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ChatGPT eCommerce Apps with Shopify

ChatGPT’s Shopify integration enables in-chat shopping, but merchants lose control over branding, data, and margins. This article introduces an SDK for building custom ChatGPT shopping assistants with full ownership and zero commission.

ChatGPT now has native Shopif...

Running Efficient Meetups: A Practical Guide for Stronger Tech Communities

Meetups are one of the most powerful ways to bring people together, share knowledge, and strengthen community bonds, but a great meetup doesn’t happen by accident; it’s the result of thoughtful planning, consistent communication, and a deep understanding of what your audience values, and whether...

React Server Components: The Next Evolution in Web Development

React Server Components (RSC) represent one of the most significant advancements in the React ecosystem since its initial release. Introduced with React 18, RSC provides an innovative solution for optimizing performance and improving developer experience in modern web applications.

React Query: The Modern Solution for Managing Server State in React Applications

React Query is a powerful open-source library designed for managing server state in React applications. It streamlines data fetching, caching, and synchronization, addressing the complexities associated with handling asynchronous data in modern web development. Notable for its ability to simplify these processes compared to traditional state management solutions like Redux, React Query has gained widespread adoption among developers for enhancing the efficiency and performance of applications reliant on API interactions.

Explore what's new in the 2024 editions of JSNation and React Summit!

JSNation and React Summit are the key JavaScript and React conferences of the year, expecting over 3K attendees, featuring 110+ speakers, and offering 15+ Free and PRO workshops altogether...

Spanish translations for 2000+ React and JavaScript talks from GitNation

GitNation, known for organizing JavaScript and React conferences, has rolled out significant updates to its video platform. These new features are designed to improve content accessibility and discoverability for developers worldwide and marks the start of ongoing localisation efforts with more l...

2000+ grabaciones de conferencias React y JavaScript en español por GitNation

GitNation, conocida por organizar conferencias de JavaScript y React, ha implementado importantes actualizaciones en su plataforma de video. Estas nuevas características están diseñadas para mejorar la accesibilidad y la capacidad de descubrimiento de contenido para desarrolladores en todo el mun...

Shawn Swyx Wang's career tips: Knowing how to market yourself is not scammy

As it is with many developers, his path to coding was not straightforward. And looking at Shawn's bio, it's apparent he applied that experience to his whole career: he's the head of developer experience at Temporal.io, author of a bestselling book on progressing career in IT, and a sought-aft...

Career tips by Tomasz Łakomy: I strive to challenge myself as often as I can

Speakers are not made — they are born out of circumstances. And Tomasz is a perfect example of a self-starter who rose to the occasion. “I started at local meetups and climbed my way up to bigger and bigger events,” he says, nodding at the fact that he's now also a seasoned instructor revolut...

Lee Robinson's career advice: My golden rule to success is being helpful

Developer, writer, creator, says the headline of Lee’s site, a front-end developer with 10k YouTube subscribers and 5k newsletter followers. Today an internationally recognized speaker and author of extensive courses on Re...

Charlie Gerard's Career Advice: Be intentional about how you spend your time and effort

When it comes to career, Charlie has one trick: to focus. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try different things — currently a senior front-end developer at Netlify, she is also a sought-after speaker, mentor, and a machine learni...

Emma Bostian: I landed my dream job by sharing my blogs on Twitter

Software engineer, lecturer, podcast host, author — is there something Emma Bostian hasn't done? She moved from America to Sweden, started working at Spotify, and took up a few challenges along the way. And now she has some career tips to share.

What led you to...

Kent C. Dodds: Consume, build, and teach — and level up your career

Even though his bio offers quite a hefty reading, he only applied for one job in his career. The rest came along as he was building his name as a renowned speaker, teacher, and a prolific figure of the open-source community. How did Kent do it? “Commit to creating high-quality content,” he sa...

React Table Libraries: A Deep Dive into Modern Data Grid Solutions

React Table Libraries empower developers to implement powerful data grids with essential features like filtering, sorting, and pagination in React applications. This article serves as your gateway to expert knowledge from GitNation's conference talks, where industry leaders share practical implementation strategies and cutting-edge patterns for data table components.

Catalin Pit: Each time I learn something new, I write an article about it

He turned a successful blog into a thriving YouTube channel, a newsletter with thousands of subscribers, and a great online presence. “I owe a significant part of my career to content creation and social media,” says Catalin Pit in his interview with GitNation.

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Top ideas

What are the benefits of using Redux today?

The benefits of using Redux today include a consistent architectural pattern, predictable data flow, powerful developer tools like Redux DevTools, wide usage and community support, better update performance compared to React context, and strong TypeScript support.

What are the limiting factors in web engineering?

Limiting factors include CPU performance, storage performance, and the diversity of devices and networks that web applications must run on.

What techniques can help in understanding business needs during software development?

