e2e typesafety; Server-state handling w/ React Query & Hooks; Career laddering

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This meetup is in partnership with the ReactJS SF/Real World React meetups. We're really excited to feature two talks and a fireside chat at this event!

Schedule Overview

• 5:30pm: Food & drinks, open networking
• 6:35: Welcome & introduction
• 6:40: Talks
• 7:30: Fireside Chat
• 8:20: Networking
• 9:30: Doors close

Talk 1
Colin McDonnell: The holy grail of end-to-end typesafety
End-to-end typesafety is easier than ever in a full stack TypeScript app. Tools like Remix loaders, Next.js Layouts, and tRPC make it painless to infer a type on the server—say, the response from an API endpoint—and consume that type in our frontend code.

As this solidifies as a best practice, it raises the bar for our server-side tools, especially the ones we use to query our database. Great type inference is a must-have, but historically this has come at the expense of querying power. In this talk, we’ll discuss EdgeDB, how it compares to using ORMs or SQL, and how its TypeScript query builder pulls off the holy grail of data access: combining the power of a full query language with (nearly) perfect type inference.

About Colin
Colin is a TypeScript superfan, former digital nomad, and current Head of DX at EdgeDB. He's also the creator of Zod, a co-creator of tRPC, and a consumer of excessive quantities of Diet Dr. Pepper.

Talk 2
Fernando De La Madrid : Effortless server state handling with React Query and Hooks (from a Redux fan)
Handling server state can be complex and become more challenging with things like refetching, retries, and caching. In the name of writing less code and having simplified solutions… enter React Query.
React Query simplifies the way we fetch, cache, and synchronize data from a server.
In this talk, you will have a quick tour from basic to more advanced server state handling patterns using React Query. Additionally, you'll have a peek at Checkr's code refactor moving away from redux to react-query not only for server state but for application state as well.

About Fernando
I'm a Full-Stack Software Engineer passionate about technology and learning something new every day. My favorite parts of software engineering are the endless possibilities, creativity, and opportunities. I love making beautiful, fast, and user-friendly web apps, while exploring new and versatile backend technologies.

Fireside Chat
Swizec Teller interviews Rick Takes: Career laddering & leadership for engineers
Join us in this fireside chat as Swizec Teller, author of the Senior Engineering Mindset, sits down with Rick Takes, Senior Director of Engineering at Netlify, to discuss what it takes to move from IC into a leadership and management role.

About Rick
Rick Takes is the Senior Director of Engineering at Netlify. With more than 15 years in the industry he has worked and contracted for companies such as Cisco, Google and Adobe. Rick co-founded and ran a successful design and engineering agency based in San Francisco and most recently has been leading large engineering teams in the startup space.

About Swizec
Swizec is a software engineer, author, educator, and conference speaker. He's published books on modern web technologies, data visualization, and productivity, and has trained engineering teams at Fortune500 companies. Now he's distilling 20 years of tacit experience into actionable steps.

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