React Native, Node + GraphQL, and PlayON: Building the F1 Fantasy Game

Sponsors: PlayON

Hey all,

we've got another action-packed meetup for you this month. We have 3 talks lined up.

PlayON: Building the F1 Fantasy game - Rafael Dalpra, Lee Farrell
PlayON will be speaking about their experience building the official F1 Fantasy game with a 2 month deadline. It uses Ember on the frontend and Rails on the backend. They'll be talking about the challenge from the outset given the tight deadline, the difficulties encountered along the way, the launch weekend and the key learnings from the experience.

Building a Note app with React Native - Juarez Filho
Join me on an adventure creating a Note app taking advantage of React Native and Firebase features. Following this talk, you will learn React Native Best Practices including Modern JavaScript, Material Design for the UI components, and tons of Firebase awesomeness.

Effective ways to build your own mobile backend using Node.js and GraphQL - Wojtek Trocki
GraphQL is an query language that quickly gaining popularity for mobile and web applications as alternative for REST API. In this talk we are going to demystify GraphQL by talking about benefits, available implementations and patterns that could be applied to effectively migrate REST based servers to GraphQL.

A big shoutout to PlayON who'll be sponsoring pizza this month (as well as contributing a talk). Here's a bit about them:

PlayON's goal is to deliver the ultimate online sports entertainment experience to sports fans across the world. Since going live in 2012, PlayON has registered customers from over 100 countries PlayON differs from other Daily Fantasy Sports operators in that it only offers real-money Daily Fantasy Sports games to customers based in regulated territories.
PlayON currently offers Daily Fantasy Games in Football, Basketball, Cricket, Rugby Union, Rugby League, AFL, NFL, Tennis and Golf. More sports are due for release over the coming months.

Doors into Intercom will open at 6.30pm with talks kicking off at 7pm.

As per usual we'll have a limited number of RSVPs so if it turns out you can't make it, please release it for others to take advantage of.

Thanks,
Chris & Pat