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Deep Dive: Growing to Tech Lead

Growing to Tech Lead

Learn directly from other Senior+ and Lead engineers on how to progress your engineering career, strengthen your foundational skills and become and irreplaceable engineer.

  • Talk: Why Engineers Must Become Multipliers in the AI-Era
  • Talk: Current Trends in AI for Technical Hiring
  • Talk: Walking the Netflix Paved Road (Bumps Included): Web Framework, Hawkins Design System
  • Talk: Why Software Engineering Is Becoming: Plan and Review
  • Talk: Pocket Guide to Seniority
... and 16 more talks and workshops
Deep Dive: AI Assisted Coding

AI Assisted Coding

Remove the noise, master agentic coding patterns actually tested in production directly from Senior practitioners. 

  • Talk: Templates and Components for Claude Code: The Future of AI Coding Workflows
  • Talk: Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
  • Talk: Building Blocks of an Agentic Engineering Platform: What SRE Taught Us About Running Agents
  • Workshop: Operating Agent-Based Systems - Overview, Configure, Run, Orchestrate, Monitor
  • Workshop: AI-Powered Code Review
... and 22 more talks and workshops
Deep Dive: Mastering Full-stack

Mastering Full-stack

Master full-stack and fundamental engineering skills for AI-enabled future. 

  • Talk: Building a JavaScript Engine in Rust: Lessons From Boa
  • Talk: Building a JavaScript Engine in Rust: Lessons From Boa
  • Talk: Beyond Benchmarks: node.js, Deno, and Bun in Real Production
  • Workshop: DevOps for Front-end Developers: From Local Code to Production by Docker Captain
  • Workshop: Building Fullstack Apps With Cursor
... and 21 more talks and workshops
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From Prompt Spaghetti to Bounded Contexts: DDD for Agentic Codebases
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
16 min
From Prompt Spaghetti to Bounded Contexts: DDD for Agentic Codebases
Nikita, AI Architect at Siemens, discusses challenges in JNTX system development, emphasizing domain-driven design for scalability and stability. Clear responsibilities, bounded contexts, and structured schemas are crucial for reducing complexity. The anti-corruption layer and context maps play vital roles in integration architecture. Key takeaways include the importance of contracts, firewalls, and CI gates for system development.
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
31 min
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
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Kent C. Dodds discusses building web applications in 2026, highlighting the importance of user experience and challenges in offline video downloads. Recent AI advancements in the Epic Workshop app enable offline video downloads with features like bulk downloads and quality control. Efficient AI agent management using agents like Cursor transforms workflow. Leveraging Laravel and Ruby on Rails, Ask Mode enhances project understanding by communicating with AI agents. Emphasizing clear task scoping, iterative planning, and agent feedback improves project development. Utilizing MCP tools and agent workflow, including BugBot for code review, optimizes app development. Closing the agent loop and emphasizing architecture's role in utilizing agent input context are crucial. The talk invites developers to become experienced AI agent managers and join the mailing list for updates.
No REST for Cap'n Web
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
23 min
No REST for Cap'n Web
Kenton Varda advocates for using CapnWeb, an RPC protocol, over REST for web APIs, emphasizing benefits for humans and AI agents. CapnWeb simplifies client-server communications by treating them as function calls. TypeScript type checking ensures method accuracy in CapnWeb across JavaScript runtimes. Stubs in CapnWeb allow method calls to execute on remote objects and simulate all possible method names for remote calls. Converting REST APIs to CapnWeb streamlines code and improves API calls. CapnWeb enhances API functionality with object-specific RPC sessions and promises pipelining for multilevel API optimization. AI agent security challenges are addressed with sandboxing and token protection in CapnWeb. CapnWeb capabilities for AI agents include passing restricted CapnWeb stubs and exploring capability-based security with CapnProto.
Using UDP in the Browser for faster Client/Server Connections
JS GameDev Summit 2023JS GameDev Summit 2023
21 min
Using UDP in the Browser for faster Client/Server Connections
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This talk introduces geckos.io, a real-time client-server communication library using UDP and WebRTC. The speaker discusses the benefits of UDP for real-time multiplayer games and explains how geckos.io enables UDP connections between browsers and Node.js servers. The deployment process for geckos.io involves opening UDP ports and handling signaling through an HTTP request. The speaker demonstrates how geckos.io works with Docker and showcases the ability to host multiple servers on the same machine. Overall, this talk provides an overview of geckos.io and its applications in real-time communication.
AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Agent Orchestration
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
10 min
AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Agent Orchestration
Welcome to AgentCraft with Iddo Salomon, AI lead. Scale up agents for efficient work but consider cognitive overload. Agent orchestrators are crucial for task management and real-time reactions. AgentCraft is a tool inspired by real-time strategy games to manage agents effectively, with features like heroes and buildings. It visualizes repository files through terrain projection, simplifies code inspection, and enhances task management with cloud code support. Task delivery is streamlined with code merging, quests, and hero summoning for project improvement.
Advanced Playwright Techniques for Flawless Testing
JSNation US 2024JSNation US 2024
20 min
Advanced Playwright Techniques for Flawless Testing
Hi, everyone. My name is Debbie O'Brien, Principal Technical PM at Microsoft. I'm focusing on Playwright, a reliable end-to-end testing tool for modern web apps. It works on any browser and platform, has powerful tooling, and tests run fast. Advanced techniques include UI mode, HTML reports, and trace viewer. Use annotations in Playwright to enhance reporting and test organization. Mocking API responses and external links is possible with Playwright. You can also test date and time by setting a fixed fake time. Playwright offers CLI test options and has a vibrant community. Join the Playwright Discord server and follow the important docs and YouTube channel for more information.
React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
20 min
React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine
Talk on React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine, covering the integration journey, importance in mobile app development, and current methods of game UI creation. Innovative approach of rendering UI in games using a browser headlessly onto a texture. Challenges and benefits of using React Native for game UIs, including handling JavaScript overrides and showcasing a demo. Exploration of applying shaders to React Native UI in a gaming context and invitation to engage with React Native on Unreal Engine for future game development.
Pushing the Limits of Video Encoding in Browsers With WebCodecs
JSNation 2023JSNation 2023
25 min
Pushing the Limits of Video Encoding in Browsers With WebCodecs
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This Talk explores the challenges and solutions in video encoding with web codecs. It discusses drawing and recording video on the web, capturing and encoding video frames, and introduces the WebCodecs API. The Talk also covers configuring the video encoder, understanding codecs and containers, and the video encoding process with muxing using ffmpeg. The speaker shares their experience in building a video editing tool on the browser and showcases Slantit, a tool for making product videos.
Supercharged Code Refactoring via Abstract Syntax Trees
React Summit 2023React Summit 2023
29 min
Supercharged Code Refactoring via Abstract Syntax Trees
Watch video: Supercharged Code Refactoring via Abstract Syntax Trees
This Talk explores the power of Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) in software development. It covers the use of ASTs in maintaining React examples, automating dependency identification, and introducing generic typing. The Talk also discusses using ASTs to reason about and generate code, as well as their application in building ESLint plugins and code mods. Additionally, it highlights resources for exploring ASTs, testing AST scripts, and building Babel plugins.
Demystifying npm: What Actually Happens When You Install and Publish
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
29 min
Demystifying npm: What Actually Happens When You Install and Publish
Today's presentation delves into the inner workings of npm install and npm publish, aiming to enhance understanding and productivity. The exploration of npm CLI, ideal tree construction, and dependency types sheds light on package management intricacies. Peer dependency conflicts, resolution methods, and auditing processes are crucial for package integrity. Efficiency through symlink management and lockfile versions, along with security measures like typosquatting prevention, highlight NPM's commitment to user safety. Emphasizing the importance of maintaining updated dependencies and vigilance against malicious packages, the Talk also discusses upcoming token-related changes for secure publishing.
