This is a deck presented at a meetup hosted by JSLovers. It covers topics like importance of building side projects, machine learning and JS stack. Deck does so by giving an overview of a recommendation engine built using the said technologies.

1. Product Showcase
Re | re.yomeshgupta.com
Yomesh Gupta | Software Engineer | AdPushup

2. Overview
Re is a recommendation engine which uses Machine Learning to curate a
customized list of movies, a user might like based on previously rated movies by
the user and the community.
Re was featured in the Semantic UI React's official GitHub repo. It is used by
people all over the globe.

3. Re was selected as Product of the day on Product Hunt and acquired first 1000
users in 3 days of its initial launch.

4. Why Re?

5. Tech Stack
Machine Learning Engine - Python
API server - Node.js (Express + JWT Authentication)
Web server - Node.js (Express)
Mailer - Node.js
Frontend - React + Redux + Semantic UI React
Database - MongoDB

6. Magic! (I mean demo)

7. Learnings
1. Importance of Bundlers
2. Efficient usage of React + Redux
3. Communication between JS and Python
3.1 Child Processes
3.2 Individual Processes
3.3 Queue Messaging
4. Importance of building side projects
5. Every problem has a solution
6. Thinking beyond technology
7. Feature Requests never ends!

8. Sneak Peak!
Dessiner Store
An ongoing effort to provide
seamless integration of technology,
design and e-commerce.
Check out : dessinerstore.com
Backdrops
A tiny chrome extension to turn your
new tab to something more
delightful.
Check out : bit.ly/backdrops-chrome

9. yomesh.gupta@gmail.com | yomeshgupta.com
Thank you