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CMS Migration Services (2026): Top 11 Agencies Reviewed

TL;DR: CMS Migration Numbers That Tell the Story

Most website migrations fail the same way: rankings drop, traffic disappears, and recovery takes months. The teams that avoid it don't get lucky — they treat CMS migration services as an engineering discipline, not a one-time technical even...

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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What is the new event loop in React Native?

The new event loop in React Native is part of the new architecture that allows for synchronous communication between JavaScript and native layers, improving performance and aligning React Native more closely with React DOM.

What are the benefits of using React Compiler according to Nadia?

React Compiler has a minimal impact on initial load performance and can significantly improve interaction performance by reducing unnecessary re-renders.

What are some trade-offs of using Redux?

Some trade-offs of using Redux include the added complexity of dispatching actions and writing reducers, the need to manage immutable updates, and potential overuse of a single store for all application state. However, it provides a predictable state management pattern and powerful developer tools.

What are some key features of Svelte 5?

Svelte 5 introduces explicit state annotation with runes, compiler augmented reactivity, style encapsulation, and improved developer experience with features like native scoped styles and transitions.

What are progressive web apps (PWAs) and their potential impact?

PWAs aim to bridge web and mobile experiences by offering deeper engagement features like push notifications and home screen icons, contingent on initial web experience quality.

What are the advantages of buying an authentication solution?

Buying an authentication solution provides a ready-made, secure, and scalable system maintained by experts. It offers enterprise-level security features and reduces the burden on your team, as security patches and feature enhancements are handled by a dedicated team.

Can React Server Components be integrated into React Native?

Yes, React Server Components can potentially be integrated into React Native. Although primarily used in web contexts, their integration into mobile can help manage component updates and reduce data usage by only streaming necessary components.

What are some main categories of JavaScript patterns?

The main categories of JavaScript patterns include object-creational patterns, structural patterns, behavioral patterns, and architectural patterns.

Does React Compiler work with external libraries?

React Compiler does not transpile external libraries, so its effectiveness may vary depending on the library's compatibility with memoization.

Can RSC be used with languages other than JavaScript?

While RSC is primarily JavaScript-based, there are experimental libraries like rscx for Rust that attempt to implement RSC-like functionality in other languages.

Deep Dives

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: Building Fullstack Apps with Cursor
Workshop: Operating Agent-Based Systems - Overview, Configure, Run, Orchestrate, Monitor

... 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: Building Fullstack Apps With Cursor
Workshop: DevOps for Front-end Developers: From Local Code to Production by Docker Captain

... and 21 more talks and workshops

React Advanced 2025

20 min

React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine

Danny Povolotski

CTO, Gator Labs

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.

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Deep Dive into Undici

Node Congress 2024

24 min

Deep Dive into Undici

Top Content

Matteo Collina

Node.js TSC committee member. Pino & Fastify author.

Undici is a modern HTTP client for Node.js that offers improved performance and advanced features. It supports HTTP 1.1 and recently added HTTP 2.0 support. Undici provides impressive performance, especially with Undici.Stream. It also supports HTTP 1.1 pipelining, which can significantly cut response time. Undici offers flexible connection management and dispatchers, as well as interceptors for customization. Undici v7 is coming with improved APIs and platformatic runtime for running multiple microservices in the same process.

node.js

How I Build Web Applications in 2026

AI Coding Summit 2026

31 min

How I Build Web Applications in 2026

Top Content

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.

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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.

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Crafting Intelligent Agents with Context Engineering

AI Coding Summit 2025

23 min

Crafting Intelligent Agents with Context Engineering

Carly Richmond

Developer Advocate at Elastic

Carly emphasizes the importance of context engineering for agents, addressing challenges like model cutoff dates and biases in data. The discussion delves into user prompts, exploring zero-shot prompts and the role of user input in LLMs. Custom instructions and system prompts are highlighted in prompt engineering. The talk covers system prompts, RAG for document retrieval, and vector search for semantic relevance. Effective tool utilization, structured output, and the significance of context in tool building are also key points.

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Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code

AI Coding Summit 2026

29 min

Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code

Ado Kukic

Anthropic

The Talk delves into agent decoding in Cloud Code, emphasizing the importance of planning, acting, and verifying changes systematically. It explores maximizing efficiency through Cloud Code acting as an agent, reasoning, reading, writing code, and using tools for successful outcomes. The discussion covers enhancing task planning, utilizing subagents for specialized assistance, and optimizing tool use with MCP integration. It introduces Cloud Skills, plugins for team collaboration, and efficient tool utilization with parallel workflows. The concept of non-interactive agents, guided autonomy, and steps for experiencing agent decoding are also highlighted.

