This document provides an overview of tools and frameworks for developing applications. It discusses evaluating tools based on existing skills, not reinventing the wheel, and just starting to build something. Popular full-stack JavaScript options like MEAN, MERN and MEVN are presented. Other topics covered include basic app anatomy, mobile development tools like Flutter and React Native, backend frameworks like Flask and Django, and various third-party APIs. The goal is to equip attendees with resources to help bring their ideas to life.

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Tools to bring
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Agenda Before you code
Basic App Anatomy
Evaluating tools
Tools tour

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I'm Charlyn!
Software Engineer at Google, ex-Uber
etc.
󰗍 that is my puppy, Biscuit!
https://charlyn.codes
(my website that's not about code)
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Coding is kinda the easy part 😅
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Before you code
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Have a plan!

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1 hour of planning can save you
10 hours of doing.
- Dale Carnegie
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Find a problem
Research, interview,
pick a focus
Design a solution
Prototype, user
research, iterate
Ship it
Release it into the world
and let people use it!
Build it
Use code to bring your
product to life
Product Lifecycle
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Focus on the user
experience
Build a Minimum Viable Product
(MVP)
Build the boring stuff,
but don't focus on it too
much
login/signup forms,
account settings, etc
Do things that don't
scale at first
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Basic App Anatomy
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What makes a product work?

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Client/s
What your audience
or consumers see
Desktop, web, mobile,
etc. Could have one or
more depending on
user types
Server/s
Where the data and
much of the business
logic is handled
User accounts, billing,
state management
etc.
"microservices"
APIs
Third-party tools that
do specific things
Emails, image
classification,
notifications,
sentiment analysis,
etc.
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Infrastructure
Parts that keep your
app running, enable it
to scale or keep it
secure.
Load balancers,
queues, caches, rate
limiters, etc.

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To Do List
EXAMPLE
user
MongoDB
ExpressJS

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Uber Eats
EXAMPLE
Eater
Deliverer
Uber Eats
Backend
Services
Restaurant
3rd Party APIs

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Tips for evaluating
what tools to use
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Consider your
existing skillset
Use something somewhat familiar
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Don't re-invent
the wheel
Unless that's your entire product
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Just start.
You can always change it later!
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Some tools to consider
Based on my experience, not an exhaustive list!

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MEAN
MERN
MEVN
It's Javascript all
the way down
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MongoDB
Easy to use database to store data
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ExpressJS
Handle custom backend logic
A/R/V
Client-side: Angular, ReactJS or VueJS
NodeJS
Run javascript on the server

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https://signoz.io/blog/mevn-stack-tutorial/
https://www.mongodb.com/languages/mern
-stack-tutorial
https://www.mongodb.com/languages/mean
-stack-tutorial

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Create cross-platform apps with one codebase
Android (Kotlin or Java) iOS (Swift or ObjC)
Flutter React Native

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● Getting started with Android
● Getting started with iOS
● Flutter
● React Native

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Flask
Web framework in Python
● How to build
Django
Another web framework in Python
● Getting Started

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Ruby on
Rails
A big framework that can
handle both client and
server side
● About Rails
● Getting started
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AI and machine learning APIs
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● Clarifai for image recognition, OCR, and others
● Teachable Machine to train your own AI models
● Alexa Skills to build a conversational AI experience
● IBM Watson or Google Cloud for Natural Language
Processing, sentiment analysis and other machine learning

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Other useful APIs
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● Twilio for sending SMS and voice calls
● SendGrid for sending emails
● Google Maps for mapping use cases
● Stripe for payments infrastructure
● Shopify for custom ecommerce

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No Code Tools
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● Webflow for marketing and landing pages
● List of No-Code web app building tools

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and so much
more!
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Focus on
Learning

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