• FP in ES6 Part I: Building Blocks of FP

    Nodeschool talk about functional programming using ES6 Meetup: http://bit.ly/2kFApiB RunKit Notebook: http://bit.ly/2jz67MK Video: https://youtu.be/sZ04kWzfsyk

  • Javascript Scope, IIFEs and the Module Pattern

    In this workshop, we'll be learning about scoping rules in javascript, variable hoisting, immediately-invoked function expressions (IIFE) and the module pattern. For homework, we'll be combining what we learned about prototypes with javascript's scoping rules and the module pattern to build a simple browser-based app. This workshop concludes the basic building blocks of javascript. Once we've worked through this, we'll be moving on to more advanced topics.

  • React Stack for New Consumer

    This presentation describes the key components of a React-based framework for Cashstar's new consumer project, highlights the specific problems each component is intended to solve and proposes a few ideas on how this stack might be used in the system design of the client application.

  • Less Stress with SPA & REST

    + What led to the development of this style of web application? + Why has this approach become so popular? + Redefining our notions of who should be doing what + What constitutes a RESTful API? + What constitutes a SPA? + What are some of the hidden challenges in building applications this way? + What are some accepted tools and techniques for addressing these challenges? + End-to-end application demo