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Advanced Claude Code Techniques for 2026

AI Coding Summit 2026

127 min

Advanced Claude Code Techniques for 2026

Top Content

Workshop

Cole Medin

Cole will walk through his agentic coding workflow that allows him to delegate all coding to the agent while still keeping him in the driver's seat (no vibe coding!). The key is to create a structured approach for both the up front planning and the validation - and he'll demonstrate what that loo...

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Why Redwood Adopted React Server Components

React Summit US 2023

33 min

Why Redwood Adopted React Server Components

Watch video: Why Redwood Adopted React Server Components

David S. Price

Сo-founder of RedwoodJS

Redwood is a full stack web app framework built with React, GraphQL, and Prisma. It prioritizes conventions and maintainability, and collaborates closely with the React team. Redwood offers full-stack features, including real-time functionality without WebSockets. The Bighorn Epoch is a new phase in Redwood's roadmap. Redwood is excited about the possibilities of React Server Components and wants to collaborate with the community.

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Authoring HTML in a JavaScript World

React Summit US 2023

21 min

Authoring HTML in a JavaScript World

Watch video: Authoring HTML in a JavaScript World

Tony Alicea

Tony is a bestselling Udemy and Pluralsight author, known for his online courses such as "JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts"

This Talk by Tony Alicia focuses on authoring HTML in a JavaScript world. The speaker challenges developers to change their approach to building React components by starting with HTML first. By authoring HTML in a semantic way, readability and maintainability can be improved. Well-authored HTML provides better understanding of content and improves accessibility. It also has performance benefits by reducing DOM size. Investing time in HTML can save time and make applications more future-proof.

web components

Detect and Avoid Common Performance and Memory Issues in Unity WebGL Builds

JS GameDev Summit 2022

10 min

Detect and Avoid Common Performance and Memory Issues in Unity WebGL Builds

Top Content

Oz Syed

Sauce Labs

Today's Talk focuses on avoiding performance and memory issues in Unity WebGL builds. The importance of managing memory and keeping the heap size small is highlighted. Techniques such as using asset bundles or an addressable system can help reduce memory usage. The limitations of garbage collection in WebGL builds are discussed, along with tips for optimizing Unity code. Tools like Backtrace can assist in debugging memory and performance issues.

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Featured

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...

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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...

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No REST for Cap'n Web

Node Congress 2026

23 min

No REST for Cap'n Web

Kenton Varda

Cloudflare

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.

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The New AI Workflows

React Advanced 2025

14 min

The New AI Workflows

Steve Sewell

Builder.io

The Talk delves into the impact of LLMs on engineering workflows, emphasizing the shift towards AI for code writing efficiency. It highlights the importance of problem-solving abilities and product development in hiring practices. LLMs enhance productivity for developers, designers, and product managers, enabling faster iterations and collaboration. Efficient product workflows are achieved through simultaneous UI and code work using Builder.io. Task delegation is streamlined with async agents and Builder bots, optimizing project editing and code management. Integration with tools like VS Code and Figma streamlines design and code editing, enhancing collaboration and workflow automation.

artificial intelligence

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.

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The State of Node.js 2025

JSNation 2025

30 min

The State of Node.js 2025

Top Content

Matteo Collina

Node.js TSC committee member. Pino & Fastify author.

The speaker covers a wide range of topics related to Node.js, including its resilience, popularity, and significance in the tech ecosystem. They discuss Node.js version support, organization activity, development updates, enhancements, and security updates. Node.js relies heavily on volunteers for governance and contribution. The speaker introduces an application server for Node.js enabling PHP integration. Insights are shared on Node.js downloads, infrastructure challenges, software maintenance, and the importance of update schedules for security.

node.js

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

Rethinking Bundling: Why You Don’t Need Less JavaScript

JSNation US 2025

30 min

Rethinking Bundling: Why You Don’t Need Less JavaScript

Daniel Roe

Leads the Nuxt core team

The speaker, Daniel, shares insights on his role as an open source maintainer, projects Nuxt and Nitro, and living in Edinburgh. Nuxt, a full-stack framework, evolved with community support, emphasizing community-driven development. Optimization strategies for JavaScript, CSS, and font loading in Nuxt were discussed. Integration of Nuxt Scripts for web performance, challenges in meta framework development, and considerations for Nuxt V3 rewrite were highlighted. Future plans include smoother migrations and open-source access to emoji slides integration.

