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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

Is React.js suitable for SEO?

React.js can be optimized for SEO with techniques like server-side rendering (SSR) using frameworks like Next.js.

What is SvelteKit and how does it relate to Svelte?

SvelteKit is a companion project to Svelte, designed to solve broader application development problems such as setting up build tooling and defining routes, enhancing Svelte's capabilities.

How does code sharing work in a MonoRepo?

In a MonoRepo, code sharing is facilitated by direct access to the shared codebase within the repository. Teams can easily export and import functions or components across different projects without the need for separate package management.

Why is browser compatibility still relevant?

Browser compatibility remains relevant due to differences in browser capabilities and the impact of trailing-edge browsers like Safari on web development.

Why does Dominik believe TypeScript is important in API design?

Dominik believes TypeScript helps in designing APIs that are easy to understand and type, reducing complexity and maintenance burden while providing better developer experience.

What is Hugging Face?

Hugging Face is a platform where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets, and applications, aiming to democratize machine learning.

What are some limitations of server components in RSC?

Server components are stateless and not interactive, meaning they cannot use state-managing hooks or perform client-side interactions like alerts.

How does React.js improve application performance?

React.js improves application performance by using a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render components.

How has Redux evolved over time?

Redux has evolved from being a minimal library requiring a lot of boilerplate code to Redux Toolkit, which simplifies common tasks like creating stores and reducers, and includes features like RTK Query for data fetching. Modern React features like hooks have also been integrated into Redux.

Is Redux still relevant for modern React applications?

Yes, Redux is still relevant for modern React applications. Although there are many state management tools available, Redux provides a consistent and predictable pattern for managing state, especially in larger applications where state needs to be shared across many components.

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

AI Coding Summit 2026

119 min

Advanced Cursor Techniques for Building Fullstack Apps

Workshop

Mike Mikula

In this workshop, you’ll learn a repeatable process for building full stack apps in Cursor. We’ll start with an idea and use an agent to shape clear requirements. Next, we’ll generate a database schema and set up the build tools. Then we’ll create the backend and frontend, and wire the layers tog...

artificial intelligence

React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine

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.

game development

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

Building Desktop Apps Out of Web Apps: Scaling Electron With Code Signing & CI/CD

JSNation US 2025

23 min

Building Desktop Apps Out of Web Apps: Scaling Electron With Code Signing & CI/CD

Ayodele Aransiola

Mentorship available

Gopaddi

Ayole Aonseola discusses converting web apps into desktop applications using Electron, emphasizing challenges with code signing, CI CD, and industrial scaling. Electron architecture focuses on security with context isolation and node integration. Engineering hurdles include distributing applications across OSs, implementing automation for error prevention, and ensuring app authenticity through code signing. Mac-specific configurations, like app bundle ID and notarization, are crucial. Building universal apps for Mac and Windows requires understanding differences in building environments and certificate access. Automation of signing processes with Azure and GitHub streamlines workflows, handling EV tokens and securely managing certificates. CICD automation includes base64 certificate encoding and triggering build processes on tag pushes.

frameworks

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

Automatic and Accessible Dynamic Themes With OKLCH Color Space

React Advanced 2025

18 min

Automatic and Accessible Dynamic Themes With OKLCH Color Space

Nina Torgunakova

Evil Martians

Talk on building dynamic themes using Ocale CH ColorSpace. Personalized UI colors enhance user engagement and product uniqueness. Dynamic theming simplicity and challenges with RGB, HEX, and HSL color formats. KLCH color space: uniform lightness, simple modifications, and high accessibility. KLCH works like HSL but encodes lightness better, enabling practical dynamic theme implementation with CSS. Define lightness values visually for a custom palette mirroring tailwind CSS. Determine chroma for consistency using KLSH formula and user-selected hue. Check hue, adjust lightness and chroma for consistency. Develop Simple Hue Picker for hue selection. Transfer new colours into Tailwind CSS or use other CSS approaches. Use Colory Library for colour calculations.

web development

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.

best practices

Designing Sandboxed Dev Environments for Coding Agents

AI Coding Summit 2026

20 min

Designing Sandboxed Dev Environments for Coding Agents

Naresh Ramesh

Cloudfare

A demo of an animated goose following the cursor in a unique environment with real-time updates. Advanced models for long-running agents performing complex tasks. Exploring sandbox environments for agent coding, focusing on isolation, containers, networking, and persistence. Challenges in sandbox orchestration, including handling heavy processing, managing sessions, and security concerns. Importance of agent control, Micro VMs for isolation, and networking in sandbox environments. Strategies for efficient sandbox operations with pre-built images, persistent volumes, and warm pools. Utilizing sandbox primitives for simple usage with focus on isolation, networking, and persistence.

