useReactNYC Meetup #9 (we're back!)

We are partnering with our friends at Real World React & Yext (https://www.yext.com/) for a spectacular return 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 Yext’s incredible office in Chelsea 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
8:00: Topic tables & open networking
9:30: Doors close

We'll start with a lightning talk by an engineer from our host, Yext.

Followed by:

Nawaz Khan (https://twitter.com/iam_nawaz):
Revamping a monolithic front-end app with GraphQL, NextJS, and Cloudflare workers

Revamping a legacy monolithic codebase is scary. Why? It is time-consuming and building an entire app from scratch is usually not a viable option. In this talk, we will discuss how we can break apart the front-end from a monolith using Cloudflare workers, NextJS, and a GraphQL server. The best part is we can do this incrementally and produce a performant app with a purpose-driven architecture.

About Nawaz
Nawaz has a background in building e-commerce web applications. He has re-architected legacy front-end codebases with modern tech stacks at companies like StubHub, JUUL, and Everlane. Outside of work, Nawaz is a Dosa chef and standup comedian.

Shawn Swyx Wang (https://twitter.com/swyx):
Bun and Deno - the new JS Runtimes

People are tearing up the foundations of JavaScript with new assumptions and a need for speed. Let’s look at the new kids on the block - Bun and Deno and explore how they might someday replace Node in your tech stack.

About Shawn
Swyx has worked on React and serverless JavaScript at Two Sigma, Netlify AWS, and Temporal. He has started and run communities for hundreds of thousands of developers, like Svelte Society, /r/reactjs, and the React TypeScript Cheatsheet. His nontechnical writing was recently published in the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior

TOPIC TABLES & OPEN NETWORKING
Immediately following the talks, we will feature an hour of facilitated discussion, featuring topics managed by experts. In addition to the topics presented by the speakers, we will have a number of other experts and core contributors participating as topic managers. Stay tuned for those announcements!

SAFETY
See COVID precautions below