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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.

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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...

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...

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What is Redux Toolkit and how does it improve Redux usage?

Redux Toolkit is an official, opinionated, batteries-included toolset for efficient Redux development. It simplifies the process of setting up a Redux store, writing reducers, and includes RTK Query for data fetching, effectively solving many common issues and reducing boilerplate code.

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.

Who is Alex Russell?

Alex Russell is a product manager and engineer who previously worked on the Chrome team at Google and on TC39, focusing on JavaScript frameworks and libraries.

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Deep Dive: Growing to Tech Lead

Growing to Tech Lead

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

  • Talk: Pocket Guide to Seniority
  • Talk: Why Engineers Must Become Multipliers in the AI-Era
  • Talk: Walking the Netflix Paved Road (Bumps Included): Web Framework, Hawkins Design System
  • Talk: Transforming Your Tech Interviews in the AI Agent Age
  • Talk: 5 Tough Conversations Managers Need to Have
... and 14 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: AI-Powered Code Review
  • 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: DevOps for Front-end Developers: From Local Code to Production by Docker Captain
  • Workshop: Building Fullstack Apps With Cursor
... and 21 more talks and workshops
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A Leak in the Shell – How Refactoring Autocomplete Broke Us and How We Fixed It
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
26 min
A Leak in the Shell – How Refactoring Autocomplete Broke Us and How We Fixed It
The speaker presents a project to enhance autocomplete in a database CLI using TypeScript, discusses challenges with memory errors in testing, delves into Node.js memory management, explores system contexts and heap snapshots, examines JavaScript memory retention, evaluates the impact of context and eval on memory, uncovers Node.js core bugs and memory leak testing complexities, highlights the use of HeapSnapshots for memory leak detection, emphasizes the importance of application understanding in debugging, and stresses the significance of testing procedures and managing separate heaps.
Replacing Form Libraries With Native Web APIs
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
17 min
Replacing Form Libraries With Native Web APIs
Jamin discusses the shift from using form libraries to native web APIs in React development, emphasizing the benefits of exploring web-native APIs before relying on libraries. The talk covers topics such as Constraint Validation API, React 19 form actions, and CSS pseudo-classes for form building without libraries. It highlights real-time validation, simplified form submission, and custom error handling in React forms. The importance of customizing error messages, setting up custom error handling, and optimizing form performance are also addressed, along with challenges and recommendations for utilizing web native APIs in form development.
Creating My First Open Source Vue 3 Library
Vue.js London 2023Vue.js London 2023
27 min
Creating My First Open Source Vue 3 Library
Let's talk about Vue 3 and creating your first open source library. We'll discuss design choices, a personal example of creating a Vue 3 open source library, community and open source, lessons learned, and key takeaways for creating an open source project. We'll also cover building a Vue 3 library, the Authenticator project and its requirements, code sharing and best practices, using Xstate for state management, Vue 3 best practices, testing strategies, open sourcing and community feedback, documentation driven development, challenges and improvements, and the roadmap for the future.
Chunking
Web Engineering Summit 2026Web Engineering Summit 2026
28 min
Chunking
Tobias Koppers from Vercel explains the process of chunking in bundlers and its impact on module organization and loading efficiency. Optimization strategies involve analyzing metrics, chunk groups, request counts, and long-term caching for better performance. Managing trade-offs in chunking with long-term caching, correctness, and CSS order considerations is crucial. Challenges include implicit CSS dependencies, overshipping, and balancing CSS ordering for future optimizations. Compile time complexities and future optimization challenges highlight the evolving nature of chunking strategies.
The UI That Builds Itself: Exploring the Generative Front-End
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
28 min
The UI That Builds Itself: Exploring the Generative Front-End
Kiko explores the concept of Dynamic User Interfaces generated by AI based on user prompts and challenges traditional UI generation by focusing on user needs. The implementation involves structuring dynamic UI with LLM calls and enhancing interaction through forms and client state embedding. The talk covers implementing dynamic UI features, utilizing a custom design system, enabling dynamic UI generation by LLM, and discussing use cases and transitions to dynamic UI. It also addresses testing challenges, ensuring user experience through context-based data, and the importance of building reliable AI systems to avoid model hallucination.
What RSCs Can Do in Next.js Today
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
36 min
What RSCs Can Do in Next.js Today