best practices

Full-Stack AI Orchestration: Modular Agents, Observability, and the Edge

JSNation US 2025

32 min

Full-Stack AI Orchestration: Modular Agents, Observability, and the Edge

Jamal Sinclair O'Garro

Jamal Sinclair O’Garro is a senior software engineer at Netflix, a published author, runs two of New York City's largest tech meetups

The Talk delves into artificial intelligence, deep learning, and agentic systems, emphasizing the challenges and importance of building trustworthy AI systems. It proposes a modern enterprise stack for resilient and scalable AI systems, discussing the use of modular architecture, agent logic, and observability tools. The session explores the benefits of iterative agent logic, scalability enhancements, and efficient model management. Additionally, it showcases practical applications in sports statistics verification and playoff probability estimation while highlighting the significance of system performance, efficiency optimization, and robustness in large-scale operations.

fullstack

Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill

TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

8 min

Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill

Dave Glencross

Capital on Tap

Dave, Engineering Manager at Capital Untap, shares a story of AI failure and lessons learned from moving too fast in AI development within the company. The AI team focused on developing a chatbot for customer service, which became a flagship initiative under engineering governance. Issues with accuracy and complexity led to pausing the chatbot project and exploring third-party vendors. Capital OnTap reset AI processes by integrating AI engineers into product teams, emphasizing standard engineering over specialized AI teams.

deep dive

Featured

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

I Measured React Server Components’ Performance So You Don’t Have To

React Advanced 2025

22 min

I Measured React Server Components’ Performance So You Don’t Have To

Nadia Makarevich

Coder, writer, author of Advanced React book

Nadia introduces React server components and performance, highlighting the benefits of server components in improving performance and the need for a clear understanding of their impact on rendering and data fetching in React applications. Exploring Server-Side Rendering Impact on Performance: Analysis of transitioning from client-side to server-side rendering, including implications on performance and data fetching. Transforming Empty Screen to Performance Improvement: Detailed process of browser work, React rendering, and data fetching impact. Making the Shift to Server-Side Rendering: Impact on interactivity and data fetching optimization. Understanding the Benefits of AppRouter Version in SSR with Reduced JavaScript Payload and Introduction of Server Components. Investigating Smarter Server-Side Rendering with Server Components and Streaming in Next.js. Refactoring for Server Components: Async Data Fetching, Server Component Identification, and Utilizing Suspense for React Streaming Chunks. Enhancing Performance with Server Components: Balancing Rendering Approaches, Importance of Server-Side Data Fetching, and Leveraging Suspense for Improved Streaming.

performance react server components

Keeping Up with The Fast and Furious Web

JSNation US 2025

29 min

Keeping Up with The Fast and Furious Web

Scott Tolinski

Co-host of Syntax.fm

Scott Talinsky's journey in web development highlights his transition from YouTube tutorials to creating educational content and courses, reflecting his passion for teaching. The evolution of web development tools showcases advancements from limited colors to modern frameworks like React and CSS features like squircles. Adapting to new technologies emphasizes core skills and freedom in tool selection. User-centric development prioritizes accessibility and understanding the purpose of tools. Learning strategies focus on fundamentals, hands-on learning, and avoiding influencer bias. Standing out in tech roles requires quality projects, broad knowledge, and effective communication.

web development

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

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

Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor

JSNation 2025

46 min

Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor

Featured Workshop

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

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

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.

bundler

The State of Node.js 2025

JSNation 2025

30 min

The State of Node.js 2025

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

Thinking Like an Architect

Node Congress 2025

31 min

Thinking Like an Architect

Top Content

Luca Mezzalira

Author of Front-End Reactive Architectures and Building Micro-Frontends

In modern software development, architecture is more than just selecting the right tech stack; it involves decision-making, trade-offs, and considering the context of the business and organization. Understanding the problem space and focusing on users' needs are essential. Architectural flexibility is key, adapting the level of granularity and choosing between different approaches. Holistic thinking, long-term vision, and domain understanding are crucial for making better decisions. Effective communication, inclusion, and documentation are core skills for architects. Democratizing communication, prioritizing value, and embracing adaptive architectures are key to success.

architecture

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

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

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

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

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

How to Build an Open Telemetry SDK in 7 Minutes

JSNation 2025

6 min

How to Build an Open Telemetry SDK in 7 Minutes

Charly Gomez

Sentry, Software Engineer

Showcasing adding observability with OpenTelemetry. Benefits of extensive telemetry data for insights. Contrasting uninstrumented, manual, and automatic instrumented apps. Example of instrumenting fetch calls for telemetry signals. Technique for modifying functions without core updates. Using JS proxy as a modern approach for patching. OpenTelemetry standardizes instrumentation with APIs and tools. Example of setting up OpenTelemetry with instrumentations.

observability

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.

security authentication

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

Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill

TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

8 min

Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill

Dave Glencross

Capital on Tap

deep dive

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

Latest

Chrome DevTools, for Super Fast SSR Applications!

