Node.js Meetup #42 (free Pizza 🍕 and Drinks 🍺)

## Details

### Presentations 📽️

Talk One: The Danger of Next.js and the Future of fullstack Development
By: Yasser Fadl

Using Next.js as our case study (given its dominant market shar) we’ll explore how fullstack frameworks are reshaping backend development. We'll dive deep into the trade-offs of a fullstack deployment strategy, examining both the rapid iteration benefits and the hidden pitfalls such as tight coupling, scaling challenges, and testing complexities. Additionally, we’ll discuss strategies to mitigate these risks and highlight emerging solutions (like pikku.dev) designed to reconcile developer agility with robust, maintainable backend architectures.

Talk Two: Write once, deploy anywhere: Building Serverless apps with Hono
By: Harshil Agrawal and Nele Uhlemann

You are building a new serverless application with JavaScript and you need to handle auth, CORS, logging, and what not! For each one of these capabilities you install a new node package. Your app works fine. But you are now asked to deploy the app to a different JavaScript runtime environment. What do you do now? Do you have to rewrite the code all over again? Or can you write code once, and deploy it on all the environments? Join us in this talk to learn how Hono, a lightweight JS library, makes it easy to build serverless apps that can be deployed anywhere!

### Schedule 🕖

7:00 -> Doors Open
7:30 -> Intro by our amazing hosts at contentful
7:40 -> The Danger of Next.js and the Future of fullstack Development
8:10 -> Short Break
8:20 -> Write once, deploy anywhere: Building Serverless apps with Hono
8:50 -> Networking
9:40-> Doors close

### Hosting 🏠

Contentful has offered to host our meetup in their incredible event space in Berlin! This will also include pizza and drinks. I'm extremely grateful for their support and help bringing this meetup back!
They are also hiring, come meet some of the team and possibly get a sneak peak at their incredible office when you arrive.

### Code of Conduct 🫶

We follow the Berlin Code of Conduct and expect every attendee to do the same. Let’s ensure a respectful, inclusive, and welcoming environment for all.

Thanks and excited to meet you there!