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

Organizers

Austin JavaScript is made possible by the goodwill and hard work of a great many people. Please reach out to the following folks if you have any questions or want to get more involved.