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Start your next web-application in the browser with CodeSandbox

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Sjoerd Valk

Starting your next Javascript project can be frustrating or overwhelming when you have to set up your local development environment. The most of the new Javascript techniques and frameworks are dependent on node and NPM. Especially when you want to create a tutorial, blog post or prepare a workshop. The setup for each type of operating system can take to much time and your audience can lose the focus on the message you are trying to send. For this problem, CodeSandbox can help you out! On codesandbox.io you can start your next project with just one click and demonstrate, experiment or build cool stuff.

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JSHeroes 2018 Conference Report

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Martijn van der Wijst

In this report Sjoerd Valk (@Sjoerdus) and Martijn van der Wijst (@vanderwise) try to sum up their experiences in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. They stayed in Cluj during the 17th and 21st of April to attend the JSHeroes conference, a frontend conference all about JavaScript. Presented by heroes of the JavaScript open source community. Although most of the speakers admitted they weren’t really heroes, the very last speaker gave his talk in a hero-esque costume.

This year marks only the second edition of JSHeroes, but it’s organized really professional. Speakers are from all over the world, and the location is a chique hotel. A few kilometers out of the city center. Its grandeur reminds us a bit of the Grand Budapest Hotel. The name too by the way: the Grand Hotel Italia. On Wednesday we followed an Angular Masterclass. Thursday and Friday are the JSHeroes conference days. The talks are just 30 minutes each. A quick pace and quite diverse topics. The popular frameworks (React, Angular and Vue) were covered much, but also webfonts, Codesandbox, and V8, the engine behind JavaScript.

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