Ideas & Topics for Web Dev monthly meeting

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Topics

• Sandbox, Virtualisation, Vagrant, and other tools
• Efficient code reviews (including useful tools)
• Grunt & Rake. The Make-tool ecosystem
• Responsive images
• Remote debugging and emulation in Chrome DevTools

Show and tell:

Specials have dones this recently...

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24957282

Ah yes! Event debouncing, definitely one I'd like to see covered.

In a similar vein a guy at the FT wrote a small lib 'FastDom' for batching up DOM read/writes, to prevent layout thrashing:
http://wilsonpage.co.uk/preventing-layout-thrashing/

• Better understanding of purpose and focus of unit testing and acceptance testing (I vote Kenny)
• Componentisation via NPM (Maslen mentioned a way to do this via Package.json) or if not that then Bower or Component
• Refactoring code (when and how - e.g. smells to look for)
• View/Templating languages (John/Kenny/Maslen had some opinions on this I believe: Mustache, twig etc)

Test metrics (how long our tests take to run, how to identify problems and how to improve our suite). Not volunteering; it's more of a request :)

I can talk at you all about tests no problem :)

I'm happy to talk about "Sandbox, Virtualisation, Vagrant, and other tools"

I would be keen to discover what everyone thinks about the metrics on the test suite(s), and I think that we should as a matter of course be considering ways to improve them in terms of utility in every way, so this ought to be agenda imho...

• Web Components
• Modern JavaScript Guidelines
• JS Supersets (like TypeScript etc.) for agnostic module writing (write with the Future, compile into legacy JS)