Get to Know Alpine.js!
Nolan Erck
Director / Owner at South of Shasta Consulting
Alpine.js has been described as "jQuery for the modern web". Alpine is incredibly lightweight, declarative, reactive, and can be embedded into any web page. Plus it requires no build or compile steps! It's the perfect solution for when you want to drop some SPA-like functionality into your existing codebase.
Alpine.js is only one JS file -- the entire library is 15 attributes, 6 properties, and 2 methods. And no need for installing NPM packages! It's not based on OOP, or JSX, or any of the other more complex systems that often scare away developers.
No matter the quality, complexity, nor type of code in your existing tech stack, you can easily start using Alpine.js...and can probably delete big chunks of vanilla JavaScript or jQuery as a result too!
Target audience: Any developer comfortable with JavaScript, HTML, and a basic understanding of the DOM and APIs should be able to follow this presentation. No knowledge of OOP principles, Node, NPM, nor any other JavaScript framework is required.
Main takeaways:
- Getting started with Alpine.js
- Basic syntax things
- Loops and if/else constructs
- Models, data, and binding
- DOM manipulation
- Talking to the server, APIs, etc.
Speaker: Nolan Erck, Owner / Director at South of Shasta Consulting
Bio:
Nolan has been developing software for over 20 years. Starting in the video game industry working on titles for Maxis and LucasArts, then advancing to web development in 1999, his list of credits includes Grim Fandango, StarWars Rogue Squadron, SimPark, SimSafari as well as high-traffic websites for a variety of clients. Nolan manages the Sac Interactive User Group, teaches classes on aspects of software development, and regularly gives presentations at conferences and user groups across the US and Europe.
When he's not consulting or talking about himself in the third person, Nolan can usually be found working on one of several music projects.
