👋 General Info
Hey-hey!
Let's meet on November 30 to talk about all things React and dive deep into the details and internals of our favourite libraries, tools, and patterns. 😉
🗣To propose a talk for our meetups please fill in the CFP form.
📍Event location
The Trampery Old Street - 239 Old Street, London, EC1V 9EY
🎫 Registration
To attend the meetup please ➡️ REGISTER HERE ⬅️ via Guild. Please do RSVP here to show your friends you’re coming.
Feel free to bring +1 friend who is interested in joining us (just share the Guild link - so your friend could register as well).
🤝 Sponsored by
Huge thanks to our friends GeekyAnts!
GeekyAnts is a product studio for app design and development based in London, SF and India. We are a community-driven company and focus on tech stacks such as React, React Native & Flutter. We have been official Google suppliers since 2017 and have worked with clients like Paypoint, Soccerverse, Optum Homes and 500 others.
We're also top contributors to the open source community and have our own products like gluestack and NativeBase that received 3M+ downloads.
This event made possible thanks to the support from React Day Berlin & Test JS Summit organizers - GitNation
🕑 Event Schedule
18:30 - Doors open - snacks, beer, socialization
19:00 - Intro and announcements
19:10 - How to make Make Real with tldraw - Lu Wilson
19:30 - Wait, you're using React Native on the Web?! - Taz Singh
19:50 - Break with drinks
20:00 - Building Universal Tools for Web & Mobile - Sanket Sahu
20:20 - Networking, Open Mic Lightning Talks
Mingle until 10pm
🗣 Talks
➡️ Lu Wilson – How to make Make Real with tldraw
We recently re-wrote our selection feature for tldraw, a digital whiteboard. To make it work, we first needed to teach our whiteboard to see the canvas without first rendering it, and then to capture the (surprisingly! extraordinarily!) complex logic behind a simple click.
➡️ Taz Singh – Wait, you're using React Native on the Web?!
In this talk, I will dive into the skepticism of building React Native Apps for the Web, including everything from design systems and navigation to ExpoGL and Reanimated, from how they’ve successfully built Guild on top of this architecture.
➡️ Sanket Sahu – Building Universal Tools for Web & Mobile In this talk, I’m diving deep into how to build universal libraries that work on all platforms – a React Native first approach that works everywhere including the browsers! Together, we’ll explore the nitty-gritty challenges and innovative solutions associated with creating tools that seamlessly bridge the gap between web and mobile platforms. Expect a concoction of creativity, practicality, and actionable insights as we journey from idea to implementation.
➡️ Open Mic Lightning Talks – every attendee is welcome to speak (<5min)
➡️ To propose a talk for our meetups please fill in the CFP form
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📩 Contact
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Wow, has it been a rough year for GraphQL or what? People have said a lot of things, made a lot of videos, and spread a lot of hot takes. 🔥
What's true? What's overblown? Join Taz Singh and Robert Balicki at Pinterest's New York 🗽 office as they sort through the Internet's most 🌶️ takes in a live (and lively!) discussion.
🎤 This will be an open format, meaning it's your opportunity to share your qualms, complaints, and observations. Audience participation will be encouraged. The folks on stage are there to facilitate and fill in the gaps from their experience. 🙌
Taz has been working with GraphQL since 2016 on a wide variety of architectures, from social to IoT to high mobility peer-to-peer mesh. He is particularly fond of interesting authorization mechanisms in a performant manner.
Matt works on GraphQL for Meta's mobile apps, and is a member of the GraphQL Foundation's Technical Steering Committee. He wants to help GRaphQL find a footing beyond the JS and React ecosystems.
Robert was on the Relay team at Meta/Facebook and is currently at Pinterest. He is the author of Isograph, "the best way to build React apps backed by GraphQL data".
And you, the audience. ❤️
Afterward, we will head to a nearby bar to hear everyone's truly unfiltered thoughts about GraphQL 🍻
🙌 We’re back with an awesome evening of tech talks! We may even have a special discussion mixed in there too.
👋 Come out to VMWare Tanzu Labs and join us for a special event with some of our longest members that are coming together to share their knowledge with the community.
RSVP now while there are places available! Otherwise, you may be stuck on the waitlist 👻
Schedule:
6:30pm - Doors Open
7:00pm - GraphQL federation and domain modelling
Rohan Nair is a technology leader, software developer, angel investor and fan of humanity, with over 13 years of experience in Toronto’s technology sector. He is currently the Head of Engineering at Nautical Commerce. Rohan has been an executive at many Toronto startups, and was the Head of Technology at venture capital firm Highline Beta. His career also includes stints as a startup founder and a fractional CTO for various companies. His diverse experiences give him a unique perspective on the intersection of technology and business.
7:30pm - Weird Graphs Graphs are everywhere: in our interfaces, databases, editors, queries and more. Let's look at a few and see what stories they tell us.
Dann Toliver enjoys building things, like data structures, distributed systems, programming languages, communities of smart friendly humans, and robot pony castles with his kids.
8:00pm - Wait you're using React Native on the Web?! Taz dives into the skepticism of building React Native Apps for the Web, including everything from design systems and navigation to ExpoGL and Reanimated, from how they’ve successfully built Guild on top of this architecture.
Taz Singh is the Founder of Guild and long time participant in communities around the world. He has over two decades of software experience ranging from video games & robotic AI to consumer application development, has served as a principal technical management consultant, and is a serial startup founder. When he's not behind his computer, he can be found chasing his cat around the house or being chased by cars around a race track.
8:30pm - Third-Party JavaScript Special Discussion Join us with Ben Vinegar, the author of the book on "Third-Party JavaScript", and Taz Singh for a special discussion on the topic. This is one you won't want to miss! 👀
Ben Vinegar is the General Manager of Syntax.fm at Sentry, where he also served as VP of Engineering from 2017-2021. Ben's also the co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and a contributor to O'Reilly's Beautiful JavaScript.
9:00pm - Networking
10:00pm - Doors Close
Note: All times in the schedule are an approximation.
Many thanks to VMWare for hosting us!
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