Simplifying Frontend Development with Alpine.js and Feature Flags

JavaScriptKC is back on March 20th. Our topics for the month are below.

Location
Retail Success
11230 College Blvd
Overland Park, KS 66210

Schedule
5:30pm - 6:00pm - Arrival and Refreshments
6:00pm - 6:30pm - Speaker #1 - Hunter Trammell
6:30pm - 7:00pm - Speaker #2 - Chris Leon

Speaker: Hunter Trammell
Topic: JavaScript Zen: Simplifying Frontend Development with Alpine.js
Description: To quote the creator of Alpine.js, “I hope you find Alpine to be a breath of fresh air. Silence among noise.” Frontend development has evolved significantly over the years, empowering developers with countless ways to create modern web apps. JavaScript frameworks have helped to streamline development and boost productivity, but they have also presented their own unique set of challenges. In this session, we’ll look at the advantages of adopting a “utility-first” framework to simplify your frontend development without sacrificing functionality. We’ll explore the benefits of leveraging Alpine.js within SSR applications to increase page speed and performance. Finally, we will demonstrate how you can integrate Alpine.js’ declarative templating into your projects - all of this and more without even touching a compiler. Utility-First Frameworks such as Alpine.js allow us to create the same reactive applications we have become accustomed to with minimal overhead. At a file size of about 7kb gzipped, Alpine.js is calm and collected with just 15 attributes, 6 properties, 2 methods, and 0 dependencies. This minimalist ideology similar to the one taken with Tailwind CSS, not only simplifies the development process but it also eliminates some of the complexities that come with heavier frameworks.

Speaker: Chris Leon
Topic: Feature Flags with LaunchDarkly
Description: Learn how to use Feature Flags in from LaunchDarkly in your own JavaScript projects.

Refreshments & Sponsors
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2 .net openings currently, Full stack plus.