The Belfast Javascript meetup held at Rapid7 last night (26th April) was a three section affair with the first talk on Accessibility (of apps and websites). As legislative and regulatory changes increasingly place the onus on designers and developers to Think Accessible – the talk was a useful reminder that simplifying design and planning to be accessible is not incompatible with good apps and sites. plenty of links and tools were mentioned.
The second talk covered RxJS – Reactive eXtensions in JavaScript and the differences with Promises and Asynch / Await. A walkthrough of Observables , composing Streams and Cancellation API rounded off the lightning talk
The final talk was React Native – developing cross platform apps for IOS/Android which are truly native. Covering off components and props – the new fetch API got a mention as did web sockets. Development and debug tools were explored and a question and answer session finished off.
The slides for the three talks are here and I’d recommend taking a look through – there is lots more content within
a11y (Claire) –
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_zJJnYjiQmLXryDY-pyQ8B22heNin2w7lHSs3OpaB6E/edit?usp=sharingRxJS (Dan) – http://slides.com/danielskelton/deck/
React Native (Alan) – http://www.alanfoster.me/react-native-presentation/
Links courtesy of Neil McCallion one of the event organisers.