November 12, 2013
6:00 - 7:30 pm @ The IMT Group 4445 Corporate Dr West Des Moines, IA 50266
Is your Grunt file maintainable?
Brandon Williams @williamsb86
This lightning talk will present the way that Grunt files used to be written and show a couple of Node modules (load-grunt-config and load-grunt-tasks) that allow your Gruntfile to be minimal. This is the JavaScript (or CoffeeScript) of the future.
Writing my first non-trivial single page app
Toran Billups @toranb
Anyone can hype their favorite javascript framework but what happens when you need to build something bigger than a todo app? I decided to find out for myself a few months back when I started writing my first ambitious javascript application.
During this talk I’ll cover
- What is so great about the url?
- So what happens when I click refresh?
- Prevent data loss when the user clicks the back button
- Do you need objects with rich relationships?
- How to bootstrap your application at runtime
- Sharing state between views/routes
- What about catastrophic javascript errors?
- What does $.ajax error handling look like?
- Where do you handle application wide navigation?
- How does jQuery fit into the picture today?
- What build tool did I use and how did I deploy with it?
- When did I find unit tests helpful? When integration tests?
- Transactions -do we need them on the client?