LNUG is run and organised by London developers. Our commitment is to represent London's diverse community, to welcome the wider global node.js community to our busy city, and to provide a platform for node.js developers - local rising stars, newbies and experts alike - to share their expertise, to network, and spark new ideas and opportunities.

Next meetup...

LNUG returns, 22nd November 2022...

🗓 Tuesday, 22 November 2022

🏢 Beamery HYLO Building, 103-105 Bunhill Row, London

Skip the CRUD: Rapid API development with Platformatic DB and Fastify

Simon Plenderleith (@simonplend )

Building an API typically starts with designing the API interface, integrating a database library, wiring up CRUD endpoints, adding request validation, documenting the API — the list goes on! It’s a lot of repetitive and time consuming work. I’ll show you how Platformatic DB enables you to you rapidly develop REST and GraphQL APIs with Node.js, helping you skip all of that painful groundwork. We’ll also explore how the Fastify framework it’s built on top of allows you to add custom functionality with familiar tools.

Simon is an independent Node.js consultant and educator. Since the day he learnt HTML from a book in 1999, he’s been hooked on coding. He helps companies use Node.js to ship great products and also helps developers level up with Node.js through his blog. He’s the author of the book Express API Validation Essentials.

Blog: simonpland.com
Twitter: @simonplend
GitHub: @simonplend

JavaScript Runtimes on AWS Lambda

Boris Tane (@BorisTane )

Node.js is one of the key runtimes to develop applications on AWS Lambda. It was announced 13 years ago and is now considered to be boring technology by many. But over the past few years, a few newer JavaScript runtimes have emerged, to solve some of the issues with Node.js. In this talk, we will walk through a few of the newer JavaScript runtimes, and do a comparison of both the developer experience and their performance when deployed on AWS Lambda.

Boris is the founder of Baselime . Before this, he worked on back-end systems and infrastructure at multiple startups, where he was drawn to cloud-native and serverless technologies. He always ended up being the guardian of the logging and monitoring systems in the teams he joined. Now, he’s helping serverless teams automate their observability configurations with Observability as Code.

Twitter: @boristane
GitHub: @boristane

This event's hosts: Beamery

HYLO Building, 103-105 Bunhill Row, London

We are a full-cycle Talent Lifecycle Management Platform, leveraging an industry-first AI-powered Talent Graph, with an incredible team of creators, problem solvers and engineers.

Beamery’s software helps organisations unleash human potential within their business. They can identify and prioritise candidates that are likely to thrive at their organisation, build a more inclusive and diverse workforce, unlock career ambition opportunities for existing employees, and understand the skills and capabilities they need for the future.

P.S We’re Hiring! Hear from the team at Beamery in this video about what life is like in the Engineering, Product & Design Team!