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JavaScript Monthly London Meetup

Javascript evolution has sped up (a lot) in recent years and event the most veterans developers find it hard to keep up with the latest trends. This meetup group aims to bring you monthly bite-sized updates on the world of Javascript along with a healthy dose of nice people, beer and pizza.

  • Please use your full name when registering, as some of our venues require a full list of attendees beforehand. You have an idea and you want to be a speaker?

We are always looking for more speakers - submit your talk here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFaatfveOUbrmer47jYb5J4J4ttxAFc1CgTjUDltBXmDOJmg/viewform)

1K Members
Other Presentations

The Lost Art of Debugging: Why Your Browser Is Smarter Than AI

Let's be honest, nowadays most of us see an error, copy it into ChatGPT, and hope for the best. I've done it. You've done it. We've all wasted 30 minutes going back and forth with AI when our browser could've shown us the answer in 2 minutes.

This talk is about remembering that our browsers have incredible debugging tools we've forgotten how to use. Through live demos of real bugs, I'll show you how breakpoints, call stacks, and the network tab can solve problems maybe faster than any AI assistant.

You'll learn:

  • How to ditch console.log hell and actually watch your code run
  • Breakpoint tricks that pause your app so you can inspect what's really happening
  • How to read call stacks without your eyes glazing over
  • Network tab techniques that expose exactly why your API is misbehaving
  • When debugging tools beat AI (and when AI is actually helpful)
 I'm not saying don't use AI—I use it all the time. But there's something powerful about understanding your own code well enough to fix it yourself. Plus, you'll be way faster, and you'll actually learn something instead of just copy-pasting solutions you don't understand.
Primary Photo for Abdullah Ola MudathirAbdullah Ola Mudathir

Accessibility Starts With Connectivity: Rethinking Offline-First Mobile Apps

Accessibility is often framed around screen readers and contrast ratios. However, in many parts of the world, accessibility starts with unreliable or expensive connectivity.

This talk reframes offline-first architecture as a core accessibility concern. Using React Native examples, we’ll explore how network assumptions silently exclude users in low-connectivity regions and how offline-first patterns dramatically expand who can actually use our apps.

We’ll cover practical strategies for designing user flows that remain usable without a stable network and how these decisions improve resilience for all users, not just those offline.

Patrick-Mary Nwakeze

UI in the AI Age

When the backend can reason, what does that mean for the frontend?
Let's take a look at how we can create UI's that can handle the reasoning capabilities of LLMs and adapt to perform any task.

Adam Cowley
Cover Photo for JavaScript Monthly London Meetup
Primary Photo for JavaScript Monthly London Meetup

JavaScript Monthly London Meetup

Javascript evolution has sped up (a lot) in recent years and event the most veterans developers find it hard to keep up with the latest trends. This meetup group aims to bring you monthly bite-sized updates on the world of Javascript along with a healthy dose of nice people, beer and pizza.

  • Please use your full name when registering, as some of our venues require a full list of attendees beforehand. You have an idea and you want to be a speaker?

We are always looking for more speakers - submit your talk here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFaatfveOUbrmer47jYb5J4J4ttxAFc1CgTjUDltBXmDOJmg/viewform)

1K Members
Other Presentations

The Lost Art of Debugging: Why Your Browser Is Smarter Than AI

Let's be honest, nowadays most of us see an error, copy it into ChatGPT, and hope for the best. I've done it. You've done it. We've all wasted 30 minutes going back and forth with AI when our browser could've shown us the answer in 2 minutes.

This talk is about remembering that our browsers have incredible debugging tools we've forgotten how to use. Through live demos of real bugs, I'll show you how breakpoints, call stacks, and the network tab can solve problems maybe faster than any AI assistant.

You'll learn:

  • How to ditch console.log hell and actually watch your code run
  • Breakpoint tricks that pause your app so you can inspect what's really happening
  • How to read call stacks without your eyes glazing over
  • Network tab techniques that expose exactly why your API is misbehaving
  • When debugging tools beat AI (and when AI is actually helpful)
 I'm not saying don't use AI—I use it all the time. But there's something powerful about understanding your own code well enough to fix it yourself. Plus, you'll be way faster, and you'll actually learn something instead of just copy-pasting solutions you don't understand.
Primary Photo for Abdullah Ola MudathirAbdullah Ola Mudathir

Accessibility Starts With Connectivity: Rethinking Offline-First Mobile Apps

Accessibility is often framed around screen readers and contrast ratios. However, in many parts of the world, accessibility starts with unreliable or expensive connectivity.

This talk reframes offline-first architecture as a core accessibility concern. Using React Native examples, we’ll explore how network assumptions silently exclude users in low-connectivity regions and how offline-first patterns dramatically expand who can actually use our apps.

We’ll cover practical strategies for designing user flows that remain usable without a stable network and how these decisions improve resilience for all users, not just those offline.

Patrick-Mary Nwakeze

UI in the AI Age

When the backend can reason, what does that mean for the frontend?
Let's take a look at how we can create UI's that can handle the reasoning capabilities of LLMs and adapt to perform any task.

Adam Cowley

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