gRPC & Protocol Buffers, Testing, +1 more talk TBD

We have two speakers from Oxford this month.

'Using gRPC in the browser' - Ben Foxall

Ben will talk about using gRPC and Protocol Buffers in the browser, and how they compare to REST and JSON. We’ll see how component-based frontends can be a natural fit with service-oriented-architectures, and how this can be applied to peer-to-peer interfaces to let us build a new ways of interacting with the web.

Ben was one of the founders of JS Oxford and this will be his second time visiting us.

'Have you written tests for that?' - Mike Smith

“Have you written tests for that?” is a question sometimes feared by developers. There are so many approaches, libraries and methodologies that it can be hard to know where to even start.

We’ll build and test a real web application to cut through the breadth of testing options to understand how we can test each component of our application in isolation and as an end to end product.

Once we know how to test our functionality, it’s time to make sure our user experience and design are also tested! We will learn how to ensure our apps work in every browser, responsively and pixel perfect.

Finally, we need to answer the original question and to do that we will learn how exterminating mutants can guarantee that we have written good tests for our web application.

+1 Talk

If anyone has a short talk they'd like to give then please get in touch via joseph.parry@gmail.com - thanks.

See you there!

Joe