2024 #4 Hello JavaScript!

Get out and get social in 2024 : come out and discuss JS together!
Get in touch with the organizers with any questions you have. We welcome a diverse range of topics that are related in any way to JavaScript and the community around it.
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Talks from previous meetups can be found on our YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@praguejs/videos

Venue schedule:

18.30 - door open
18.45 - talks kick off
20.45 - talks done
21.00 - beer time

AGENDA:

Javascript/development lifehacks (EN)
Josef Válek | Apify

Abstract:
Working on a large codebase full of living legacy code comes with various challenges. In this talk, we will explore a random selection of techniques we take while developing, testing, and maintaining Apify platform. This will include, for example:
- Local DEV stack
- Seeding testing data - approach to gray box testing.
- REPL - making project-specific interactive cli.
- Tip on remote debugging :)

Quiz of funny and tricky JavaScript examples (EN)
Jindřich Máca | Make

Abstract:
We all know that JavaScript is quite a "complex" language with its tricky parts. Some of them can make us laugh out loud, and some of them can quickly turn our everyday job into hell... Let's take a deeper dive and explore them together in the form of an entertaining quiz with tricky examples followed by even trickier explanations. And to top it off, let's make it a small competition and count individual scores!

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