Aurora discusses the journey of React Server Components in Next.js, emphasizing the importance of composability and scalability. The shift to server-side data fetching with enhanced composability and declarative nature is explored. The significance of self-contained components for fast server-side data fetching and improved user experience is highlighted. NextGIS app router is discussed for enhanced performance and optimized data caching. Version 16 introduces cache components for optimized data caching and instant navigations. Improvement in user experience with Next 16.3 through app shells, partial prefetching, and instant insights is emphasized. The talk also covers new components and features for server-side rendering, optimizing loading speed, animations, and playlist integration in Next.js.
Conquering React Concurrency
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
25 min
Conquering React Concurrency
The talk at React Summit 2026 by Ariel covers the importance of React concurrency in improving user experience. It delves into the concepts of concurrency, contrasting it with parallelism, and emphasizes the historical relevance of efficient task handling, like the McDonald's kitchen design in 1942. Operating systems use round-robin scheduling for fair process execution. React 18 addresses user impatience and rendering challenges through concurrency. The evolution of React's rendering process from stack reconciliation to fiber reconciliation is highlighted, emphasizing the role of Suspense in managing work prioritization and background rendering efficiently.
Temporal: Modern Dates and Times in JavaScript
JSNation US 2024JSNation US 2024
22 min
Temporal: Modern Dates and Times in JavaScript
I'll speak today about the Temporal proposal, which adds modern date and time handling to JavaScript. Temporal is an API that'll be available in browsers soon and will add a built-in library for dates and times, avoiding the need for external libraries like Moment. It offers strong typing with different types for different data, such as calendar dates with or without time. Temporal objects are immutable and designed to work with JavaScript's internationalization facilities. It addresses deficiencies in the global Date object and introduces types like instant and plain types for accurate representation of time and dates across time zones. With the old Date, representing a date without a time can be problematic, especially in time zones where midnight is skipped due to daylight saving time. Temporal introduces types like PlainDate, PlainTime, PlainYearMonth, PlainMonthDay, and ZonedDateTime to accurately represent different scenarios. Additionally, there is a type called Duration for arithmetic operations and unit conversion. Now that I've introduced you to the cast of characters in Temporal, it's time to show how to accomplish a programming task. We'll start with an easy task: getting the current time as a timestamp in milliseconds using the instant type. To convert between Temporal types, you can either drop or add information. The toZonedDateTime method is used for conversion and requires adding a time zone and a time. Although Temporal objects are immutable, you can create new objects with replaced components using the with method. Migrating from the old Date object to Temporal offers a more reliable solution and avoids potential bugs. Check out the documentation for more details and enjoy using Temporal in your codebase!
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
26 min
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
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Speaker delves into global state management in React, mentioning Redux and alternatives like React context. Creating a global state manager in under 50 lines of code with React context, highlighting challenges with performance and React specificity. Building a custom hook named user store for state management, implementing state and API for store, handling partial state updates efficiently. Managing listeners for state changes, setting up custom hooks and selectors, and subscribing to external stores. Demonstrating optimization in state management and preventing unnecessary button re-renders. Discussion on Redux, Signals, debugging, and various global state management choices like Zestand and Redux toolkit.
Making an Emulator in JavaScript?
React Day Berlin 2024React Day Berlin 2024
29 min
Making an Emulator in JavaScript?
Hello, everyone. Thank you for being here instead of the other talk. Emulation is when something pretends to be something else, like a computer pretending to be a PlayStation 1. There are two types of emulation: hardware emulation and software emulation. Software emulation is when the software mimics the behavior of a console. JavaScript is not the ideal language for emulation, but it can still be used. The speaker built an emulator for Chip 8, a simple console from the 70s, as a fun project. The emulator focuses on the screen and utilizes Canvas. The Chip 8 screen is small, measuring 64 by 32, and is monochrome. The CPU and memory are important components in emulation, and understanding hexadecimal notation and bitwise operators is crucial. The speaker explains the use of hexadecimal notation and bitwise operators in manipulating bytes. Creating a switch statement for instructions is an important step in the emulator development. The legality of emulation is discussed, along with advice on not providing ROMs or proprietary BIOS. Emulation projects can be complex, and reverse engineering consoles is mentioned. The speaker highlights the performance of JavaScript in emulating consoles. They also mention their availability for further questions and provide information on how to follow their work.
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How To Get The Most Out Of the Cloud As A Front-End Developer
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
How To Get The Most Out Of the Cloud As A Front-End Developer
