GreeceJS #23: GRAND stack & Cross platform engineering

Hola good people,

We are up for another great meetup with Mark Needham flying from London to introduce us to Neo4j and the GRAND stack - GraphQL is an amazing technology and Graph Databases come as a perfect complement. Also, Valadis Novakovits and Michael Asimakopoulos from Covve (worth checking out their cool address book app) will share their journey with cross platform engineering. Buckle up - see you all at Innovathens powered by Samsung - Hub of Innovation & Entrepreneurship of Technopolis City of Athens.

Have a look at the event agenda:

18:00 - 18:15
Networking, food & beverages

18:15 - 18:20
Opening talk

18:20 - 18:45
JS Knowledge Quiz (GR)
Test your JavaScript skills for fame and honour. All you need is your smartphone - just make sure to be at the venue on time!

18:45 - 19:45
All About GRAND Stack: GraphQL, React, Apollo, and Neo4j (EN)

• Mark Needham, Developer Relations Engineer @Neo4j

In this presentation, we explore application development using the GRAND stack (GraphQL, React, Apollo, Neo4j) for building web applications backed by a graph database. We will review the components to build a simple web application, including how to build a React component, an introduction to JSX, an overview of GraphQL and why it is a game-changer for front-end development. We'll learn how to model, store, and query data in the Neo4j graph database using GraphQL to power our web application.

Please note this talk will be in english.

20:00 - 20:45
Cross platform engineering - Lessons Learned (GR)

• Valadis Novakovits, Senior Software Developer @Covve
• Michael Asimakopoulos, Full-stack Developer @Covve

Cross platform technologies have changed considerably. Should you even write an app using one of them in 2018? What tooling, processes and best practices can’t you live without? Which problems will you face and how will you overcome them? How would you organize your team and project? Join us as we share valuable lessons from the last two years of engineering the Covve Ionic/Angular cross platform app.

21:00
BeerJS @The Lazy Bulldog Pub
Orfeos 2, Athens (right next to the venue)

We would like to thank the main organiser of the London JS Monthly meetup, Aris Markogianniakis for helping us extend our network and reach to UK and beyond!