Electron TechTalks: Native apps with web technologies
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Learn how companies like GitHub, Slack, Microsoft, or Nylas are shipping polished, cross-platform desktop apps with Electron, and hang out over food and beer.
We’ll have a few tech talks from seasoned Electron developers, followed by open lightning talks. We'll announce more of these once we're closer to the actual meetup, but for now, we have these awesome people sharing their experiences with us:
What's new in Electron (Kevin Sawicki - GitHub)
Quick overview of the recent noteworthy Electron features, fixes, and releases.
Spinning up an Electron App - Desktop Apps in JavaScript (Katrina Uychaco - GitHub)
Building a compelling desktop app experience doesn't have to be a major undertaking; Electron is a free and open source framework from GitHub that allows you to build desktop applications using the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills you already know. In this talk, we'll look at how Electron works, explore some of its most useful APIs, and be entertained by a dancing BB8 Sphero robot, who will be helping to demonstrate some of the fun and interesting things you can do with Electron. You'll leave the session knowing how you can get started building your own cross-platform desktop apps with ease.
Making Electron Development Simpler, More Pleasant, and More Productive (Machisté Quintana - Slack)
Use the latest and greatest in Electron: Machisté will present Electron-Compile, a project enabling coders to use ES7, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, LESS, Jade, and other modern technologies without even thinking about it.
The Hyper Plan (Guillermo Rauch - ZEIT)
Guillermo Rauch will talk about how we think about the future of Terminals, GUI and operating systems. Before starting▲ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.
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Open Lightning Talks!