🎙 talk.js - March 2019

[ongmin]

📝 Details

• Event: talk.js
• Date: 13 March (Wed)
• Hosts: @ongmin
• Venue: Microsoft

📅 Agenda

Time	Agenda
7.00pm	Doors open - mingle with guests and speakers over 🍕
7.30pm	Start of event - opening segment by host
7.40pm	Start of scheduled talks
8.40pm	Open announcements - open segment for anyone to make announcements
9.00pm	End of event

💬 Talks

• My Awesome Talk by You

🌱 Propose a talk this month

Want to speak at this month's talk? Leave a comment below with the following details:

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Title of your topic

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Topic description

Tell us what you'd like to talk about

Presenter(s)

Include GitHub handles where possible. Add your Twitter handle if you wish

Presenter's bio

A short introduction of yourself

Duration

5 minutes for presenting an introduction to the topic, then up to 20 minutes for discussion.

Deck URL (if any)

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📢 Open announcements

Have something you'd like to tell the audience? We have an open announcement segment for you to announce job opportunities, promote a meet up, upcoming conferences, etc.

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📝 Organizers' checklist

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• Check available dates on EngineersSG
• Confirm date and venue availability
• Create event on SingaporeJS Meetup Page
• Inform @engineersftw for video recordings
• Announce event on SingaporeJS Gitter and other social media platforms
• Prepare deck for event

* checked boxes indicate confirmed/done

[ckkok]

Title of your topic

Concurrency in NodeJS

Topic description

NodeJS has fantastic I/O performance for a seemingly single-threaded computing model due to its ability to handle such tasks asynchronously. But this fails for CPU-bound tasks that block threads. Before the current NodeJS LTS version, computationally heavy tasks could be farmed out to child processes, taking advantage of multicore CPUs, but processes do not share memory and inter-process communication adds significant overhead. Multithreading support landed in NodeJS as of v10.5.0, and is still flagged as an experimental API. We can now process tasks in separate threads with shared memory, but this power does not come for free. We'll compare the implementation and performance of a multithreaded NodeJS web server with that of some other industry solutions, and see how we can manage shared memory and orchestrate threads using buffers and atomics.

Presenter(s)

https://github.com/ckkok

Presenter's bio

Chee Kean is a software engineer from the Maltem Consulting Group and uses NodeJS extensively for pet projects.

Duration

30 minutes

[ais-one]

Title of your topic

Using Nuxt generate for building static web applications

Topic description

NuxtJS is a framework for VueJS that helps in building applications in single page (SPA) mode or universal mode (SSR)

SPA apps can be easily deployed on cloud storage such as Google Cloud Storage, AWS S3, Now, Netlify but it takes time for the app to be loaded and SEO is a problem as there are no pre-generated content.

SSR apps address the issues of load speed and SEO but requires a backend server to serve the content.

So to get the best of both worlds. We use Nuxt generate.

This talk will focus on the use of Nuxt generate, its advantages, its pitfalls. We will also be looking at few things which one may need to take note of when using nuxt generate, such as:

1. handling dynamic routing
2. use of dynamically created Vuex modules

Presenter(s)

https://github.com/ais-one

Presenter's bio

Aaron is currently doing consulting work with Zenika Singapore. Using JS only for literally everything now...

Duration

20 minutes

[danielepolencic]

Happy to present my talk in March is there's still space #21 (comment)

[malgamves]

Ahh! I come into Singapore on 14th March would have loved to share my talk on building Realtime CRUD Apps with JavaScript and GraphQL..any other meetups planned for March?

[ais-one]

FOSSAsia is in March...

[malgamves]

Do they have something letting people apply to speak? @ais-one

[ais-one]

I think you can try and contact them if they have slots...

[ais-one]

I just realize it may be a bit too late to be speaker in FOSSASIA... The problem is your arrival date is just after March talkJS... *Warmest Regards,* *Aaron* The information herein is given on a general basis without obligation and is strictly for information purposes only. We do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, graphics, links, or other items contained herein, and expressly disclaim liability for errors or omissions in these materials.

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[ais-one]

submitting on behalf of @allanchua101, he will comment later...

Title of your topic

Proxy Pattern: Re-usable and Mockable API calls

Topic description

Presenter(s)

https://github.com/allanchua101

Presenter's bio

Alan is a software engineer at Sleek, Singapore.

Duration

20 minutes

[malgamves]

Hey that's not a problem. Maybe next time! Have a great meetup ✨

[ongmin]

@danielepolencic Hey, I'm so sorry but I missed your comment for this month!

[ckkok]

Title of your topic

Concurrency in NodeJS

Repository for examples that we didn't have time to see.

https://github.com/ckkok/nodejs-concurrency

[ongmin]

Video recordings of talks:

Proxy Pattern: Re-usable and Mockable API calls by @allanchua101: https://engineers.sg/v/3246
Using Nuxt generate for building static web applications by @ais-one: https://engineers.sg/v/3247
Concurrency in NodeJS by @ckkok: https://engineers.sg/v/3248

Thanks again everyone! :)

PS. Checkout Microsoft learning resources at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/