Statically Generating Performance with GatsbyJS

This month React Ladies is joining up with our friends at the NYC Web Performance Group https://www.meetup.com/Web-Performance-NY/events/259982710/ for a great meetup about performance with Gatsby, a React framework for building websites and apps.

When Harry's launched Flamingo, a women's care brand, they invested in static rendering with Gatsby to deliver the site's frontend in a scalable and performant way.

This talk explores the differences between server-rendering and static-rendering for web frontends, and lays out the architecture for shopflamingo.com. It discusses the importance of building a performance culture through monitoring and automation, and how building for performance helps ensure that sites are accessible for users, regardless of their access to fast networks and devices.

Tim Brown (@_brimtown), Senior Software Engineer at Harry's / Flamingo is a software engineer who builds for the web. He loves crafting intuitive and performant experiences for users. He is a Senior Software Engineer at Harry's, Inc, focusing on frontend architecture, web performance, and design systems.

Meetup is hosting us again. There will be food + drinks along with geekaways (geeky prizes given away) provided by Fastly and Catchpoint.

Agenda:

6:30 - Arrive at Meetup, meet other members
6:45 - Event starts
7:00 - Statically Generating Performance (Tim Brown)
8:00 - Q&A
8:15 - "Books and Stuff" geekaways
8:30 - Open Discussion, Networking

Location:

Meetup
632 Broadway
9th floor
New York, NY

Directions on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/VUw23K

Entrance on StreetView: https://goo.gl/h4Cwh6

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- Fastly (https://www.fastly.com/) is the only CDN that gives businesses complete control over how they serve content and the ability to cache frequently changing content at the edge.

- Catchpoint's (https://www.catchpoint.com/) end-user experience monitoring provides complete visibility into users’ experiences from anywhere to detect and fix issues faster.

Code of Conduct

React Ladies is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Participants violating these rules may be removed from this community at the discretion of the organizers. (Adapted from JS Conf Code of Conduct)