React Native, Image Performance and More!

Hello world, It's that time again! Our monthly JavaScript Meetup!

Hosted at iHeartRadio Theatre!

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Eitan Peer

About Me:

My name is Eitan Peer. I'm a senior frontend developer at Cloudinary.

Talk Description: "an is worth a thousand words"

Images have a direct impact on your site’s performance and load time. Did you know that images account for 2/3 of the size of an average web page? And that the average image transfer size for a single website is 1600KB? Are you familiar with the terms responsive images? DPR? Client hints? In this session we will discuss some of the challenges facing modern web applications in the image domain and show how image services can be used to overcome these challenges, improve your application’s performance and let you focus on your business logic.

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Don Mclean

About Me:

Front-End Engineer @ EPIX & U.S Marine Corps Veteran. Enamored with all things that "React", "Redux" & "Observe"

Talk Description: "Revisiting the Front-End Build Process"

Introducing a new CLI for creating Javascript Projects (Node, React, React Native & Electron) made to significantly improve developer workflows and bridge the customization gap between build & source code.

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Kevin Scott

About Me:

React developer // UX designer // Founder of Theory, Incorporated, a desingineering consultancy

Talk Description: "React Native for Web Developers "

We'll cover the major differences between developing on the web and on mobile - including push notifications, animations, navigation and more - and how the tools and libraries you already use on the web can be translated to iOS and Android.

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