UtahJS

Summary

UtahJS is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) community for JavaScript developers in Utah, active since about 2012. It runs two standing monthly meetups — Lehi on the first Thursday, Salt Lake City on the third Tuesday — an annual single-track conference, and a Slack workspace.

Its scale is unusually knowable for a volunteer group. The IRS exempt-organizations file records total revenue of $80,913 and assets of $33,649 for tax period 2024-12 (IRS BMF, Utah extract) — a real but small operation whose annual conference is most of its financial activity.

Who It's For

JavaScript and TypeScript developers in Utah, and people who want to become them. The community does not gate on seniority, and the meetup format suits both someone learning and someone who has shipped for a decade.

It is also connective tissue for Utah's front-end ecosystem more broadly: the site lists four adjacent Utah JavaScript meetups it does not run — Utah Stack JS, React Utah Meetup, Angular Community Meetup, Ionic Utah — and invites more to be added, which makes utahjs.com a directory as well as an organization.

What It Provides

Two monthly meetups (Lehi, first Thursday; Salt Lake City, third Tuesday), both scheduled through Meetup.com; an annual single-track conference with the schedule posted in advance; a Slack workspace joined by invitation request; and a directory of adjacent Utah JavaScript groups.

How To Use It

Start at the official site, then confirm the specific month on Meetup.com — the site states the cadence, not the dates. Slack access is by request-an-invitation rather than open join. Conference details and tickets live at utahjs.com/conference. Volunteering is the way in for anyone wanting to do more; the organization lists hello@utahjs.com for offers.

Cost / Eligibility

Meetups are free to attend and open to anyone. The annual conference is ticketed; no price is established by the captured homepage and should be checked per event.

Best Fits

Developers seeking a language-focused peer community rather than structured coursework — and, once a year, a low-cost single-track conference whose programme is a fair read on what Utah engineers are actually working on. In August 2026 a Forge Utah member observed that the schedule had "definitely shifted" toward agents, harnesses, and AI coding and away from state-management and server-side-rendering talks.

Evidence

• Source: UtahJS official website · https://utahjs.com/
• Source: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Utah Extract — EIN 46-1249535, UTAHJS, South Jordan UT, subsection 03, ruling 2024-03; tax period 2024-12 revenue $80,913, assets $33,649

Open Questions

• How many people? No attendance, membership, or conference-registration figure is published. The $80,913 revenue line bounds the organization's size loosely and nothing else (IRS BMF, Utah extract).
• Are the published meetup days current, and what is the next conference date? The site states cadence, not dates.
• Is the 2012 founding date right? It is inferred from the site's 2012–2026 copyright line, not from a statement about the community's history. The IRS ruling date is 2024-03, which is later and measures something different.
• Which of the four listed adjacent meetups are still running? A directory entry is not evidence of a live group — the same failure mode this wiki hit with NUNUG, whose site looked dormant while the group met monthly. Under P2 each is independently citable; none has been verified as active.

See Also

• Forge Utah
• Utah Tech Calendar