Pilgrimage to HolyJS JavaScript conference in Moscow
November 24, Moscow, Russia — It was just 3 months ago that SFL — the company where all of us were working decided to provide an opportunity for us to attend the JavaScript conference — a source of knowledge, motivation, inspiration, networking and much more. And finally, our team of five JavaScript Geeks arrived at long-awaited Javascript Conference HolyJS 2018 in Moscow.
After getting welcome souvenirs and gifts, grabbing a coffee for some extra energy we got ready for a dip dive into the JavaScript world. The conference was very well structured: 3 talks were happening parallelly, and an indeed a good point for me was that always one of those talks was in Node.js related topic. Not to forget to mention the informal gathering with the speakers and JS geeks to drink some beer and discuss the current and future challenges of JavaScript. I had an impression that during those discussions you are more likely to get more deep insights on the desired topic rather than during the conference talks.
There were many other useful talks about encryption in Node.js, data visualization with d3.js etc. But being so passionate about both Angular and Node.js I couldn’t stay indifferent toward the talk ”Revealing framework fundamentals: NestJS behind the curtain” by the creator of Nest.js — Kamil Mysliwiec. A Node.js framework which as the author described is “heavily inspired by Angular” let you write a powerful, scalable and efficient server-side application with all Angular’s elegance(with use of TypeScript of course).
Beside of the talks, lots of things were happening outside of the halls thanks to the conference sponsors. Each of them prepared interactive and nice booths where they were offering to JS geeks to accomplish different types of interesting challenges like quizzes, coding tasks, algorithm related problems, logical problems etc. From my own experience, I would surely say that the outcome of participating in these quizzes is 100% positive because “you either win or learn”. In my case I did both: I won a bunch of prizes as well as improved my JS skills.
Overall I would say that the atmosphere during these two conference days “was full of JavaScript”: bright, friendly speakers, knowledge and experience sharing, formal and informal discussions, competitions, joy and fun giving a high portion of inspiration, motivation and drive to reach farther and farther in the JavaScript journey.
