WDI CONF 2017 is a really real technology conference, featuring talks from all sorts of famous people. And DT. Hit the site for details, to purchase tickets, and reserve seating at the various talks.
A project for General Assembly's WDI course, we (The Gentlemen's Whisky & Pipe-Smoking Club) have created a SPA consisting of a brochure site and ticket-booking app for a hypothetical tech conference.
- Node.js
- Express.js
- MongoDB
- mLab
- JavaScript (ES6)
- jQuery
- Stripe
- SendGrid
- SASS
- webpack
- Heroku
Our main challenge was learning several new tools in a short timeframe (but then, this was also the point of doing the project). None of us had experience with MongoDB, Stripe, or SendGrid, and only very limited experience devoloping Node backends or using build tools like webpack.
Working out how to fit all these parts together was frustrating but also rewarding.
We would like to improve the emails sent via SendGrid by incorporating html templates, and possibly use something like node-qrcode to include a QR Code in the email that can then be scanned by staff at the event.
Possibly other stuff I can't think of right now.