Meetup Events

[caseywatts]

An Example

For an example done in angular, we can reference NewHaven.io's site

• angular controller (with the GET request string example)
• angular service

  HTML markup

We can make something similar to NewHaven.io's event cards using bootstrap panels to start. Static HTML is fine for the first pass, we can make it into an actual template later.

Getting The Data

We can form our own GET requests by hand, it's just one URL format we'll have to deal with. GET /2/events API docs

Authentication

For authentication, we can use a raw API key for local development (get yours here), but we'll want a signed API key for the specific GET request query that will be shared publicly. We'll want to document something about how to produce this in our README.

Data Modeling

How should we loop through the data to show it on the page?

• underscore.js with templates
• raw javascript
• angular (probably not lol)

[benjaminoakes]

Thanks for thinking through this! I got stuck on the templating. There are a few too many ways to do it. I was tempted to use jQuery templates, but those were deprecated.

The goal is to make this project very approachable to any developer, and I think that includes using very popular technologies. Examples: jQuery, Bootstrap, etc. I think Mustache/Handlebars templates might be the most popular/approachable of the choices I'm aware of. There might be a better one though...

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There are lots of ways to do this, but I started off with jQuery+Bootstrap, since it was already present.

To use it, you'd have to create a <div id="#meetup-events"> somewhere in the HTML, include meetup-events.js, create a Meetup object with a key-signed URL (and the maximum number of events to display) and call getEvents(). It ends up looking like this.

I agree that Mustache/Handlebars are probably the most popular Javascript templates, but I'm also thinking that it would be good as a web component. As a user (developer), it would be nice to simply insert a custom element like <meetup-event group="techcorridorio" ... >.

[benjaminoakes]

My only thought is that it needs to be approachable, even to newbies -- and hopefully reusable too. I think this is good in those respects.

I think the component idea is interesting... I think we should try that.

I'd love a pull request for this, when you have a chance. Thanks so much for doing this!

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I'm going to work on a meetup component and see where that goes.

[caseywatts]

a meetup component is created, pr'd, merged, and out for a while :) Closing the issue!