Sydney Node Ninjas - @Luxgroup

Welcome to this month’s Node Ninjas, this Thursday, 1st June. Luxgroup have generously offered to open their doors (and their fridges) to our hoards of nodists at Level 12, 201 Kent Street. We will have a number of helpful folks ushering the lifts, so please be there by 6:30pm, however if you’re running late, please message James Richardson on meetup.com

We have three fantastic talks this month, everything from building a Chatbot with NLP through to the latest on reason.js

As usual we’ll have a bit of time allotted to flash talks so if you have anything quick (5 mins or less) to show off or present please let the team know on the night.

The Caffeinated Jester

Migrating from mocha to Jest for testing a NodeJs API server. The challenges, and is it worth it?

Brendan Graetz

Building a Natural Language Processing powered Chatbot with node

Demonstrating how to create a Chatbot with NLP capabilities - not as difficult as you might think with a little bit of node, serverless and lambdas

Kenny Chua

Everything happens for a reason

Flow and Typescript go a long way to providing type safety to an otherwise weakly-typed language. But do they go far enough? Reason is a syntax and toolchain for OCaml, a strongly-typed functional programming language, that has excellent support for JavaScript. Learn all the things you can (and can’t) do in Reason that keep you safer when reading, writing and refactoring

Jacob Bass

See you all on Thursday!

The node.ninjas team