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title: Join Us Thursday May 2nd for Bitovi’s Online Meetup — useContext to Avoid Prop-Drilling in React, Leading a Team of One, & Using Docker To Improve Development
description: Join us on Thursday May 2nd for our next online meetup, featuring talks about React Hooks, being a solo developer, and using Docker for development.
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# [Join Us Thursday May 2nd for Bitovi’s Online Meetup — useContext to Avoid Prop-Drilling in React, Leading a Team of One, & Using Docker To Improve Development](https://www.bitovi.com/blog/join-us-thursday-may-2nd-for-our-online-meetup-embracing-obstacles-react-hooks-solo-dev-using-docker-to-improve-dev)

 Written by [Chasen Le Hara](https://www.bitovi.com/blog/author/chasen-le-hara) | April 17, 2019

**This meetup already happened!** You can watch the [recordings on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL--xV5crGpX99p1XW-V_B1XiB_MSgyfoW):

[Join us](https://zoom.us/meeting/register/f89b90602e4edcdf8c34be5db4a05ad8) on **May 2nd from 9 am – 10:30 am Pacific Time** for our next online meetup! We’ll have a handful of short talks on a variety of interesting topics, including…

At our [last meetup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL--xV5crGpX-ZJQ3DW0WvqyN0G9uGT4iE&v=22ZgdZ0ccow), Adam L Barrett covered `setState` with React Hooks. Extending from that, **Christopher Baker** will introduce more advanced data topics, showing us how to maintain data between renders (with `useRef`) and share data with your whole app *without* prop-drilling (with `useContext`).

If you’re working alone on a client project, or maybe just feel like you are, it can be overwhelming when everything depends on you. **Mike 'Mitch' Mitchel** will talk about his experiences as a new JavaScript developer at Bitovi, being a solo developer on a client project, and how to stay productive when you have to wear all the hats.

Docker and one of its CLI tools, docker-compose, can substantially help development by reducing the variability and effort involved in setting up dev environments. **Nils Lundquist** will teach us the fundamentals of using these tools and explain how they’ve helped in recent projects.

After the talks, we’ll join breakout rooms to discuss the presentations, talk with the presenters, and put the *meet* in meetup.

This meetup is free to attend, but you have to register to save your spot!

And before the meetup, be sure to [join our new community Slack](https://bitovi.com/community/slack)! After you’ve joined, come say hello in our [#introductions channel](https://bitovi-community.slack.com/messages/CFMMLPNV7). We’re excited to chat with you there and see you at our next online meetup!

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