React Girls Berlin #2 - GraphQL & Chatbot-like experiences

Hi! 👋

Welcome to the second ReactJS Girls Berlin.

Thanks to YLD for organizing and SumUp for hosting and providing the food & drinks.

EVENT DETAILS

1. Carolyn Stransky (@carolstran) - Software Engineer at Blacklane

• Life is hard and so is learning GraphQL *

Learning a new technology can be daunting. For many of us, the way we try to make sense of a new technology is through their documentation and the examples we see online. The problem with GraphQL is that - because there’s no “vanilla” GraphQL - there’s no central hub for all of the information and tooling necessary to learn. While documentation is meant to serve as a tool for teaching, it’s underutilized and scattered throughout our community.

Consider this talk a voyage through the ups and downs of learning GraphQL. Along the way, we’ll touch on the major pain points faced by GraphQL beginners and how we can better enable our docs for learning and comprehension.

2. Ilona Demidenko(@ilonacodes) - Front-End Web Developer in Berlin

• Conversational Sign Up with Chatbot-like experience with React and Redux *

The beloved chatbots are occupying a lot of IT-fields incredibly fast because they are easily customized, validated, API integrated. In short words, smart AI. In my talk, I am going to explain how to easily customize conversation sign-up forms with multiple field types to collect information through a chatbot-like experience written with React and Redux such as Name, Email, and so on. Moreover, I will highlight how the chatbot will be making decisions how to proceed with conversation depending on the user's replies.
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Thank you to our sponsors:

YLD
https://twitter.com/YLDio

YLD is one of London’s fastest growing software engineering consultancies building exciting products and platforms in React / Node for Trainline, Vogue, The Economists and many more.
The team is committed the open source community aiming to create a long-standing engineering culture and delivery capability in each piece of work.

YLD is looking for React / Node / Devops engineers to join the team: https://jobs.lever.co/yld

Join the conversation:

• Twitter @YLDio(https://twitter.com/YLDio)
• LinkedIn(https://www.linkedin.com/company/yld)

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SumUp
https://sumup.com

SumUp is the leading mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) company in Europe, with engineering offices in Berlin, Sofia, and São Paulo. We started out 6 years ago and built our payment service from scratch to shake up the industry and wake up the entrepreneur within anyone. Today, hundreds of thousands of small businesses around the world rely on SumUp to get paid.

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Looking forward to seeing you soon,
#ReactJSGirls Team