163 JSJ Flow with Jeff Morrison and Avik Chaudhuri

JavaScript Jabber

03:32 - Jeff Morrison Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Facebook

03:46 - Avik Chaudhuri Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• LinkedIn
• Facebook

04:27 - Flow

• @flowtype
• [GitHub] flow

05:36 - Static Type Checking

• Dynamic vs Static Type Languages

09:52 - Flow and Unit Testing

• Jest

12:39 - Gradual Typing 15:07 - Type Inference 17:50 - Keeping Up with New Features in JavaScript

• Babel

20:49 - Generators24:46 - Working on Flow28:27 - Flow vs TypeScript

• Inference Support
• Tony Hoare: Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake

35:41 - Putting the “Java” Back in JavaScript

• Server/Client Overview
• Prototyping

45:26 - Flow and the JavaScript Community46:43 - React Support48:39 - Documentation

• gh-pages (link to the docs)
• IRC Channel for Flow: #flowtype on webchat.freenode.net

Picks Nolan Lawson: We have a problem with promises (Aimee)
Jim 'N Nick's BBQ Restaurant (Aimee)
Frank McSherry: Scalability! But at what COST? (Jamison)
Frank McSherry: Bigger data; same laptop (Jamison)
Greg Wilson: What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True (Jamison)
Marron: Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/HTML Applications (Jeff)
Real World OCaml (Jeff)
Muse (Jeff)
Shtetl-Optimized (Avik)
Chef's Table (Avik)Special Guests: Avik Chaudhuri and Jeff Morrison.
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