JAMstack SF Meetup - July!

Hello! Welcome to the JAMstack SF meetup!

We know it's been a while since our last meetup but we had to get a bit reorganized and now things are moving in a positive direction! We're kicking off our first meetup with some great talks, food and fun that you will not want to miss. Full speaker lineup coming soon.

We have secured a sponsor with Microsoft Reactor. They will be our sole venue sponsor and will also be providing us food and beverages to kickstart our first meetup at their location in the heart of SF!

If you are interested in speaking, please feel free to email tessamero@gmail.com or anyone on the Organizers list and we will get you set up!

Schedule:
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM - Network/Eat
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM - Introduction from the Organizers/MC
6:40 PM - 7:10 PM - "JAMStack with Gatsby, Contentful and Netlify aka the Dream Stack" by Zane Staggs
7:10 PM - 7:40 PM - "How JWTs & GraphQL complement each other to make authentication and authorization seamless" by Sean Grove
7:40 PM - 8:00 PM - Network / Closing

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Talk #1

JAMstack with Gatsby, Contentful and Netlify, aka the Dream Stack

Description:
There are a ton of options when working with the JAMstack but one of the most preferred ways is to use Gatsby, Contentful and Netlify aka the Dream Stack. Let's run through some ways to make the dream a reality and have fun doing it. We will go through the basics of each technology and end up with a fully running website by the end of the talk. Yes there will be some code but it will only be fun code because it wouldn't be a Dream Stack if it wasn't fun.

Presenter:
Zane Staggs, Senior Engineer Square, Inc.

Bio:
Zane Staggs is a veteran web developer and senior engineer who has worked at a long list of startups in the Bay Area and is currently happily employed at Square, Inc. When not coding up awesome websites and user interfaces he enjoys snowboarding, surfing, tinkering with technology and living the Northern California lifestyle with his wife and kids. Zane practices the art of coding while having fun and JAMstack is his preferred way to achieve that.

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Talk #2

How JWTs & GraphQL complement each other to make authentication and authorization seamless

Description:
Which comes first, JWT or GraphQL? Both!
(More descriptive abstract TBD!)

Presenter:
Sean Grove, Co-Founder at OneGraph

Bio:
Sean's a cofounder at OneGraph, a unifying GraphQL gateway to the best APIs on the internet. Sean's been convinced there are better ways to develop applications across the stack for years, and built time-travelling debuggers, interface builders, layout tools, and graphic design tools in his quest to explore the space

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