About us

We are a JavaScript community that meets regularly in Austin, Texas, to discuss a wide range of topics, including:

• The JavaScript language
• JavaScript application frameworks
• Server and client-side JavaScript
• JavaScript on other people's sites
• Testing
• DevOps
• Cryptography
• How CSS colors got their names
• JavaScript position openings

The group started back in 2009 and has been going strong ever since. For a taste of our rich history, take a peak at the meetup archives—they're full of videos and fascinating characters.

Meetings

We typically meet on the 3^rd Tuesday of each month somewhere deep in the heart of Austin, Texas — typically downtown. We’ll have a speaker or two, open things up for questions and discussion, and then head to a nearby watering hole to continue the networking and the conversations.

Excellence

We work hard to build a community of good natured and helpful people that treat each other with excellence. We’ve formalized what this means into our Code of Conduct.

Colophon

Austin JavaScript is powered by <surprise> JavaScript! This website is kept humming by a great many spectacular moving parts. Here are but a few:

• Static site generator: Eleventy (11ty)
• Templating language: LiquidJS
• Image resizing/caching: @11ty/eleventy-img
• CSS framework: Bulma
• CSS preprocessor: Sass, node-sass
• Icons: Ionicons
• Cleanup and minification: PurgeCSS, HTMLMinifier
• JavaScript linting: ESLint, Airbnb config
• Markdown linting: MarkdownLint
• Source code versioning, CI/CD, web site hosting: GitHub