Why

• 👯 Client success; our success is a byproduct  of theirs
• 🏃 Speed is ruler; nothing is of value until it is in front of a customer
• 🧘🏼 Focus on important things such as customer goals, user experience, accessibility, unit tests, mock data etc.
• 🏗 Architecture has changed; weaknesses become strengths
• 🗣 TypeScript has turned JavaScript into one of the most progressive languages in the more recent years

The Philosophy

• minimise waste, reduce complexity, build faster, grow confidence
• promote team-wide best practice at all SDLC stages
• maximise component & data re-usability
• heighten security & accessibility at all layers
• increase scalability whilst reducing costs
• promote a culture of shared ownership, accountability & full-stack engineering; code is code
• de-risk product launches
• uplift developer happiness & confidence

The Language

• Because JavaScript is a language without faults or flaws with some faults and flaws
• Hello TypeScript, steroids for JavaScript

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The Architectural Revolution

• This is not a serverless talk, but it's hard to avoid!
• Ephemeral, serverless functions: NodeJs shines
• "Infinite" scale: we scale by running more simultaneous functions rather than a single server (and we can run as many as we want); no servers to configure, monitor or threads and memory to lose sleep over
• API's, Scheduled Jobs, Reactive Services/Queues
• Pay for what we use (or nothing at all, free tiers)
• Removed need for servers, dockers or containers; we just write customer/business logic now (and 10 lines of deployment code)

The Love Sharing

• React + React-Native share a Redux store
• Utilities & config shared across entire codebase
• Test mock data shared between components and use for local dev

How

• 🦸 Clients:
  • Web App/s: React
  • Web Static (Marketing, Blog etc.): NextJS/React (server-less side rendering)
  • Mobile (iOS, Android): React-Native
  • Store: Redux (shared)
• ⛽️ Services:
  • API's: NodeJS, GraphQL (serverless)
  • Sockets: Websockets (serverless)
  • Scheduled Jobs: NodeJS (serverless)
  • Queues/Reactive Services: NodeJS (serverless)
• 🧱 Infrastructure:
  • AWS CloudFormation: TSNode Scripts, T/JSON Config
• ⭕️ Persistence:
  • Data as JSON (utilize NoSQL)

What else?

• Data
  • Realtime ETL (​Extract Transform Load) processes (serverless)
• Desktop apps:
  • PWA (Progressive Web App)
  • React-Native for Windows/MacOS
  • React-Native-Web
  • Electron
  • etc.