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Why Node.js Needs an Application Server

Node Congress 2026

18 min

Why Node.js Needs an Application Server

Matteo Collina

Node.js TSC committee member. Pino & Fastify author.

Matteo Collina discusses Node.js, its single-threaded design, and the introduction of threads in 2018 for parallelism and CPU utilization. Node.js production monitoring focuses on application health, fault tolerance, and event loop efficiency. VAT architecture improves Node.js applications with thread migration and monitoring. Node.js manages threads and failures independently with Prometheus monitoring. Scalability in Node.js involves Kubernetes clusters and in-process scaling. Next.js with React SSR for Node.js applications enables dynamic scaling and performance. Node.js handles CPU blocking and SSR performance by utilizing multiple threads.

node.js architecture

Motion Control With Multimodal LLMs

JSNation 2025

39 min

Motion Control With Multimodal LLMs

Charlie Gerard

CrowdStrike

The Talk delves into motion control with multimodal AI, exploring TensorFlow.js models for gesture recognition and enhancing user interactions. It discusses leveraging LLMs for gesture-based interaction, investigating Gemiini for gesture recognition, and controlling light states with Gemini functions. The conversation includes webcam-based gesture recognition, custom gesture databases, and the future of personalized AI assistance with acoustic recognition.

artificial intelligence

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.

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It’s Not Magic: Elevate Auth Security with PKCE Best Practices

Node Congress 2025

5 min

It’s Not Magic: Elevate Auth Security with PKCE Best Practices

Kim Maida

FusionAuth

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.

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Improve Your Presentation Skills by Scripting Your Live Coding Demos to Perfection

React Summit 2025

8 min

Improve Your Presentation Skills by Scripting Your Live Coding Demos to Perfection

Elio Struyf

Struyf Consulting

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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Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture

JSNation US 2025

6 min

Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture

Kim Maida

FusionAuth

Challenges in OAuth, importance of back end security for front end, and implementation details of OAuth flow between front end, back end, and authorization server. Detailed process of token handling, session management, and user data retrieval in OAuth implementation between front end, back end, and authorization server.

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Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse

React Summit US 2025

7 min

Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse

Rahul Nanwani

ImageKit.io

Rahul introduces video optimization principles, emphasizing modern formats, compression, bitrate reduction, and lazy loading. ImageKit simplifies video loading by compressing videos significantly and adapting to network conditions. Pausing videos when not in view saves data costs and enhances user experience.

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React for Good: Creating Inclusive, Secure, and Scalable Applications in Emerging Markets

React Summit 2025

5 min

React for Good: Creating Inclusive, Secure, and Scalable Applications in Emerging Markets

Innocencia Ndembera

Chip In Limited as Co-Founder and COO

Inosency Andembera, React developer, discusses using React for building scalable, secure, and inclusive applications for emerging markets like Malawi and Africa. Addressing challenges of Internet connectivity, device limitations, security concerns, and inclusivity for first-time Internet users. Utilizing React for performance, security, and inclusion in emerging markets through code splitting, lazy loading, authentication, input validation, multiple language support, and simple UIs. Highlighting React's features in enhancing inclusion by addressing challenges in emerging markets, such as limited digital literacy, creating simple UIs, supporting multiple languages, internationalization, step-by-step UIs, and semantic HTML for accessibility. Zunga, a financial platform in Malawi, showcases React's benefits in addressing financial service gaps, scalability, offline support, and security enhancements.

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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.

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Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution

JSNation 2025

5 min

Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution

Daniel Hervás

Reckon Digital

JS 0 and JS Sugar proposal for JavaScript evolution. Complexity abstraction to engines. Splitting language into JS0 and JSugar. Lessons learned from developers' concerns and users' preferences. Involvement in shaping JavaScript ecosystem.

web standards

Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents

TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

6 min

Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents

Sam Komesarook

Arts & Engineering Composite

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.

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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.

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Latest

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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Building AI Co-Worker with Codex SDK

AI Coding Summit 2026

72 min

Building AI Co-Worker with Codex SDK

Workshop

Rudrank Riyam

Join this interactive 2-hour workshop to learn how to create your own AI co-worker using the Codex SDK, inspired by Rudrank’s work on a GitHub/Slack bot he created to automate code reviews, bug fixes, and feature additions to overcome the opposite timezone differences at work.

W...

