NationJS-Eve

NationJS is November 13. This is the pre-party! NationJS will provide food and drink. Doors open at 6pm. Presentations will be from 7pm-9pm, and afterwards we will go to one of the many great bars in the neighborhood.

Talk 1: Pet Portraits on a Meteor, by Will Sankey

Connecting people wanting portraits of their pets to aspiring artists was our goal -- MeteorJS was our means. This talk will explore how we went about creating e-commerce platform www.PetPortrait.Club using MeteorJS. It will outline the packages we used and the joys (and pitfalls) of working with Meteor. Healthcare professional and developer hobbyist Will Sankey uses Javascript and Python to explore data and create value. You can find more about him at www.WillSankey.com.

Talk 2: Javascript is a Burrito Cart, by Mike Atkins

In this talk, we'll explore Javascript's concurrency model and explore some scenarios in which this model helps us and some scenarios where this model hurts us. Mike has been writing Javascript since 2011. In that time he's written several npm packages (some of which are used), the most important of which, edgar-facts, will teach you about his dog.

Talk 3: Oboe.js, better JSON through streams, by Juan Caicedo

Working with large JSON documents in a web app can be slow and cumbersome. Don't let your UX or performance suffer, instead bring the event driven nature of Unix streams to your REST data transfer, using Oboe.js. Juan has been node-ing since NationJS last year. He's a full-stack dev at Fluencia, where we works on the biggest Spanish-English online dictionary. He finds refactoring therapeutic, playing board games exhilerating, and he never grew out of climbing trees.

NationJS is close to sold out, but you can snag one of the remaining tickets with this promo code for a discount!

https://nationjs2015.eventbrite.com/?discount=js2015nodedc

The location is iStrategyLabs, 641 S St, NW, Floor 1, Washington, DC. This is steps from the Shaw/Howard U metro stop on the Green/Yellow line.

Co-hosted with DCJS.