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It’s Not Magic: Elevate Auth Security with PKCE Best Practices
Node Congress 2025Node Congress 2025
5 min
It’s Not Magic: Elevate Auth Security with PKCE Best Practices
The talk discusses the need to enhance auth security with Pixie Best Practices and the limitations of current standards like OAuth 2 and OpenID Connect. It introduces Pixie as an added layer of security over the authorization code flow and explains how it prevents code injection. Pixie enhances security by connecting client requests with responses from the authorization server, preventing cross-site request forgery attacks. It is recommended for public clients and will be required for all clients in the upcoming OAuth 2.1 spec. The talk also highlights the benefits of Pixie for enhancing security in web apps. Learn more about Pixie and best practices at FusionAuth, where Kim Meida, Senior Director of Developer Relations, provides developer-first auth and auth APIs.
No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
6 min
No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone
Marius from Twilio demonstrates building AI agents for phone calls, addressing latency issues by leveraging Twilio's infrastructure and third-party providers like 11 Labs and Google Cloud. Configuration includes WebSocket integration for message handling, static responses, and text-to-speech with 11 Labs. AI integration involves GPT4 or mini model for conversation history storage. A live demo showcases an AI voice assistant with instant responses and latency improvements.
How to Build an Open Telemetry SDK in 7 Minutes
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
6 min
How to Build an Open Telemetry SDK in 7 Minutes
Showcasing adding observability with OpenTelemetry. Benefits of extensive telemetry data for insights. Contrasting uninstrumented, manual, and automatic instrumented apps. Example of instrumenting fetch calls for telemetry signals. Technique for modifying functions without core updates. Using JS proxy as a modern approach for patching. OpenTelemetry standardizes instrumentation with APIs and tools. Example of setting up OpenTelemetry with instrumentations.
WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers
Node Congress 2025Node Congress 2025
5 min
WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers
WinterTC is working on standardizing JS runtimes to avoid vendor lock-in and provide a universal API. This involves defining which web APIs should be included, such as URL and WebAssembly. The goal is to create a definitive list of APIs for server-side JS runtimes.
From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
9 min
From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams
Sharing insights on scaling AI coding assistance & adopting AI native dev tools. Discussing the need for a shift from viewing adoption as a tech problem to a change management challenge. Exploring a tactical framework with three key phases: onboard, adopt, succeed. Emphasizing the importance of onboarding developers, ensuring access to licenses, and setting clear policies to avoid 'shadow AI'. Highlighting the necessity of human infrastructure for successful AI dev tool implementation, including AI advocates, communities of practice, and executive sponsorship. Adoption strategies require a focus on interconnected metrics and all pillars simultaneously. Leadership checklist for post-conference actions involves measuring metrics, distinguishing between strategic and tactical points, and staying connected through platforms like WhatsApp and LinkedIn.
How To Get The Most Out Of the Cloud As A Front-End Developer
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
How To Get The Most Out Of the Cloud As A Front-End Developer
Front-end developers benefit from cloud services like AWS S3 and Lambda. AWS offers services like Cognito for identity management and Bedrock AI models. AWS Amplify provides Hosting and Cloud Development Kit for efficient development. The Cloud Development Kit is recommended for TypeScript deployment. AWS Amplify connects front-end to AWS services and SDK for back-end. QR code feedback is available for the talk.
Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
6 min
Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents
Sam Kmezverk's talk covers the evolving tech landscape, emphasizing key principles for agents' implementation in tasks and decision-making processes. Addressing challenges in agent orchestration, debugging system issues, and cultivating user trust are crucial for successful interface development.
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
7 min
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
We're discussing spec-driven development and the innovative AI IDE, QIRO, that supports this approach. QIRO focuses on structured specifications before coding, aiding developers in creating designs. The QIRO mascot, a playful ghost, symbolizes the essence of spec-driven development. Eric Hanchett discusses QIRO, emphasizing its spec-driven development feature integrated into the IDE. QIRO aids in in-depth feature planning, resembling a structured requirements approach. Coding assistants benefit from detailed examples for efficient development. Exploring Manual Coding Assistance: Creating user requirements, building design documents, and task lists manually. Example of using spec mode in a coding assistant to break down requirements, create designs, and implement features.
A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
6 min
A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain
Thanking Git Nation and Algorand team. Exploring blockchain's journey to enlightenment. Algorand's role in blockchain solutions like disintermediation, data integrity, and market access. Highlighting businesses on Algorand mainnet like TravelX, Lofty, and LabTrace. Algorand TypeScript simplifies blockchain development with real TypeScript, avoiding complex assembly language. Examples like asset transfers and key-value storage demonstrate accessibility.
