"Hooks" - JS Roundabout #19 @ Cancer Research UK

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JS Roundabout #19 will take place at Cancer Research UK's offices in Angel, where we'll be discussing Hooks.

Firstly, we will be hearing from Pete Ainsworth, with a brief intro into tech at Cancer Research.

We will then hear from Bill Granfield of Improbable, with a talk entitled "Refactoring a React application to use Hooks" which will include a demonstration of some live coding. The Hooks API enables us to replace many class-based components with simpler functional components. In this talk, we'll refactor stateful class-based components in an existing React application to use Hooks.

Finally, we'll hear from Ramon Balthazar of Bulb with a talk entitled ‘Get Hooked on Hooks – React gets simpler and ready for primetime’ (abtract to follow).

Pizza and beer/wine/soft drinks will be provided as usual - look forward to seeing you all there!

Agenda:

6:00pm - Arrival, networking, food and drinks!

6:40pm - Pete Ainsworth (Cancer Research) - Intro to Tech at Cancer Research

6:50pm - Bill Granfield (Improbable) - ‘Refactoring a React application to use Hooks' (with live coding)

7:20pm - Ramon Balthazar (Bulb) - ‘Get Hooked on Hooks – React gets simpler and ready for primetime'

7:50pm - Networking and drinks

8:15pm - Pub

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