Recorded for Reactathon Online & Worldwide, Dec 7, 2020. Learn more & stay informed about upcoming in-person & online conferences at https://reactathon.com, and our worldwide React meetup at https://realworldreact.com 

About Lydia
Lydia Hallie is a full-time software engineering consultant and educator that primarily works with JavaScript, React, Node, GraphQL, and serverless technologies. She also spends her time mentoring and doing in-person training sessions.Lydia Hallie is a full-time software engineering consultant and educator that primarily works with JavaScript, React, Node, GraphQL, and serverless technologies. She also spends her time mentoring and doing in-person training sessions.

Abstract
JavaScript is cool (don't @ me), but how can a machine actually understand the code you've written? As JavaScript devs, we usually don't have to deal with compilers ourselves. In this talk, I’ll use visualizations to show you how the JavaScript engine handles our human-friendly code, and compiles it to code that machines understand.

Alejandro Bar Acedo

Workflow Orchestration

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The post explains the process of going from a human-friendly JavaScript file to bytecode that computers can understand. It covers topics such as the HTML parser, V8 engine, byte stream decoder, abstract syntax tree, bytecode generation, shape tables, inline caching, and Turbofan optimizer.

Lydia Hallie: JavaScript Visualized: A Script's Life

<p>A clear and concise explanation of things that really matters in the entire scene of JS.</p>
