JSConf | Parsing Parsers - Jenna Zeigen | JSConf Hawaii 2020 @jsconf_ | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 23 hours ago
Have you ever wondered how your code goes from being characters in a file to something that the computer can "understand" and do something with? A key part of this is the parser. In this talk, well look at building a search query parser (all in JavaScript, of course). On this journey, well first take a step back and learn about the building blocks of all languages, from letters to grammars, and how they represent meaning. Then, well talk about what a parser is and does and why we might want one for our task. With this new knowledge, well dive into building the parser, from tokenizing to building a data structure that represents the query and lets us build a UI around it.
Slides: https://jenna.is/slides/at-jsconfhi.pdf
JSConf Hawaii will return in soon
https://www.jsconfhi.com/
Have you ever wondered how your code goes from being characters in a file to something that the computer can "understand" and do something with? A key part of this is the parser. In this talk, well look at building a search query parser (all in JavaScript, of course). On this journey, well first take a step back and learn about the building blocks of all languages, from letters to grammars, and how they represent meaning. Then, well talk about what a parser is and does and why we might want one for our task. With this new knowledge, well dive into building the parser, from tokenizing to building a data structure that represents the query and lets us build a UI around it.
Slides: https://jenna.is/slides/at-jsconfhi.pdf
JSConf Hawaii will return in soon
https://www.jsconfhi.com/
![Ode to the decade++ - Eva Ferreira [spanish languaje]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v74Jej_cdu0/hqdefault.jpg "Ode to the decade++ - Eva Ferreira [spanish languaje]
English translated audio https://youtu.be/lCs9plDpWUo
There were once browsers without element inspector, CSS without border-radius, JavaScript without arrow functions. Although a world without Flexbox and Template Literals sounds scary ... I invite you to reflect on what is really the darkest time for Front-end developers. Lets ask ourselves if the times were dark when we were worried about border-radius or if we should really be worried about the current times, where a simple landing needs 800kb of JavaScript to display.")
