MagnoliaJS Conference

Jackson, Mississippi | April 18

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Laurie Voss

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JavaScript: who, what, where, why and next

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npm has more data than anyone about who JavaScript developers are and what we’re up to. Using our unparalleled access to registry usage stats and...

Ken Wheeler

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Renderless Components with Hooks

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This talk will explore using a renderless component pattern with React hooks to provide declarative interfaces to imperative and non-DOM based libraries/APIs....

Jay Phelps

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The WebAssembly Revolution Has Begun

WebAssembly (aka wasm) is a new, standardized compilation target for the web, shipping in all modern browsers. But since it's so low level it can...

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Schedule - April 17 (Workshop Day)

Workshops run concurrently and their durations/end times will be determined by the instructors.

Time	Event	Instructor	Location
8:30am	Arrivals, set up		3rd Floor
9:00am	Get in the Fast Lane: Measuring Web Performance	Sia Karamalegos	3rd Floor - Room 214A
9:00am	Zero Dependency Components: Introduction to Web Components	Nate Clark	3rd Floor - Room 213

Schedule - April 18 (Conference Day)

Time	Event	Speaker	Location
7:30am - 10:00am	Registration		3rd Floor Corridor
9:00am	Empower Through Web Development	Blake Watson	Main Stage - Theater
9:30am	Master the JavaScript Interview	Tyler Clark	Main Stage - Theater
9:55am	Renderless Components with Hooks	Ken Wheeler	Main Stage - Theater
10:25am	Break
10:35am	The Future of Front-End Performance	Sia Karamalegos	Main Stage - Theater
11:05am	The WebAssembly Revolution Has Begun	Jay Phelps	Main Stage - Theater
11:35am	Using JS to Bridge the Tech and Culture Gap	Michael Liendo	Main Stage - Theater
12:00pm	Transition to Lunch
12:00pm - 1:40pm	Lunch		Rooms 301-304
12:20pm	Overview: Mississippi Coding Academies	Bryce Mullican	Lunch Stage - Rooms 301-304
12:30pm	Join the Revolution	Gant Laborde	Lunch Stage - Rooms 301-304
1:00pm	Code Everyday: A Self-Taught Developer's Journey	Tae'lur Myers	Lunch Stage - Rooms 301-304
1:30pm	Break
1:40pm	JavaScript: who, what, where, why and next	Laurie Voss	Main Stage - Theater
2:10pm	Dissecting the fluff from the buff of TDD, Twitter Driven Development	Justin Samuels	Main Stage - Theater
2:35pm	How to Avoid SUX (Some User Experience)	Kayla Sween	Main Stage - Theater
3:00pm	Break
3:10pm	Full Stack Development in the Era of Serverless Computing	Nader Dabit	Main Stage - Theater
3:40pm	The Future of JavaScript Apps is Gatsby.js	Joe Previte	Main Stage - Theater
4:10pm	Break
4:20pm	Buliding the Next Generation of Mobile Apps Using Draftbit	Peter Piekarczyk	Main Stage - Theater
4:45pm	So Many Hats: Security for Web Developers	Vince Falconi	Main Stage - Theater
5:10pm	Writing Code Saved My Life	Kurt Kemple	Main Stage - Theater
5:40pm	Door Prizes / Announcements / Dismissal	J.C. Hiatt / Kenneth LaFrance	Main Stage - Theater
8:30pm	After Party - Open Invite!		Fondren Public

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MagnoliaJS is Mississippi's first-ever developer conference. Our mission is to foster growth and opportunities for developers in the Southeast and be the launching point for greater things for the tech in Mississippi.

We are aiming to bring together around 200 web developers and friends to learn new skills and concepts and to network and develop new relationships.

Here's your chance to contribute to that mission! We're looking for the best companies to partner with us and help to make the first-annual MagnoliaJS conference a success.

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