Improve Your Presentation Skills by Scripting Your Live Coding Demos to Perfection
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
8 min
Improve Your Presentation Skills by Scripting Your Live Coding Demos to Perfection
Elio's tips for perfect live coding: Minimize distractions, prepare well with light themes and larger fonts, adjust cursor style, avoid hover panels. Stay focused on one application during presentations. Changing settings for clarity, stressing the importance of tools like Demo Time for scripted presentations within Visual Studio Code, eliminating context switching between applications, and facilitating audience interaction with shared repositories. Exploring actions in Demo Time: creating code, opening files, highlighting code, and executing VS Code commands for a cleaner presentation. Utilizing Slides for Markdown presentations within Demo Time.
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The State of Node.js Security
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
27 min
The State of Node.js Security
Introducing Node.js security overview, defining vulnerabilities, non-vulnerabilities, and preventive measures. Discussing Node.js API input validation, real vulnerabilities like HTTP server crashes, and the importance of Node.js security in widely used platforms. Discussing the importance of Node.js maintenance, the introduction of experimental permissions in Node.js 20, and the seatbelt philosophy to protect against malicious code. Discussing the importance of maintaining up-to-date Node.js versions and using tools like npx isMyNodeVulnerable for security checks. Discussing the importance of Node.js security releases, funding, and dependency vulnerability assessment for a safer Node.js environment. Using Node.js Dependency Vulnerability Assessment to evaluate and address potential vulnerabilities, ensuring automated security checks and updates for a safer Node.js environment. Automating Node.js security release process, including configuration files for dependencies, extensive testing across various environments, and creating security release issues and blog posts automatically. Support for various environments, extensive testing with over 55 suites and 5,000 unit tests, automation efforts to streamline processes, and the establishment of a maintenance threat model for enhanced security measures. For a single pull request, it takes six hours to run tests, automation efforts in progress, maintenance threat model to address security risks, permission model roadmap, ongoing discussions on security reports, and plans for the Node.js Collaborator Summit. Active community involvement in Node.js security development, four security releases from 2024 to 2026 addressing various vulnerabilities, end-of-life version strategy with Node.js 16 and 18 having high weekly downloads, and the approach to issuing CVEs for end-of-life versions. Node.js project's strategy adjustment for CVEs to include end-of-life versions, importance of Node.js threat model, trust boundaries, and developer responsibilities. Node.js protection against network data, upgrade recommendations for different Node.js versions, and upcoming changes in Node.js release schedule.
Rust Meets React: Diving Into the Next Generation Build Pipeline for React Apps
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
32 min
Rust Meets React: Diving Into the Next Generation Build Pipeline for React Apps
Choosing the right tools and frameworks is crucial for React projects. VEET enhances developer experience and project adaptability. Optimizing tool stacks with Rolldown can improve production builds. Understanding build steps and code optimization is essential for efficient development. Bundlers play a key role in code optimization and Rolldown offers a unique approach. Rolldown accelerates React development by boosting build speed and optimizing bundle sizes. Xcalibur and Outline show significant improvements in build times. Developing bundler components with OXC and exploring its capabilities. Enhancing Oxlint and Oxformat functionality for improved toolchain. Rolldown's evolution and future plans for Vite integration.
npm install && pray
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
29 min
npm install && pray
JavaScript developers face security risks in npm packages with self-replicating worms compromising packages. Supply chain attacks target prolific maintainers leading to unauthorized code injections. Vulnerabilities in package maintainers and implicit trust contribute to successful attacks. Secure package installation practices vary between npm and Deno. AI-generated code introduces new security risks with embedded secrets. Secure AI code execution involves sandboxing for isolation and secure handling of API keys.
Typescript Is SO SLOW...Or Is It?
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
27 min
Typescript Is SO SLOW...Or Is It?
