MancJs March 2021 - Thomas Ankcorn and Martin Rue
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Hey everyone!
This month's Manc Js will feature Martin Rue, creator of language learning app Yakk (and Esperanto speaker!), and Thomas Ankcorn, engineer at NearSt and software coach.
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Martin Rue
Abstract: Having got into coding when I was young, I've seen lots of patterns, practices, attitudes and beliefs over the years. In this talk I'll share 25 things I've picked up along the way – things I believe are essential to being a good engineer.
About me: I fixed my first bug by cutting it out of the program with scissors. Since then I've been addicted to writing code, building things and exploring.
Find me at https://martinrue.com.
Thomas Ankcorn
Old School meets New School
Abstract: The future of js dev looks like it is all about the colocation of backend and frontend code. Frameworks like blitz.js and next.js have made people insanely productive but it doesn't come without costs. The biggest is that our code goes through a transformation step and we don't understand what is going on in prod any more.
All these frameworks look at the problem from the perspective of a frontend developer. They have led almost all the innovation in this space. But if you look to the history books* the OG frameworks like Rails and Laraval achieved this productivity without the runtime and build time drawbacks.
I'm going to do a demo trying to prove that we should look to the past for our future by building a deploying a discuss like comments app with http://arc.codes
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We'll also facilitate some social time, utilizing breakout rooms to give everyone the chance to have a chat and connect.
A special thanks to our sponsor for this event ManchesterCodes
Manchester Codes is a part-coding school based in Manchester and has been helping beginners to become Software Engineers over the past 4 years.
Hope to see you there :)