Get on board for apps.berlin.js!

Remember Chaplin? By releasing Chaplin, we aimed to provide a sample architecture for a complex application. We received a lot of feedback from the community. We would like to continue this work and discuss things with people who are building JavaScript-driven Web applications.

That’s why we’re announcing apps.berlin.js, …

apps.berlin.js is a spin-off of Berlin.JS (Berlin’s JavaScript user group) with a focus on client-side JavaScript applications (aka HTML apps).

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Dear JavaScript community,

We love Berlin.JS. The variety of the talks reflects the flexibility of the language. JavaScript is a broad subject, so we would like to dig deeper into a specific topic: client-side JavaScript applications.

There are plenty of frameworks which assist in building client-side JavaScript applications (“HTML5 apps”). But most of them lack best practices and case studies regarding large-scale applications. Especially, smaller libraries like Backbone.js are used for this purpose without providing a scalable structure on their own.

To discuss these problems, we’re announcing apps.berlin.js, the first meet-up on JavaScript Web apps in Berlin. It’s an official Berlin.JS spin-off. We kindly invite you to join us on Thursday, May 10th 2012 at the Moviepilot headquarters in Kreuzberg.

There will be a focus on Backbone.js and its ecosystem, but we’re open to discuss other libraries and topics as well. The first talk will be a short introduction to Chaplin and its ongoing development. Chaplin is a sample architecture for JS applications based on Backbone.

Further details and talks will be announced shortly on this mailing list and on @berlinjs, so please stay tuned. Until then we’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions. If you would like to give a talk or start a discussion, please let us know!

Regards Mathias Schäfer & the Chaplin team

For those of you who may not yet know about it, Berlin.JS is a monthly meet-up with talks on the JavaScript programming language in general. Check out Berlin.JS on Google groups and @berlinjs on Twitter.

Special thanks to @molily