Workshop: React + WebPack + MobX + Glamor

Come learn how to integrate React, WebPack, MobX and Glamor/Glamorous into a pretty amazing frontend development toolkit. We will discuss approaches to solving UI problems using React and related tools, modern ES6/7 functionality, state management and novel approaches to application styling using CSS-in-JS.

• React - a UI library for building fast, flexible and easy to reason about frontend applications

• MobX - reactive state management library

• WebPack - a next-generation build tool that is incredibly powerful

• Glamor/Glamorous - two complimentary CSS-in-JS tools that leverage the power of JavaScript for CSS

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Length: 4-5 hours
Suggested donation: $20 (or whatever you're able to offer!)
Attendee limit: 10 (please RSVP! No drop-ins!)
Agenda:

• Introductions + Coffee/Donuts + Quick socializing

• Overview of what we will go over

• Hands on overview of React

• Overview of WebPack setup

• Using MobX for state management

• CSS-in-JS (CSSX) using Glamor/Glamorous

• Open ended discussion

• Wrap up, next steps

Come on down, don't be shy! Refreshments will be provided

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About NorCal.js

We are a member-supported group, and depend on our members to give presentations, so for future meetups please consider raising your hand or sending us a note! You don't have to be an expert to give a talk, just passionate about something JavaScript related! We are a friendly, accepting group, so don't be shy :D

We're also looking fill one or two presenter slot(s) for the October meetup. Send Garrick a message, if you have a JavaScript topic you would like to talk about. We apply presentation styles of various formats, including lighting talks, workshops, coding workshops etc. So, we're open to whatever you may have in mind.

Thanks and see you soon!