Jack is a Senior JavaScript Developer at Songkick in London where he spends most of his time writing or talking about JavaScript, React and Elm.
He's the author of "Beginning jQuery" (Apress, 2013) and blogs on http://javascriptplayground.com/. Jack tweets at @Jack_Franklin.
Talks I've Given
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Migrating from Angular to React: A tale from the trenches
Featuring Jack Franklin
Migrating from Angular to React can be a headache, luckily we have Jack Franklin to go through how to make this mammoth mission easier!
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Jack Franklin - Elm 0.18
Featuring Jack Franklin
Jack Franklin bravely doing a talk on updating to Elm 0.18.
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Universal JavaScript
Featuring Jack Franklin
This talk will first cover the reasons why you might want to run your client side application on the server:
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An introduction to Elm Lang
Featuring Jack Franklin
In this talk I'll discuss my experiences of getting started with Elm Lang, a functional reactive language designed for building complex user interfaces. We'll introduce its syntax, ideas and look at why it fits complex user interfaces so well. We'll explore the ecosystem and tooling...
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Building applications in ES6 today
Featuring Jack Franklin
In this talk, Jack will share with you how it is possible to architect and write complex client side JavaScript applications in ECMAScript 6 today, despite a lack of implementations across browsers. You will discover how to use libraries like SystemJS and Babel to enabling you to seamlessly write...
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Getting started with ES6 modules today
Featuring Jack Franklin
Traditionally modules in JS have been difficult - we've fantastic, but complex, solutions like Browserify or RequireJS - but ES6 brings its own module system that is fantastic to work with. In this talk I'll show you how it works and how you can use libraries to start using ES6 modules in...
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My Work
Senior Developer at Songkick
Social and Blogging
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