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Transforming Your Tech Interviews in the AI Agent Age

TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

11 min

Transforming Your Tech Interviews in the AI Agent Age

Anna J McDougall

Author "You Belong in Tech: How to Go from Zero Programming Knowledge to Hired"

Anna McDougal, director of engineering operations at Blinkist, presents the McDougal method for technical interviews aiming to improve their effectiveness by leveraging emerging technologies. The challenges in technical interviews involve the inadequacy of measuring the right skills through traditional methods like DSA problems and take-home tests. The speaker questions the necessity of perfection in engineering hires and emphasizes problem-solving skills over perfection, especially with AI tools. Hiring criteria are evolving with a focus on attitude alignment and cultural addition rather than just fit. Maximizing value in hiring involves seeking candidates with aligned goals and the necessary toolkit for the job. Ensuring technical interviews reflect actual job conditions and tool usage is crucial, and encouraging experimentation and feedback on proposed methods is essential for improvement.

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Running JavaScript Actually Everywhere

Node Congress 2026

21 min

Running JavaScript Actually Everywhere

Tony Gorez

Tether

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.

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Unlocking the Power of the Dependency Graph

Node Congress 2026

19 min

Unlocking the Power of the Dependency Graph

Ruy Adorno

Node.js TSC member & Founder Engineer @vlt.sh

Rui Adorno emphasizes the power of dependency graphs in JavaScript projects, highlighting the underutilized graph structure and the importance of understanding metadata. The discussion delves into advanced dependency selector syntax, integrating query language with VLT client for updates and additions, running tests, and updating versions. The exploration of VLT client features includes secure package installs, phased installation processes, and DSS capabilities. Multi-project package filtering is expanded through DSS query language with a host local selector for benefits like script inspection and AI agents.

node.js

The State of Node.js Security

Node Congress 2026

27 min

The State of Node.js Security

Rafael Gonzaga

Node.js TSC member

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.

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Gamified 3D Solar System Explorer: An Interactive Learning Journey with Three.js

React Advanced 2025

90 min

Gamified 3D Solar System Explorer: An Interactive Learning Journey with Three.js

Workshop

Houda Mouttalib

Craft immersive XR educational experiences through declarative 3D rendering with this advanced workshop. Leverage React Three Fiber's component-based architecture to build a gamified solar system explorer featuring dynamic orbital mechanics, interactive raycasting, and WebGL optimizations. Master...

Garbage Collection Between V8, cppgc (Oilpan), and Native Runtimes

Node Congress 2026

9 min

Garbage Collection Between V8, cppgc (Oilpan), and Native Runtimes

Mert Can Altin

Node.js Core Contributor Trendyol - Software Engineer Turkey

Today's presentation delves into garbage collection challenges in JavaScript and native code, highlighting the impact on memory leaks and bugs. V8's implementation of minor and major garbage collection is discussed. The evolution of memory management in runtimes, including Node.js and Deno, is explored, emphasizing the shift towards automatic cleanup and improved performance. The complexity of runtime memory management, especially in handling CPP objects and bridging with workers, is outlined. Key points include the efficiency gains from generational garbage collection and the importance of migrating away from certain memory management practices for enhanced runtime performance.

performance

Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models

AI Coding Summit 2026

34 min

Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models

WorkshopFree

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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Typescript Is SO SLOW...Or Is It?

Node Congress 2026

27 min

Typescript Is SO SLOW...Or Is It?

Mike Hartington

Prisma

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.

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Popular

SolidJS: Why All the Suspense?

JSNation 2023

28 min

SolidJS: Why All the Suspense?

Top Content

Ryan Carniato

SolidJS Creator

Suspense is a mechanism for orchestrating asynchronous state changes in JavaScript frameworks. It ensures async consistency in UIs and helps avoid trust erosion and inconsistencies. Suspense boundaries are used to hoist data fetching and create consistency zones based on the user interface. They can handle loading states of multiple resources and control state loading in applications. Suspense can be used for transitions, providing a smoother user experience and allowing prioritization of important content.

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HTTP/3 Performance for JS Developers

JSNation 2023

21 min

HTTP/3 Performance for JS Developers

Top Content

Robin Marx

Akamai Technologies

HTTP 3, also known as H3, is the latest version of the HTTP protocol with new performance-related features. Enabling HTTP 3 requires minimal effort and provides significant benefits, but limits fine-grained control over performance features. Zero RTT has limitations due to security reasons and restrictions on allowed requests. Resource loading and prioritization in HTTP 3 have some problems, as browsers may not agree on resource importance. Fetch priority allows fine-grained control over resource loading order, and resource discovery can be improved with 103 Early Hints. Web transport provides low-level access to QUIC and HTTP3 features for real-time use cases.

