July 2019 Edition. React context and terminal applications.

Hi Folks!

And here we go again! This time in the hot month of July.

Our schedule for this time:

18.00: Dinner (halal and vegetarian options should be available)

19.00: Life after Redux: Handling State-Management in React with Context and Hooks - Roy Derks (@gethackteam)

With the introduction of React 16.8, Hooks became part of the official release. Together with the previously revamped Context API, it allows you to handle state-management in a declarative way. But how does this compare to existing state-management solutions like Redux?

19.45: Writing terminal applications with React - Norbert de Langen (@NorbertDeLangen)

Writing applications is cool, the web is cool, but developers spend a big chunk of their time interacting with the terminal.

Running start-scripts, unit tests, debugging, linters, are usually done via command line interfaces.

Writing those yourself can be really simple! Just take something like commander and you're off, right?
For interactivity you could use something like enquirer.

These libraries are cool, really cool actually. but you know what's even more cool? Using react to build your terminal applications!

I'll show you how I am writing the new storybook CLI using ink.

20.30: Beers!

About our speakers:

Roy Derks is a serial startup CTO and conference speaker from Amsterdam. He also teaches React and GraphQL at http://reactgraphql.academy, and works on open-source JavaScript projects for the City of Amsterdam.

Norbert de Langen is an advocate for Component Driven Development, is a full-time open source maintainer of the project Storybook.
Besides being passionate about the tech & open-source, he is just as -if not more- passionate about creating a community around the tech.

React.Rotterdam is an independent meetup aimed at knowledge sharing, learning something new,and meeting other people in the community.

Interested in presenting at one of our next meetups? Contact Ivan Zub (ivan.zub at mendix.com) and Jef Hellemans (jef.hellemans at mendix.com) for details.