React Vancouver October 2018

All attendees must be 19+.

Come join us on Wednesday, Oct 24th at 6:00 PM to meet fellow developers and recruiters in the React community! If you are looking for a job in React/React Native, definitely come, as meetups are one of the best ways to land a job in Vancouver. We will have 3 talks and will end with a social time. Big thanks to Plenty Of Fish, Toptal, CareCru, and Zenefits for sponsoring the event.

As always we will provide food and drinks for our attendees. If possible, please bring water bottles so we can use less plastics.

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6:00 PM - Registration

6:15 PM - Announcements

6:30 PM - Apollo + GraphQL + React
We will be reviewing the benefits of GraphQL and using the Apollo client to consume a GraphQL API with React.
Talk from: Jeremy Gonzalez — Developer at 7Geese

6:50 PM - The Good, the Bad, the Design System
Fostering a close partnership with Design is crucial in developing a design system. Come and learn what Eventbrite's discovered building it's React-based design system. We'll cover day zero, the main benefits and pitfalls as well as how we've leveraged our design system to coordinate extensive changes across our product in a recent rebrand.
Talk from: Aidan Legaspi — Software Engineer II at Eventbrite

7:10 PM - Building the POF React PWA
Talk from: Tim Beamish — Web Lead at Plenty Of Fish

7:30 - 8:30 PM - Social time

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Running this event every month will not be possible without our generous sponsors, speakers, and volunteers.

Contact Eric at eric@reactvancouver.com
Contact Thomas at thomas.mirmotahari@gmail.com

Join our official slack channel https://reactvancouver.com