The reality of modern JavaScript development with it's reliance of bundlers, frameworks and compilers is that the JavaScript you write is not the same as the JavaScript that runs on your browser. Tools like TypeScript and compilers like Babel allow you to support a variety of older browsers, environments, and runtimes while writing modern, maintainable code, but it can be hard to tell what is going on in that final bundle. When was the last time you peeked inside the dist folder to inspect the JavaScript generated by your framework or bundler? To maximize performance and user experiences, it's crucial not only to focus on and optimize that generated JavaScript produced during the build process.

Join Abhijeet Prasad, maintainer of Sentry's open source error and performance monitoring JavaScript SDKs as he walks through the performance and bundle size implications of generated JavaScript and techniques you can use to optimize it. He'll walk through transpilation nuances, tree-shaking, minification, and loading strategies so you can understand how to deliver better experiences for your users.

Done at JSNation US 2024