BostonJS - Web Components, Proxy, Class and CanJS 6 & Debugging Secrets

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Save the date for the next edition of BostonJS!

Thank you to TagUp for sponsoring and hosting! Thanks for providing us with the food and drinks!

🗣 PRESENTERS 🗣

🎤 Web Components, Proxy, Class and CanJS 6 with Justin Meyer - CEO of Bitovi

CanJS 6 beta is out. CanJS 6 makes it easy to build and test native web components that work in all modern browsers ... without a build step! CanJS uses a proxied class to enable writing live-binding components in a straightforward object-oriented way. This talk will cover:

• the benefits of native web components.
• the basics of building native web components with CanJS 6
• how CanJS uses proxies

Justin Meyer is a contributor to CanJS (a web app framework), StealJS (a module loader) and DoneJS (a kitchen sink). He's also the CEO of Bitovi (a web consultancy). As a writer of autobiographical blurbs, he knows to use his two children, love of history books, and hobbies like running to make him appear more human. But is he really ...

🎤 Debugging secrets of the pros, for everyone with Jen Weber - Software engineer

How on earth do people write and debug complex JavaScript codebases? It turns out that console.log only gets you so far, but some next-level debugging skills can empower you to work in unfamiliar and difficult code bases. In this talk, you'll learn real-world strategies gathered from pairing sessions with senior engineers, consultants, and open source library authors. Whether you're a front end or back end developer, whether you have 10 weeks or 10 years experience, you'll have something concrete to take away.

Jen Weber is an engineer at Cardstack, a core team member for Ember.js, and a tech writer. (she/her/they/them)

⏰ SCHEDULE ⏰

6:00 - 6:40 pm Welcome, networking!
6:40 - 6:50 pm Opening notes
6:50 - 8:20 pm Talks
8:20 - 8:40 pm Networking, Bye!

👩‍💻 ORGANIZERS 👨‍💻

Lina Lekova - Lead Organizer BostonJS
Vinay Raghu - Co-organizer BostonJS
Adam Conrad - Co-organizer BostonJS

ℹ️ INFO ℹ️

BostonJS is a community of dev professionals and enthusiasts! We get together to talk about JS, discuss frameworks, new trends, share knowledge and make friends! You can join our slack group at https://boston-javascript-slackin.herokuapp.com.

BostonJS has a Code of Conduct https://jsconf.com/codeofconduct.html