Shadaj Laddad's guest appearances

Shadaj Laddad

Lightbend

CoRecursive: Coding Stories

Jan Machacek

Cory Doctorow

Sam Ritchie

David Heinemeier Hansson

Chad Fowler

Steven Proctor

Daniel Lemire

Andy Hunt

Jonathan Boccara

Lee Edwards

Jamis Buck

Jakarta EE

Mark Brewer

James Roper

Gabriel Gonzalez

OwlTail

Today Adam talks to Shadaj Laddad. What is React? Why do we need front end frameworks at all. Shadaj explains modern front end web development. He also explains why he likes to use react from scala.js and built a framework to make that easy for all. "React is a lot of things. I guess the core principle is it lets you model your entire application as a function from properties of what you want your page to look like to an HTML tree. Everything is defined as this function. "" "In the traditional web, everything was built upon mutations, right? You'd collect some data and then you'd do some DOM manipulations to say, Hey, modified the contents of this html node." "React kind of abstracts away from that and says, Hey, this is the result I want. Just tell me what you would like the webpage should look like. And I'll do the internal work to actually make that happen. ""  Person site of Shadaj Slinky JS Talks by Shadaj Youtube channel  https://corecursive.com/044-shadaj-laddad-react-and-scala-js/

Today Adam talks to Shadaj Laddad. What is React? Why do we need front end frameworks at all. Shadaj explains modern front end web development. He also explains why he likes to use react from scala.js and built a framework to make that easy for all. "React is a lot of things. I guess the core principle is it lets you model your entire application as a function from properties of what you want your page to look like to an HTML tree. Everything is defined as this function. "" "In the traditional web, everything was built upon mutations, right? You'd collect some data and then you'd do some DOM manipulations to say, Hey, modified the contents of this html node." "React kind of abstracts away from that and says, Hey, this is the result I want. Just tell me what you would like the webpage should look like. And I'll do the internal work to actually make that happen. "" <ul> <li><a href="https://www.shadaj.me/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Person site of Shadaj</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/shadaj/slinky" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Slinky JS</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.shadaj.me/talks/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Talks by Shadaj</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzsv1Xi4X7D-oif5E4RT0JQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube channel</a></li> </ul> <a href="https://corecursive.com/044-shadaj-laddad-react-and-scala-js/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://corecursive.com/044-shadaj-laddad-react-and-scala-js/</a>

React and Scala JS with Shadaj Laddad

The power of Scala keeps showing up in expected--and unexpected--places. In this talk, I will share how I used Scala in bioinformatics, neuroscience, online games, mobile applications, and desktop applications.In bioinformatics, the beauty of Scala really shines. Thanks to the abstraction in the Scala collection framework, creating collection types for DNA, RNA, and Protein Chains is super easy. With the proper collections at my disposal, I was able to implement algorithms such as Sequence Alignment, Genome Assembly, and Gibbs Sampling by focusing on the core ideas of the algorithm and not on the nitty-gritty details. On the top of it, Scala makes dynamic programming, which is fundamental in many bioinformatics algorithms, easy to implement and understand.Last year, I talked about using brainwaves to play games. Since then, I have taken things up a notch and started working to solve more practical problems such as maintaining attention while performing tasks (something that my age group suffers from a lot). This exposed me to a whole new and exciting world of Digital Signal Processing. This project benefited a lot from Reactive programming techniques in cleaning my code and making it more reliable.Not to be outdone by the serious work of algorithms, I took the desktop version of Collidium and converted it to an online HTML5 Game using Scala.js. I have also improved my Android game, Wordsteal. I even used Scala with Swing to save a few bucks for our budget-starved Student Store by creating a simple cash register application.In this talk, I will share many interesting techniques I learned and convey why I continue to be a huge fan of Scala. See you there!Shadaj is a 13 year old, who loves to program. He has programmed in Logo, NXT Mindstorm, Ruby, Python, and C. However, he loves programming in Scala. Besides programming, he likes Math and Science. When he grows up, he wants to be a robotic scientist. Shadaj hosts his projects on GitHub, and has a channel on Youtube. He has presented at Scala Days 2012 and the Bay Area Scala Enthusiast group showing his Scala projects. When not doing his school work or programming, he plays guitar, sitar, and games, some of which he created.To view the video visit www.parleys.com.To get started building reactive apps visit: http://www.typesafe.com/activator.

The power of Scala keeps showing up in expected--and unexpected--places. In this talk, I will share how I used Scala in bioinformatics, neuroscience, online games, mobile applications, and desktop applications. In bioinformatics, the beauty of Scala really shines. Thanks to the abstraction in the Scala collection framework, creating collection types for DNA, RNA, and Protein Chains is super easy. With the proper collections at my disposal, I was able to implement algorithms such as Sequence Alignment, Genome Assembly, and Gibbs Sampling by focusing on the core ideas of the algorithm and not on the nitty-gritty details. On the top of it, Scala makes dynamic programming, which is fundamental in many bioinformatics algorithms, easy to implement and understand. Last year, I talked about using brainwaves to play games. Since then, I have taken things up a notch and started working to solve more practical problems such as maintaining attention while performing tasks (something that my age group suffers from a lot). This exposed me to a whole new and exciting world of Digital Signal Processing. This project benefited a lot from Reactive programming techniques in cleaning my code and making it more reliable. Not to be outdone by the serious work of algorithms, I took the desktop version of Collidium and converted it to an online HTML5 Game using Scala.js. I have also improved my Android game, Wordsteal. I even used Scala with Swing to save a few bucks for our budget-starved Student Store by creating a simple cash register application. In this talk, I will share many interesting techniques I learned and convey why I continue to be a huge fan of Scala. See you there! Shadaj is a 13 year old, who loves to program. He has programmed in Logo, NXT Mindstorm, Ruby, Python, and C. However, he loves programming in Scala. Besides programming, he likes Math and Science. When he grows up, he wants to be a robotic scientist. Shadaj hosts his projects on GitHub, and has a channel on Youtube. He has presented at Scala Days 2012 and the Bay Area Scala Enthusiast group showing his Scala projects. When not doing his school work or programming, he plays guitar, sitar, and games, some of which he created. To view the video visit <a href="http://www.parleys.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.parleys.com</a>. To get started building reactive apps visit: <a href="http://www.typesafe.com/activator" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.typesafe.com/activator</a>.

Scala Days 2014 - "Serious Fun With Scala" - Shadaj Laddad