What: Front-End Technologies Community of Practice Meeting Topic: A guided tour of cutting-edge CSS you can use now When: Tuesday, May 21, 2:00 – 2:50 p.m. Inspired by an article titled “5 CSS snippets every front-end developer should know in 2024”, front-end web developer Teri Shelton and designer Andy Krikawa will walk us through some exciting CSS features now available in most browsers. From subgrid to container queries and :has() to color-scheme, we’ll quickly explore roughly fifteen of these features…
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April 2024: Creating a browser extension
What: Front-End Technologies Community of Practice Meeting Topic: Creating a custom browser extension When: Tuesday, April 16, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Have you thought about developing a custom browser extension and wondered what kind of work it would entail? At our next meeting, Peter Giles, a senior software engineer and data analyst with the Office of Information Security will walk us through his experience developing a security-based browser extension from the ground up, including topics such as: The basic anatomy…
March 2024: Under the hood of a React-based app
What: Under the hood of a React-based app with Thomas Johnson When: Tuesday, March 19, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Zoom link: Contact frontend@uw.edu Join us for our next meeting as Thomas Johnson demonstrates his React-based app and shares his development workflow. In Thomas’ own words: Learning Chinese, react, and typescript all at once! In this presentation, I will share an app I made while attending the Front-End COP React Essentials course and study group to practice listening and speaking Chinese…
February 2024: A conversation around coding and generative AI
What: Front-End Technologies Community of Practice Meeting Topic: A conversation around coding and generative AI When: Tuesday, February 20, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Generative AI as a tool for coding is here. This powerful technology incorporated into a code editor can help solve coding issues and the associated chats can provide robust information. However, many questions come up like: What are the pros and cons of using these tools for coding? How do the tools help or hinder accessible and…
January 2024: ReactJS demo – KPI dashboard
What: Front-End Technologies Community of Practice Meeting Topic: ReactJS demo: UMAC’s new KPI dashboard with Teri Shelton When: Tuesday, January 16, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Teri Shelton will give a deep dive into UMAC’s new Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Dashboard, an app built with a React front-end and a PHP backend. She’ll preview the dashboard, discuss development decisions, and walk through components of the React app. Teri is a Front End Developer on the Web Strategy team in University Marketing…
October – December 2023 React.js study group
Want to learn React.js? Join the Front-end Technologies Community of Practice for a beginner React.js study group this October through December. We’ll be working our way through the React.js Essential Training course on LinkedIn Learning. Study group sessions will take place online every other Wednesday starting October 4 from 10 – 10:50 a.m. Full details and sign-up information is on our React.js study group page.
Git ready for Git Summer Camp
Git Summer Camp is starting the week of July 10. Branch out your skills this summer with Git Summer Camp! We’re packing our backpacks and heading to camp to work our way through two great LinkedIn Learning courses: Git from Scratch and Git Essential Training. Details and sign-up information on our Git Summer Camp page.
June 2023: Git and GitHub workflow
Presentation: Lauren Caple, Associate Director for Web Development with UMAC will share details on her team’s workflow in git and GitHub. Looking ahead: Branch out your git skills this summer with Git Summer Camp! Appropriate for beginners. Starting in mid-July, details to follow!
May 2023 meeting canceled
Our meeting for May 2023 is canceled. Watch for upcoming details for the June session.
April – UX CoP Spring Meeting – Information Design: Data Visualization Best Practices
For April’s meeting (4/18 – 2:00 p.m.), we’ll join the UX and Design Thinking CoP for their presentation on Information Design: Data Visualization Best Practices. For more information email us at frontend@uw.edu.