notes from the february meeting 💭

Author: fallafeljan

02-22-17.md

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+# RemoteJS Meetup *22 Feb*
+
+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 :airplane:? (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?