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CityJS x JSMonthly April Meetup

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Hosted by

JS Monthly London

In-Person

Address available to attendees

Ready to join in on the fun?

⭐This month, we are hosting our event on Wednesday 23rd of April⭐

For this event priority will get attendees of the main conference
Register now - Use JSMONTHLY Code to get 20% off

Three amazing speakers will share their insights

Schedule:
18:00 Doors Open
18:15: Networking/Drinks/Food offered

19:00 Radical Pessimism: Turning Uncertainty into Predictable Code
// Ned Howley
19:20: Automating API Contracts: Shifting Left for Faster Frontend & Backend Development // Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes
19:40: Searching hand-Written Notes with React and Tauri // Akash Joshi
20:00: An introduction to the World Wide Web for very senior programmers // Salma Alam-Naylor
21:00:Pub time

Calling All JavaScript Enthusiasts! 📢
Want to share your knowledge and inspire the community? 💡
We're inviting talented speakers to join our JSMonthly meet ups ✨.

Our Sponsors is Attio - https://attio.com/

Attio is the CRM of the future: a living, breathing platform that connects with a customer’s GTM stack and evolves with them as they grow – from zero to IPO and beyond.

Submit your talk proposal here: https://forms.gle/kB2sG9tVUvAmWf826
Share your expertise, ignite the community 💫🔥 💫!

Presentations

Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes

Automating API Contracts: Shifting Left for Faster Frontend & Backend Development

API contracts are the backbone of modern frontend-backend collaboration, but manual integration slows teams down and increases errors. What if we could automate it? In this talk, we’ll dive into Shift Left API contract development and introduce an approach to automatically generate an NPM package from API contracts. This package provides:

✅ TypeScript types for strict FE & BE consistency

✅ Zod validation for safer forms and API responses

✅ Axios + React Query for streamlined fetching & caching

✅ Automated versioning & observability to ensure API integrity

By shifting API validation, testing, and integration earlier in development, teams can move faster, reduce errors, and improve efficiency. Whether you're a developer, tech lead, or architect, this session will give you practical strategies to automate your API workflows and accelerate your development pipeline.

Akash Joshi

Searching hand-Written Notes with React and Tauri

In 2025, LLMs are well understood. However, the technology powering search in LLMs isn't. This talk goes into building an embeddings search application for hand written notes using React and Tauri, with completely open source technologies.

Salma Alam-Naylor

An introduction to the World Wide Web for very senior programmers

As we witness the much-anticipated release of HTML 2, there is no better time to surf the World Wide Web. But how did we get here? And what may the future hold? Learn all about the latest advancements in HyperText Markup Language, what the future of web development might look like in 30 years, and how it’ll help you make your websites fresh, fly, and hella cool. Slammin’!

Ned Howley

Radical Pessimism: Turning Uncertainty into Predictable Code

At Attio, one TypeScript codebase powers everything from our powerful UI to our flexible data integrations. In this talk, I’ll show how we embrace radical pessimism — always assuming things will go wrong — as a guiding principle for building resilient systems. Using functional programming concepts, we handle errors and loading states across the stack in a type-safe, ergonomic way. You’ll learn how pessimistic thinking in programing can lead to safer, more consistent code — and take home practical patterns you can use immediately.

CityJS x JSMonthly April Meetup

Primary Photo for JS Monthly London

Hosted by

JS Monthly London

In-Person

Address available to attendees

⭐This month, we are hosting our event on Wednesday 23rd of April⭐

For this event priority will get attendees of the main conference
Register now - Use JSMONTHLY Code to get 20% off

Three amazing speakers will share their insights

Schedule:
18:00 Doors Open
18:15: Networking/Drinks/Food offered

19:00 Radical Pessimism: Turning Uncertainty into Predictable Code
// Ned Howley
19:20: Automating API Contracts: Shifting Left for Faster Frontend & Backend Development // Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes
19:40: Searching hand-Written Notes with React and Tauri // Akash Joshi
20:00: An introduction to the World Wide Web for very senior programmers // Salma Alam-Naylor
21:00:Pub time

Calling All JavaScript Enthusiasts! 📢
Want to share your knowledge and inspire the community? 💡
We're inviting talented speakers to join our JSMonthly meet ups ✨.

Our Sponsors is Attio - https://attio.com/

Attio is the CRM of the future: a living, breathing platform that connects with a customer’s GTM stack and evolves with them as they grow – from zero to IPO and beyond.

Submit your talk proposal here: https://forms.gle/kB2sG9tVUvAmWf826
Share your expertise, ignite the community 💫🔥 💫!

Presentations

Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes

Automating API Contracts: Shifting Left for Faster Frontend & Backend Development

API contracts are the backbone of modern frontend-backend collaboration, but manual integration slows teams down and increases errors. What if we could automate it? In this talk, we’ll dive into Shift Left API contract development and introduce an approach to automatically generate an NPM package from API contracts. This package provides:

✅ TypeScript types for strict FE & BE consistency

✅ Zod validation for safer forms and API responses

✅ Axios + React Query for streamlined fetching & caching

✅ Automated versioning & observability to ensure API integrity

By shifting API validation, testing, and integration earlier in development, teams can move faster, reduce errors, and improve efficiency. Whether you're a developer, tech lead, or architect, this session will give you practical strategies to automate your API workflows and accelerate your development pipeline.

Akash Joshi

Searching hand-Written Notes with React and Tauri

In 2025, LLMs are well understood. However, the technology powering search in LLMs isn't. This talk goes into building an embeddings search application for hand written notes using React and Tauri, with completely open source technologies.

Salma Alam-Naylor

An introduction to the World Wide Web for very senior programmers

As we witness the much-anticipated release of HTML 2, there is no better time to surf the World Wide Web. But how did we get here? And what may the future hold? Learn all about the latest advancements in HyperText Markup Language, what the future of web development might look like in 30 years, and how it’ll help you make your websites fresh, fly, and hella cool. Slammin’!

Ned Howley

Radical Pessimism: Turning Uncertainty into Predictable Code

At Attio, one TypeScript codebase powers everything from our powerful UI to our flexible data integrations. In this talk, I’ll show how we embrace radical pessimism — always assuming things will go wrong — as a guiding principle for building resilient systems. Using functional programming concepts, we handle errors and loading states across the stack in a type-safe, ergonomic way. You’ll learn how pessimistic thinking in programing can lead to safer, more consistent code — and take home practical patterns you can use immediately.

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