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Over the past year the rise of the MV* has been meteoric. It seems you cannot go more than a few sentences discussing JavaScript without mentioning Angular or Ember. It also is certainly not without merit JavaScript can greatly increase your productivity in client side code. Come join Brian Holt as he gives a fitting treatise to each of the four frameworks and help you understand which one is best suited to you and your next big project.
How you'll spend the day: We'll lead off by discussing why MV* have come about and why they've caught on like wildfire in the JS community. For those not familiar with the MV* paradigm, we'll have a brief discussion of what separation of concerns means and why this abstraction is useful. As someone who has to make a decision for a company about which framework to use, Brian knows how hard it is to feel like you're making an informed decision. In the end, he didn't make an informed decision and ended up making it based on arbitrary criteria. This workshop is deliberately made so that others do not have to make this decision as Brian did.
If you are looking to master these frameworks or you already know all of them fairly well, this class isn't really going to help. This class is essentially four introduction-to classes rolled up into one with some editorial added in. We will also not be discussing testing a whole lot other than a brief touch on each one. This workshop assumes an intermediate-or-above knowledge of JavaScript. We'll be discussing the frameworks, not the language or syntax of JS. Experience in MVC of any sort (be it server-side like Rails or django) or one of these frameworks is helpful but not required. You will not walk away from this workshop being able to code proficiently in all four of these frameworks. Rather, this workshop will help you make an informed decision on which of these frameworks is worth pursuing for you. You will know many of the nuances, highlights, and pitfalls of each framework and hopefully which one feels the best suited to your task.
One Full Day Workshop Session
Replay Videos (available immediately)
June 13, 2014 - 9:30am to 4:30pm Central US Time
Option 1: Attend online on our full HD live stream
Option 2: Attend in-person at HQ in Minneapolis, MN
