Bengaluru · JavaScript community · Since Feb 2016
JavaScript Meetup
A decade of JavaScript evenings in Bengaluru — framework deep dives, engineering practice, and now the AI-era of web development. Open to everyone, from first-timers to staff engineers.
Ten years, five eras
What the group has covered since the first session in February 2016 — a condensed history, not an exhaustive list.
Foundations — 2016–17
The first meetup, in February 2016, asked where JavaScript had come from and where it was going. Early years were framework years: AngularJS and Angular workshops, Node.js, Ember.js, functional programming, WebAssembly and browser extensions — hands-on evenings hosted at engineering offices across Bengaluru.
Craft and scale — 2018–19
The group moved into engineering-practice territory: web performance (including the Hotstar web player), security talks and workshops, AngularJS-to-Angular upgrades, React Native, testing frameworks, a Node.js game backend, and a first AI/ML session in early 2019.
The online pivot — 2020–21
When in-person gatherings stopped, the meetup went online — 27 of its events in this stretch were remote, and reach grew: a Web Performance Bootcamp drew 753 attendees, the largest crowd the group has seen. Workshops covered performance, security (an XSS game), mock interviews and CI/CD.
Workshop years — 2022–23
A quieter, more focused period: full-stack testing and GitOps workshops, web accessibility, security games, web components, microfrontends and mock API practice.
The AI turn — 2024–26
Generative AI moved to the centre. A 2024 session on GenAI for developers drew 302; Build with AI at Google’s Bengaluru office brought 577. Since then: LLM fine-tuning, Copilot and AI-augmented TDD, agentic AI, a six-part From Arrays to Tensors series on LLMs from first principles, plus Svelte, microfrontends and Roku’s streaming engineering.
Figures above are from the meetups dashboard snapshot (108 events, Feb 2016 – May 2026) and the group page as of Sep 2026. 4.7★ across 1,077 reviews · 13,276 members · Bengaluru, India.
Gallery
A selection of photos from past events, newest first. The full archive runs to 346 photos across 47 albums (2017–2025); captions link to the Meetup page for each event.
2025 4 albums · 49 photos
2024 5 albums · 52 photos
2023 2 albums · 24 photos
2022 4 albums · 5 photos
2021 10 albums · 19 photos
2020 7 albums · 32 photos
2019 5 albums · 51 photos
2018 6 albums · 81 photos
2017 4 albums · 33 photos
Photos by members and organizers of JavaScript Meetup, published on the group’s Meetup photo albums. Originals archived locally; this selection is web-optimized for this page.