Contribute to Open Source and Submit Your First Node-RED Node to npmjs.com

If you always wanted to contribute to open source projects but you are a little bit intimidated to get started, this is a great way to get involved in the open source community.

This event will be live streamed in 360 via https://ibm.biz/nycdevyoutube .

You will learn to code custom nodes for Node-RED and submit your nodes to npmjs.com (https://www.npmjs.com/) and the https://nodered.org community. The example I will create supports the CryptoCompare API (https://www.cryptocompare.com/api/), the leading cryptocurrency trading platform in the US. Node-RED is a graphical programming tool built on top of Node-RED.

Great precursor to this certification course on Coursera: A Developer's guide to Node-RED (https://www.coursera.org/learn/developer-nodered)

Node-RED nodes are small Node.js packages with visual representations in the form of drag-and-drop widgets that you use to create node based workflows with. If you're unfamiliar with Node-RED, read more at nodered.org or create a starter app in 5 minutes on https://console.bluemix.net/catalog/starters/node-red-starter .

The tutorial for this meetup will be posted on https://medium.com/nycdev .

Node-RED Developer certified course on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/developer-nodered

Food and Drinks will be served!

Presented by: Remko "Captain Marbles" de Knikker

Captain Marbles, serpent in the shepherd's mouth, stateless tech humanist. I am lately most focused on Ionic/Angular, Progressive Web Apps (PWA), and Node.js, Loopback.io. I have been a Java server-side developer before, having worked at HPE, Infor, Reed-Elsevier, Microsoft, Sannopoint Capital Management, Yale Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS), Atos. My special interest is in supporting public education and keeping education, technology and entrepreneurship accessible for everyone, working closely with the CUNY community and others in NYC.

I love learning and have a passion for humanism, literature, philosophy, sciences and the arts. I studied History and Art History. I play music, baglama saz, bass guitar and guitar. I grew up near Maastricht, Limburg at the tripoint between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, close to France, at the heartland of Charlemagne's Holy Roman Empire. I studied and lived for more than 10 years in Amsterdam. I took sabbatical periods to live in Ikaria, Greece; Berlin and Moscow. I am expecting a boy Blixa with my girlfriend who is an Emergency Physician. Social media username: remkohdev
Medium: https://medium.com/@remkohdev
Personal website: https://www.remkohde.com

Communities: CUNY, CUNY Startups, Legal Hackers, OpenCamps
Credos: “if you do not code, do not work in tech”, “try your best and do good”, “be true to yourself and truthful to others”, "no-nonsense"
Languages: English, Dutch, advanced German, intermediate French, learning Japanese