ReactJS August @ your location

The ReactJS Dallas User Group stays online for our August 2020 event. Please join us as we keep our distance. No masks required (unless you are in public!). 😇

All RSVPs will receive a link to a Zoom meeting the day of the event (don't share it, please). 🙏

6:45 - 7:00pm: “Jobs Open Chat”
7:00pm: Welcome from our organizers
7:00 - 7:30pm: Speakers
• Ryan Boone - "Accessible React"
• Yang Zhang - "Building React UIs Visually"
7:45pm: Questions and close of event

Location: Wherever your internet + device are located! 🌎

The Web is for everyone. It’s one of the foundational principles of the internet, and it’s an idea that’s disappearing more and more every year. A recent survey of the top million homepages on the internet found 98% of them had accessibility errors, up 1.2% from the previous year. The Web cannot be for everyone if not everyone can access it.
But there’s hope! In Accessible React, we’ll explore what makes Web content accessible, answer whether or not React can create accessible markup (spoiler: it can), and learn how we can bake accessibility best practices into React components. If you build stuff for the Web and React is your jam, this talk is for you.

Ryan is a front-end developer and designer based in Fort Worth, TX with a passion for web technologies, inclusivity, and Texas BBQ. He currently helps make the space that comes from The Container Store.

Design tools are fast and amazing tools for thought, but for a host of reasons they are limited to creating drawings rather than production assets. Engineers must instead re-create surfaces from scratch, by hand, using code (often heavily using tools like the Devtools CSS inspector, the closest thing engineers have to a design tool). This inevitably leads to discrepancies and back-and-forth with the design team, and ultimately two sources of truth that are never truly in sync. History has seen a number of attempts at bridging this gap.
This talk deep-dives into one such stab. Plasmic is a React UI builder. It loosely resembles a design tool and aims to give the same sense of speedy iteration, but is for building maintainable, production-ready presentational components. The idea is to give developers a better and faster development experience, eliminate an entire class of visual bugs/QA/tooling, and ultimately maintain a single source of truth with design. This talk will also cover some of the challenges with building such a tool (which itself is a React application).

Yang had an early career in distributed DBs and ML, but over the years developed a love for frontend. He also went from big companies to startups. His time with React and JS has seen him build complex spreadsheet software and massively multiplayer real-time browser games. He is now building Plasmic full-time.

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