Front-end developers benefit from cloud services like AWS S3 and Lambda. AWS offers services like Cognito for identity management and Bedrock AI models. AWS Amplify provides Hosting and Cloud Development Kit for efficient development. The Cloud Development Kit is recommended for TypeScript deployment. AWS Amplify connects front-end to AWS services and SDK for back-end. QR code feedback is available for the talk.
Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
8 min
Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill
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.
Debugging Performance With AI
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
6 min
Debugging Performance With AI
The talk explores using AI to address challenges in rendering performance optimization, highlighting the potential of tools like Chrome developer tools MCP. Leveraging AI with these tools can streamline the process and flatten the learning curve for developers. The approach of isolating performance issues through commit analysis, including systematic testing and synthetic stress tests, is emphasized as a practical method to identify and resolve rendering performance issues effectively.
Deploy Your AI Code in Minutes
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
7 min
Deploy Your AI Code in Minutes
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.
Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
6 min
Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents
Sam Kmezverk's talk covers the evolving tech landscape, emphasizing key principles for agents' implementation in tasks and decision-making processes. Addressing challenges in agent orchestration, debugging system issues, and cultivating user trust are crucial for successful interface development.
Garbage Collection Between V8, cppgc (Oilpan), and Native Runtimes
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
9 min
Garbage Collection Between V8, cppgc (Oilpan), and Native Runtimes
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.
I Did Everything Wrong So You Don't Have To
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
6 min
I Did Everything Wrong So You Don't Have To
Angel from ImageKit demonstrates the use of MCPs to improve image and video performance on React websites. The Chrome Developer Tools MCP helps identify and address performance issues by analyzing image loading speeds. MCPs automate issue resolution on websites, leveraging Chrome developer tools for analysis and Image Kit for optimizing images efficiently.
Ensuring Quality with AI
TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
7 min
Ensuring Quality with AI
Richard Rodenkemper, senior software engineer at Sentry, discusses ensuring quality with AI. GitHub data shows exponential growth in coding. Concerns arise about the reliability of coding agents versus human engineers. Impact of AI and Cloud on code production and app quality is questioned. Challenges in code reliability despite increased production are highlighted. AI as a quality tool in software development. Importance of reliability for product success highlighted. AI's strengths in handling data and searching code base discussed. Examples of AI usage in code reviews and quality assurance at Sentry shared. AI efficiency in endpoint deprecation and system updates highlighted. AI's assistance in migrating design systems and reducing notifications using Cloud Code emphasized.
Organic Leadership in the Age of AI: Why human Touch Becomes More Valuable Than Ever
TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
8 min
Organic Leadership in the Age of AI: Why human Touch Becomes More Valuable Than Ever
Reflecting on the integration of AI in software development and the implications for leadership and decision-making. AI integration in leadership: embracing context, judgment, and accountability. Principles: Context before output, Intent before optimization, Awareness before efficiency, Accountability before automation. Leadership as an ecosystem with roots, stem, and fruit; AI's role in each part. Using AI at different levels of leadership: fruit, stem, and roots. Decision-making needs context. Leadership bridges information and context gaps. AI for efficiency but human touch for depth and understanding.
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
7 min
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
We're discussing spec-driven development and the innovative AI IDE, QIRO, that supports this approach. QIRO focuses on structured specifications before coding, aiding developers in creating designs. The QIRO mascot, a playful ghost, symbolizes the essence of spec-driven development. Eric Hanchett discusses QIRO, emphasizing its spec-driven development feature integrated into the IDE. QIRO aids in in-depth feature planning, resembling a structured requirements approach. Coding assistants benefit from detailed examples for efficient development. Exploring Manual Coding Assistance: Creating user requirements, building design documents, and task lists manually. Example of using spec mode in a coding assistant to break down requirements, create designs, and implement features.
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This Component Could Have Been A Class
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
33 min
This Component Could Have Been A Class
Scott introduces React 3 Fiber, emphasizing its uniqueness and ease of use. Discussing the benefits of exploring web APIs beyond the React bubble for enhanced user experience. Exploring CSS properties for animations and scroll snap API for touch support. Leveraging browser capabilities for innovative user experiences. Highlighting advanced CSS techniques and new HTML features for UI design. AI integration in code efficiency and component building. Strategies for AI-written CSS and optimizing AI tools. Firefox's API prioritization and positive trends. Tailwind's role in modern CSS development and impact on React developers.
