What is js-must-watch?

js-must-watch is a curated list of conference talks and videos about JavaScript, organized by year. The list spans from 2012 through 2020 and collects talks that the curator considered essential viewing for anyone working with JavaScript. The topics covered range from foundational concepts to advanced and specialized areas. Earlier entries include talks on the JavaScript event loop, memory management, performance optimization, asynchronous programming patterns, and how JavaScript engines work internally. Later entries cover topics like reactive programming, immutable data structures, functional programming in JavaScript, the history and future direction of the language, and CSS-adjacent technologies like Houdini. Speakers in the list include prominent figures from the JavaScript community across that era: Ryan Dahl (creator of Node.js) discussing things he regrets about the platform, Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript) reflecting on the language's evolution, Pete Hunt introducing React concepts before it became mainstream, and Dan Abramov demonstrating hot reloading with time travel in Redux. Many of the talks come from major JavaScript conferences such as JSConf EU. The list is part of the broader Awesome Lists ecosystem on GitHub, a network of community-maintained lists that collect recommended resources in a specific area. The repository itself contains no runnable code, it is a reference document maintained as a markdown file. Entries include the speaker name, talk title, a link to the video, and the runtime. The list appears to have last been updated in 2020, so it does not include talks from more recent years.