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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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Top ideas

Who is the creator of Transformers JS?

Joshua, a 25-year-old machine learning engineer from South Africa, is the creator of Transformers JS.

What is the common misconception about software architecture?

A common misconception is that software architecture is merely about choosing the right tech stack. In reality, it involves making informed decisions, balancing trade-offs, and dealing with long-term consequences.

What are the benefits of using a MonoRepo?

The benefits of using a MonoRepo include atomic changes, simplified code sharing, and a single set of dependencies. This facilitates faster development cycles, reduces integration issues, and simplifies project management across multiple teams or projects.

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

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

How does TanStack Start handle server and client integration?

TanStack Start uses isomorphic loaders that run on both the server during SSR and the client before navigation, allowing seamless data fetching and caching across server and client.

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.

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 types of state are best managed by Redux?

Redux is best suited for managing state that is needed by multiple components, state that needs to persist beyond the lifecycle of a single component, and state where it is beneficial to have a clear history of actions and updates. It is less suitable for managing local component state or form state.

Is React.js a framework or a library?

React.js is a library, not a full-fledged framework, mainly focusing on building UI components.

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.

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

AI Coding Summit 2026

16 min

From Prompt Spaghetti to Bounded Contexts: DDD for Agentic Codebases

Nikita Golovko

Siemens

Nikita, AI Architect at Siemens, discusses challenges in JNTX system development, emphasizing domain-driven design for scalability and stability. Clear responsibilities, bounded contexts, and structured schemas are crucial for reducing complexity. The anti-corruption layer and context maps play vital roles in integration architecture. Key takeaways include the importance of contracts, firewalls, and CI gates for system development.

architecture

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

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.

web development

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.

developer experience devtools artificial intelligence best practices

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...

best practices

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

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

Every API is a Tool for Agents with Code Mode

Node Congress 2026

32 min

Every API is a Tool for Agents with Code Mode

Matt Carey

Cloudflare

The Talk introduces APIs, Codemode, and MCP, highlighting the role of APIs in empowering agents and AI's access to external resources. CloudFlare's evolution with MCP involves remote tool sharing and addressing challenges like large context windows. Challenges in Cloudflare's API tool access include progressive tool disclosure and splitting MCP servers. The discussion covers tool search, project management API creation, CodeMode concept, and self-documenting tools for secure tool execution. Proposed solutions include Code Mode, SDK generation, efficient control flow, token efficiency, and secure code execution. Key topics include dynamic worker loaders, Cloudflare API integration, Visitor Counter implementation, and exploring MCP server functionality.

artificial intelligence

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.

vue vue 3

Bringing the Power of AI into your Editor with GitHub Copilot

JSNation 2022

29 min

Bringing the Power of AI into your Editor with GitHub Copilot

Krzysztof Cieślak

GitHub Next, Co-creator of Copilot

GitHub Copilot is a software development productivity tool that suggests whole blocks of code based on the collective knowledge of software developers. It has been in technical preview for a year and is used by thousands of developers. Copilot's success has grown over time, and it now supports multiple editors and programming languages. The AI model used in Copilot, called Codex, operates on natural language and doesn't require special encoding. Copilot will become a paid product in the summer but will remain free for students and verified open source contributors.

devtools

Featured

Exploring Server Side Rendering

React Advanced 2025

179 min

Exploring Server Side Rendering

Featured Workshop

Krasimir Tsonev

Server-side rendering (SSR) is back in the spotlight – and React is evolving fast. In this workshop, we’ll go deep into the mechanics, performance trade-offs, and modern techniques of SSR with React.js. You'll start by building an SSR app from scratch – no frameworks, just raw renderToString and...

ssr react server components

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

Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor

React Summit 2025

46 min

Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor

Featured WorkshopFree

Mike Mikula

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

artificial intelligence

Never Worry About CORS Again

JSNation US 2025

28 min

Never Worry About CORS Again

Jarred Sumner

Creator of Bun.

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

js runtimes

The AI-Native Software Engineer

JSNation US 2025

35 min

The AI-Native Software Engineer

Addy Osmani

Engineering Leader Working on Google Chrome

Software engineering is evolving with AI and VIBE coding reshaping work, emphasizing collaboration and embracing AI. The future roadmap includes transitioning from augmented to AI-first and eventually AI-native developer experiences. AI integration in coding practices shapes a collaborative future, with tools evolving for startups and enterprises. AI tools aid in design, coding, and testing, offering varied assistance. Context relevance, spec-driven development, human review, and AI implementation challenges are key focus areas. AI boosts productivity but faces verification challenges, necessitating human oversight. The impact of AI on code reviews, talent development, and problem-solving evolution in coding practices is significant.

artificial intelligence

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

How to Build Full-Stack Apps Using Cursor

React Summit US 2025

65 min

How to Build Full-Stack Apps Using Cursor

Featured WorkshopFree

Shrey Shah

In this workshop, I’ll guide participants through a process for building full-stack applications using Cursor. We’ll cover setting up Cursor workflows, including rules, commands, and custom modes, to streamline development. We will use Cursor to draft PRDs, database schema, etc and a simple SOW....

