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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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1 mo on HNWe're Gonna Build a Framework
Dylan Beattie
1 HN recommend · 2018–2024
1 mo on HNReact.js Conf 2016 - Lightning Talks - Elie Rotenberg
Meta Developers
1 HN recommend · 2016–2019
1 mo on HNBeyond Passwords: Secure Authentication with Mozilla Persona
Next Day Video
1 HN recommend · 2013–2016
1 mo on HNReactiveConf 2017 - Tom Dale: Secrets of the Glimmer VM
ReactiveConf
1 HN recommend · 2018–2019
1 mo on HNYour web app but good: Aaron Boodman (Local-First Conf)
Local-First Conf
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNMorten Rand-Hendriksen: CSS Grid Changes Everything (About Web Layouts)
WordPress
1 HN recommend · 2018–2018
1 mo on HNTypeScript types can run DOOM
Michigan TypeScript
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNServo: Building a Parallel Browser
Linux.conf.au 2015 -- Auckland, New Zealand
1 HN recommend · 2015–2017
1 mo on HNFastest browser engine by far at 500 FPS! Servo Webrender - CSS on the GPU part 1: Rust
𝓖𝓷𝓸𝓶𝓮💫𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓮
1 HN recommend · 2017–2017
1 mo on HNThis Video Has 77,321,815 Views
Tom Scott
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNBringing SIMD to the Web via Dart
InfoQ
1 HN recommend · 2013–2014
1 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2011: Kick-Ass Game Programming with Google Web Toolkit
Google for Developers
1 HN recommend · 2011–2018
1 mo on HNA more beautiful web is... Internet Explorer TV commercial
internetexplorer
1 HN recommend · 2012–2012
1 mo on HN[JSConfUS 2013] Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke: JS Apps at Facebook
JSConf
1 HN recommend · 2016–2024
1 mo on HNCoding in Stenography, Quick Demo
Art of Chording
1 HN recommend · 2016–2023
1 mo on HNProgressive decoding: JPEG vs JPEG XL vs AVIF
Jon Sneyers
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HNpointerpointer.com's use of voronoi, canvas, and javascript
Paul Irish
1 HN recommend · 2012–2025
1 mo on HNDouglas Crockford: Monads and Gonads (YUIConf Evening Keynote)
YUI Library
1 HN recommend · 2013–2020
1 mo on HNdotJS 2012 - Brian Leroux - WTFJS
dotconferences
1 HN recommend · 2013–2024
1 mo on HNMeteor Screecast
meteorscreencasts
1 HN recommend · 2015–2022
1 mo on HNReact.js Conf 2015 - The complementarity of React and Web Components
Meta Developers
1 HN recommend · 2015–2015
1 mo on HNMaciej Ceglowski - The Website Obesity Crisis [Web Directions 2015 Keynote]
cat stevens (catb0t)
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNRailsConf 2011: Aaron Patterson, "Double Dream Hands: So Intense!"
O'Reilly
1 HN recommend · 2011–2012
1 mo on HNReact without memo
React Conf
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNGoogle Chrome Speed Tests
Google Chrome
1 HN recommend · 2010–2021
1 mo on HNThe Website is Down #1: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude
Josh Weinberg
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HNBefore Flutter | Rubber Duck Engineering | Episode #100
RubberDuckEng
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
0 mo on HNReact.js Conf 2016 - Ben Alpert - What Lies Ahead
Meta Developers
0 HN recommender · 2016–2016
0 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2011: Writing Web Apps in Go
Google for Developers
0 HN recommender · 2011–2012
0 mo on HNInterview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails and more
Google for Developers
0 HN recommender · 2008–2011
0 mo on HN!!Con 2020 - Playing Breakout… inside a PDF!! by Omar Rizwan
!!Con
0 HN recommender · 2021–2024
0 mo on HNSafari: iPhone Development Platform
PCWorld
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HNUnreal Engine 3 in Firefox with asm.js
Firefox
0 HN recommender · 2013–2022
0 mo on HNClassic Teams vs new Teams side by side video
Microsoft Teams
0 HN recommender · 2023–2026
0 mo on HNHow Google is building a browser monopoly
TechAltar
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HNKeynote: The Road To LiveView 1.0 by Chris McCord | ElixirConf EU 2023
Code Sync
0 HN recommender · 2023–2024