Astek x frontend.mu May 2026 Meetup

After a few weeks of planning, it was finally meetup day at Astek Mauritius. Cedric, Kushul & I had been in touch with the Astek team for a little while, and we were excited to host this one on the 12th floor of One Exchange Square in Ebene. Not gonna lie, the view from up there is pretty great and definitely sets the mood for a good Saturday morning.

I reached around 9.45am and Varsha from the Astek team was already there setting things up. We got the TV sorted and I started setting up my laptop and some seats. People started arriving slowly, grabbing coffee and chatting in small groups before we kicked things off. It's always encouraging to see new faces at these meetups, and this one had a good mix of regulars and people we hadn't met before.

Intro

As usual, I started the meetup by presenting coders.mu/frontend.mu and our mission statement. "To inspired people about Technology". I went through the agenda for the day and introduced each speaker briefly. We had 41 RSVPs for this one, and the room filled up nicely.

Talks

• Tashil Moorateeah - From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
• Houzair Koussa - The Curry-Howard Correspondence
• Sandeep Ramgolam - News & Community updates
• Kavish Khoodeeram - BMaD Method to improve Agentic Development

From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering - Tashil Moorateeah

Tashil, first time speaker at frontend.mu, opened the talks with a topic that's very relevant these days. He took us through the journey from "vibe coding", where you just prompt your way through a project and hope for the best, to actually doing proper agentic engineering, where you treat the agent as a real collaborator with structure, context and guardrails. He also shared the things that went wrong in his early experiments with agents and how he iterated on his approach to get better results. The talk was very practical and I think a lot of people in the room could relate to the struggle of trying to get useful output from agents without a clear framework.

Tashil walked through how he sets up his own workflows and what's worked for him. There were quite a few nods around the room. Solid first talk and I really hope he comes back with more.

Sponsor Spotlight - Astek Mauritius

Sarah, from The Astek team took a few minutes to introduce themselves, talk about what they do and what kind of projects they work on. They also mentioned what they're looking for in terms of hiring, which is always useful information for the community. Big thanks to them for opening their doors to us.

The Curry-Howard Correspondence - Houzair Koussa

Houzair, a now seasoned speaker at frontend.mu, took us into much deeper waters with a talk on the Curry-Howard Correspondence. For those who don't know, this is the idea that proofs and programs are essentially the same thing, types correspond to propositions and programs correspond to proofs.

Although this talk is very theoretical, it was refreshing. Houzair did a great job making the topic approachable, with examples that built up gradually and illustrated in Typescript. There were a lot of follow-up questions, which is always a good sign. I'm kinda glad we're having these kinds of theoretical computer science topics at the meetup, it balances out the AI hype nicely.

Group Photo & Lunch

We gathered for the group photo before lunch as is customary. Then we took a proper break to enjoy the food that Astek had laid out for us. The conversations spilled out into the mess area and small grouped formed naturally around the room, topics ranging from side projects to the usual mix of tech gossip. The view from the 12th floor was a nice bonus during the break.

News & Community Updates - Sandeep Ramgolam

My turn was up next and I did the usual round of frontend news and community updates. There's always so much happening, new web platform features, conferences, things shipping in the AI space; so I tried to keep it focused on what I thought would be most useful for the room. I tried to be neutral and not show my bias towards Vue.js & Google products but I may I failed, miserably, as usual ;)

Topics were:

• HTML-in-Canvas APIs
• Modern Web Guidance
• New AI Models
• Recent CVEs and Security Issues
• Cloud Outages
• Github's Current State
• GitLab Act 2
• etc

I also shared a few updates about the community itself, new website coders.mu and meetup.mu, upcoming events like DevCon 2026.

BMaD Method to improve Agentic Development - Kavish Khoodeeram

After lunch, Kavish — another first time speaker, took the stage to talk about the BMaD Method for improving agentic development using Claude Code. He walked us through the framework and how it helps structure the way you work with agents on real projects.

This talk paired nicely with what Tashil presented in the morning. Between the two, we essentially got a full picture of how to move from "throwing prompts at the wall" to actually engineering with agents. A lot of the questions afterwards were people sharing their own struggles with agentic workflows, and it turned into a really good discussion.

Quiz Time

Cedric ran the quiz with his amazing quiz app, and the leaderboard system is now properly in place across meetups. With the league, now your points carry over ! The quiz worked smoothly and the questions were a good mix of fun and surprisingly tricky. Themes this time was "Football Worldcup & Mauritian Cuisine". We didn't have a prize to give away this time, but the league points live on !

Conclusion

Yet another awesome meetup, good vibes all around. Two first time speakers in a single meetup is something I'm really happy about, it means the community is growing in the right direction.

Post Meetup

A few of us hung around after the event to chat and a small group headed out for coffee in a secret location. These post-meetup hangs are some of the best parts of the day.

Thanks

Big thanks to Astek Mauritius for hosting us, providing the venue and food, and for being such gracious hosts. Thanks to Tashil, Houzair and Kavish for stepping up as first time speakers. It's not easy to do and you all crushed it. Thanks to Cedric for the quiz as always & for hosting our practice sessions for the first time speakers, and to Kushul for handling logistics. And of course, thanks to everyone who showed up. See you at the next one!

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