fullstack

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

Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling

JSNation 2025

23 min

Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling

Top Content

Evan You

Vue.js & Vite Creator

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

vite

The State of the Web

JSNation 2025

32 min

The State of the Web

Sacha Greif

Devographics

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

frameworks web standards

Short takes

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.

web development soft skills

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

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

From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams

TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

9 min

From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams

Maxim Salnikov

Microsoft, Norway

Sharing insights on scaling AI coding assistance & adopting AI native dev tools. Discussing the need for a shift from viewing adoption as a tech problem to a change management challenge. Exploring a tactical framework with three key phases: onboard, adopt, succeed. Emphasizing the importance of onboarding developers, ensuring access to licenses, and setting clear policies to avoid 'shadow AI'. Highlighting the necessity of human infrastructure for successful AI dev tool implementation, including AI advocates, communities of practice, and executive sponsorship. Adoption strategies require a focus on interconnected metrics and all pillars simultaneously. Leadership checklist for post-conference actions involves measuring metrics, distinguishing between strategic and tactical points, and staying connected through platforms like WhatsApp and LinkedIn.

artificial intelligence

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

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

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

No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone

JSNation 2025

6 min

No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone

Marius Obert

Twilio

Marius from Twilio demonstrates building AI agents for phone calls, addressing latency issues by leveraging Twilio's infrastructure and third-party providers like 11 Labs and Google Cloud. Configuration includes WebSocket integration for message handling, static responses, and text-to-speech with 11 Labs. AI integration involves GPT4 or mini model for conversation history storage. A live demo showcases an AI voice assistant with instant responses and latency improvements.

artificial intelligence

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.

video

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

Latest

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

Breaking the Context Ceiling: Implementing Recursive Language Models with LangGraph and TypeScript

Node Congress 2026

21 min

Breaking the Context Ceiling: Implementing Recursive Language Models with LangGraph and TypeScript

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

Jamal Legaro discusses challenges with context windows in language models and recursive language models as a solution. Enhancing language model performance through metadata and summaries, orchestrator copies, and comparing scaffold and RLM approaches. Efficient management of language model operations with slicing, recursion, code execution, and context window handling. Graph-based workflow design in Langchain for agent connections and state management. Workflow management, document analysis, and using RLM for processing large documents. Detailed workflow setup, code structure with Langsmith, and node definitions with RLM benefits for cost considerations and production readiness.

node.js

Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop

AI Coding Summit 2026

49 min

Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop

WorkshopFree

Shifra Williams

Ready to bring conversational AI to life? In this hands-on workshop, we'll walk through deploying a real-time voice agent using Render's cloud platform. You'll work directly with LiveKit's voice agent template to create an interactive AI assistant that can listen, think, and respond naturally thr...

web apps

Production-like Testing in CI/CD with Testcontainers and Node.js

Node Congress 2026

17 min

Production-like Testing in CI/CD with Testcontainers and Node.js

John Nguyen

Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Cloud Engineering on AWS, Platform Engineering, and Fullstack Development

Welcome to a talk on testing Node.js apps in production using Test Container. Developing features, passing unit tests, and deploying can be smooth. Issues post-deployment due to integration gaps are common. Test Container library facilitates real-world integration testing by encapsulating services in Docker containers. Enhancing Docker Compose with Test Containers streamlines container management. Running tests with Redis Docker image and testing with Walkie Container demonstrate easy service swapping. Dynamic port allocation and image loading considerations for isolated infrastructure.

devops

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.

tooling

The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends

React Advanced 2025

29 min

The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends

Luca Mezzalira

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

In the Talk, various key points were discussed regarding micro-front-end architecture. These included challenges with micro-intents, common mistakes in system design, the differences between micro-intents and components, granularity in software architecture, optimizing micro-front-end architecture, efficient routing and deployment strategies, edge computing strategies, global state and data sharing optimization, managing data context, governance and fitness functions, architectural testing, adaptive growth, value of micro-frontends, repository selection, repo structures, and web component usage.

architecture

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

The Cake Is a Lie... And So Is Your Login’s Accessibility

React Advanced 2025

100 min

The Cake Is a Lie... And So Is Your Login’s Accessibility

Workshop

Ramona Schwering

Much like the promise of cake in Portal, login forms are everywhere in web development. While they may seem functional at first glance, many users with disabilities encounter a maze of invisible walls, from keyboard traps to inaccessible CAPTCHAs. It's as if GLaDOS designed these forms herself to...

accessibility

One Config File To Rule Them All

Node Congress 2026

19 min

One Config File To Rule Them All

Marco Ippolito

Member of Node.js Technical Steering Committee

Marco Ippolito discusses the complexities of configuring NodeJS features and the need for a centralized config file. He explains the challenges of managing multiple flags for different features and demonstrates how to enhance developer experience by using specific flags to address TypeScript integration and testing procedures. The text discusses the challenges of managing multiple configuration flags in NodeJS and introduces the concept of using node options as an alternative to passing numerous flags directly after the node command. Node options provide a solution for managing configuration flags in NodeJS, simplifying the command structure and enabling the use of .mfile for configuration settings. I sent a PR to introduce the experimental config file feature in Node.js, including two major flags: experimental default config file and experimental config file, allowing customization of configuration settings through JSON files with version-matched schemas for IDE support and auto-completion. V8 flags in Node.js provide customization options, with a priority hierarchy among CLI, Node options, and config files, excluding no-op flags. Node 25 introduces new namespaces for test configuration, watch settings, and permissions, simplifying the configuration process and enhancing developer experience. Node.js JSON configuration offers convenience with a built-in JSON parser and plans for more namespaces and explanatory text in the JSON schema to simplify configuration management.