400 Tech Leads. Same Problems. None of Them Technical
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
17 min
400 Tech Leads. Same Problems. None of Them Technical
Anri Fisher, with over 12 years in tech, focuses on training tech leads and addressing time management challenges. Tech leads shift to a supportive role in empowering team members in growth discussions and one-on-one meetings. Overcoming feedback and delegation struggles through clear communication and expectations is crucial for effective leadership. Strategies for proper delegation include setting clear expectations, agreeing on timelines, and defining processes. Ensuring team alignment, shared timelines, and clear ownership are key for project success in tech teams.
Your React App Doesn't Need All That JavaScript
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
27 min
Your React App Doesn't Need All That JavaScript
Using excessive JavaScript in React apps leads to unnecessary complexity, especially for simple tasks like dark mode toggling. Leveraging CSS for dark theme implementation in React can simplify architecture and avoid overengineering. Considering React's role in handling basic tasks like user preferences and theme switching. Exploring the efficiency of CSS in React components for theme switching and parent styling, showcasing simplicity and effectiveness. Highlighting the performance impact of JavaScript loading on page loading speed in slow internet scenarios. Emphasizing the benefits of semantic HTML for accessibility and accordion features. Discussing the importance of staying updated in web development and utilizing popular patterns. Exploring modal implementation simplicity and the ease of using popover for modals and scroll animations. Comparing JavaScript and CSS for scroll animations efficiency and main thread impact on scroll rendering. Showcasing innovative CSS features like carousel implementation, scroll buttons, and customizable select elements for web development.
Framework Native Rendering Without Code Duplication?
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
6 min
Framework Native Rendering Without Code Duplication?
Talking about an experiment in Agigrid to render to multiple frameworks without duplicating code. Exploring MVC approach for structuring code base and handling view complexity efficiently. Exploring new ways to structure view logic and render components efficiently across frameworks within Agic Grid experiment.
React Performance Patterns That Break Down in Long-Running Production Apps
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
20 min
React Performance Patterns That Break Down in Long-Running Production Apps
Himanshu discusses React performance patterns affecting long-running production apps, including memory leaks, event listener accumulation, state value consistency, and dependency array misuse. The talk highlights the risks of race conditions in API calls, uncanceled requests leading to data discrepancies, and the significance of abort controllers for improving app stability and addressing circular dependencies.
Software Craftless: Writing Code That Would Make a Goat Vomit
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
15 min
Software Craftless: Writing Code That Would Make a Goat Vomit
Introducing Software Craftless with Cesar Alberca, exploring the downsides of best practices, emphasizing clear naming conventions, discussing code complexity optimization, the evolution of frontend development trends, architectural diagrams importance, testing tips, AI-driven development, creative AI utilization, and gratitude towards AI interactions.
Streaming Systems, Hidden Risks, And AI-driven Consequences
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
27 min
Streaming Systems, Hidden Risks, And AI-driven Consequences
The Talk covers various aspects of deception and security in AI and data systems. It discusses the historical use of misinformation during World War II to influence decision-making. AI model poisoning through malicious data input and the challenges of ensuring data integrity in real-time pipelines are highlighted. The importance of peripheral information attacks, data contracts, stream governance, and anomaly detection in maintaining AI system security is emphasized. Strategies for protecting data integrity, detecting anomalies, and choosing appropriate AI models are also discussed.
Speed, Quality, and AI: You Can't Have It All (Or Can You?)
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
28 min
Speed, Quality, and AI: You Can't Have It All (Or Can You?)
Gawe discusses React frameworks, tools, and agents, emphasizing speed and collaboration in building Z, a Rust-based code editor. Z differentiates itself with fast performance, real-time collaboration, and support for diverse platforms. The talk covers new frontend tools, code completion, and linting, highlighting Z's features for React developers. Z offers an open platform, custom theme creation, and deep integration with agents for improved workflows. The founders' journey from Adam to Rust showcases Zed's commitment to performance, open-source UI, and support features like MCP servers and global skill recognition.
Skill Design for LLM Agents
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
24 min
Skill Design for LLM Agents
Minko Getschev, AI lead at Google, shares insights on building effective agent skills, including architecture, skill creation best practices, and evaluation methods. Agent decision-making, planning, and hybrid architectures are explored, with a focus on the React loop for tool utilization. Context expansion and management, utilizing tools like MCP and CLIs, enhance agent power. The discussion includes comparisons between MCP and CLIs in agent systems, emphasizing context handling and debugging. Agent skills are structured as procedural instructions, with an open standard focused on tasks and workflow logic. Best practices for skill workflow involve avoiding redundancy, optimizing front matter, and focusing on predictable execution. Utilization and management of agent skills are crucial for performance optimization. Continuous skill evaluation, testing, and improvement are highlighted, with SkillGrade for evaluating agent skills. Skill workflow execution analysis involves identifying failures, log analysis, and rerunning workflows for successful execution.
