You Gotta Love Frontend is the first international frontend conference of its kind that was held on June 8 — 9, 2015, in Tel Aviv (Israel).

More information about it could be found on the official web page.

There was quite a bunch of brilliant speakers including Douglas Crockford as well as interesting talks and now — videos.

Our team talked about BEM methodology, BEM technologies, frontend development in Yandex, the community and not only.

On this page you may find a video and slides of BEM talk.

BEM — Build ‘em Modular!

Abstract

Every web developer, designer or manager who supports huge project or tryes to reuse some parts of HTML + CSS anywhere else sooner or later will face with the same issues and most likely come to the idea of componentized web. It's rather popular now and was even described as a W3C standard Web Components. But how exactly new are the new ideas and how useful is its realization?

In the frontend world since Internet Explorer 5.5 a lot of developers know and use BEM methodology that was created to solve exactly the same problems. During years of use it formed its own huge ecosystem that includes technologies, tools, libraries and active community. It is built and developed by developers within Yandex and outside that use it everywhere both in small such as promo page for a cat and high loaded projects such as Yandex services and Mail.ru. They are well aware of the problems that developers face.

Slides

Speakers' biography

Vladimir Grinenko, the head of BEM development team. HTML/CSS/JS-professional. BEM-addict. Answers BEM questions 24/7. Outside Yandex runs his own web development agency, consults projects and helps them stay healthy and wealthy with BEM.

Yelena Jetpyspayeva, BEM Developer Relations Specialist. Helps BEM team with coordination of an open source activity inside and outside Yandex and the community making sure everyone is happy with BEM. Outside Yandex volunteers for open source and helps developers run developer events. Dreamer of the better web and believer in true power of open source.

Have a pleasant time watching and Stay BEMed!