March meetup talks: Testing, Dojo 2, ES6, and TypeScript

Our monthly meetup will be held on Monday March 14th at Skills Matter CodeNode (Note this is a different night than normal). Please remember to RSVP also at the Skills Matter site, ( https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/7720-london-ajax-usergroup )

Agenda:

18:00: Meet and greet

18:30: Cross browser unit testing with BrowserStack

18:45: An in-depth introduction to Dojo 2, by Kitson Kelly and Dylan Schiemann

20:00: HalfStack 2016 conference tickets go on sale, and pub time

Speakers:

Jonathan Fielding

Jonathan is a Technical Architect at Beamly, where he focuses on building out and improving the site to offer users the best possible experience. The main drive behind anything that Jonathan does is whether it will benefit someone in some way, whether that be through improving UX on or through contributing to open source to help push the web forward. Outside of work, he has written Beginning Responsive Design with HTML5 and CSS3 and has worked on many open source projects including SimpleStateManager, Echo.js ResponsiveJavascript.com and Doccy. Aside from development he also has an awesome collection of geeky t-shirts.

Kitson Kelly

Kitson Kelly is the CTO of SitePen, a company focused on making enterprise web applications better. He is a long time Dojo Toolkit committer, and formally ran technology for NOW TV.

Dylan Schiemann

As CEO of SitePen and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, Dylan is best known for building web applications that make use of JavaScript/Ajax, Dojo, and other standard web development technologies. Dylan is also a committer to Intern, and on the board of the combined jQuery and Dojo Foundation. Dylan has delivered hundreds of presentations at conferences throughout the world, started the London Ajax User Group, co-founded Comet Daily, and authored a chapter in the book Even Faster Web Sites. Prior to JavaScript, Dylan earned his Masters in Physical Chemistry from UCLA and his B.A. in Mathematics from Whittier College.

Full talk descriptions:

Cross browser unit testing with BrowserStack

As web developers one of our biggest challenges is to ensure our sites work as we expect across multiple browsers. This talk will explore how we can use BrowserStack to write tests that test our code across the browsers we support. Bring your phones and makes sure you connect to the wifi as the talk will have some small interactions.

An in-depth introduction to Dojo 2

This talk will look at the current progress of Dojo 2, the roadmap, and some of the interesting development concepts in use. It will be an interesting discussion around architecture, modern best practices, leveraging the virtual DOM, solid usage of ES6, TypeScript, composition, and more! It should be an interesting look into how to design a modern toolkit and approach to defining architecture.