Frontend Ruby with Glimmer DSL for Web

Doors open at 6:15pm. Talk starts at 7:00pm. Networking time starts at 8:00pm.

Frontend Ruby with Glimmer DSL for Web (60m) - Andy Maleh (Senior Software Engineer at Lexop)

Rubyists would rather leverage the productivity, readability, and maintainability benefits of Ruby in Frontend Web Development than JavaScript to cut down development cost and time by half compared to using popular yet inferior JavaScript frameworks with bloated JavaScript code as per Matz's suggestion in his RubyConf 2022 keynote speech to replace JavaScript with Ruby. Fortunately, this is possible in 2024!

This talk is a continuation of the previous [Montreal.rb talk "Intro to Ruby in the Browser"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AdcfbI6A4c&list=PLRAf4zt5oEjc2mqmEN9m_O0JovQCXxvxt&index=6), which ended by promising a new way in the future for developing Web Frontends that would completely revolutionize the way we think about and do Frontend Development using Ruby instead of JavaScript. The future is now!!! The simplest, most intuitive, most straight-forward, and most productive Frontend Framework in existence is here! It is an open-source Ruby gem called Glimmer DSL for Web.

Think of Glimmer DSL for Web as the Rails of Frontend Frameworks. With it, you can finally live in Rubyland in both the Frontend and Backend on the Web! That opens up the door to ideas like rendering Frontend Components in the Backend as Server Components in the future, eliminating the conflict between ERB and JS frontend rendering technologies by leveraging highly readable, maintainable, and productive Ruby code isomorphically.

Speaker Bio:

Andy Maleh is a Fukuoka Ruby 2022 Special Award winner for Glimmer DSL for LibUI (Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Library) after getting judged by Matz (creator of Ruby). He works at Lexop as a Senior Software Engineer. Andy has spoken at various software conferences, including RubyConf, RailsConf, and MountainWest RubyConf. He has a master's degree in Software Engineering from DePaul University, Chicago, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from McGill University, Montreal. In his free time, Andy drums in a rock band, curls in a league, and snowboards. He is also a big sports fan of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Alouettes, Montreal Alliance, and Boston Red Sox.

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If you have a Ruby talk idea you would like to present at a future Montreal.rb meetup, please contact one of the organizers (Andy Maleh or Mathieu Gagné) to get your talk scheduled in an available future meetup month.