Event storming and domain storytelling are two techniques that help team members understand business needs by focusing on user behavior and system interaction, rather than technology.

What improvements in web technology does the speaker discuss?

The speaker discusses improvements in CSS and web APIs, such as dynamic viewport height units, scroll behavior in CSS, scroll snap, intersection observer API, and the web animation API.

How does the new event loop handle JavaScript tasks and micro-tasks?

The new event loop processes tasks and micro-tasks sequentially, ensuring that all micro-tasks related to a task are completed before moving to the next task, which aligns with the behavior of the JavaScript event loop.

How does Redux compare to using React's useReducer and useContext?

While useReducer and useContext can mimic some Redux patterns, they differ in that Redux keeps state outside the React component tree, leading to fewer re-renders and better performance in some scenarios. Redux also offers powerful developer tools not available with useReducer and useContext.

Can Redux be used with server-side rendering (SSR)?

Yes, Redux can be used with server-side rendering (SSR). You can create a Redux store for each request, dispatch actions to fetch data, and then pass the serialized state to the client for hydration. However, whether to use Redux for SSR depends on the specific needs of your application.

What challenges are associated with implementing React Server Components in React Native?

Challenges include managing different versions of the app and server components, handling app updates without full store reviews, and ensuring that native user experience remains consistent. Technical hurdles also involve configuring server-side operations within a mobile context.

Is the ReactFlight protocol well-documented?

As of now, the ReactFlight protocol is not well-documented, and its understanding is mostly based on reverse engineering and community examples.

Why was Redux created?

Redux was created to manage client-side state in React applications, providing a predictable state update pattern and solving issues related to keeping state in sync across different parts of an application, as initially addressed by the Flux architecture.

Deep Dives

Deep Dive: Growing to Tech Lead

Growing to Tech Lead

This Deep Dive covers all the aspects of Software Engineer's growth into Tech Lead and Staff positions. Learn directly from distinguished engineers which foundational hard and soft skills you must invest in to accelerate carreer growth.

Become an irreplaceble engineer - attend events, discussions and workshops throughout the year together with your peers and field experts.

Talk: 5 Tough Conversations Managers Need to Have
Talk: Leadership Insights From Growing 2X in 8 Months
Talk: How AI is Impacting Engineering Leadership
Talk: Staying Human in the Age of AI: What Tech Leaders Need to Preserve
Talk: Thinking Like an Architect

... and 10 more talks and workshops

Deep Dive: AI Assisted Coding

AI Assisted Coding

Learn how to navigate rapidly evolving evolution of developer tools supercharged by AI instruments. From writing efficient prompts, to delegating work via agents and automated code reviews.

Follow this Deep Dive to see what the most productive teams and developers are using in practice and how to apply this in your daily tasks.

Talk: Design to Code Using a Custom Design System with AI
Talk: The AI-Native Software Engineer
Talk: Sub Agent Context Sharing: How to Enable Effective Sub Agents for Coding
Workshop: Advanced Claude Code Techniques: Agentic Engineering With Context Driven Development
Workshop: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Deep Dive: 2-Hour Interactive Workshop

... and 11 more talks and workshops

Deep Dive: Mastering Full-stack

Mastering Full-stack

With an increasing demand for Software Engineers capable of solving a wider array of tasks, it's crucial to quickly adapt to changing landspace and cover Full-stack fundamentals.

Every year we see more developers identifying themselves as Full-stack, learn what real-life practitioners are focusing in their roles and focus on what's important.

This Deep Dives explores everchanging role of a Full-stack developer in the age of AI assisted development.

Talk: React Server Components in Kubernetes: Ship Happens
Talk: Node.js: More Threads Than You Think
Talk: What Happens When an AI Has Access to a Node.js Environment? Spoiler: Wild Things
Talk: Meta Framework for Kubernetes: TypeScript Meets Cluster Control
Workshop: Exploring Server Side Rendering

... and 15 more talks and workshops

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How to Help Agents Remember

AI Coding Summit 2026

20 min

How to Help Agents Remember

Carly Richmond

Developer Advocate at Elastic

Carly discusses memory, context in LLMs, and managing information for effective results in agentic systems. LLMs hallucinate due to knowledge gaps, biases, overfitting, and incentives. Importance of context in minimizing hallucinations and focus on memory storage for decision-making. Short term memory acts like RAM, while long term memory stores knowledge and experiences. Efficient memory storage using disk, file systems, and semantic memory. Emphasis on managing message context, retrieval, and concatenation for LLM input. Attention to context length, information evaluation, and memory optimization for accurate responses.

artificial intelligence

How I Build Web Applications in 2026

AI Coding Summit 2026

31 min

How I Build Web Applications in 2026

Kent C. Dodds

Creator of EpicWeb.dev, EpicReact.Dev, TestingJavaScript.com

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.

