Kentucky JavaScript Users Group

Hello JavaScript & PHP friends. This month we're contining our Zoom-based virtual meetups this week on Thursday @ 7PM (Nov 19).

This month Ryan McQuerry is going to show how to get all the fancy javascripty goodness you need for modern websites without leaving php by using Livewire — a component for Laravel that makes building dynamic interfaces simple and clear. He'll share how it works and what makes it nice for things like basic cruding and more.

This is going to be an excellent talk. Hope you can make it.

KYJSUG & KYPHPUG Crossover Meetup Thursday Nov 19 at 7 PM Virtually on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86952574625?pwd=MkdKMDZKaW9FWVRhQUVqdU1CL2pGdz09 Meeting ID: 869 5257 4625 Passcode: 12345

www.kyphpug.org • kyphpug.tumblr.com meetup.com/Kentucky-PHP-Users-Group/

Hello JavaScript & PHP friends. This month we're contining our Zoom-based virtual meetups this week on Thursday @ 7PM (Sep 17).

This month Jason McCreary (@gonedark) is going to share how to jumpstart a Laravel application with Blueprint, an open source toolkit to rapidly build out a web app from a single YAML file. It's an amazing tool that leverages and extends the framework generates to fill in the basic bits for your architecture -- it even makes TESTS!

If you don't already know JMac, he's a developer with over 20 years of experience coding and sharing his expertise. His BaseCode Field Guide (https://basecodefieldguide.com) and associated podcast (https://basecodefieldguide.com/podcast/) are excellent resources for developers looking to level up their chops regardless of toolkit. He's also the make of Laravel Shift (https://laravelshift.com/), a tool for automatically updating legacy Laravel apps to the current version of the framework.

This is going to be a fantastic talk and an excellent opportunity to learn from one of the smartest developers around. Hope you can make it.

KYJSUG & KYPHPUG Crossover Meetup Thursday Sep 17 at 7 PM Virtually on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84446521855 Meeting ID: 844 4652 1855

www.kyjsug.org • kyjsug.tumblr.com meetup.com/Kentucky-JavaScript-Users-Group

Video from KYJSUG - Building APIs with NestJS - Thur Aug 20 7PM

Hello JavaScript friends. We're excited to start things up after a bit of a break for the summer. Of course, for the time being things are going to be entirely virtual on Zoom.

This month Chris Wininger is going to share his recent experiences using NestJS, a complete framework for creating server side applications in NodeJS. It will look very familiar to people that have used advanced web frameworks in other languages like Rails or SpringBoot. He will examine NestJS, implement a simple API and discussing some of the advantages and disadvantages of using such a framework.

This is going to be a fantastic talk. Hope you can make it.

KY JavaScript Users Group Meeting Thursday Aug 20 at 7 PM Virtually on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89545741273 Meeting ID: 895 4574 1273

Here’s the zoom meeting details:

Infinite Industries (https://infinite.industries) works to promote art and culture in Lexington, Kentucky. It's a great place to learn about anything from a punk rock show to the latest gallery opening.

The infrastructure that powers Infinite Industries is being developed as an open source stack anyone can contribute to. We hope it can act as a back-end for anyone in Lexington with events to share and that the code base will be useful to other cities around the country.

In this talk, Dima Strakovsky, Chris Wininger and Matthew Gidcomb will discuss the technical underpinnings of the project as well as the organizational challenges of running an open source project. We'll discuss the choices we've made and the pros and cons found along the way.

Some Technologies Discussed Will Include: NodeJS • Vue • Nuxt • JavaScript

Bill Kidwell is going to take us through his recent experiences creating a GraphQL API using AWS Appsync and AWS Amplify. He'll cover data model and data access patterns. And updating the GraphQL schema using Appsync's custom annotations. The result is a DynamoDB backed GraphQL API. He'll even discuss more complex use cases too.

This is going to be a fantastic talk. Come on out!

Come join us for pizza and socializing with your fellow coding friends. Celebrate all you have done this year and we'll make some plans about what's up next. Happy Holidays Everydev.

Test Driven Development (TDD) has become the demarcation between senior and junior dev (or maybe hacker and engineer). It will change the way that you think and the quality of the code you deliver. Come see how to use this approach to building a VueJS component. We will discuss testing frameworks and tooling as well.

I finally posted the slides from my Developers World talk at the TECX19 last month. It was intended as an overview of the way developer approach problems aimed at an audience of entrepreneurs, managers, and designers, to facilitate communication.

My point was that developers are creative problem solvers who use words and logic to “model” stuff with objects, properties, methods, inheritance, composition, apis, and frameworks, to build: web sites, web apps, mobile apps, and iot in a repository on a stack with tools and tests at scale for our users.

We’ve setup a Google Form for your to submit your topics: https://forms.gle/GM6dAWYGsY4yF5Nj7

Get Feedback. Learn New Skills. Share Your Struggles. Come Share Your Code With US.

Plan for your topics to be 15, 25, or 40 minutes. We’ve going to group the talks by skill level as well, so we’re sure to deliver information at the speed the audience is already at. We’re going to send out a call for presentations as we get closer to the event and will open voting the day before the event.

Get Feedback. Learn New Skills. Share Your Struggles. Come Share Your Code With US.

If you've never participated in an unconference the basic idea is that at a conference the attention is on the stage, at an unconference the attention is on the attendees. It reverses the arrangement and that's why its an 'un'-conference. In practice, what that means is that the most attendees bring a topic to share and register those topics in the morning while we're munching donuts and coffee. Then everyone votes on what they'd like to hear about and we follow the wisdom of the crowd (democracy in action, folks!). You're also very welcome to come and vote and listen and learn even if you're too shy to give a talk.

Plan for your topics to be 15, 25, or 45 minutes. We've going to group the talks by skill level as well, so we're sure to deliver information at the speed the audience is already at. We're going to send out a call for presentations as we get closer to the event and will open voting the day before the event.

Chris Wininger is going to take us through Web Assembly, a new technology that is available in virtually all modern browsers. What can you do with it? How can you build for it? This talk will demonstrate the use of Rust to target we web assembly, showing how to get your development environment up and running. In addition I will demo some of what I've been cooking up with Web Assembly.

Building Mobile Apps with Javascript and Ionic

Ionic is an open source, front-end SDK for developing Hybrid Mobile Applications using web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It provides mobile optimised web technology based components as well as native APIs using Cordova and Ionic Native. Ron Northrip take us through building and testing locally and on a device and shipping to the App Stores.

Justin Hall will be showing us Flutter -- a mobile app SDK for building high-performance, high-fidelity, apps for iOS and Android, from a single codebase. Learn to Flutter with an introduction, demonstration, and discussion about the SDK, Dart language, and development environment that enables developers to deliver high-performance apps that feel natural on different platforms.