Jarred Sumner - Bun; Alex Cole - e2e Reactivity, Ryan Carniato - SolidJS [IRL]

We're excited to welcome you back to in-person meetups! We’ll be featuring some incredible speakers & topics, along with open networking and facilitated discussion around moderated topic tables! JOIN US at Convex's office in Potrero Hill for a night of education, inspiration, & fun! More details below:

Schedule Overview

• 5:30pm: Food & drinks, open networking
• 6:35: Welcome & introduction
• 6:40: Talks
• 7:40: Topic tables & open networking
• 9:30: Doors close

Talk 1
Alex Cole: End-to-end Reactivity
Refetch, poll, push, subscribe. Users expect interactive React apps to show live-updating, realtime data, but many modern apps fail to deliver. In this talk, we’ll discuss the various patterns for building end-to-end reactivity into React applications and the complexities of using them in practice. Also learn how a reactive backend like Convex can make your app both simpler and more correct!

About Alex
Alex is a software engineer at Convex, building Convex’s global state management platform. He’s passionate about reactivity, TypeScript, databases, GraphQL, and mountains. Previously he worked at Asana, leading the Client Infrastructure team.

Talk 2
Ryan Carniato - SolidJS - Reactivity Unchained
Join Ryan Carniato, creator of SolidJS, as he shows off the fundamentals of this unique take on a JavaScript Framework. This session will reflect on the challenges of modern web development that motivated Solid's creation. By retracing his steps from simple beginnings to a full-fledged framework, Ryan will showcase how reactive primitives are the only building blocks you need.

About Ryan
As a JavaScript performance enthusiast, and fine-grained reactivity super-fan, Ryan is obsessively passionate about the future of JavaScript frameworks. He is the creator of SolidJS, and a maintainer of Marko.

Talk 3
Jarred Sumner: Untitled talk on Bun
Bun is a modern JavaScript runtime like Node or Deno. It was built from scratch to focus on three main things:

1. Start fast (it has the edge in mind).
2. New levels of performance (extending JavaScriptCore, the engine).
3. Being a great and complete tool (bundler, transpiler, package manager).

Bun is designed as a drop-in replacement for your current JavaScript & TypeScript apps or scripts — on your local computer, server or on the edge. Bun natively implements hundreds of Node.js and Web APIs, including ~90% of Node-API functions (native modules), fs, path, Buffer and more.
The goal of Bun is to run most of the worlds JavaScript outside of browsers, bringing performance and complexity enhancements to your future infrastructure, as well as developer productivity through better, simpler tooling. Learn more at bun.sh

About Jarred
Jared is the creator of Bun. Former engineer at Stripe and Thiel Fellowship recipient.