Meta Refresh 2015

ReactJS as a much better front-end engineering battle-axe and a facilitator for designers.

Outline

We’ll go through the fundamentals and philosophy of ReactJS and see how we can apply patterns that have emerged from using it alongside a design team.

In our half-day workshop, we’ll try to cover these high-level ideas:

• Setting up a simple ReactJS application.
• Writing UI components that can be re-used across the application as an easy way of keeping the design consistent.
• HTML-like templating languages (like JSX, react-templates) that make it much easier for designers to write dynamic interactions by themselves.
• Declarative / logic-less UI components that can perform transitions / animations etc.

• We’ll try our hands on building a few simple UI components. For example, a menu system like this:

  

Requirements

• Basic understanding of JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Laptop with the lastest Chrome, Sublime Text editor, a terminal and python installed.

Speaker bio

Abhinav //
Old school JVM hacker. Loves log files. Wishes he was programming Haskell.
Akshay //
Modern day aesthetically-relevant hacker. Long time Rubyist, recent JavaScript and Clojure programmer.

We work in a variety of different projects at nilenso. From media publishing platforms and energy saving projects to multi-variate testing and machine learning systems.

Links

• nilenso.com
• github.com/kitallis
• github.com/abhin4v
• tinyurl.com/a-taste-of-clojure
• lanyrd.com/2013/rubyconfindia/schdhh