OPO.js meetup #8: Wrapping Up 👋

It’s time we say goodbye to 2018, but not before reminiscing about OPO.js #8, and all we had in store for the last meetup of the year of the Porto JavaScript Community.

That’s so well summarised, I almost could just stop here. But I won’t 😆

This event was a big milestone, again clocking at 150 attendees, regardless of the train strikes and flooding rain. People were just set on coming.

“@oponetwork We caught tons of unexpected traffic, but we’re en route to #opojs! Late, but see you in a bit!” — You gotta love the commitment, moments like this make it worth it 💪

Pizza.js 🍕

We wanted to go big for this last meetup of the year, so we had a pizza party for 110 people 🤯🍕🔥

This was a smashing success, and a great chance to socialise, meet new people and exchange ideas. A keeper for the next meetups!

Book giveaways 🎁

Our official t-shirt 💛

A new addition to the OPO.js experience was the book giveaways, borrowed from our OPO.design meetups. We’re always trying to enable people to grow, so if you’d like to get in on these giveaways, be sure to follow us around the web, we’ll keep having initiatives like these.

The talks 🗣

Following some trends we’re seeing, this meetup was around the distributed and decentralised web, topics ranging from DApp development, decentralised package managers and the role browsers can take in enabling this future web. If this peaked your curiosity, be sure to watch the talks below.

André Cruz, CTO at MOXY — “True Serverless”

André Cruz brought us “True Serverless”, in which he shows us how quickly one can turn a local web app into an offline first, decentralised app, with synchronised state across devices, all without servers, or blockchains for that matter. A truly mind-blowing concept for any web developer looking to go beyond “just the cloud”.

▶️ Watch André Cruz — True Serverless

André Garzia, Tech Speaker at Mozilla — “Libdweb: towards a user agent that fosters decentralization”

André Garzia talked about “Libdweb: towards a user agent that fosters decentralization”, which shed some light on what Firefox’s libdweb is trying to accomplish, and the role browser vendors can have on enabling the dweb ecosystem. If you’d like to help shape what could eventually become a standard of the dweb, this talk is a must watch.

▶️ Watch André Garzia — Libdweb: towards a user agent that fosters decentralization

Alex Potsides, Core JavaScript Developer at Protocol Labs — “NPM on IPFS”

Finally, Alex Potsides talked about his adventures in building “NPM on IPFS”, the architecture behind it, and the possibilities that it brings. If building distributed apps and package managers gets your juices flowing, you can’t miss this one.

▶️ Watch Alex Potsides — NPM on IPFS

Pictures 📷

As usual, we’ve released the photo album on Facebook, so be sure to show us some ❤️ by liking the photos and tagging yourself.

Porto Tech & Creative calendar 🗓

Another topic we talked about at OPO.js, was the monthly calendar of creative and tech events in Porto.

We send out a newsletter with all key events in Porto every month, so you don’t have to follow a thousand different pages. You’re welcome!

If you want to follow the calendar, be sure to join the newsletter.

That’s it, folks. This was the last meetup of 2018, see you next year, we’re going big in 2019, stay tuned for more🤘

A big thanks to ScaleUp Porto, Pólo Zero, our speakers, and everyone who helped make this awesome meetup for the Porto JavaScript Community a reality.

OPO.network and its meetups are supported by the Call for Activities initiative by ScaleUp Porto.

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