UtrechtJS Meetup #23

Our next Meetup will be at Brightin. Instead of two big talks, we have just one big one and room for Lightning Talks. If you have something cool to show, please feel free to share it. You don't even have to have something prepared.

Schedule:
18:30: Food & drinks
19:30: Jeroen Heijmans: KnockoutJS As a Benchmark for Fully Fledged SPA Frameworks
20:15: Short break
20:30: Lightning Talks
21:15: Hang around to chat

KnockoutJS As a Benchmark for Fully Fledged SPA Frameworks:

In a nutshell, KnockoutJS holds the middle ground between a templating engine and fully fledged SPA frameworks. It is useful as the main framework for small to pretty reasonably sized projects, yet extremely simple to use and very lightweight. Noticeably, it's much simpler than frameworks like React or Angular. So, your "fully fledged SPA framework" had better be a lot better than KnockoutJS, to be worth the bigger cost!

In this talk we'll cover several things. First, we'll cover the basics of MVVM and how KnockoutJS helps you build an application using that style. We will quickly build a small but useful application with KnockoutJS, to set the stage. After that we'll visit its position in the JavaScript landscape, and use it as a benchmark for the bigger SPA frameworks. At the end you'll know how and when to use KnockoutJS, and hopefully you've also gained some useful insights about the other frameworks.

BIO: Jeroen has been programming since the early 1990s, in a wide variety of languages, frameworks, and stacks. After studying AI in college he's been working with .NET technology (as well as other stacks) since 2005. Early 2017 he joined the fine folks at Infi, having met them through the DomCode conference. You can find him online at https://www.jeroenheijmans.nl and on Twitter as @jeroenheijmans.