web development

From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching

React Advanced 2025

27 min

From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching

Wyatt Johnson

Vercel

Introduction to Cache Components in Next.js 16, transforming the app router with new features like partial pre-rendering, Dynamic I.O., and caching directives. Deep dive into static params generation in Next.js focusing on changes in generating static params for improved performance. Exploring challenges of generating static params and balancing static vs. dynamic rendering for better performance. Addressing challenges with cache components, optimizing static and dynamic rendering for improved performance. Understanding impact of parameters on rendering with cache components, managing dynamic components, and introducing suspense boundaries for faster page loads. Enhancing cache life APIs, introducing a new caching model for static outputs in Next.js. Revolutionizing cache management with granular control over cache lifetimes and dynamic segment configuration. Navigating data and caching in Next.js, exploring cache components guidance and caching differences between server and client components.

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Domain Driven Design with Vue Applications

Vue.js London 2023

14 min

Domain Driven Design with Vue Applications

Top Content

Abdulrasaq Mustapha

<br>

Welcome to this talk on domain-driven design in Vue.js application. Today we are going to look into domain-driven design, its benefits and how it works with Vue.js domain-driven design versus the MVVM model. Vue.js thrives in domain-driven design, a design approach that models software to match a domain. DDD emphasizes understanding business logic and creating a domain that reflects the language and concepts. Integrating DDD in Vue.js offers benefits such as effective modeling of complex business domains, structured code reflecting domain logic, and easier onboarding and ownership.

vue web apps design vue 3

Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding

AI Coding Summit 2026

21 min

Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding

Daniel Sogl

Thinktecture AG

Welcome to spec-driven development talk by Daniel Sogel. AI agents struggle with benchmarks and real-world tasks. Developers spend extra time fixing code generated by AI agents. Security issues in AI-generated code, limitations with context management, multi-file coordination, silent failures, architecture decisions, and enterprise context challenges addressed by Spectre from development. AI agents removing safety checks, generating code with fake data, silent failures worse than crashes, spectrum development benefits like complete context upfront, structured reasoning, validation checkpoints, and autonomous implementation without manual code review. Act with AI agents like pair programmers, combine spectrum, behavior-driven, and test-driven development. Spec-driven development adoption in the industry, using Keyro IDE by AWS and popular tools like SpecKit and OpenSpec for different project types. Define tech stack, API structure in planning, task phase implementation, handover to AI agents, and choosing the right spec-driven development tools.

artificial intelligence devtools developer experience best practices

TypeScript and the Database: Who Owns the Types?

TypeScript Congress 2022

27 min

TypeScript and the Database: Who Owns the Types?

Top Content

Dan Vanderkam

Independent Software Developer, author of Effective TypeScript.

The Talk discusses the use of TypeScript and SQL together in software development. It explores different approaches, such as using an ORM like TypeORM or a schema generator like pg2ts. Query builders like connects JS and tools like PGTyped are also discussed. The benefits and trade-offs of using TypeScript and SQL are highlighted, emphasizing the importance of finding a middle ground approach.

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Makepad - Leveraging Rust + Wasm + WebGL to Build Amazing Cross-platform Applications

JSNation 2022

22 min

Makepad - Leveraging Rust + Wasm + WebGL to Build Amazing Cross-platform Applications

Top Content

Rik Arends

Makepad

Welcome to MakePad, a new way to build UI for web and native using WebAssembly and Rust. JavaScript is not suitable for complex applications like IDEs and design tools. Rust, a new programming language, was used to reimagine MakePad, resulting in a fast and efficient platform. MakePad offers live editing, high CPU performance, and the ability to load native instrument components. The future of MakePad includes an open-source release, a design tool, and support for importing 3D models.

webgpu innovation rust

The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained

AI Coding Summit 2026

10 min

The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained

Eddy Vinck

FrontValue

Today, exploring Ralph Wiggum AI method's simplicity and persistence. Ralph loops ensure eventual consistency in problem-solving. Challenges in AI chats revolve around context management, emphasizing the importance of effective loop iterations. Basic example of loop iteration and backpressure in Ralph. Using skip permissions can be risky. Running Cloud in a sandbox mode for safety measures. Ralph Wiggum AI Method: Autonomous coding with thorough spec creation. Careful planning needed. Upsides include autonomous operation and clear task handling.

tooling

Your New Job

AI Coding Summit 2026

15 min

Your New Job

Ken Wheeler

React Artist

Ken Wheeler discusses the evolving software landscape, emphasizing the shift towards higher efficiency and less typing in job roles. The evolution of coding practices from manual formatting to automated tools like Prettier is compared to advancements in construction tools for efficiency. The use of AI for work efficiency and financial benefits, alongside considerations about the future of software engineers in light of AI advancements, is highlighted. Adapting to industry shifts, embracing new technologies like React, and leveraging early AI adoption for career growth are key points. Transitioning to higher-level roles by combining domain knowledge with AI for decision-making and seizing new opportunities is emphasized.