React Advanced 2025

21 min

Chrome DevTools, for Super Fast SSR Applications!

Luca Del Puppo

Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, Senior Software Developer at Nearform and JS enthusiastic.

Introduction to Chrome DevTools and the challenges developers face in application development. Utilizing features for debugging, improving performance, accessibility, and security. Exploring file optimization and network throttling for efficient loading and user experience enhancement. Testing application performance under different network conditions and optimizing for varied speeds. Working on PWA applications, testing on slow connections, and ensuring accessibility. Analyzing performance panel insights for optimizing application performance. Using built-in insights, labeling the performance panel, and collaborating with teammates. Leveraging Chrome DevTool MCP server for performance testing and application code improvement.

performance

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

web development

Voice Agents Crash Course

AI Coding Summit 2026

26 min

Voice Agents Crash Course

Stepan Suvorov

Roadsoft

Stepan Suvorov, CTO at Roadsoft, discusses the rise of Voice Agents, highlighting market growth, improved models for speech to text and voice generation, reduced latency, and cost-effectiveness. Key components include speech-to-text, LLM analysis, text-to-speech conversion, orchestration, and addressing latency. Delving into essential aspects like voice activity detection, interruption handling, and model selection criteria for Voice Agents. Exploring parameters such as latency, quality, pricing, language support, and voice cloning options. Comparing DIY and managed solutions for Voice Agents, emphasizing flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Discussing cost implications between managed and self-hosted solutions, considering usage volumes and scale. Addressing infrastructure challenges, testing approaches, WAPI limits, model selection, and future plans for voice agents.

case study

Your New Job

AI Coding Summit 2026

15 min

Your New Job

Ken Wheeler

React Artist

career

React Realtime: From Sockets to Streams (Web & Native)

React Advanced 2025

22 min

React Realtime: From Sockets to Streams (Web & Native)

Violina Popova

ClipMyHorse.TV

Violina emphasizes real-time data importance in React apps for web and mobile, covering WebSockets, WebRTC, and WebTransport. Evolution of real-time communication from polling to WebSocket technology. WebSocket connection management in React, optimizing with useCallback. WebRTC implementation for peer-to-peer communication, integrating signaling and server guidance in React apps. Utilizing WebRTC in React Native for feature parity. Comparison of WebRTC for peer-to-peer and WebSockets for client-server connections. Future trends include Web transport with HTTP 3.0 and QUIC for enhanced real-time communication performance.

architecture

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...

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

React-First Micro Frontends in Regulated Industries

React Advanced 2025

23 min

React-First Micro Frontends in Regulated Industries

Florian Rappl

smapiot

Welcome to React-first micro-frontends in regulated industries. Introduction to micro-frontends and subdomains in web applications. Challenges of developing applications in regulated industries with strict rules and compliance regulations. Challenges of managing documentation and dependencies in micro front end solutions. Challenges in transitioning to a hybrid centralized-distributed approach for micro front ends. Control and orchestration in microfront-end environments; decentralized development and deployment with centralized oversight. Teams can choose not to upgrade to the latest version immediately; orchestration involves provisioning for end users and utilizing feature flags. In production, carefully selected microfront-ends are used. Using React offers advantages like easy version updates and dependency management. Avoid tightly coupling components from different micro-frontends. Opt for a loosely based approach with a registry in the central app shell for registering necessary fragments.

architecture

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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Beyond Chat Bubbles: Building React Apps Where AI Generates Your UI

React Advanced 2025

20 min

Beyond Chat Bubbles: Building React Apps Where AI Generates Your UI

Jesse Hall

codeSTACKr

Introducing different AI interaction styles like chat interface vs. generating interactive interfaces for learning. Evolution of AI interfaces from text-based apps to tailored UIs based on user needs. Generative UI applications creating visual interfaces with AI. AI-driven UI component selection ensuring safety and flexibility. Challenges of true code generation for React or HTML. Balancing AI development approaches for innovation and reliability. Foundational aspects of AI SDK and generative UI with React components. Enhancing learning with voice-enabled interaction and expanding AI applications with voice UI. Voice-enabled workflow automation for various tasks. Utilizing production-ready AI technology for adaptive interfaces.

artificial intelligence

React Day Berlin 2023

16 min

Managing React State: 10 Years of Lessons Learned

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Cory House

reactjsconsulting.com

This Talk focuses on effective React state management and lessons learned over the past 10 years. Key points include separating related state, utilizing UseReducer for protecting state and updating multiple pieces of state simultaneously, avoiding unnecessary state syncing with useEffect, using abstractions like React Query or SWR for fetching data, simplifying state management with custom hooks, and leveraging refs and third-party libraries for managing state. Additional resources and services are also provided for further learning and support.

