Wednesday, 16th May 2018

Transpile All The Things

JavaScript runs on nearly everything these days and because of this, nearly everything compiles to JavaScript. This month we'll be taking a look at two languages that generate JavaScript - PureScript and TypeScript.

Speakers

Recordings

Agenda

• 6:45pm

  Doors open

  Arrive, mingle, and meet new people

• 7:15pm

  Introduction

  Welcome and thanks

• 7:20pm

  Tom Harding - Proactive and Reactive Behaviour

  Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) is a style of programming based on event streams such as system clock ticks, network traffic, or even keyboard input. In this talk we'll use PureScript, a compile-to-JS language, to explore the concepts of FRP, learn a little bit of functional programming, and build one or two exciting examples!

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  Tom writes PureScript and Haskell at Habito, a digital mortgage broker in London. He spends way too much of his free time getting excited by functional programming.

• 8:05pm

  Intermission

  Chat, mingle, have a drink, and soak in all you've learned so far.

• 8:30pm

  Pete West - TypeScript: easy mode to challenge mode

  TypeScript is a language that extends JavaScript to support static typing. It complements the open, malleable design principles of JavaScript, while catching bugs and improving code understandability. In this talk, you'll learn how to use TypeScript in your existing project and how you can iteratively improve your code with stronger typing.

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  Pete writes TypeScript at Diffblue, and also quite likes functional programming.

• 9:15pm

  Wrap-up and thanks

  Thank you to our speakers, our sponsors, and all of our attendees.

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Extras

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