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli
WebAssembly NA
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
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 HNRailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella
Confreaks
4 HN recommender · 2016–2016
3 mo on HNNordic.js 2014 • Douglas Crockford - The Better Parts
Nordic.js
3 HN recommender · 2014–2023
3 mo on HNServo Architecture: Safety and Performance
linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia
3 HN recommender · 2017–2017
3 mo on HNClojureScript for Skeptics - Derek Slager
ClojureTV
4 HN recommender · 2015–2017
3 mo on HNFlexbox vs. CSS Grid — Which is Better?
Layout Land
3 HN recommender · 2018–2020
3 mo on HNBruce Hauman - Developing ClojureScript With Figwheel
ClojureTV
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNDan Abramov: Beyond React 16 | JSConf Iceland
JSConf
3 HN recommender · 2018–2022
3 mo on HN2016/2017 MUST-KNOW WEB DEVELOPMENT TECH - Watch this if you want to be a web developer
LearnCode.academy
3 HN recommender · 2016–2017
3 mo on HNRyan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation
stri8ted
3 HN recommender · 2016–2023
3 mo on HNClojureScript in the Age of TypeScript — David Nolen
ChariotSolutions
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNCSS Grid Changes EVERYTHING - Amazing Presentation
Coding Tech
4 HN recommender · 2018–2019
2 mo on HNHigh Performance Web Sites and YSlow
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2009–2009
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
3 mo on HNErlang Factory SF 2016 Keynote Phoenix and Elm – Making the Web Functional
Erlang Solutions
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNPHP doesn't suck (anymore)
Aaron Francis
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNMonads and Gonads
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2013–2022
3 mo on HNSpeed Up Your JavaScript
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2012–2025
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 HNAndy Bell – Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager
Hey! Presents
2 HN recommender · 2023–2023
2 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2011: Chrome Dev Tools Reloaded
Google for Developers
2 HN recommender · 2011–2012
2 mo on HNWhy Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022
GOTO Conferences
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024