Lovely February

🏠 Venue

Atlassian HQ Level 29 363 George Street Sydney

🎟 Tickets

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Cost: FREE!

📅 Schedule

Huge event for our last of the decade with 3 mind blowing talks this month:

• 18:00 - doors open
• 18:30 - First Talk
• 19:15 - Food & networking
• 19:45 - Second Talk
• 20:15 - Third Talk
• 21:00 - Finish

🎤 Talks

An introduction into Typescript Transformers

Ever wondered how to write a Typescript Transformer? No? What if I told you it's easier than it sounds?

Typescript Transformers are the equivalent of a Babel Plugin except for the Typescript ecosystem. They're pretty cool - and because of Typescripts powerful type checking you can actually do some pretty neat stuff with them. In this talk I'll be walking through what Typescript Transformers are, a brief introduction into Abstract Syntax Trees, and then we can write out first transformer together, live!

☞ Michael Dougall. Staff Software Engineer working at Atlassian - during the day working on Atlassian's Design System Atlaskit, and night tinkering with anything and everything that looks interesting - currently that's Typescript Transformers! I also love Ice Hockey... did you know Australia has its own pro league? Come talk to me and I'll tell you all about it

Visual Regression Testing with React

We're all familiar with Jest snapshots, which help us catch mistakes in the generated HTML of our React components. But what if we could look at screenshots instead?

This talk will look at two approaches to visual regression testing with React: - Storybook with Storycap - The new react-screenshot-test library (made by yours truly)

☞ François Wouts. I'm a Developer Happiness Engineer at Airtasker. I'm passionate about making software engineering better.

Firetable: No more custom admin portals

Firetable is an open-source project allowing for spreadsheet like experience for Google Firestore

Most businesses need an operational interface to perform various CRUDs on their database. Firestore is a great data platform that gets developers quickly up and running. However, the Firestore console editing capabilities are limited and too technical for business users. This creates a need to build custom solutions (CRM/CMS) for maintaining data and this is need is repeated across businesses. This talk presents a new open-source solution to tackle this problem with a user-friendly, reusable spreadsheet like component on top of your existing Firestore database.

☞ Shams Mosowi. Shams is a Lead Software Engineer at Antler, building a global data platform for creating and growing startups at scale. He is passionate about developing scalable react apps and contributing to the open-source projects.

★ Want to talk at a future event?

Get up and show off something cool, or talk about your favourite new tool, or show off what you've been working on! Can use slides, show a demo, or just hold the mic - the stage is yours. First time speakers and seasoned pros and everyone in between are all welcome 🤗

☞ Submit a talk now!

🍕 Food

Our food will be Pizza, with a mixture of vegetarian and non-vegetarian options - Sponsored by Lookahead Search.

Drinks will be a mix of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages (including water) - Sponsored by Thinkmill.

❤️ 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀

React Sydney wouldn't be the awesome free event it is without huge thanks to our sponsors!

Lookahead Search

Filling our bellies with yummy food!

"Had a recruiter ask if you had 10 years React experience and outstanding HTTP? We promise that wasn't us. Lookahead are technical recruiters who are technical.

The companies we work with typically create software products rather than client websites. They care about code quality and creating a work environment where technical people thrive. We're based in Sydney but also hire for remote teams."

Thinkmill

Keeping us hydrated with the drinks!

"Thinkmill is an industry-leading technology development studio and a driving force behind major open source projects. The team of designers and developers delivers amazing user experiences backed by powerful technical architecture."

Atlassian

Our hosts

"Tools for teams, from startup to enterprise. It's our mission to unleash the potential in every team, and we know that teams perform best when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. It's the unique contributions of all Atlassians that drive our success, and we're committed to building a culture where everyone can thrive and find meaning in their work. To that end, we are committed to providing an environment free of discrimination for everyone."

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