Ideas from last meetup (11 Jan):
- Server-side rendering (https://prerender.io/; Google execution of JavaScript?)
- Hot module replacement (HMR)
- GraphQL
react-native
Ideas ahead:
- Animations in react. Does it have to be so hard? (Chris)
- Conference plans for this year. Are we going to meet somewhere? Do we need T-Shirts
✈️ ? (Chris) - Progressively loading of websites? (Jan)
- OSS funding (webpack-like) (Jan)
Introductions: Hi, Raul! Hi, Karl!
prerender.io:
- Issues with routing on statically requested websites: /, ? or #. Michael's approach: Use ? as in-between
Instability of APIs in the JavaScript ecosystem (e.g., compared to win32 API)
- Missing documentation, not even a standard in npm
- TypeScript: Browsing code gets a lot easier (Michael)
- Chris: Just getting used to it; browsing unobtrusive code is lifestyle
- Thomas: TypeScript is a huge lifesaver for large codebases. Omits a lot of tests, like typos
- Jan: JavaScript has nice paradigms and can be written quite readable, and Flow conflicted there with me
- TypeScript is nice for libraries; decreases learning curves for new developers
Progressively loading websites:
- Dynamically loading contents (images, JS bundles),
- https://www.ampproject.org: Constraints of tags, contents etc., but huge loading improvements
- Chris: Having a talk on progressively loading web apps!
- HTTP/2: Issues with push (what's in the cache? 🌩)
- Ipfs: Latency-optimized, somewhat similar to BitTorrent (but: no leeching in Ipfs!)
- Dr. Aron Fischer might join us? 😻 (Colony is using Ipfs actually, instead of some CDN-like content)
- Jan: Upspin (https://upspin.io)
- Chris: Deferred all info on Swarm/Ipfs onto Dr. Fischer (but shortly elaborated on howto Colony works with Ethereum and uses Smart Contracts)
Chris: Elm has great concepts, some are similar to saga (https://github.com/redux-saga/redux-saga)
Jan: Webpack funding; how to (if, at all?) appraoch OSS funding?
- Chris: https://hueniverse.com/2015/08/15/converting-full-time-pay-to-hourly-contract-rate/ (dangerous)
- Michael: Heartbleed, for example. SSL didn't have the developer capacities to get around these bugs
- Shiny stuff attracts more developers; fundamental projects may have struggles
- Issue with working full-time on something; how to feed a family?
- https://twitter.com/jlongster/status/819978179586756608
- "Software is expensive"
Glenn: Documentation-driven development?
- "Clean Code" https://books.google.de/books/about/Clean_Code.html?id=dwSfGQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
- Michael: Types!, IDEs
- Maybe elaborate more approaches to overcome documentation & types, but rather a (r)evolutionary approach?
Conferences
- Karl and Glenn are attending react-europe
- Chris is probably going to NordicJS and/or reactiveConf
- Raul is going to react-conf amsterdam
From now on: Everyone is encouraged to share her/his link of the month!
Ideas for next meetup:
- Crypto-Ethereum-Special feat. Dr. Aron Fischer?
- react-intl
- Intro to sagas?