Inaugural Meetup

Venue Announced: The Fugitive Motel Bar in Bethnal Green. http://fugitivemotel.bar

We have an awesome space, awesome drinks, in an awesome location.

Our first event. We hope to have a few short talks, a few drinks, some time for networking, and then... more networking.

Doors Open: 6:30pm
(It's a bar, so turn up whenever, but talks will commence at 7pm)

Talks: 7:00pm

Networking: After the talks!

Our Talks:

Svelte Most Wanted
Antony Jones addresses the top/recurring questions from the Svelte Discord, and provides solutions!

How does Google Pagespeed (and Lighthouse) work?
Google PageSpeed Insights is a great starting point for anyone trying to assess their page speed. Results can leave you puzzled though. Csaba Palfi takes us on a behind a scenes look that can help us better reason about our results.

Florence - Svelte graphics
In the first ever demonstration to the public, Luca van der Zee introduces Florence - a set of Svelte components and functions that can be combined to create interactive graphics and charts from scratch. It attempts to combine the flexibility of low-level imperative libraries like d3 with the expressive power of high-level declarative libraries like Vega-lite or ggplot.