Large scale refactoring

Our December meetup is planned for Thursday the 6th of December at Skills Matter CodeNode. We usually skip December, but this year we have Edd Yerburgh of the Vue.js team joining us to speak!

Please remember to also register at the Skills Matter website ( once they add the link to their site ).

Agenda:

18:00: Meet and greet

18:30: Welcome to HalfStack & JS News

18:40: Large scale refactoring with code mods, by Edd Yerburgh

19:15: JavaScript Async Iterators, by Jamie McCrindle

20:00: Pub

About the speakers:

Ed Yerburgh is a Vue core contributor, and software engineer at the BBC

Jamie McCrindle is a JavaScript enthusiast, Open Source Contributor, Co-founder of a number of successful startups, OpenBankHack17 hackathon winner, Head of Technology for Business Banking at Investec.

About the talks:

Large scale refactoring with code mods

Refactoring is part of the process of maintaining an application, but large scale refactoring that are more complicated than a find and replace are time consuming.

Codemods are a tool to refactor code by manipulating the abstract syntax tree (AST). In this talk I'll teach you what ASTs are, why we use ASTs in tools like Babel and eslint, and how to write a codemod that manipulates an AST.

JavaScript Async Iterators

An exploration of async iterators in Node.js including when and why to use them, how they compare to other reactive libraries, how they perform and what to look out for when you do use them.

Conferences

HalfStack

Don't forget to get your ticket for HalfStack, our one-day UI-centric JS conf in a pub, back again this year on the 16th of November. http://halfstackconf.com/ . Tickets are running out quickly and we've announced most if not all of our speakers.