April 2019 Meetup
Details
Workshop: Front-end application with ClojureScript
The workshop is divided into two levels - Base and Advance. April Meetup will cover Base level and May Meetup will cover Advance one. A glimpse of the Advance level can be found on the May meetup page.
Goal (Base level)
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The Base level is designed to help you understand the fundamentals. It will help you:
- Develop a foundation to build upon - understand View-Interaction-State relationship
- Get your front-end app off the ground
- Make something beautiful that you can use and show-off
Agenda (Base level)
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Total duration: 4 hrs
Arrival/Intros: till 2.30pm
We will start the workshop sessions at 2.30pm sharp so that the planned agenda can be covered within the specified duration.
Sprint 1: 2.30 - 3.30pm
- Mental model: We had a talk on “Front-end app mental model” during march meetup. We will revisit the mental model quickly, as it is the foundation for the approach we will take to build our front-end application.
- Creating an app and understanding the basic details
- Index file, CSS, Hiccup, Figwheel, and other similar basic details
Break: 3.30 - 3.45pm
Sprint 2: 3.45 - 5.15pm
Make a Blog app
- Design the app
- React rendering and re-rendering
- Logic flow
- More on views (Collection, Forms, Grid system)
Break: 5.15 - 5.30pm
Sprint 3: 5.30 - 6.00pm
- Deploy it on Heroku
- Pushing future changes to Heroku
Closing & Networking: 6.00 - 6.30pm
Pre-requisites
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- Basic Clojure knowledge
- A code editor that you like. If you are in the decision making phase, use LightTable (http://lighttable.com/) and install these plugins: Parinfer, Rainbow, ClojureInstarepl.
- Git
- Heroku account (free): https://www.heroku.com
- Lein: https://leiningen.org/
Non-goal
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- Self-hosted vs JVM
- Using JavaScript libraries
- Build-tools comparison
- And, many similar accessories
Facilitators:
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- Amarjeet (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarjeety/)
- Naga Raj (https://www.linkedin.com/in/naga-raj-067382b7/)
For any question related to the workshop or preparation for the workshop, you can comment on this page. Else, we are active on Clojurians Slack (https://clojurians.slack.com) in #bangalore-clj channel as well. You can ask for a free invite here: http://clojurians.net/.
April 2019 Meetup