Bleeding Edge Web
A meetup for the discerning web app developer
Videos
We often livestream our meetups. Check out our live meetup page to join meetups in progress. Recent recordings are available on our YouTube channel.
Many of our meetup recordings from 2015–2020 are also available via Austin Tech Live.
Slides
Most meetups include a "News from the Bleeding Edge" intro talk that highlights current themes in web app development, in addition to a primary talk (linked when available).
Our group thrives on community participation.
Please consider speaking or
sponsoring an event!
2025
May
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK and TypeScript
January
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Express Forward with Wesley Todd
2024
October–December
Holiday break
September — video
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Coding with AI Assistants
- Supercharging Development with AI: A Modern Toolchain Revolution
August — video
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Repurpose Your JS Frontend As A Desktop and Mobile App With Tauri
July — video
The video has no audio due to technical difficulties :(- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Turbo Charge Your Stack with AI
June — video
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- The Root of All (Web) Evils
May
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Thinking About Your Code: Push vs Pull
- Sponsor: Jam.dev
April — video
March — video
February — video
2021–2023
Feb 2021–October 2023
Unscheduled Covid break...
January 2021 (virtual)
- React Query
- Gridsome for Apps (Vue)
- Zoom Sponsor: GLG
2020
March–October
Unscheduled Covid break...
February
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- A CLI-First Approach to Web Development
- TypeScript In-Depth
- Sponsor: Indeed Hiring Events
January — video
2019
October–December
Holiday break
September — video
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Analytics & Data for Developers
- Writing a Github Action
- Azure Cosmos DB (SQL + JSON) with Node.js
- Sponsor: Fauna
August — video
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Everyone Can Do Open Source
- Simplifying Security with IAM
- Sponsor: Aunt Bertha
July — video
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Building Telecom Apps with Node.js
- Get Hired, Guaranteed
- Sponsor: Aunt Bertha
June — video
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Real User Measurements and the Development Lifecycle
- Sponsor: Bleeding Edge Web
May — video
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- How I Used CSS & JS to Remodel a Condo
- Make Your React App Progressive
- Sponsor: The Guild
April — video
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Production React Redux Architecture, Patterns, and Infrastructure Components
- Sponsor: CloudFlare
March — video
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Visual Regression Testing with Percy.io
- Level Up with Redis + Node
- EnableDB: An Experiment with DB Gateways
- Sponsor: Duo Security
February — video
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- HomeAway's Multi-Cloud Traffic Director (no slides)
- Sponsor: HomeAway
January — video
2018
November / December
Holiday break
October — video
September — video
August
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Node.js Night! (no slides)
- Sponsor: Cloudflare
July — video
June
May
April
March
March (special SXSW edition)
February
January
- News from the Bleeding Edge
- Noding a Blockchain (no slides)
2017
- December — Holiday break
- November — Bleeding Edge Web / OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect in plain English
- October — Bleeding Edge Web / An Introduction To Alexa and Alexa Skills
- September (video — Bleeding Edge Web / Live to Code, Don't Code to Live
- August — Bleeding Edge Web / Get the Software Job You Want... Guaranteed
- July — Bleeding Edge Web / The Peer-to-peer Web
- June — Bleeding Edge Web / Node & Arduino: A fun Introduction
- May — Bleeding Edge Web / The History and Future of Speaking with Machines
- April — Bleeding Edge Web / Web Performance Deep Dive with Chander Dhall (no slides)
- March — Bleeding Edge Web / Electron + Fenix
- February — Bleeding Edge Web / What I Learnt Spending 200 Hours Teaching my Daughter to Code... (no slides)
- January — Bleeding Edge Web / VueJS for Web Applications
2016
- November / December — Holiday break
- October — Bleeding Edge Web / Pragmatic React + Redux: Lessons From the Trenches
- September — Bleeding Edge Web / Docker as a Strategic Enabler for Dev Teams
- August — Bleeding Edge Web / Test Automation Best Practices
- July — Bleeding Edge Web / Painless Server-Side Rendering with React and ClojureScript (Keynote file)
- June — Bleeding Edge Web / Vue.js: The best view library you've never heard of
- May — Bleeding Edge Web / All About Node 6
- April — Bleeding Edge Web / Microservices Panel
- March — Bleeding Edge Web / Go: A Practical Start Guide ( code)
- February — Bleeding Edge Web / React 2016 Conference Recap / HipChat on React
- January — Intro to Web Components
2015
- November / December — Holiday break
- October — The Road Four Node
- September — Overview of Ember
- August — Intro to React and Redux
- July — On the Edge: Intro to the new MS Browser
- June — ES6 & WebAssembly + Lightning Talks
- Special Event — Faceoff on the Lake
- May — An Evening With Jeff Lindsay
- March — Real-world npm
- February — Typescript Deep Dive
- January — Accelerating Your Development, Deployment and Learning with Yeoman
2014
- November / December — Holiday break
- October — D3.js: Data Visualization for the Modern Web
- August — Web App by Example: Python
- July — Web App by Example: Node.js
- June — Customize Your Workflow.js
- January — Geek Fitness / FitChimp Tech Talk
2013
- December — Debugging Tools (Chrome DevTools / Firefox Developer Tools)
- September — 10 Months with Meteor.js
- August — Wig Wag & DeviceJS
- July — Learn About Google Glass
The original Sencha Meetup was relaunched as Bleeding Edge Web in July 2013.
- June — Winds of Change (final Sencha meetup)
- May — JsDuck: Create Your Own "Sencha" Docs
- March — Meet Mats Bryntse of Bryntum
- February — Sencha Touch in the Wild
2012
- December — Intro to Sencha Architect
- August — Summer Siesta (social meetup)
- June — Meet Ted Patrick of Sencha
- May — Sencha Jobs
- April — All About Sencha Touch 2
- March — Ext 3 to 4 Migration
- February — February Sencha Meetup
- January — January Sencha Meetup
2011
- October — Oct-Nov / SenchaCon Meetup
- September — The Future of JS App Architecture
- August — Sencha Touch in the Real World
- June — Sencha Touch Overview
- May — Let's Reconnect! / Ext JS 4 Overview
2010
- December — Ext JS Npv/Dec Meetup
- September — Austin Ext JS Meetup
- August — Austin Ext JS Meetup Kick-off
We started life as the Austin Ext JS / Sencha Meetup. Trivia: did you know that meetup organizer Brian Moeskau co-founded the company behind Ext JS back in the day?