career

Advanced Claude Code Techniques: Agentic Engineering With Context Driven Development

JSNation US 2025

29 min

Advanced Claude Code Techniques: Agentic Engineering With Context Driven Development

Cole Medin

Dynamous LLC

Welcome to a guide on context engineering, focusing on using errors to our advantage and building a self-evolving AI coding assistant. Transitioning from engineering to AI development, embracing opportunities from personal automations to enterprise-grade AI deployments. Evolution of trust in AI coding assistants by leveraging errors for system evolution and self-correction. PIV loop as a main mental model for coding process, emphasizing active involvement, structured planning, and implementation. System evolution involves identifying gaps, adapting based on analysis, testing, and live demo update processes. Code validation process improvement through better validation commands and workflow optimization. Utilizing end-to-end testing for error detection and system improvement in coding assistant systems.

artificial intelligence

Featured

Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web

JSNation 2025

27 min

Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web

Joshua Lochner

Hugging Face

Joshua introduces Transformers JS and Hugging Face, emphasizing community collaboration and pre-trained models. Transformers JS evolution led to 1.4 million monthly users, supporting 155 architectures. The library's browser-based capabilities offer real-time processing, cost-efficiency, and scalability. Integration enhancements include native web GPU execution and React Native implementation. Web ML implementation focuses on Onyx Runtime for device execution and web GPU for resource optimization. Browser-based ML applications cover vision, speech recognition, and text-to-speech. Advanced implementations include multimodal applications and educational tools. Interactive AI demonstrations showcase semantic search and conversational AI scenarios. Model licensing transitions to ECMAScript for efficiency and model redownloading factors are discussed.

machine learning webgpu

Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling

JSNation 2025

23 min

Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling

Top Content

Evan You

Vue.js & Vite Creator

Evan Yeo discusses Vite's growth, challenges with dependencies like ES Build and Rollup, and the creation of the bundler Rolldown. The JavaScript ecosystem faces fragmentation, but the company aims for a unified JavaScript stack. Rust is chosen for lower-level development, while JavaScript and TypeScript for high-level APIs. Roldown offers advanced bundling features, outperforming existing tools. Integration with Vite leads to tailored optimizations and significant speed improvements. Vite+ development focuses on creating a comprehensive toolkit. VitePlus integrates TS-down for library bundling, ViteTest for testing, and OX-Lint for linting. Future plans include monorepo awareness, build orchestration, and framework-like features.

vite

Build LLM agents in TypeScript with Mastra and Vercel AI SDK

React Advanced 2025

145 min

Build LLM agents in TypeScript with Mastra and Vercel AI SDK

Featured WorkshopFree

Eric Burel

LLMs are not just fancy search engines: they lay the ground for building autonomous and intelligent pieces of software, aka agents.
Companies are investing massively in generative AI infrastructures. To get their money's worth, they need developers that can make the best out of an LLM, and t...

typescript artificial intelligence

Vibe coding with Cline

JSNation 2025

64 min

Vibe coding with Cline

Featured Workshop

Nik Pash

The way we write code is fundamentally changing. Instead of getting stuck in nested loops and implementation details, imagine focusing purely on architecture and creative problem-solving while your AI pair programmer handles the execution. In this hands-on workshop, I'll show you how to leverage...

artificial intelligence

Production-Ready Apps with AI Agents

React Summit 2025

102 min

Production-Ready Apps with AI Agents

Featured Workshop

Alex Shershebnev

Coding assistants are already changing the way we develop code, and in several years they are expected to completely change how developers interact with code and write it. In this workshop, I'll share tips and best practices on using such tools as we develop the production-ready app with Zencoder...

code quality

Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor

React Summit 2025

46 min

Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor

Featured WorkshopFree

Mike Mikula

In this workshop I’ll cover a repeatable process on how to spin up full stack apps in Cursor. Expect to understand techniques such as using GPT to create product requirements, database schemas, roadmaps and using those in notes to generate checklists to guide app development. We will dive furth...

artificial intelligence

Pragmatic 101 on Custom JS Tooling for Your Project

JSNation US 2025

122 min

Pragmatic 101 on Custom JS Tooling for Your Project

Featured Workshop

Will Klein

Let’s demystify the secrets of modern JavaScript tooling. In this workshop, you will learn how linters, compilers, and code transforms work. You will take your first steps building your own developer tools, writing an ESLint rule, a compiler plugin, and a code transformation. Learn these skills t...

tooling

The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends

React Advanced 2025

29 min

The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends

Luca Mezzalira

Author of Front-End Reactive Architectures and Building 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.

architecture

Never Worry About CORS Again

JSNation US 2025

28 min

Never Worry About CORS Again

Jarred Sumner

Creator of Bun.

