We're back again with the May RNL in person meet-up for 2023!! The event will be in-person only, meaning you can come watch live and network with like-minded people. This month we'll return yet again to the London offices of our favourite hosts - Pusher!

🕚 The Timings:

• 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Drinks & food

• 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Talks + Q&A

• 8:30 pm - 9 pm: Finish any leftovers ;)

• 9 pm onwards: PUB!

💻 The Talks

Charlotte Isambert, Fullstack mobile developper at Bam.tech discussing “You can’t use hooks conditionally… or can you?” 20-30mins

It’s the hooks rule number one: “Only call hooks at the top level”. But what if I told you that this rule does not apply to every hook? One of them can actually safely be used conditionally. To understand how useContext is different from other hooks, and why it is exempted from this major rule, we need to know why this rule exists in the first place. We will build our own mental model of react’s rendering behavior, focused on how react keeps track of data at runtime: props, states, refs… and context values.

Mohammad Javad, Head of Mobile at Theodo UK discussing “Monzo’s Spent This Month Widget” 10 mins

George Alexiou, Full-Stack Software Engineer at Theodo UK discussing “Apple Health Rings in React Native” 10 mins

Angus Findlay & Daniel Belo Goncalves, Co-Founder of 575 discussing "Tiny haiku app, written in react native, for next gen poets” 10 mins

🍷 The sponsor – Theodo (https://www.theodo.co.uk/)

Our team of 50+ agile web, mobile and software experts are based in Soho Square, London with offices in Paris and New York.

Over the last 10 years and across over 500 projects, we have partnered with non-technical founders to launch their first product, FTSE 100 companies to increase market share through launching internal startups & spearheading digital transformation initiatives, and SME CTOs to build and scale their technical teams.

Theodo projects start fast, and progress even faster, with our unique methodology combining agile, lean and DevOps allowing us to build more efficiently as the project progresses. We are experts at React Native, Serverless, React, Django/Python, Node.js and Symfony, with experience in many other frameworks.

🎥 Video recording sponsored by Pusher:

You can view previous event talks and more by visiting the Pusher App YouTube channel!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8xuokhAnn4pBuGuJ4fjjGUQfqnZlOLNW

Pusher is a hosted service with APIs, developer tools and open source libraries that greatly simplify integrating real-time functionality into web and mobile applications.

Pusher will automatically scale when required, removing all the pain of setting up and maintaining a secure, real-time infrastructure.

Pusher is already trusted to do so by thousands of developers and companies like GitHub, MailChimp, the Financial Times, Buffer and many more.

Getting started takes just a few seconds: simply go to pusher.com and create a free account. Happy hacking!

The everything else:

If you have inquiries or would like to get in touch, send us a message on Meetup directly or contact the hosts on LinkedIn:

• Mo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammadkhazali/

• Callum: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/callum-hemsley/

• Daniel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-belo-goncalves/

• Joshua: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-radin-grant-79243a19a

• Rohan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohansamuel/

• Michael: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kim-1b6679195/

• George: https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-alexiou-41ab44167/

• Gabrielle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielle-heslouin/