Building Bridges

How we can utilize Native APIs in JavaScript apps.

Speaker

Andrey Salomatin

"Building Bridges"

2016-08-10

@filipovskii

About me

Fullstack Web&Mobile Dev, working in startups
Love podcasting, see Code Podcast
Organizer of MoscowJS, Frontend Union Conf

I work at Productive Mobile

About the talk

Warsaw.js, huh?

That's pretty cool, but...

Can we make it even cooler?

Let me

introduce you

Warsaw Native!

Communicating with WebViews

Communicating with WebViews

Is possible via JSContext
We can access any js objects
Code is running in the UI thread
P.S. Remember PhoneGap?

Using WebViews for evil

Using WebViews for evil

App can easily fake a page
Even without faking the page – the app has access to everything

Executing JS off the UI thread

Executing JS off the UI thread

Is possible using JSVirtualMachine
Can be used for any kind of JS-Native bridge

Building bridges

We underuse the Native APIs
It's relatively simple and super powerful
Warsaw.js now has it's own app to write JavaScript!

And one last thing...

Frontend Union Conf

Martin Splitt

https://geekonaut.de

RoomVR Demo by Martin Splitt

Martin Kleppe

http://aem1k.com

"Hello World 1k" by Martin Kleppe

http://aem1k.com/world/

frontend-union.co

Frontend Union Conf 2016

August 27, Vilnius

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