Dismantling the barriers to entry

JavaScript has grown up - but it's lost its innocence. Tools have never been more sophisticated, our community has never been more energised, and yet getting started as a web developer has never been more confusing. Ractive.js is a UI library that radically simplifies the creation of interactive web applications. This talk will cover what it does, how it works, and why creating tools that are accessible to beginner web developers is our most urgent task.