The boring JavaScript stack

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Kelvin Omereshone is here to get you excited about boring, reliable tech. He believes a combination of Sails, Inertia, Tailwind & your frontend rendering library of choice are a great combo for building web apps. Tune in to find out why.

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Featuring:

• Kelvin Omereshone – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• The Boring JavaScript Stack
• Sails.js
• Screencasts for the modern Sails developer
• Hagfish - Where creators do invoices
• Inertia
• Sailsconf
• The Boring JavaScript Stack (keynote)

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:00:39)

https://speakeasyapi.dev/

3. Hello party people (00:04:40)

4. Welcoming K.O.O. (00:05:01)

5. The boring JS stack (00:05:49)

https://docs.sailscasts.com/boring-stack/

6. Sails.js (00:08:39)

https://sailsjs.com

7. Hagfish (00:12:38)

https://hagfish.io

8. Making money (00:13:48)

9. Sponsor: Clerk (00:15:33)

https://clerk.com

10. Project 50 (00:19:08)

11. Sails.js sales pitch (00:21:48)

12. Inertia (00:24:10)

https://inertiajs.com

13. Tailwind (00:27:07)

14. Deployment (00:30:06)

15. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:32:37)

https://changelog.com/news

16. Sails' unpopularity (00:34:34)

17. Getting started (00:39:03)

18. Getting in touch (00:41:31)

19. Closing time (00:43:10)

20. Outro (00:43:43)