Online: Gatsby & Strapi, WebAssembly, Building a query language in TS
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Hi folks! Here's another covid-safe BrisJS broadcast, straight to your eyeballs via youtube! Thanks for our volunteer speakers, you'll be learning and entertained live, with our usual interactive options for Q&A.
Quick shoutout: Code://Remote is an online conference version of WebDirections Code happening in Sept. This Friday is the last date you can purchase an early bird ticket - if you're keen on a cheaper pass, check out https://webdirections.org/code/ and have a look at the great speakers.
πΉ Youtube Livestream of the Virtual Event:
Just RSVP and you'll see the youtube link on this event page (on the right sidebar!), and you can subscribe to the BrisJS youtube channel π
β Questions/voting and feedback will be gathered using Slido for Q&A:
https://app.sli.do/event/stfuoo0a
We still really need more volunteers, so please don't be shy, do get in touch for next month or beyond!
π§© WebAssembly, your browsers sandbox - Aaron Powell (@slace) - 30m
We've been doing web development for 30+ years and in all that time have you ever stopped to think, βThis SPA needs more C++β? Well thanks to the power of WebAssembly you can finally bring C, C++, Rust, Go and other high level languages to the browser.
So does this mean that we can replace our JavaScript with these other languages? Probably not, so what is the role that WebAssembly can play in building web applications? And most importantly, what does it look like as a web developer to try and incorporate these platforms that have traditionally been on the server?
For this talk, we'll look at some of the fundamentals of WebAssembly, how to incorporate it into our development process and ultimately what it looks like to build an application that uses a mixed development stack.
π When to reinvent the wheel? Building your own query language in TypeScript - Ashley Davis (@ashleydavis75) - 15m
Were you ever unsatisfied enough with an existing framework that you took the completely crazy step of rewriting it?
Well, that just happened to Ashley Davis. He's just finished rebuilding GraphQL in TypeScript.
We'll talk about "reinventing the wheel". Why is it considered bad? When is it a good time to reinvent things?
We'll look at how the new query language was developed and see a demo of it in action!
π· Gatsby & Strapi - Camilo Buitrago (@cebuitragor) - 30m
We've heard a little about Gatsby last month and we get to dive into how we could use it with Strapi, a headless CMS. Camilo will revise us through how Graphql will become the glue between these parts of the stack and take us through how to set everything up.
π Our zoom pro account is sponsored by PCCW Global.
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β Why not volunteer to speak next time? We're taking talks anytime! https://brisjs.org/#present for details... or...
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BrisJS is dedicated to a harassment-free experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found at: https://brisjs.org/#conduct
We expect everyone to abide by this straight-forward policy to attend in person or interact online.
Please get in touch for presenting your insightful discoveries in the rapidly developing frontend or backend javascript world.
You're also welcome to get in touch with me at kevinv@brisjs.org (or tweet at @brisjs) for any information or future events.