Talk on Bund: Overview of Bund, its speed optimization, components like runtime, package manager, test runner, and bundler. Efficient features include fast npm manager, pnpm lockfile support, Jest-compatible test runner, and optimized runtime components. Built-in features like modern password hashing, WebSocket server, file glob API, and database clients. API design focuses on common use cases and optimization. Enhanced JavaScript functionality with SIMD, native code, and performance improvements. Challenges in JavaScript productivity, BUN adoption, deployment, and support. React support, community involvement, security, Next.js compatibility, and transition.

js runtimes

The State of the Web

JSNation 2025

32 min

The State of the Web

Sacha Greif

Devographics

Sasha Grief discusses the state of the web through web development surveys, leading to an interactive quiz about the state of JS and usage of front end frameworks. Discussion on popular front-end libraries like React, Vue, Angular, and the rising popularity of TypeScript among developers in recent surveys. Discussion on TypeScript adoption, TC39 committee proposals, favorite CSS feature 'has,' and browser support for 'has' selector. Browser interoperability, browser vendors' initiatives, AI usage among web developers, and survey insights. Job titles linked to higher income, diversity of survey topics, top hobby among developers, and popular specific video games. Learnings on CSS features, TypeScript default, AI usage, survey benefits, challenges in reaching diverse survey participants. Surprising positivity in JavaScript usage, stable framework landscape, AI adoption challenges, mainstream AI tools, successful situp.js survey. Inconsistent respondent numbers, manual data normalization efforts, subjective question selection process, community input, mitigation of selection bias. Reason for starting surveys, transition from Meteor JS, exploration of JavaScript ecosystem.

frameworks web standards

Short takes

Delivering High-Quality Videos on Your ReactJS Website

React Summit 2025

7 min

Delivering High-Quality Videos on Your ReactJS Website

Rahul Nanwani

ImageKit.io

Raul from ImageKit discusses optimizing and streaming videos, highlighting challenges like resolutions and codecs. Developers can use ImageKit Video API for seamless integration and quick optimization. ImageKit offers streamlined video hosting with real-time optimization and adaptive streaming. It enables easy access to cloud storage and transformation of videos for better user experience.

video

Zero-Styling Development: Utopia or the Future of Frontend?

React Summit 2025

7 min

Zero-Styling Development: Utopia or the Future of Frontend?

Mateusz Jagodziński

Workflow Builder

Mateusz Jagodziński presenting on Zero Styling Development and the challenges faced with manual styling implementations, leading to the adoption of a zero styling approach for efficiency and consistency in design implementation. Workflow Builder adopts a zero-styling approach beginning with design tokens in Figma, followed by automation for CSS generation and implementation using CSS variables, ensuring easy styling changes without developer intervention.

web apps

Navigating Islands of Interactivity

React Advanced 2025

9 min

Navigating Islands of Interactivity

Reuben Tier

Pragma

Islands in web development are interactive components that are rendered on the server and hydrated separately. They offer fine-grain control over JavaScript, speed up page loading, and reduce JavaScript shipping. Applications of islands span across eCommerce, media sites, docs, and blogs, providing interactivity without excessive JavaScript. Nanostores enable state sharing among islands. Key takeaways include utilizing Nanostores for state management, exploring ASTRO and islands for development, and using client directives for JavaScript control.

astro

A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain

JSNation 2025

6 min

A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain

Brian Whippo

Algorand Foundation

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.

blockchain

MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls

AI Coding Summit 2026

7 min

MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls

Gil Friedman

Backslash Security

Gil Friedman from Backslash Security discussed MCP security, focusing on the Model Context Protocol and AI assistant security risks like GitHub token exposure in auto run mode. Security measures for MCP usage include setting autorun to ask every time, postmarking MCP incidents, handling malicious servers, safeguarding sensitive information, reviewing and disabling unused tools, requiring permission before triggering actions, removing MCP from environments, and revoking API keys when necessary.

security

Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows

JSNation US 2025

7 min

Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows

Erik Hanchett

AWS

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.

artificial intelligence

Next.js Adapters: Build Once, Deploy Everywhere

React Summit 2025

7 min

Next.js Adapters: Build Once, Deploy Everywhere

JJ Kasper

Vercel

Hello, React Summit. Excited to talk about Next.js adapters. Evolution towards adapter solutions to simplify deployment complexities. Minimalist adapter interface for customization and structured output handling. Key hooks and configurations for platform-specific optimizations. Partners collaboration for enhanced experiences in Next.js deployments. Simplified, platform-agnostic deployments for better developer experience.

