MEETUP | What are we up to in Javascript? Meet Zoltán Kocsán and Tamás Kökény!

Node.js BP continues on March 6 co-hosted with BudapestJS and Bobcats Coding! Come and meet with fellow developers, network and have fun over some pizza! During this event, we're featuring two trailblazing lead software engineers ready to unveil how they spark their creativity with JavaScript in early 2024. Both presentations are in English.

Here's the details:

📆 Date and Time: March 6, 2024
🏠 Location: Create26, Budapest
🎟️ Tickets: It's free, just like your favorite open-source library, but please RSVP in advance so we can order enough pizza!🍕

SPEAKERS 🎤

1. ZOLTÁN KOCSÁN, BIT, Ukraine
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZoltanKochan
🚀 Lead maintainer of pnpm since 2016, which started as a completely independent open-source package manager for JavaScript. Zoltán is an engineer at Bit. He works on the dependency management aspect of the Bit CLI. Previously worked at JustAnswer, where he was mainly working on front-end infrastructure.

2. TAMAS KÖKENY, Bobcats Coding, Lisbon&Budapest
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EggDice
👨‍💻 Experienced Full Stack Developer, current co-founder and CTO of Bobcats Coding and serial entrepreneur, specializing in a versatile range of technologies. Tamás excels in building robust backend and captivating frontend applications using JavaScript. He's also a wizard at designing budget-friendly cloud infrastructure solutions. Ever-ready to take on fresh challenges and keep up with emerging tech.

TOPICS THAT WE ARE GOING TO COVER 📚

1. Package management in monorepos
We’ll talk about some of the pain points and look into recipes for effective package management in monorepos. We’ll discuss how package management works with npm, pnpm, and Yarn. Furthermore, I’ll show you a new tool that is less known but improves developer experience by a lot.

2. Enough of the components already!
Since the early 2010s, the main paradigm to structure our code on the frontend is components. You cannot find a modern UI framework that is not based on components. They helped us to reuse a tremendous amount of code compared to the jQuery days. However, their pervasive use across all aspects of codebases, even beyond UI rendering, has led to challenges. Many modern tools and libraries are now deeply intertwined with components, affecting code reusability and testability and tying our work too closely to specific frameworks. If we follow a couple of practices to decouple our code, they will make it easier to test and reuse, not just on the component level, but in our business logic as well. In this talk, I will demonstrate how we can achieve that.

PROGRAM🤓

• 17:45: Arrival and mingling
• 18:00: Zoltán Kocsán's presentation
• 18:30: Q&A, chat, break
• 18:50: Tamás Kökény's presentation
• 19:20: Q&A, chat, break
• 20:00: Last slices of pizza, closing

See you there!