Reason ML, TypeScript & NativeScript

Hey all,

we have a great lineup for you in our April meetup! ReasonML, TypeScript and NativeScript all on the agenda! Here’s our talks:

Building a roboarmy with Angular and NativeScript - Sebastian Witalec, Developer Advocate https://twitter.com/sebawita, Progress
Taking over the world is not an easy challenge. It requires good strategy and a powerful army. What better soldiers than a mass of obedient robots? You just need a way to issue them instruction via their BLE interface.
But should you choose to build a web app or a native mobile app? With Angular you can do both; just add Web Bluetooth API to build a web app and NativeScript to build a native mobile app.
Join this session to learn how it all works, to see how to get started, and to swear fealty to your new robot overlords.
WARNING!!! We will fly an armed drone and shoot someone ;p

An Introduction to Reason - Typescript, Flow, Elm and now Reason - Richey Ryan, https://www.twitter.com/richeyryan, Shutterstock
Types in Javascript are becoming more and more popular. Why do we need them? What does Reason bring to do the table that the others don't? We'll take a look at how Reason aims to balance practicality with safety. Reason can help you write server and client applications targeting Javascript with confidence.

Join the JavaScript tooling revolution powered by TypeScript - Remo H. Jansen, https://twitter.com/RemoHJansen
In this talk, we are going to learn about the TypeScript compiler internals and why it is powering the next generation of JavaScript tools. We will demonstrate how TypeScript can help us to implement static analysis and source code manipulation tools with ease.

Thanks to NativeScript and Shutterstock who are both sponsoring the meetup on the night. Here’s a bit about them.

NativeScript (https://www.nativescript.org)
NativeScript is how you build cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps without web views. Use Angular, TypeScript, or modern JavaScript to get truly native UI and performance while sharing skills and code with the web. Get 100% access to native APIs via JavaScript and reuse of packages from NPM, CocoaPods, and Gradle. Open source and backed by Progress.

Shutterstock (https://www.shutterstock.com/)
Shutterstock is a leading global technology company offering a creative platform for high-quality assets, tools and services. Our creative platform provides businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world with high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos and music. Every second 5.5 images are sold on Shutterstock. We work with a growing community of over 350,000 contributors who upload hundreds of thousands of images/video/music each week. Our collection currently has more than 180 million images and more than 9 million video clips.

Approximate running times (subject to change)
6.30 - 7.00 - Grab a seat, have a chat and get comfortable
7.00 - 7.05 - Intro
7.05 - 7.35 - Talk #1
7.35 - 8.00 - Talk #2
8.00 - 8.15 - Break
8.15 - 9.00 - Talk #3

As ever, we have a limited capacity venue so we to set a cap on the number of RSVPs and will have a waitlist in operation.

Doors to the Intercom office will open at 6.30pm.

Thanks,
Chris, Ingrid & Pat