tooling

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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React Advanced 2021

6 min

Full-stack & typesafe React (+Native) apps with tRPC.io

Top Content

Alexander Johansson

The creator of tRPC

Alex introduces tRPC, a toolkit for making end-to-end type-safe APIs easily, with auto-completion of API endpoints and inferred data from backend to frontend. tRPC works the same way in React Native and can be adopted incrementally. The example showcases backend communication with a database using queries and validators, with types inferred to the frontend and data retrieval done using Prisma ORM.

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How to Build CI/CD Pipelines for a Microservices Application

DevOps.js Conf 2021

33 min

How to Build CI/CD Pipelines for a Microservices Application

Top Content

Sasha Rosenbaum

Red Hat

This Talk discusses the benefits of microservices and containers for building CI-CD pipelines. It explains how container technology enables portability and scalability. The challenges of microservices include network communication and testing in isolation. The Talk introduces Tacton, a cloud-native CICD pipeline for Kubernetes, and highlights the use of GitOps and Argo CD. It also discusses the importance of maintaining referential integrity between microservices and the evolving role of operators in the DevOps world.

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React's Most Useful Types

React Day Berlin 2023

21 min

React's Most Useful Types

Top Content

Watch video: React's Most Useful Types

Matt Pocock

Independent

Today's Talk focuses on React's best types and JSX. It covers the types of JSX and React components, including React.fc and React.reactnode. The discussion also explores JSX intrinsic elements and react.component props, highlighting their differences and use cases. The Talk concludes with insights on using React.componentType and passing components, as well as utilizing the react.element ref type for external libraries like React-Select.

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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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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

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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.

performance

React, TypeScript, and TDD

React Advanced 2021

174 min

React, TypeScript, and TDD

Top Content

Featured Workshop

Paul Everitt

ReactJS is wildly popular and thus wildly supported. TypeScript is increasingly popular, and thus increasingly supported.

The two together? Not as much. Given that they both change quickly, it's hard to find accurate learning materials.

React+TypeScript, with JetBrains IDEs?...

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Composition vs Configuration: How to Build Flexible, Resilient and Future-proof Components

React Summit 2022

17 min

Composition vs Configuration: How to Build Flexible, Resilient and Future-proof Components

Top Content

Thomas Findlay

Findlay Web Tech

Today's Talk discusses building flexible, resilient, and future-proof React components using composition and configuration approaches. The composition approach allows for flexibility without excessive conditional logic by using multiple components and passing props. The context API can be used for variant styling, allowing for appropriate styling and class specification. Adding variants and icons is made easy by consuming the variant context. The composition and configuration approaches can be combined for the best of both worlds.

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Everything Beyond State Management in Stores with Pinia

Vue.js London Live 2021

34 min

Everything Beyond State Management in Stores with Pinia

Top Content

Eduardo San Martin Morote

Vue.js Core Team

State management is not limited to complex applications and transitioning to a store offers significant benefits. Pinia is a centralized state management solution compatible with Vue 2 and Vue 3, providing advanced devtools support and extensibility with plugins. The core API of Pinia is similar to Vuex, but with a less verbose version of stores and powerful plugins. Pinia allows for easy state inspection, error handling, and testing. It is recommended to create one file per store for better organization and Pinia offers a more efficient performance compared to V-rex.

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Thinking in React Query

React Summit 2023

22 min

Thinking in React Query

Top Content

Watch video: Thinking in React Query

Dominik Dorfmeister

React-Query maintainer

React Query is not a data fetching library, but an Asian state manager. It helps keep data up to date and manage agent life cycles efficiently. React Query provides fine-grained subscriptions and allows for adjusting stale time to control data fetching behavior. Defining stale time and managing dependencies are important aspects of working with React Query. Using the URL as a state manager and Zustand for managing filters in React Query can be powerful.

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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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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

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

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

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

Suspenseful Component Composition

React Summit US 2025

12 min

Suspenseful Component Composition

Simeon Griggs

Sanity

Simeon Griggs discusses Suspenseful Component Composition, the use of fallback props, and the basics of suspense in React applications with a demo showcasing data fetching and layout shifting. Exploring issues with data fetching and suspense boundaries. Addressing the challenges of using suspense boundaries and data fetching for individual rows in React applications. Creating consistent fallback elements for smooth loading experiences in tables by aligning sizes and optimizing data fetching placement. Optimizing data fetching placement for smoother loading experiences. Consider exporting suspense boundary to enhance code cleanliness and be defensive against data fetching errors. Use error boundaries to handle errors in suspenseful data fetching components for a smoother user experience.

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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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