Hi Nodesters! I'm excited to bring us back together for some good food & talks on ***Tuesday, September 25th, 2018***. We've got a great line up for the evening:
**Franziska Hinkelmann - What's new in Node Core?**
Node 10 just entered Long Term Support (LTS). Let's look at some exciting new features & what the future holds for Node Core.
Franziska is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee & an expert on ES6 performance. She has a Ph.D. in mathematics & is a software engineer at Google on the Cloud Platform team in New York City. Previously, she was on the Chrome V8 team. When she's not working hard on making Node.js better on the Cloud Platform, she's probably out riding horses.
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**Andrew Houston-Floyd - Creating Collaborative Offline-First Apps**
"Offline-first" is a paradigm that seeks to maintain functionality for applications, even when clients go offline for extended periods. In-browser data storage is a solution, but synchronizing changes between clients adds another challenge. We'll review these problems & potential solutions.
Andrew is a software engineer with a background in data analytics & consulting. He is a co-creator of turtleDB, a JavaScript framework for offline-first, collaborative applications. Outside of in-browser storage, Andrew enjoys chasing adrenaline riding a bike in NYC.
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**Aori Nevo - @devly, an ecosystem for streamlining app development setup processes**
There are a number of ways to install apps for local development including containers & virtual machines. Devly is neither a containerization nor a virtual machine solution; it is a command line utility, built on node, that installs apps locally - ready for use - in seconds. With Devly, developers can leverage the power of their host machine & avoid the complexities of mounting files & folders into guest operating systems.
Aori is the creator of @devly & several @devly plugins. He is also a contributor to several popular open source projects like yargs, foundation, slick-carousel, WeBWorK, & WordPress. Before starting his career as a software engineering, he was an academic. He earned his PhD from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2016. Before being an academic, he was an infantry solider in the US Army.
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We'll be at Shutterstock this month. Thanks to Shutterstock for hosting! It's going to be a great event!
See you there!
-Lalit
