Building Voice Apps, Typescript & React

Building Voice Apps with the Violet Framework - Vineet Sinh @vineetsinha, Salesforce

The popularity of Amazon's Alexa and Google Home has been inspiring both developers and businesses to think about Voice computing. From a banking assistant on your phone to grocery shopping on your TV - it is truly exciting to see how Voice Interfaces could be used.

In this session we will introduce you to and go over an example application, built using Violet (http://helloviolet.ai/), an Open-Source Node.js based Voice App Framework. Violet simplifies the complexity needed typically when manually building using other developer oriented frameworks, while providing for more flexibility than the drag-and-drop non-technical tools on the market. Violet achieves this using an Html (& React) inspired template driven approach.

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TypeScript & React - Chris Toomey @christoomey, Thoughtbot

TypeScript is taking the JavaScript world by storm and with good reason. TypeScript provides a gradual path to improving our code, avoiding errors, better developer experience and more. The recent State of JS survey showed huge adoption growth and positive takes on TypeScript, so now's the perfect time to take a look if TypeScript is new for you.

This talk will provide a brief summary of the world of typed languages, an overview of TypeScript's features, as well as deeper dives into how TypeScript integrates with the world of React.