next.js

Deploy Your AI Code in Minutes

AI Coding Summit 2026

7 min

Deploy Your AI Code in Minutes

Shifra Williams

Render

Shifra guides the migration of a Repl.it app to Render with emphasis on simplicity and mock data. Ensure Render deployment requirements are met, including specifying root directory, build and start commands, and correct port. Configure GitHub repository setup, connect to Git, and create a repository. Confirm code in the repository and deploy on Render, showcasing a sample landing page.

artificial intelligence

Server Components Wars: PHP Strikes Back

React Summit 2025

6 min

Server Components Wars: PHP Strikes Back

Edoardo Dusi

Storyblok

Edoardo, a senior dev rel at Storyblok, delves into server components' intricacies, urging a better understanding. The evolution from PHP to React marked a shift in web development paradigms, emphasizing server-side rendering and dynamic client interactions. Facebook transitioned from PHP to React, introducing XHP subset. Isomorphic JavaScript and server-side rendering emerged with data requests and content rendering. React server components enable server-side rendering with data fetched from DBMS or CMS, emphasizing patterns for seamless transitions to new frameworks.

react server components

Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy

JSNation 2025

7 min

Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy

Mark Robustelli

FusionAuth

Authentication is crucial for system security, with options including building, buying, or using open source. Modern security complexities are addressed by purchasing systems with enterprise-level security features. Cost considerations in authentication highlight maintenance and scaling costs, with buying solutions providing peace of mind and predictable costs.

authentication

Latest

Always Accurate Documentation

React Advanced 2025

11 min

Always Accurate Documentation

Travis Arnold

souporserious

As a designer and engineer, I've faced challenges with outdated documentation causing friction and trust erosion. Documentation drift arises from scattered sources and lack of a single reference, leading to ambiguity and staleness. React server components offer benefits like server-side rendering, composition flexibility, and lazy evaluation for enhancing documentation quality. By directly generating documentation from the TypeScript compiler, React server components ensure accurate and up-to-date content, improving documentation accuracy and flexibility.

react components

The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering

React Summit US 2025

96 min

The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering

Featured WorkshopFree

Niall Maher

A comprehensive workshop designed specifically for React developers ready to become AI engineers. Learn how your existing React skills—component thinking, state management, effect handling, and performance optimization—directly translate to building sophisticated AI applications. We'll cover the...

artificial intelligence

React Beyond the DOM

React Advanced 2025

27 min

React Beyond the DOM

Erik Rasmussen

Speaker discussed React's capabilities beyond the DOM, including installation of key packages, UI component building, state management, and reconciliation. React's platform-agnostic nature, compatibility with various renders, use of virtual DOM and diffing algorithm. Diverse rendering capabilities of React, such as React DOM, React Native, React 3 Fiber, React Native Web, React PDF, and Ink. Exploration of rendering to IoT devices using XState, state transitions in traffic lights, and building a secure developer ecosystem with React at Atio. Encouragement for developers to explore innovative UI rendering, custom render options, and favorite custom renders like 3-Fiber. Insights on React implementation, DevTools interaction, and discussion on Vim shortcuts in VS Code.

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Final Fantasy IX in React: Fighting the Browser, One Frame at a Time

React Advanced 2025

32 min

Final Fantasy IX in React: Fighting the Browser, One Frame at a Time

Joe Hart

Incident.io

The speaker discusses various creative projects and game development ideas, including unique games like Katamari Node Modules and Command and Conquer Tiberium Jira. They delve into the technical advancements of Final Fantasy 9, suggesting rebuilding it with modern tools like Godot or Unity. Challenges of nostalgic development, design styling techniques, interactive UI development, and advanced 3D rendering in React are highlighted. The talk also covers efficient scene rendering techniques, character movement in 3D scenes, visual effects, game element recreation in React, challenges in 3D web development, and future game development plans.

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Vanilla Server Components

React Advanced 2025

24 min

Vanilla Server Components

Krasimir Tsonev

Antidote.me

Krasnzony discusses the introduction of vanilla Server Components inspired by React Summit, focusing on challenges of using components outside a framework. The talk emphasizes improving user experience in React apps through HTTP streaming, sending data to the browser with script tags, and implementing asynchronous components for server-side rendering. Enhancements to React rendering include the pipeable string API for data rendering and server-side dynamic rendering transitioning to client-side interactivity. Challenges in supporting server components and transitioning to server-oriented components are also explored.

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Building Browser Extensions with React - That Don't Break Browsers

React Summit US 2025

20 min

Building Browser Extensions with React - That Don't Break Browsers

Johnny Fekete

Mentorship available

Jonny Fekete discusses building web extensions with React, the simplicity of manifest.json, the shift from manifest.v2 to manifest.v3 in Chrome, and the impact on functionalities like persistent background scripts and access restrictions. The transition to manifest.v3 for web extensions, the siloed contexts of web extensions, and the use of sendMessage API for communication between different contexts. Challenges in web extension development, complexities of setting up custom configurations, and the modern approach with the WXT framework for easier development and state persistence. Challenges in state persistence and data storage in web extensions, including local, session, and event sync storage methods. Managing multiple tabs' state and data storage with consideration for tab IDs to prevent memory leaks. Consider using storage over Redux for better debugging and architecture. Address CSS collision with Shadow DOM and custom web components to isolate styles from the underlying web page. Utilize background script for throttling and debouncing, efficient storage utilization, and the WXT framework for ease of development and communication.

