July JavaScript Meetup

• Doors at 6, 6:30 talks.

Venue and food sponsored by Chariot Solutions.

We'll hang out afterward at Han Dynasty.

The Future of Functional Programming in JavaScript - Molly Everett @mollymorphic (https://twitter.com/mollymorphic)

The JavaScript language (and JavaScript development) continues to become more powerful, exciting, and diverse. This talk briefly discusses the history of functional programming in JavaScript, then continues to explore what changes enabled the current state and the implications of the intersection of new language features, libraries coming to the language/engines/community. Concurrently, it explores some of the tools of interest to the speaker such as ramda, sweet.js, babel and more with practical examples demonstrate one possible "Future of Functional Programming in JS".

Polymer in Practice – Chris Lorenzo @chiefcll (https://twitter.com/mollymorphic)

Are you looking to build a cutting edge responsive web app? Instead of using heavy frameworks, that take time to learn, maintain and replace, #UseThePlatform and leverage new web platform primitives to build a better web!

You'll see how simple and elegant the Polymer library makes building web components. You'll get to hear how Comcast is building its next generation single page apps using the latest browser APIs and Polymer's building block model.

You'll walk away from this talk with a peek at Comcast's development environment and an understanding of what it takes to get a production app up and running with Polymer. In addition you'll acquire some best practices on how to separate your UI from your backend, keeping your front end static and easy to deploy. Lastly, we'll take a look at the resources available for you to easily get started with Polymer.=

Event sponsored by Chariot Solutions! (http://chariotsolutions.com/)

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