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Concurrent Rendering Adventures in React 18

React Advanced 2021

132 min

Concurrent Rendering Adventures in React 18

Top Content

Featured Workshop

Maurice de Beijer

With the release of React 18 we finally get the long awaited concurrent rendering. But how is that going to affect your application? What are the benefits of concurrent rendering in React? What do you need to do to switch to concurrent rendering when you upgrade to React 18? And what if you don’t...

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Detox 101: How to write stable end-to-end tests for your React Native application

React Summit 2022

117 min

Detox 101: How to write stable end-to-end tests for your React Native application

Top Content

Workshop

Yevheniia Hlovatska

Compared to unit testing, end-to-end testing aims to interact with your application just like a real user. And as we all know it can be pretty challenging. Especially when we talk about Mobile applications.
Tests rely on many conditions and are considered to be slow and flaky....

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Wait, React Is Multi-Threaded?

React Day Berlin 2022

22 min

Wait, React Is Multi-Threaded?

Top Content

Nikhil Sharma

Postman

This Talk explores the use of web workers in React to improve user experience and performance. It discusses the limitations of JavaScript rendering and how web workers can offload tasks to separate threads. The Talk also highlights the benefits of using concurrent mode in React and introduces the UseWebWorkerHook library for simplifying the creation of web workers. It emphasizes the considerations when using web workers and concludes with a mention of Postman's hiring and new feature release.

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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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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

Simplifying Server Components

React Advanced 2023

27 min

Simplifying Server Components

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Mark Dalgleish

Shopify

React server components simplify server-side rendering and provide a mental model of components as pure functions. Using React as a library for server components allows for building a basic RSC server and connecting it to an SSR server. RSC responses are serialized virtual DOM that offload code from the client and handle interactivity. The client manifest maps serialized placeholders to real components on the client, enabling dynamic rendering. Server components combine the best of classic web development and progressive enhancement, offering the advantage of moving logic from the client to the server.

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Unreal Engine in WebAssembly/WebGPU

JS GameDev Summit 2022

33 min

Unreal Engine in WebAssembly/WebGPU

Top Content

Alex St. Louis

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer @ Wonder Interactive

Alex Saint-Louis, co-founder of Wunder Interactive, shares the mission of bringing Unreal Engine to the browser, enabling cross-platform 3D applications and games. They are working on a WebGPU back end for Unreal Engine to push the limits of 3D on the web. Wunder Interactive has improved compression, built their own asset file system, and offers powerful tools for game developers. They are utilizing modern web technologies like WebAssembly, WebGL, and WebGPU, and plan to support other engines like Unity and Godot. The team aims to transform the industry by bringing console-quality games to the browser and providing an alternative distribution path. They are excited to bring Unreal Engine 5 to the web with WebGPU support and are working on WebXR support for cross-platform 3D experiences, including VR.

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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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Vuetify 3: Titan

Vue.js London Live 2021

20 min

Vuetify 3: Titan

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John Leider

Vuetify

Hi, I'm John Leader, the creator of Viewtify. Viewtify 3 is the upcoming version with new design concepts, improved usability, and compatibility with modern browsers. The framework has added new features like a validation system, style diversity, semantic customization options, and a density concept. Enhanced customization options, improved performance, and advanced browser support with CSS variables are also highlights of Viewtify 3.

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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

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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How to React Compiler

React Summit 2025

20 min

How to React Compiler

Anton Nepsha

Introduction to React compiler, differences from React 19, installation of Babel plug-in React compiler, specifying target React versions, and how React compiler detects and processes component dependencies. Configuring React compiler settings, exploring default options and configurations, utilizing React compiler playground website for configurations, dealing with JSX markup re-computation. React compiler feature for extracting JSX from array map callbacks, limitations of enable function outlining, enabling JSX outlining for separate functions. Function memoization in React compiler, React compiler beta stage, potential errors with React compiler. React compiler error: memorization preservation, hidden messages, validation settings. React compiler: validation tools, hooks treatment, memorization challenges. Changing hooks to functions for React compiler optimization. React Compiler usage considerations and potential optimizations.

react

TDD in Frontend

React Summit 2025

121 min

TDD in Frontend

Workshop

Aleksandr Shinkarev

Tests first, code last!How to develop your frontend that the code isn't falling apart? How to make it scary free to deliver your work results? How to battle bugs that are chasing you at every step you make?I am going to answer these questions during the workshop and show how to foll...

react

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