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Your New Job

AI Coding Summit 2026

15 min

Your New Job

Ken Wheeler

React Artist

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Why Software Engineering Is Becoming: Plan and Review

AI Coding Summit 2026

18 min

Why Software Engineering Is Becoming: Plan and Review

Louis Knight-Webb

Vibe Kanban

Louis from Vibe Kanban discusses optimizing workflows for software engineers with coding agents, focusing on planning and review. Leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT can enhance productivity by reallocating time effectively. Reflecting on time saved by AI, the focus is on optimizing planning and reviewing to boost productivity. Emphasizing detailed planning processes and effective use of AI coding agents to ensure successful outcomes. Simplifying reviewing processes to save time and enhance productivity through efficient code review. Leveraging Codex and Claude coding agents for efficient code review to optimize time and workflow. Minimizing time spent on code review by providing feedback to coding agents within the editor, working on multiple tasks in parallel, and automating tasks requested by AI for enhanced productivity.

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AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Agent Orchestration

AI Coding Summit 2026

10 min

AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Agent Orchestration

Ido Salomon

Creator, AgentCraft | AI Lead @ CEO Office, monday.com

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.

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Beyond Vibe Coding: Differentiated Workflows with Antigravity

AI Coding Summit 2026

10 min

Beyond Vibe Coding: Differentiated Workflows with Antigravity

2 authors

Alex and Rodi discuss antigravity, a powerful coding agent that unifies Google tools. The agent manager orchestrates multiple agents, providing a higher-level view than just code. Features include an AI editor, agent-controlled Chrome browser, and best practices for agent autonomy and usage. AI steering takes time before feeling intuitive. Anti-gravity offers fast and planning modes for building efficiently. The planning mode allows fine-tuning and execution of complex tasks. Playground validates ideas before full projects. The playground in AntiGravity validates project ideas. Image generation, Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini 3 enhance design output. Skills support deep context tasks. Asynchronous nature enables efficient project development. Browser agent serves as a versatile tool for bug fixing. Manual control and inspiration amidst automation. Transition to agent manager for enhanced visibility and decision-making. Encouragement to explore diverse agent-led experiences and updates for workflow improvement.

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React Advanced 2021

27 min

From Blender to the Web - the Journey of a 3D Model

Top Content

Sara Vieira

Orama

This Talk is about Blender, a free and open-source 3D software, and integrating 3D models into websites. The speaker discusses exporting 3D models to the web using the gltf format and compressing them using gltf transform and draco compression. They also cover integrating the 3D model into a website using React and React 3 fiber, troubleshooting installation and error issues, and working with refs and frames. The Talk explores rendering, lighting, mathematics, and experimentation in 3D, as well as interaction and rendering effects. The speaker also mentions their favorite creation in Blender.

React Query API Design – Lessons Learned

React Advanced 2024

26 min

React Query API Design – Lessons Learned

Top Content

Dominik Dorfmeister

React-Query maintainer

I'm super excited to be here today, giving my first live talk at an in-person conference. Dominik, the maintainer of React Query, walks through the API design decisions, including success stories, trade-offs, and mistakes. Tener Linsley designed React Query's medium-sized query API to be minimal, intuitive, powerful, and flexible. Major versions in open source require marketing efforts, but not primarily for adding new features. TypeScript is crucial for building projects and managing user demands in open source can be challenging. The addition of the max pages option improved performance and avoided unnecessary refetches. Inversion of control gives users flexibility, but mistakes can happen in API design. Open source requires time management and feedback from users. API design is influenced by typing ease and good TypeScript support. Getting involved in open source involves trial and error and joining community platforms like TanStack Discord. Dominik's journey started during the pandemic and he can be found on Twitter, TanStack Discord, and his blog.

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On Becoming a Tech Lead

TechLead Conference 2023

24 min

On Becoming a Tech Lead

Top Content

David Khourshid

Stately

Today's Talk explores the use of the useEffect hook in React development, covering topics such as fetching data, handling race conditions and cleanup, and optimizing performance. It also discusses the correct use of useEffect in React 18, the distinction between Activity Effects and Action Effects, and the potential misuse of useEffect. The Talk highlights the benefits of using useQuery or SWR for data fetching, the problems with using useEffect for initializing global singletons, and the use of state machines for handling effects. The speaker also recommends exploring the beta React docs and using tools like the stately.ai editor for visualizing state machines.