Mike's enthusiasm for TypeScript, its widespread adoption, benefits in development, and its downside in terms of speed. Exploring TypeScript's slow performance in build speeds and its implications on project deployment in CI environments. Running TypeScript build commands and optimizing build speeds by managing project size. Reducing build times by breaking down large projects into smaller, isolated modules using monorepos. Exploring the limitations of path aliases and the importance of utilizing workspaces for efficient code isolation and faster TypeScript performance. Discussing project references efficiency in TypeScript builds and the impact on compiler and build speed. Discussing the impact of live evaluation on editor speed and how pre-build scripts can significantly improve completion time and overall typing experience. Avoid live evaluation for large projects, consider pre-builds. Discussion on TypeScript port to Go and its impact on future versions. Importance of optimizing project setup for speed and efficiency.
The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
29 min
The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends
In the Talk, various key points were discussed regarding micro-front-end architecture. These included challenges with micro-intents, common mistakes in system design, the differences between micro-intents and components, granularity in software architecture, optimizing micro-front-end architecture, efficient routing and deployment strategies, edge computing strategies, global state and data sharing optimization, managing data context, governance and fitness functions, architectural testing, adaptive growth, value of micro-frontends, repository selection, repo structures, and web component usage.
Running JavaScript Actually Everywhere
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
21 min
Running JavaScript Actually Everywhere
JavaScript ecosystem enables versatile development for mobile using frameworks like React Native, Expo, and Bear. Challenges arise in porting server logic to mobile due to limitations in reusing core logic between backend and mobile. Bear stands out as a versatile runtime for iOS, Android, React Native, and Expo, allowing selective module integration. The integration of Bear with React Native simplifies mobile app development and background task execution. Bear emphasizes a 'less is more' philosophy, offering flexibility in engine compilation and compatibility with various platforms. It also supports streamlined native add-on development, NAPI support, and controlled upgrades for pushing runtime limits.
No REST for Cap'n Web
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
23 min
No REST for Cap'n Web
Kenton Varda advocates for using CapnWeb, an RPC protocol, over REST for web APIs, emphasizing benefits for humans and AI agents. CapnWeb simplifies client-server communications by treating them as function calls. TypeScript type checking ensures method accuracy in CapnWeb across JavaScript runtimes. Stubs in CapnWeb allow method calls to execute on remote objects and simulate all possible method names for remote calls. Converting REST APIs to CapnWeb streamlines code and improves API calls. CapnWeb enhances API functionality with object-specific RPC sessions and promises pipelining for multilevel API optimization. AI agent security challenges are addressed with sandboxing and token protection in CapnWeb. CapnWeb capabilities for AI agents include passing restricted CapnWeb stubs and exploring capability-based security with CapnProto.
Advanced Cursor Techniques for Building Fullstack Apps
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
119 min
Advanced Cursor Techniques for Building Fullstack Apps
Workshop
Mike Mikula
Mike Mikula
In this workshop, you’ll learn a repeatable process for building full stack apps in Cursor. We’ll start with an idea and use an agent to shape clear requirements. Next, we’ll generate a database schema and set up the build tools. Then we’ll create the backend and frontend, and wire the layers tog...
One Config File To Rule Them All
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
19 min
One Config File To Rule Them All
Marco Ippolito discusses the complexities of configuring NodeJS features and the need for a centralized config file. He explains the challenges of managing multiple flags for different features and demonstrates how to enhance developer experience by using specific flags to address TypeScript integration and testing procedures. The text discusses the challenges of managing multiple configuration flags in NodeJS and introduces the concept of using node options as an alternative to passing numerous flags directly after the node command. Node options provide a solution for managing configuration flags in NodeJS, simplifying the command structure and enabling the use of .mfile for configuration settings. I sent a PR to introduce the experimental config file feature in Node.js, including two major flags: experimental default config file and experimental config file, allowing customization of configuration settings through JSON files with version-matched schemas for IDE support and auto-completion. V8 flags in Node.js provide customization options, with a priority hierarchy among CLI, Node options, and config files, excluding no-op flags. Node 25 introduces new namespaces for test configuration, watch settings, and permissions, simplifying the configuration process and enhancing developer experience. Node.js JSON configuration offers convenience with a built-in JSON parser and plans for more namespaces and explanatory text in the JSON schema to simplify configuration management.
Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
34 min
Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models
WorkshopFree
Paige Bailey
Paige Bailey
In this hands-on session, we'll dive straight into the practical mechanics of working with Google DeepMind’s latest research and models. We'll explore Google AI Studio, Antigravity, and the Gemini APIs, focusing on how to seamlessly integrate these capabilities into your own projects. If you're l...
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JavaScript
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
25 min
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
Speaker's involvement in Temporal proposal and TC39 meetings for JavaScript standardization. Date conversion challenges faced in development. Addressing time zone discrepancies with Temporal to prevent bugs. Exploration of Temporal types and design philosophy. Usage of Java's time zone serialization in JavaScript Temporal. Challenges in implementing Temporal proposal and its transformative potential in ECMAScript.
10 Years of Best of JS
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
28 min
10 Years of Best of JS
Michael discusses the evolution of JavaScript from its early days to modern server-side capabilities, the impact of jQuery, Node.js, and single-page applications with popular libraries like Backbone and AngularJS. The emergence of UI libraries like React, Vue.js, and Angular, alongside meta frameworks like Next.js, Remix, Veltkit, and Solid with server components. The Best of JS project tracks JavaScript project trends, filters out deprecated projects, and monitors GitHub stars for maintenance. The importance of maintaining project relevance, adding new projects continuously, and classifying projects under meaningful tags. The evolution of TypeScript, tool releases like Deno and Burn, styling evolution from CSS to headless components, and the impact of Tailwind CSS. Analysis of CSS optimization, CLI ecosystem, tooling trends, emerging tools, and JavaScript development trends over the past decade.
React
React Beyond the DOM
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
27 min
React Beyond the DOM
Eric Rasmussen discusses React beyond the DOM, React PDF, Ink tools, and rendering to Markdown. The overview includes React Reconciler, host configuration, state management with real-world entities like light bulbs, and building a traffic light state machine visually. The talk also covers securing third-party JavaScript, expanding React rendering possibilities, advanced tooling for state machines, controlling light bulbs via renderer callbacks, server functions for fetch in the cloud, and potential robot programming with React.
How to React Compiler
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
20 min
How to React Compiler
Introduction to React compiler, differences from React 19, installation of Babel plug-in React compiler, specifying target React versions, and how React compiler detects and processes component dependencies. Configuring React compiler settings, exploring default options and configurations, utilizing React compiler playground website for configurations, dealing with JSX markup re-computation. React compiler feature for extracting JSX from array map callbacks, limitations of enable function outlining, enabling JSX outlining for separate functions. Function memoization in React compiler, React compiler beta stage, potential errors with React compiler. React compiler error: memorization preservation, hidden messages, validation settings. React compiler: validation tools, hooks treatment, memorization challenges. Changing hooks to functions for React compiler optimization. React Compiler usage considerations and potential optimizations.
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
23 min
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler
Akash Hamilwasia presenting at React Summit 2025, shares React Compiler learnings and works on an AI audio platform. Memoization in React helps optimize UI performance by preventing unnecessary re-renders. React Compiler offers automatic memoization through static code analysis. React rules emphasize purity and immutability. The compiler analyzes and memoizes code changes for optimization. React Compiler package usage improves performance through code analysis. Understanding reactivity issues is crucial for handling React state. Compiler optimization requires correct dependency arrays and usage of external libraries. Measure React Compiler impact using React Profiler for optimization and real user impact analysis.
TDD in Frontend
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
121 min
TDD in Frontend
Workshop
Aleksandr Shinkarev
Aleksandr Shinkarev
Tests first, code last!How to develop your frontend that the code isn't falling apart? How to make it scary free to deliver your work results? How to battle bugs that are chasing you at every step you make?I am going to answer these questions during the workshop and show how to foll...
React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
29 min
React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web
Talk on cross-platform React using ReactStrict DOM to unify web and native React, standardizing for consistent UI development. Fragmentation challenges in React due to lack of standardized styling systems, impacting development efficiency and product consistency. Exploring unsuccessful cross-platform React approaches and the importance of minimizing migration costs. Enabling web developers to build native apps with React Native while enhancing it with web APIs for seamless code migration. Benefits of code sharing for cross-platform apps, AI integration for React Strict DOM, and the future vision for React Native as a web renderer. Unified styling in React Native, Tailwind integration, and UI best practices. Flexibility and readiness in React DOM, potential inclusion in React Foundations, and considerations for reversibility of decisions in React DOM.
