Thanks to everyone who joined today’s meetup! Today @thedavid showed us the RedwoodJS v1 end-to-end developer experience (spoiler: it’s amazing 
) and @Chris showed us his startup Everfund, a supercharged fundraising platform for non-profits, that he built with Redwood in four months! We’ll be announcing our next Meetup soon. Look for an announcement here and on Twitter. But in the meantime, let’s recap:
Video Recording on YouTube
Video with timestamps here 
Topic Recap and Links
RedwoodJS Update
Tom kicked off the meetup by giving us an update on the state of the Redwoodverse–namely, that getting prerendering right and having first-class TypeScript support are a priority for v1–and introducing the RedwoodJS Core Team. Definitely listen to this part of the meetup if you’re interested in hearing a bit about RedwoodJS’s governance. Note that anyone can become part of the Core Team! Whether you’re fresh out of bootcamp or a very senior dev, all it takes is a demonstrated commitment to making RedwoodJS a smashing success.
The RedwoodJS v1 e2e DX
@thedavid took us from init to scaffold to storybook to test to deploy in this drinking-from-the-firehouse tour of Redwood. David goes over Redwood’s edge-ready architecture (React, GraphQL, Prisma) and the kind of developer experience you can expect from Redwood when it reaches v1 (check out @rob’s 2torial for a sneak preview).
If you feel like you need both a high-level overview and an in-depth refresher of Redwood, this is the talk for you.
Building Everfund with RedwoodJS
@Chris took everything @thedavid showed us and made a real thing with it!
Everfund is supercharging fundraising for non-profits. A fintech SaaS product, it helps non-profits boost their donation opportunities using fast and easy donation links.
Cofounder and CEO (not to mention long-time Redwood community member!) @Chris showed us how he went from technical debt to technical wealth with Redwood. Here’s the before-after
Note: You can find all the slides here:
Redwood_Meetup.pdf (5.6 MB)
From a patchwork tech stack with 100% custom auth to logging in seamlessly with magic link and tailored RBAC, the wins in developer experience were huge for @Chris, from backend to frontend. Don’t miss his Cells demo, showing just how easy it is to swap in test data for a dashboard just by passing a few parameters.
Everfund is even taking advantage of Redwood’s multi-side architecture–pretty cool considering Redwood isn’t even v1. In fact, Chris started on Redwood v0.8.0! 