RigaJS meets Kiwi.com

It was a long time since we met. And even everybody is quite busy we should not miss a great opportunity to catch up and share our ideas with folks alike!

Join the second RigaJS meetup supported by Kiwi.com engineers: two talks, tech crowd, beers, pizza, and some JavaScript is something you may find at the place.

During the meetup we will raffle a ticket to React Amsterdam - the biggest React conference worldwide http://react.amsterdam + some flights discounts to get there!

Schedule:

19:00 - Doors open, pizza, some Czech beers brought by Kiwi

19:30 - 5 essential tools to keep your JS apps sane and scalable by Martin Zlámal
(https://github.com/mrtnzlml)

Keeping your JavaScript applications sane and scalable is very challenging and there are no silver-bullet tools for it. Well, actually… I am going to show you how I do it in Kiwi.com and my other projects. Get ready for 5 carefully cherry-picked tools and libraries I consider to be the key players in this heroic task. All in combination with practical tricks, tips, and recommendations from our experiences.

Martin Zlámal, Kiwi.com Senior Frontend Developer

20:00 - Serverless backend services for JS developers by Michal Sanger
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/michalsanger/)

Everybody knows JS is for web apps. Not so many currently know JS is great for mobile apps due to React Native. And only a few know JS is a great language for backend where you don't even have to maintain a server. Do you want to build GraphQL backend, test your pull requests via headless Chrome and use all the cool JS libs and tools you already like? Pay almost zero for scalable and distributed backend service? Serverless has all of this and much more.

Michal Sanger, Kiwi.com Principal Engineer and head of the Prague office

20:30 - Let`s network and discuss what we`ve heard!

21:00 - Heading to the pub?