Bahrain.js

Bahrain.js is the JavaScript developer community for Bahrain. It runs monthly meetups and builder sessions, incubates open source projects under the `@bahrain-js` GitHub organisation, and publishes packages to npm under the same scope.

The community is open to anyone writing JavaScript or TypeScript in Bahrain — whether you're shipping your first PR or maintaining production libraries.

Bahrain.js is built around three things that compound on each other:

Meetups. Talks, workshops, and builder sessions that bring local devs into the same room — physically or virtually. Topics span the full ecosystem: React, Vue, Node, TypeScript, runtimes, tooling.

Open source. A pathway from idea to prototype to npm release under the community organisation. Projects are owned by their authors but get visibility, code review, and infrastructure from the community.

Careers. A job board and direct connections between Bahraini developers and the companies hiring them — including XYZ, Startup Bahrain, and Tamkeen-aligned employers.

Bahrain.js makes the path from newcomer to maintainer explicit, not gated:

Member → Contributor → Maintainer → Core Team.

Each level has clear criteria: a Member shows up. A Contributor ships a PR. A Maintainer owns a project. The Core Team runs the community itself. There's no waiting list, no gatekeeping — every step is earned by doing the work, and the work is visible to everyone.

The site is a Nuxt 4 static build deployed to GitHub Pages, with Neon Serverless Postgres behind a Data API for the dynamic pages — events, projects, people, and the admin panel. Marketing and blog routes are prerendered; data-driven routes ship as client-only SPAs that fetch from Neon at runtime. The result is zero ongoing infrastructure cost and a single codebase any contributor can clone, run, and submit a PR against.

The blog runs on `@nuxt/content` v3 with markdown files in `/content/blog/` — anyone can submit a post by opening a PR. Authentication uses Neon Auth with GitHub OAuth, which keeps the contributor mental model aligned: the same GitHub identity for code contributions, member profile, and admin access.

UI is Nuxt UI v4 on Tailwind CSS v4, with GSAP (via `v-gsap-nuxt`) powering the homepage animations. Tests run on Vitest with `@nuxt/test-utils` and `happy-dom`. The whole stack — codebase, infrastructure, content workflow — is open source under MIT, because a community site that isn't transparent isn't really a community site.

Visit bahrain.js.org for upcoming events and active projects. The community runs on GitHub for code, Discord and WhatsApp for daily conversation, npm for shipped packages, and Reddit + Instagram for broader reach.

The fastest way in is to come to a meetup or open a PR on one of the active `@bahrain-js` projects. We respond.