Creating a dashboard with Laravel, Vue and Pusher
Details
We kick off great in 2017! On Wednesday 18th of January we have a double lecture from one speaker. None other than Freek Van der Herten will talk about creating a dashboard with Laravel, Vue and Pusher. After that he will tell the story behind the Open Source efforts of his company.
Besides, as of 2017 we have some prizes to give away each meetup! :)
The lecture
Creating a dashboard with Laravel, Vue and Pusher
On the wall mounted TV in his office a dashboard is displayed. At a glance they can see what the current tasks for each member of their team is, which important events are coming up, which music is playing, if it will rain in the next 30 minutes, ... and much more.
In this 30 minute demo Freek explains how they leveraged both Laravel and Vue to build the dashboard. After demonstrating the dashboard itself we'll take a deep dive in the code. We'll take a look at the entire flow: the grid system, broadcast events, the Pusher service, some cool Vue mixins and much more. After this talk you'll be able to setup a dashboard using the code available at https://github.com/spatie/dashboard.spatie.be
The story behind our open source efforts
At his company they have an Open Source first policy. Whenever can solve a problem in a way that can benefit the community they'll Open Source their solution in the form of a package.
At the moment of writing they have more then 100 public repo's on GitHub, the majority are Laravel packages. According to packagist their packages have recently crossed the magical one million downloads mark and they are currently downloaded 200.000 times a month.
In this talk Freek shares the story behind their packages. How did they get started with Open Source? What are the benefits? How do they make time to work on them? How can you get started with giving back to the community that has given you so much. Freek will also demo a few of their popular Laravel packages.
About Freek Van der Herten
Freek Van der Herten is a partner and developer at Spatie (https://spatie.be/), an Antwerp based company that specializes in creating Laravel apps. The company has an Open Source first mentality. Freek is the author of many packages that Spatie releases. According to GitHub awards (http://github-awards.com/users?utf8=%E2%9C%93&type=world&language=php) Spatie is in the top 10 of PHP developers worldwide.
After hours Freek writes about modern PHP and Laravel on his blog (https://murze.be/) and is a co-organizer of PHP User Group in Antwerp, Belgium (http://phpantwerp.be/). When not coding he's probably rehearsing with his kraut-rock band (https://jarenduren.bandcamp.com/).
About the location
The meetup is held at Coosto (http://www.coosto.com/) HQ in the heart of Eindhoven. Coosto provides us a marvelous room with food (pizza) and drinks. Because of this, everybody is encouraged to attend about an hour prior to the lecture, so we can have a chat while enjoying our food. No more hurriedly eating around the corner... :)
The building is next to the Eindhoven trainstation and offers enough parking space in the basement. Coosto is located on the 5th floor.
About the meetup
• the meetup is free (as in free beer);
• free food (pizza) and free drinks are provided!;
• food is available between 18:00 and 19:00;
• prize raffle every meetup;
• the lecture will start at 19:00;
• spoken language is English unless not necessary;
• the presentation is in English;
• suitable for novice to expert level;
• hold at Coosto HQ (adjacent to Eindhoven train station);
• parking spaces are right under the building.