Panel Discussion: Fullstack is Eating Frontend — Should FE Engineers Adapt?
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
35 min
Panel Discussion: Fullstack is Eating Frontend — Should FE Engineers Adapt?
Kathryn Grayson Nanz
Kevin Ball
Scott Tolinski
Sam Selikoff
Alem Tuzlak
Ryan Skinner
6 authors
Full stack vs. frontend specialization debate. Importance of understanding the full system for developers. Analogy of developers being like doctors knowing the whole system but specializing in certain areas. Specialization in the age of AI. Importance of specialists in the era of quick generalization with AI. The value of being a frontend developer post-AI, emphasizing the importance of specialization and knowing how to guide AI in specific areas. Specialization in Frontend Development and the Evolution of Frameworks. Importance of specialized frontend development skills in the modern age. The shift towards empowering app developers to handle database setup and configuration. The evolution of frontend frameworks to abstract complex tasks and empower developers to manage caching and CDNs. AI reliance on good documentation for effective performance. The importance of human guidance and interaction in maximizing AI capabilities across development specialties. AI as a complementary tool, not a substitute. Understanding the importance of skill set integration with AI technologies for effective outcomes. Frontend engineers must embrace continuous learning and understanding AI's first principles. Embracing curiosity and adapting to rapid technological changes for professional growth and development. Discovering the limitations of specific knowledge transfer and the importance of fundamental skills over tool-specific expertise. Embracing a patient approach to adopting new technologies and focusing on learning essential skills for AI without chasing every new tool or trend. Exploration of using agents for self-learning workflows, preparing for questions through Q&A sessions, and elevating thinking by utilizing tools effectively. Importance of motivated learning, questioning, and utilizing agents effectively in the learning process, recognizing significant technological advancements, and the value of independent learning over solely relying on agents.
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Taming the Flicker: Firebase Patterns for React Server Components
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
7 min
Taming the Flicker: Firebase Patterns for React Server Components
Rosario from Firebase highlights challenges of client-side development and Firebase solutions like server app for authentication. Firestore's offline cache and real-time updates improve user experience. Updating UI to prevent authentication flickers and optimizing real-time components with onSnapshotResume and feature flagging. Introducing Firebase App Hosting and SQL Connect for server-side rendering and SQL database integration, with upcoming Crashlytics for web.
Gotta Go Fast: React at 60 FPS
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
16 min
Gotta Go Fast: React at 60 FPS
Rachel Kaufman discusses animating in React without libraries for high performance. Client project for the International Spy Museum involved facial recognition education using React. React's unconventional use for complex UI animation in museum exhibits. Optimizing animation performance in React with request animation frame and using canvas for drawing. Managing continuous animations in React for smooth transitions. Leveraging canvas and refs for drawing and direct DOM access in React. Implementing complex animations with refs and request animation frame in React. Using memo and request animation frame for preventing unnecessary re-renders. Automating React debugging with Chrome DevTools and performance analysis with console.time.
Modernizing Your React App: Compiler, useEffectEvent, Activity & Friends
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
27 min
Modernizing Your React App: Compiler, useEffectEvent, Activity & Friends
Victor shares experiences inheriting codebase and explains the importance of React's updates for code cleanliness. Agenda includes React evolution, API usage, modernization playbook, and insightful discussions. React 19 impact on React's evolution towards a declarative model for state management and form handling. React's shift towards a declarative model, impacting form handling and state management with React 19 updates, including new APIs and the importance of the React compiler for efficient development. Using React compiler for efficient development and code simplification. Measuring code base changes with memorization hooks identification. Introducing user fact event API for dependency-free code. Handling state persistence challenges with the Activity API for seamless user experiences and resource management. Utilizing the Activity API for precise state management and resource optimization in React Native applications. Exploring powerful user cases: tabs example, pre-rendering, and back navigation benefits with the Activity API. Exploring the value of instant experiences with back navigation and code optimization through API adoption. Measuring success, avoiding AI dependence, and understanding the importance of learning for effective development. Addressing challenges post-AI era, emphasizing responsibility in learning, maintaining control, and ensuring security. Practical steps include using React compiler, auditing code for Activity API integration, and optimizing data flow for enhanced user experience.