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React Slots: a New Way of Composition

React Advanced 2022

21 min

React Slots: a New Way of Composition

Top Content

Neo Nie

Revolut

Today's Talk introduces React Snots, a new way of composition for design systems. The configuration way provides flexibility but can lead to uncontrolled use cases and wrong patterns. React Slots RFC was created to address the limitations of React's support for web components and slots. It introduces createHost and createSlot APIs to enable component composition and solve previous problems. React Slots RFC allows for flexible component styling and the creation of complex structures without rendering them to the browser.

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Understanding React’s Fiber Architecture

React Advanced 2022

29 min

Understanding React’s Fiber Architecture

Top Content

Tejas Kumar

Author of the "Fluent React" bestselling book, software engineer with 23 years of experience, and host of the developer-loved ConTejas Code podcast.

This Talk explores React's internal jargon, specifically fiber, which is an internal unit of work for rendering and committing. Fibers facilitate efficient updates to elements and play a crucial role in the reconciliation process. The work loop, complete work, and commit phase are essential steps in the rendering process. Understanding React's internals can help with optimizing code and pull request reviews. React 18 introduces the work loop sync and async functions for concurrent features and prioritization. Fiber brings benefits like async rendering and the ability to discard work-in-progress trees, improving user experience.

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Master JavaScript Patterns

JSNation 2024

145 min

Master JavaScript Patterns

Top Content

Featured Workshop

Adrian Hajdin

During this workshop, participants will review the essential JavaScript patterns that every developer should know. Through hands-on exercises, real-world examples, and interactive discussions, attendees will deepen their understanding of best practices for organizing code, solving common challeng...

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

Top Content

Workshop

Kellen Mace

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to build a Next.js app that uses Apollo Client to fetch data from a headless WordPress backend and use it to render the pages of your app. You’ll learn when you should consider a headless WordPress architecture, how to turn a WordPress backend into a GraphQL ser...

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Bringing React Server Components to React Native

React Day Berlin 2023

29 min

Bringing React Server Components to React Native

Top Content

Watch video: Bringing React Server Components to React Native

Szymon Rybczak

Callstack

React Server Components (RSC) offer a more accessible approach within the React model, addressing challenges like big initial bundle size and unnecessary data over the network. RSC can benefit React Native development by adding a new server layer and enabling faster requests. They also allow for faster publishing of changes in mobile apps and can be integrated into federated super apps. However, implementing RSC in mobile apps requires careful consideration of offline-first apps, caching, and Apple's review process.

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React Query - The Bad Parts

React Day Berlin 2024

30 min

React Query - The Bad Parts

Top Content

Dominik Dorfmeister

React-Query maintainer

React Query is a popular library with significant weekly downloads and positive user sentiment. It may have trade-offs like bundle size, but the actual size shipped is smaller. Bundle size optimization can be achieved by exporting only necessary features. React Query's declarative approach eliminates the need for custom data fetching solutions. It offers caching, request duplication, background updates, and more. RackQuery doesn't support normalized caching, but refetching after invalidation works fine. React's vision includes suspense architecture and server components. The documentation could be improved with a more structured flow. TensorStack Query can be a good choice for Next.js apps, but not necessary with mature frameworks. The 10 stack query and router concepts were discussed. Combining React Query with HTTP caching provides a robust caching solution.

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Network Requests with Cypress

TestJS Summit 2021

33 min

Network Requests with Cypress

Top Content

Cecelia Martinez

Ionic

Cecilia Martinez, a technical account manager at Cypress, discusses network requests in Cypress and demonstrates commands like cydot request and SCI.INTERCEPT. She also explains dynamic matching and aliasing, network stubbing, and the pros and cons of using real server responses versus stubbing. The talk covers logging request responses, testing front-end and backend API, handling list length and DOM traversal, lazy loading, and provides resources for beginners to learn Cypress.

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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.

javascript

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

The State of React

React Summit 2025

26 min

The State of React

Sacha Greif

Devographics

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.

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

Top Content

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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Lessons From Adopting React Compiler

React Summit US 2025

23 min

Lessons From Adopting React Compiler

Akash Hamirwasia

ElevenLabs

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.

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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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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.

react

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.

react

Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router

React Summit US 2025

125 min

Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router

Workshop

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...

react

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