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MJS 055: Johannes Schickling

Guests :

Johannes Schickling

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : Apr 04, 2018

Duration : 40 Minutes

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Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Johannes Schickling

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Johannes Schickling. Johannes is the CEO and Co-Founder of GraphCool and works a lot on Prisma. He first got into programming when he started online gaming and would build websites for gaming competitions. He then started getting into creating websites, then single page apps, and has never looked back since. He also gives an origin story for GraphCool and the creation of Prisma.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Johannes intro
How did you first get into programming?
Always been interested in technology
PHP to JavaScript
Creating single page apps
Self-taught
The problem-solving aspect keeps people coming back to programming
Always enjoyed math and physics
Programmers make up such a diverse community
How did you find JavaScript?
Has used a wide range of front-end frameworks
Node
WebAssembly
Opal
What drew you into doing single page apps?
Like the long-term flexibility of single page apps
Don’t have to worry about the back-end right off the bat
GraphQL
What have you done in JavaScript that you are most proud of?
Open source tooling
GraphCool origin story
What are you working on now?
Prisma
And much, much more!

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