Why I Build with Angular + Ionic; AI for QA; Claude Code Lessons Learned

Hello everyone! Have some fun topics lined up! Meetup will be hosted at The Grove Hotel, the Ivy room on the 2nd floor, in downtown Boise. After-meetup get together at Taphouse.

Meetup Schedule:

6:00 - 6:15: Gather and meet your fellow devs

We aren't allowed to bring our own food/drink into this meeting space but water will be provided, we'll hang out at Taphouse afterwards and can get some food/drink then.

6:15 - 7:00: Why I Build with Angular + Ionic - Matt Taylor @ Dionysus

Let's walk through building hybrid mobile apps with the Angular + Ionic + Capacitor + Firebase stack. We’ll hit on working with native APIs, iOS vs Android quirks, plugin quality, and the tradeoffs of running in a webview. I’ll also cover what Capacitor brings to the table vs Cordova, deploy processes for web + native, and how the Firebase suite ties it all together with TypeScript in the frontend and backend.

7:00 - 7:15: AI for QA: Testing using Natural Language - Jeremy Zerr @ Zerrtech

Enable your QA team to write their own tests without code using the latest developments in LLMs to turn test cases written in natural language into automated end to end tests. Live demo of a startup idea I have been working on.

7:15 - 7:45: Months of Claude Code Lessons in 30 mins - Jeremy Zerr & Daniel Ryan @ Zerrtech

Claude Code has become an important tool in our development workflow and our preferred way to use AI for coding. We'll share some lessons learned from the Zerrtech team as we've been using Claude Code on projects from greenfield prototypes to years-old code bases. How do you get AI to write good code? How can you bring AI to existing development process vs changing everything for AI? What other tools do we use with Claude Code? We'll cover all this and more.

7:45 - 8:00: Lightning Talks & Wrap Up

Lightning Talks:

Anybody can come up and share what kind of Front-end programming frameworks, work projects, side projects, things you have learned or have been working with over the last month. These presentations do not need slides, or code examples, but they never hurt.

Presentations should be less than five minutes. Think of it like an open mic night. This will allow us to see what kind of cool stuff people are working on, know who might have expertise in a particular area, and will allow us to determine what kind of topics might be interesting for others in the future. We've also found that it helps to encourage those who don't normally present to make their way to the front of the room.

8:00 - ?: Post-meetup at Taphouse - drinks and food sponsored by Zerrtech