2025 Conference Johannesburg (Online Only) – NodeJsOne Africa https://nodejsone.com 17th October, Johannesburg Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:00:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://nodejsone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-nodejsone-favicon-32x32.png 2025 Conference Johannesburg (Online Only) – NodeJsOne Africa https://nodejsone.com 32 32 Oops! I Made a Game Engine https://nodejsone.com/session/oops-i-made-a-game-engine/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:37:31 +0000 https://nodejsone.com/?post_type=session&p=644413 I needed to teach a bunch of non-coders how to write JS, so I built a game engine. Not the wisest choice, but definitely one that taught me much about how game engines work. Follow along as I show you more of the interesting things I learned through this process. We’ll cover things like:

– Drawing on canvas

– Structuring libraries to not need build steps

– Making sounds and music in the browser

– The math behind drawing circles and lines

– Designing JS APIs that don’t suck

]]> Full-stack web development with The Boring JavaScript Stack https://nodejsone.com/session/full-stack-web-development-with-the-boring-javascript-stack/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:24:19 +0000 https://nodejsone.com/?post_type=session&p=644411 We have an unfair advantage of Node.js to make JavaScript a great language for full-stack web development. But why are frameworks like Rails and Laravel keep winning when it comes to great productivity for the full-stack developer? In this talk I’ll show an alternative way to build full-stack SPAs without subscribing for endless developer tools as a server while also keeping things simple and powerful with The Boring JavaScript Stack.

]]> Satisfying Types: Literal Magic and TypeScript Patterns https://nodejsone.com/session/talk-to-be-confirmed-2/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:22:21 +0000 https://nodejsone.com/?post_type=session&p=644409 TypeScript’s type system is more than just a safety net – it’s an expressive toolkit for modelling complex relationships in your code. In this talk, we’ll explore how literal types serve as building blocks for type patterns that enhance both safety and readability. From discriminated unions to template literals, we’ll see how these concepts build on each other to create more powerful type definitions. Whether you’re new to advanced typing or looking to level up your skills, you’ll leave with concrete patterns you can implement in your codebase today.

]]> What the mock? Testing database applications without mocks https://nodejsone.com/session/talk-to-be-confirmed/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:18:53 +0000 https://nodejsone.com/?post_type=session&p=644407 So you’ve got an application that talks to a database. And you’ve got unit tests for your business logic. But you also want to write integration tests to make sure it’s all working together properly. You’ll need to mock the data access layer. Not necessarily! In this talk, we’ll explore how you can use Testcontainers to easily spin up a real database instance in a container for testing. This approach allows for testing more realistic behaviour and catching real-world issues like SQL syntax errors.

]]> Sometimes, you can Go further with JavaScript, if you dare to Go in the first place https://nodejsone.com/session/sometimes-you-can-go-further-with-javascript-if-you-dare-to-go-in-the-first-place/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:04:36 +0000 https://nodejsone.com/?post_type=session&p=644405 There’s no question that JavaScript is everywhere and lets you do amazing things in the browser. There is however the question of whether JavaScript is suitable for all things. In one area in particular, I’ve come to rely on JavaScript for the presentation layer and Go for everything else. In this talk, I’ll show you how these two vastly different languages can work together to build a modern, cohesive solution that puts a new spin on a very old concept: The humble Desktop application.

]]> Using Web Components in React 19 https://nodejsone.com/session/using-web-components-in-react-19/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:02:24 +0000 https://nodejsone.com/?post_type=session&p=644403 React announced the official beta release of the upcoming 19th version of the library. It arrived with somewhat of a bang, and rightfully so – there are a lot of major changes coming to JavaScript’s most used framework (at the point of writing).However, one massive change that seems to have flown (somewhat interestingly) under the radar is the addition of full native Web Component interoperability. When juxtaposed against Svelte, Vue and Solid’s recent moves away from the Web Component specification – and the uproar caused by Ryan Carniato’s article arguing against Web Components – this is an extremely notable, and interesting development within the landscape of modern JavaScript. In this talk, we will not only explore the implications of the above, but also what this means for the average JavaScript developer in their day-to-day work (especially those using React). We will then end off with a practical example of how you can start using Web Components within React at this very moment.

]]> Tamira Gunzburg-Chibua https://nodejsone.com/speaker/tamira-gunzburg-chibua/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:34:53 +0000 https://nodejsone.com/?post_type=speaker&p=644378

Tamira Gunzburg-Chibua


Tamira Gunzburg-Chibua is a full-stack software engineer at Peach Payments. Prior to working in the payment space, she also worked at tech startups in the transport and property industries. One of the things that she loves about programming is when her tests catch bugs before they ever see the light of day.


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]]> Ewald Horn https://nodejsone.com/speaker/ewald-horn/ Sat, 14 Dec 2024 18:11:32 +0000 https://nodejsone.com/?post_type=speaker&p=644367

Ewald Horn


Ewald Horn’s been the primary obstacle to accident-free Tequila Tuesdays at NoFuss Solutions forever and a day. When he’s not running around with a chainsaw on a stick, he writes code of questionable quality in whatever compiler or interpreter he can find. If you see him at a conference, you can rest assured he’s just there for the snacks. Come on in, stay a while and listen!


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]]> Chris Pitt https://nodejsone.com/speaker/chris-pitt/ Sat, 14 Dec 2024 13:42:57 +0000 https://nodejsone.com/?post_type=speaker&p=644362

Chris Pitt


Chris is mostly a web developer, but has done loads of other things; from making games to building houses.


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]]> Schalk Venter https://nodejsone.com/speaker/schalk-venter/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 06:50:54 +0000 https://nodejsone.com/?post_type=speaker&p=643971

Schalk Venter


Schalk is a full-time consultant working on various personal, commercial, and open-source projects. His focus lies within the worlds of user-facing software engineering and interaction design – having done contract work for the South African National Treasury, The Google Foundation, Design Indaba, CSS-Tricks, and various others. He currently serves as the Administrative Director of Front-end Engineering and Design South Africa (FEDSA), and fills (and has filled) various academic roles where he does mentoring, curriculum creation and/or internal technical advisory.


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