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How to properly handle URL slug changes in Next.js

TypeScript Congress 2022

10 min

How to properly handle URL slug changes in Next.js

Top Content

Ondrej Polesny

Developer Evangelist @ Kontent.ai

This Talk explains how to handle URL slug changes in Next.js by using the getStaticPaths and getStaticProps methods. It covers implementing redirects and provides a solution to eliminate the need for editors to perform additional steps. The approach involves tracking URL slug changes and issuing proper redirects. The speaker encourages the audience to reach out with any questions or experiences with handling URL slugs.

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One Year Into Vue 3

Vue.js London Live 2021

20 min

One Year Into Vue 3

Top Content

Evan You

Vue.js & Vite Creator

Vue 3 has seen significant adoption and improvements in performance, bundle size, architecture, and TypeScript integration. The ecosystem around Vue 3 is catching up, with new tools and frameworks being developed. The Vue.js.org documentation is undergoing a complete overhaul. PNIA is emerging as the go-to state management solution for Vue 3. The options API and composition API are both viable options in Vue 3, with the choice depending on factors such as complexity and familiarity with TypeScript. Vue 3 continues to support CDN installation and is recommended for new projects.

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Making Multiplayer Games with Colyseus, Node.js and TypeScript

JS GameDev Summit 2022

31 min

Making Multiplayer Games with Colyseus, Node.js and TypeScript

Top Content

Endel Dreyer

Colyseus

Today's Talk covers making multiplayer games with Coliseus, Node.js, and Typescript. It explores the state of networking on the web, alternative servers, and how Coliseus works. The Talk also discusses client-side prediction, lag compensation, server limitations, scaling, and showcases cool games made with Coliseus. Additionally, it mentions Nakama and Unity integration for client-side prediction in multiplayer games. Coliseus is available on mobile and can be found on colossus.io or the GitHub repository.

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React Query: It’s Time to Break up with your "Global State”!

React Summit Remote Edition 2020

30 min

React Query: It’s Time to Break up with your "Global State”!

Top Content

Tanner Linsley

Nozzle.io

Global state management and the challenges of placing server state in global state are discussed. React Query is introduced as a solution for handling asynchronous server state. The Talk demonstrates the process of extracting logic into custom hooks and fixing issues with state and fetching logic. Optimistic updates with mutation are showcased, along with the benefits of using React Query for data fetching and mutations. The future of global state management is discussed, along with user feedback on React Query. The Talk concludes with an invitation to explore React Query for server state management.

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React Performance Debugging Masterclass

React Summit 2023

170 min

React Performance Debugging Masterclass

Top Content

Featured Workshop

Ivan Akulov

Ivan’s first attempts at performance debugging were chaotic. He would see a slow interaction, try a random optimization, see that it didn't help, and keep trying other optimizations until he found the right one (or gave up).
Back then, Ivan didn’t know how to use performance de...

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Building Better Websites with Remix

React Summit Remote Edition 2021

33 min

Building Better Websites with Remix

Top Content

Michael Jackson

React Training

Remix is a web framework built on React Router that focuses on web fundamentals, accessibility, performance, and flexibility. It delivers real HTML and SEO benefits, and allows for automatic updating of meta tags and styles. It provides features like login functionality, session management, and error handling. Remix is a server-rendered framework that can enhance sites with JavaScript but doesn't require it for basic functionality. It aims to create quality HTML-driven documents and is flexible for use with different web technologies and stacks.

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JavaScript

10 Years of Best of JS

JSNation 2025

28 min

10 Years of Best of JS

Michael Rambeau

Creator of Best of JS and JS Rising Stars projects.

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.

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Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime

JSNation 2025

25 min

Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime

Philip Chimento

Igalia, S.L.

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.

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React

Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code

React Summit 2025

26 min

Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code

Miguel Ángel Durán

midudev

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.

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React Beyond the DOM

React Summit US 2025

27 min

React Beyond the DOM

Erik Rasmussen

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.

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Panel Discussion: The State of React

React Summit 2025

35 min

Panel Discussion: The State of React

7 authors

Panelists introduced themselves and discussed React Server Components (RSCs), exploring usage in production and alternative frameworks. Challenges of adopting RSCs and benefits of universal data fetching were highlighted. The complexities of implementing RSCs were discussed, emphasizing the need for better integration. The potential of server components for composability and evolving architecture was explored. The React compiler's impact on performance optimization and component re-rendering was examined. Discussions included enhancing React with compiler features, evolving feature sets, and reimagining state management. Improvements in communication, community engagement, and dependency management within the React ecosystem were emphasized. Recommendations for managing dependencies, component performance, and audience appreciation were shared.

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The State of React and the Community in 2025

React Summit 2025

29 min

The State of React and the Community in 2025

Mark Erikson

Replay.io

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.

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React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web

React Summit US 2025

29 min

React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web