Friday Hacks #121, October 14
Posted on by Advay Pal
This week have Chuk from from NUS ISS and Yos from Paypal talking about JavaScript Promises, and GraphQL respectively. See you there!
Facebook event here
Date/Time: Friday, October 14 at 7:00pm
Venue: The Hangar by NUS Enterprise
JS Promises
Talk Description:
The promise is an important programming concept and pattern in JavaScript environment. In this session we will talk about the following:
The what and the whys of promise
Common uses of promises with examples from jQuery, Angular and Node; sequencing, coordinating parallel tasks
Monads - a general pattern
Speaker Profile
Chuk is a lecturer at NUS ISS.
GraphQL in an Age of REST
Talk Description:
GraphQL is an application layer query language from Facebook. With GraphQL, you can define your backend as a well-defined graph-based schema. Then client applications can query your dataset as they are needed. GraphQL’s power comes from a simple idea — instead of defining the structure of responses on the server, the flexibility is given to the client. In this talk, discover a new approach to build and expose Web APIs. Will GraphQL do to REST what REST did to SOAP?
Speaker Profile
Yos is a recent Computer Science graduate from NUS SoC, currently working as a software engineer at PayPal. In his spare time, Yos moonlights as an API fanatic and enjoys learning new things.