Node Melbourne August Meetup

Two friends of mine — Omar Mashaal and Andrey Sidorove — organized a Node.js meetup in Melbourne through CHE Proximity. Pizza, drinks, two solid talks.

Talk 1: Building APIs with Loopback

Daniel Groch walked through building APIs with Loopback, IBM's Node.js framework. The learning curve is steep, but once you're past it, building RESTful APIs becomes fast.

At the time, Loopback was one of the more powerful options in the Node.js ecosystem. It handled a lot of boilerplate out of the box.

Talk 2: File Uploads via GraphQL in Apollo

Jayden Seric presented a solution for file uploads in GraphQL using Apollo. This was early days for GraphQL, and file uploads were a known pain point. Jayden built an open-source library to handle it.

Both talks reminded me that the best way to learn a technology is to see someone who's already solved a real problem with it.