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NodeSource Team Supports JSConf Colombia for the Event’s 10th Anniversary

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Over a thousand developers gathered together two weeks ago to engage in all things JavaScript at the sold-out JSConf Colombia (https://www.jsconf.co/) while celebrating its 10th year in Medellin. Our NodeSource team members (current and past) played impactful roles in leading, planning, and speaking to support the community event. We are incredibly proud of our Colombian team members, who are a massive part of creating our best-in-class OSS N|Solid Runtime and premium platform N|Solid Pro.

Adrian Estrada, our VP of Engineering and OpenJS Foundation Board Member, has been a key leader for years in supporting Colombia’s Node.js and JS community. His great passion for technology and enabling people to develop and grow makes him a fantastic leader for our global engineering team and community engagement. Alongside Adrian, Julian Duque, a NodeSource alumni, has also been instrumental in the Colombian JavaScript community. His leadership and contributions have significantly shaped the region’s JavaScript development landscape. Julian’s efforts, combined with Adrian’s dedication, underscore the deep involvement and influence NodeSource has in nurturing and advancing the tech community in Colombia.

This event has had an incredible decade-long run, with a commitment to breaking down barriers, promoting accessibility, and creating a space that champions diversity. As the last in the series, the community was committed to making this final event one to remember.

The event opened to local musicians on stage, setting the tone for a joyous and creative experience. Talks at the event showcased the diversity of the community, including topics like “Making Art with JavaScript and Garbage,” “Unlock the Power of JavaScript Generators,” “IDX, WebIDE’s and the Future of JavaScript Debugging,” and the AI-themed “Chatting with the Canvas; How to Assemble Art from AI Image Prompts.”

Jessica Felix highlighted N|Solid, our product, emphasizing its significance in modern Node.js development and performance analysis. This array of topics underlined JavaScript’s dynamic and multifaceted nature, catering to a wide range of interests and expertise within the community.

NodeSource Alumni and JS Rockstar Erick Wendel shared his knowledge about “How to consume gigabytes of data in JavaScript without slowing down applications.”

And one of our current team members, the talented Juan José Arboleda, challenged the attendees that “JavaScript can be as fast as C++.”

Colombia has long been a crucial part of NodeSource, and the talent and energy from the region have produced many great team members. Like Maria Fernanda Serna and NodeSource Alumni Liz Parody, who helped organize this year’s event, we have enjoyed the spirit and talents of this region. Colombia has also been a place where we give back. From these community events to where we planted trees for every customer in our NodeForest campaign, Colombia is ¡Qué nota de lugar! (a fantastic place!).

In keeping with this spirit of community and innovation, a new event is being born to replace JSConf Colombia. It will be announced soon and is set to happen in October 2024. This upcoming event, which includes some of the organizers of JSConf Colombia, will continue to foster the region’s vibrant tech community. NodeSource will also continue to support this initiative, highlighting its ongoing commitment to the Colombian tech scene.

Interview With Italo José Core committer at @herbsjs

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@ItaloJosé is Microsoft MVP in the Node.js category and works at NodeSource as a Software Engineer; He organizes CityJS Brazil.

We are thrilled to be part of developing powerful tools like N|Solid. We are immensely proud of our engineers who have dedicated their time and expertise to support the open-source ecosystem. This is our way of giving voice and visibility to the projects they are passionate about.

We want to recognize Italo José’s work with Herb.js on this occasion. He has been working on the Herbs.js project since 2020, where he developed the initial versions of the CLI, made significant contributions to numerous repositories, and mentored new contributors.

NS: What benefits does Herbs.js provide?

IJ: Different from other frameworks that help you to write a better infrastructure layer, like the API, database layer, documentation, and tests. The Herbs.js want to help you avoid writing it and focus on what matters, the domain’s code. How do we do it? We read your use case and provide you with the infrastructure; this way, you can save more than 50% of the time developing a server-side application.

It’s good for the business and developers that will stop writing boring and repetitive code for every project.

NS: How can I use Herbs.js to improve my development process?

IJ: The first step is writing your entities and use cases using the @herbsjs/herbs library, besides you have a more organized and readable use cases’ code. After that, you can add our glues(other libraries) that will read your use case and provide you the infrastructure code like rest or GraphQL APIs, documentation, repositories layer and more.

NS: What are the most popular features of Herbs.js?

IJ: Our CLI, the herbs2rest libraries.
The CLI, you know, helps you to generate and maintain a project using the Herbs.js. The herbs shelf reads your use cases and provides human documentation (this is my favorite).

The herbs2rest plugin reads your use case and provides a configured express instance containing all endpoints, an error handling layer, and auth layer for you.

These are the three most popular, but we have plugins for GraphQL, databases, tests, and more.

NS: How does Herbs.js simplify the development process?

IJ: Besidesprevents you writing 80% of the infrastructure code; we provide you with and structured way to write the use cases that allow you to maintain your code self-documented and organized in steps; it’s interesting because this way, new developers and non-developers can understand in a fast way what is happening in your code, it allows for example, project owners validate your use case rule for going to production.

Besides, we save time by avoiding writing the “repetitive” infrastructure code in all projects in our lives.

NS: How user-friendly is Herbs.js?

IJ: It’s pretty simple; as I mentioned in question 2, you write your entities and use case using the @herbsjs/herbs, and after that, just pass it for the glues, so the magic happens.

We assume you want to know more about this project. In that case, we invite you to review this amazing keynote that Italo left for the Community at CityJS Conference: Do you really code domain-oriented systems?

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