Decoding coding React with Aaron Powell | Web Wednesday

What is the session about?
Web development can be challenging and sometimes might feel a little overwhelming. There are so many different technologies, emerging languages, and plug-ins that it can be hard to keep up. We’ve decide to break it down for you week by week in our Web Wednesday Interview show. This week we are going to talk about React. React is one of the most popular JavaScript UI libraries but it can be a bit mind bending to get started with. From data immutability to functional programming to writing HTML in JavaScript files, it can all be quite confusing to developers. Aaron Powell has been working with React since v0.8 and is here to share what he’s learnt working with React since then.

Who is it aimed at?
This show is for anyone who is interested in Web Development and wants to talk about what's new and exciting in the world of web development!

Why should you attend?
Each week we'll bring on people from the product teams and experts in different areas of web development. Aaron is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft with a passion for JavaScript, .NET, whacky ideas and running long distances. He’ll help us decode and understand React to start using in our projects.

Presenter:
Aaron Powell, Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Aaron is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Having spent 15 years doing web development he’s seen it all, from browser wars, the rise of AJAX and the fall of 20 JavaScript frameworks (and that was just yesterday!). Always tinkering with something new he explores crazy ideas like writing your own implementation of numbers in .NET, creating IoC in JavaScript or implementing tic-tac-toe using git commits. When not sitting at a computer he can be found running while pushing his two kids in a pram.

Christopher Harrison, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Christopher is a longtime web dev who turned a coding hobby into a career. Currently a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, he never lost the joy he felt in writing code and having the computer do what he asked and sharing that passion with others. These days he can be found at a keyboard writing TypeScript and Python. When not at a keyboard he can be found running long distances or relaxing with his wife and their four-legged child (an adorable dog) in Seattle.