The State of React and the Community in 2025
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
29 min
The State of React and the Community in 2025
Mark Erickson discusses the state of React in 2025, React community debates on React's direction and misconceptions, React's shift towards client-side frameworks and SSR emphasis, React's feature development process at Meta and Vercel, controversy around Vercel's server components involvement, tight relationship between React and Next, React team's emphasis on frameworks for app performance, critique of React's heavy-handed framework recommendation, React team's delay in adding VEET as a recommended tool, challenges with server components' origins and communication, no official signals support planned for React 19, social media impact on React development decisions, React community diversity and server components usage insights, React's evolving black box concept and tradeoffs discussed.
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
26 min
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
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Speaker delves into global state management in React, mentioning Redux and alternatives like React context. Creating a global state manager in under 50 lines of code with React context, highlighting challenges with performance and React specificity. Building a custom hook named user store for state management, implementing state and API for store, handling partial state updates efficiently. Managing listeners for state changes, setting up custom hooks and selectors, and subscribing to external stores. Demonstrating optimization in state management and preventing unnecessary button re-renders. Discussion on Redux, Signals, debugging, and various global state management choices like Zestand and Redux toolkit.
Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
125 min
Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router
Workshop
Aurora Scharff
Aurora Scharff
In this workshop, we will explore React's latest features: Server Components, Server Functions, and forms. Discover how to optimize server-side rendering, build smooth user experiences with React Suspense and Transitions, and enhance application interactivity with Server Functions and new React 1...
The State of React
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
26 min
The State of React
Introduction to the State of React survey and the history of developer surveys. Detailed analysis of survey results, user demographics, and job titles. Examination of React API trends, user sentiment towards APIs, and new API challenges. Analysis of React library satisfaction, particularly with Next.js. Discussion on React state management and data loading, including pain points. Insights on React library usage patterns and application trends. Key takeaways include staying calm, appreciating foundational React elements, and relying on data for a balanced view.
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
29 min
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications
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Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
73 min
Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers
WorkshopFree
Confidence Okoghenun
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In this hands on workshop participants will learn how to create a production‑ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on Cloudflare Workers. The session covers defining tool endpoints, integrating external APIs, persisting state with KV storage, and globally deploying the server so AI assistants...
"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
53 min
"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network
WorkshopFree
Legare Kerrison
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Join us for an interactive workshop where you'll train your first neural network using the classic MNIST handwritten digit dataset. In this hands-on session, participants will use OpenShift AI 3.x Workbenches to build and train a PyTorch model that recognizes handwritten digits from images.
Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
52 min
Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding
WorkshopFree
Gil Friedman
Gil Friedman
Modern AI coding agents don’t just autocomplete. They execute, connect, and automate. With the wrong settings, they can access more of your system than you intended. In this session, I’ll demonstrate how agent autonomy, MCP integrations, and Skills can lead to unexpected security risks. Through e...
Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
49 min
Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop
WorkshopFree
Shifra Williams
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Build Your Dream Extensions with AI
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
87 min
Build Your Dream Extensions with AI
WorkshopFree
Brittany Joiner
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Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
76 min
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
WorkshopFree
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Building AI workflow editor UI in React with Workflow Builder SDK
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
141 min
Building AI workflow editor UI in React with Workflow Builder SDK
WorkshopFree
Łukasz Jaźwa
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The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
96 min
The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering
Featured WorkshopFree
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React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
145 min
Build LLM agents in TypeScript with Mastra and Vercel AI SDK
Featured WorkshopFree
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How To Enhance an Existing React App With AI, Without Rewriting It From Scratch
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
109 min
How To Enhance an Existing React App With AI, Without Rewriting It From Scratch
WorkshopFree
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In this workshop, we will incrementally augment an existing React application with AI. I'm sure most of you probably already maintain a React app, so rather than starting from the ground-up, let's take something that already works, and develop some patterns for adding practical, real-world AI fea...