DevC Melbourne: First look Flutter.io vs React Native

Facebook Developer's Circle 2nd event for 2018 has us very excited, we have a great speaker lined up to introduce to Flutter.io a cross-platform development library from the big G company that shall not be named :P We'll look at how it compares to Facebook's React Native.

Join us at Xeros offices for some nibbles, Cold Drinks and the usual great company. Speakers for the night:

Steve Cooper (aka Developer Steve)

A look at Flutter.io and How it compares to React Native.

Aside from being renowned worldwide for this awesome dev jokes, Steve is API and Platform Evangelist Telstra TelstraDev. He's an established international speaker and respected technologist Steven has covered some half million kilometres as a speaker and mentor at over 100 tech and developer events. Among his activities in the international community Steven has helped run the acclaimed BattleHack series for PayPal/Braintree all over the world.

Representing global technology companies such as PayPal, Braintree and Xero Steven has worked closely with developer communities as a Tech Evangelist and industry thought leader to develop and nurture the healthy start-up and developer culture that continues to flourish.

Josh Parnham - Writing Your First Babel Plugin

Babel (https://babeljs.io) is an integral part of modern JavaScript development, it takes “next-gen JavaScript” (and optionally other syntax like JSX and Flow) and transpiles it into code that can be used in older browsers. It’s also used heavily in other non-web contexts, like React Native!

Babel plugins are an important part of this toolchain, and are responsible for transforming source code. In this presentation I’ll give an introduction to key concepts in the babel parser, and demonstrate how you can build plugins that can be used in your project

Josh is a full-stack junior developer currently working in the iOS team at Xero. He thoroughly enjoys laptop stickers, a good coffee and tinkering with cool tech. He’s involved in the Unihack organising committee, who put on Australia’s premier student hackathon annually in August.