Front End Sheffield: August 2019

Join us on the last Thursday of August for Front End Sheffield at Sheffield Technology Parks. This month: Kirsty Burgoine (@KirstyBurgoine) and Ersel Aker (@ErselAker).

Our event is free and inclusive; we welcome people of all backgrounds and experience levels to join. We will be checking in people at the door so be sure to sign up online.

Before you attend, please read our code of conduct: http://bit.ly/fes-coc

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This month we'll be welcoming:

Kirsty Burgoine (@KirstyBurgoine): Kirsty's Excellent Adventure in CSS Grid

Kirsty is a WordPress engineer / frontend developer at Human Made working on Enterprise level WordPress projects. She has a geeky fascination with CSS and has been working with CSS Grid in production pretty much since it shipped to modern browsers back in 2017.

The CSS Grid specification is one of the most exciting additions to CSS, pretty much ever. And, much like Bill & Ted’s music did, it has the potential to create a “web” utopia in the future.

Kirsty will take you on a most excellent adventure exploring how to use CSS GRID in a production environment. Taking a tour of some of the new properties and units now available in the GRID Specification, how to create complex layouts and ensuring it is not a bogus journey by explaining some of the gotcha’s and how to get around them.

By the end, hopefully you will agree that CSS Grid really is Excellent!

Ersel Aker (@ErselAker): Next Frontier in Front-end Development: Real-time monitoring and alerting
Do you know if your last deployment slowed page load times or increased error rates of your single-page application? Discover the next frontier of front-end development by implementing real-time performance monitoring and alerting capabilities using Elasticsearch.

In this talk, Ersel will share the learnings from integrating a react based single page application with Elasticsearch at BrightHR, an award winning SaaS solution operating in UK, Canada and Australia.

You’ll learn how metrics such as page load, asset download, network call times and errors can be captured to monitor the health and performance of your front-end in real-time.

Speaker bio:

Ersel Aker is a full-stack developer based in Manchester, UK. He has been working with FinTech and SaaS startups using Python, Nodejs and React. He is the author of Spotify terminal client library and contributor to various open source projects. He organizes Microservices Manchester meetup quarterly and teaches JavaScript at a local part-time coding bootcamp.

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Post-meetup social
After the talks we'll head to Triple Point Brewery (FKA Sentinel)
178 Shoreham Street, Sheffield, S1 4SQ, https://triplepointbrewing.co.uk/

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Running order
6:15pm - Doors open (please sign in at reception)
6:30pm - Welcome
6:40pm - Ersel Aker
7:00pm - Break
7: 10pm - Kirsty Burgoine
7:40pm – Open mic
7:45pm – Social