Forbes Lindesay
Forbes is a software developer at Threads Styling where he builds complex React and Node.js applications. In his spare time, Forbes maintains a number of open source projects, such as Pug, Promise and Cabbie.js
Talks I've Given
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Powering Code Reuse with Render Props, Hooks and Context in React
Featuring Forbes Lindesay
React's context API has always been labelled as experimental, but from the advent of Redux it has been used in all the most exciting react libraries. It's now a stabilised feature so now is the perfect time to learn the new context API. Combining the context API and render props &...
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Security in Node.js
Featuring Forbes Lindesay
While working on large node.js projects, Forbes noticed that there is no clear answer to common questions like “how do you securely store passwords”. He has also noticed that all the popular frameworks lack key security features such as CSRF protection and Rate Limiting by default. It’s really...
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High Performance Video Editing for the Mobile Web
Featuring Forbes Lindesay
At Threads, they needed to add video editing to their mobile web app, including advanced overlays and filters. They thought there would be an open source project they could use as a foundation, but it turned out that every project they tried was either far too slow or had a fraction of the...
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Keynote: Data Fetching in React
Featuring Forbes Lindesay
Forbes will show you how to manage state, and how to fetch data from the server in a React application, giving you the right tools to use, regardless of the size of your application.
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