November Meetup: Blazing Fast UI Development with Storybook 🚀

Ongoing agenda:

6:00 - Food and merriment

6:30 - Lightning Talks

7:00 - Main presentation: Blazing Fast UI Development with Storybook 🚀

Slow and tedious: words you don’t want to use when describing your UI development process. Often, though, they do apply. A refresh of a page, half a dozen clicks, and finally you’re able to see the effect of your code change. We’ve all found ourselves sitting in front of a form, repeatedly entering bad email addresses just to style the error message. There has to be a better way. Let us introduce you to Storybook, a UI development tool that augments your existing application. Storybook is a single place where you can view any component and all of its states, saving time and reducing bugs. We’ll demonstrate how we integrated Storybook into our existing enterprise application, share the lessons we learned along the way, and show you how to make your UI development blazing fast.

How will this improve how people work with JavaScript?

1. It will improve their development process by allowing them to iterate more quickly.
2. It will improve their collaboration with teammates and peers.
3. It improves maintainability of applications by allowing a developer to see all states of all UI components in the application.

What is one thing people should know beforehand to better understand this talk?

No prior knowledge or experience is required other than a basic familiarity with HTML, CSS and JavaScript What are pre-meetup resources that individuals should check out? While not required, it might be fun to check out the Storybook website: https://storybook.js.org/

Mike has 8 years of experience developing software and web applications. His experience spans robust back end server code to polished, user-friendly interfaces. Currently at Code42, he is on the UI development team and is deeply involved in architecting a user interface that is functional and consistent across all of Code42's applications. Mike is a huge React fanboy and is passionate about writing lean, functional, and testable code.

Caitlin is a software developer at Code42, where she builds interesting things, asks a lot of questions, and learns from smart people. She loves well-written error messages, building products that people enjoy using, and finding ways to make development more efficient for teams. Outside of work, Caitlin is an avid serial hobbyist who would love to chat with you about her garden.

7:45/8:00 - Free time to discuss, network, hack, etc.

8:30 - Disperse!

Location Notes:

On-street parking, or use of the paid parking lot behind The Bachelor Farmer is recommended.

This area is also heavily served by public transit – take the Green or Blue Lines to Target Field, or the 4, 6, or 11 to Hennepin and Washington to arrive near.

Please reach out to the organizers (javascriptmn@gmail.com) if you would like to use the building's accessible entrance, as we can make additional arrangements.

It's always a great event, hope to see you there!