Conquering React Concurrency
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
25 min
Conquering React Concurrency
The talk at React Summit 2026 by Ariel covers the importance of React concurrency in improving user experience. It delves into the concepts of concurrency, contrasting it with parallelism, and emphasizes the historical relevance of efficient task handling, like the McDonald's kitchen design in 1942. Operating systems use round-robin scheduling for fair process execution. React 18 addresses user impatience and rendering challenges through concurrency. The evolution of React's rendering process from stack reconciliation to fiber reconciliation is highlighted, emphasizing the role of Suspense in managing work prioritization and background rendering efficiently.
Replacing Form Libraries With Native Web APIs
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
17 min
Replacing Form Libraries With Native Web APIs
Jamin discusses the shift from using form libraries to native web APIs in React development, emphasizing the benefits of exploring web-native APIs before relying on libraries. The talk covers topics such as Constraint Validation API, React 19 form actions, and CSS pseudo-classes for form building without libraries. It highlights real-time validation, simplified form submission, and custom error handling in React forms. The importance of customizing error messages, setting up custom error handling, and optimizing form performance are also addressed, along with challenges and recommendations for utilizing web native APIs in form development.
React Beyond the DOM
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
27 min
React Beyond the DOM
Eric Rasmussen discusses React beyond the DOM, React PDF, Ink tools, and rendering to Markdown. The overview includes React Reconciler, host configuration, state management with real-world entities like light bulbs, and building a traffic light state machine visually. The talk also covers securing third-party JavaScript, expanding React rendering possibilities, advanced tooling for state machines, controlling light bulbs via renderer callbacks, server functions for fetch in the cloud, and potential robot programming with React.
React Bits: The Art of Standout UI
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
21 min
React Bits: The Art of Standout UI
David, creator of React Bits, shares insights on designing standout UI components, emphasizing the importance of distinct interfaces without being noisy. ReactVids focuses on creating reusable visual moments for developers, ensuring standout UI accessibility. Community-driven evolution of React Bits prioritizes customization, usability, and key UI qualities. Magic Rings exemplifies the balance and purpose needed in UI components. The versatility of Magic Rings showcases the importance of a flexible visual system. Exploring shaders enhances the control and visual richness of Magic Rings. Leveraging shader uniforms enables dynamic visual effects in React components. Real creative controls in component design emphasize meaningful customization. Strategic props play a crucial role in reusable creative component development. The philosophy of React Bits focuses on easy adoption, customization, and providing a strong starting point for distinct interfaces. ReactVids aims to create memorable, intentional, and unique user moments in UI design.
Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
125 min
Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router
Workshop
Aurora Scharff
Aurora Scharff
In this workshop, we will explore React's latest features: Server Components, Server Functions, and forms. Discover how to optimize server-side rendering, build smooth user experiences with React Suspense and Transitions, and enhance application interactivity with Server Functions and new React 1...
Mess to Modern: Refactoring a React Nightmare
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
18 min
Mess to Modern: Refactoring a React Nightmare
Have you ever faced complex and messy React codebases? Caleb Garner shares a five-step playbook to transform a 900-line React component. Addressing systematic modularity and organization structure for better code management. Enhancing codebase structure by extracting business logic for testability and maintainability. Streamlining state and data management for robust codebases. Establishing predictable data handling with userReducer for structured state management. Optimizing component modularity for reusability and efficient data management. Emphasizing caller-controlled layout and streamlined development experience through five key principles.
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
23 min
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler
Akash Hamilwasia presenting at React Summit 2025, shares React Compiler learnings and works on an AI audio platform. Memoization in React helps optimize UI performance by preventing unnecessary re-renders. React Compiler offers automatic memoization through static code analysis. React rules emphasize purity and immutability. The compiler analyzes and memoizes code changes for optimization. React Compiler package usage improves performance through code analysis. Understanding reactivity issues is crucial for handling React state. Compiler optimization requires correct dependency arrays and usage of external libraries. Measure React Compiler impact using React Profiler for optimization and real user impact analysis.
Free workshops
Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
108 min
Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers
WorkshopFree
Jo Franchetti
Jo Franchetti
LLMs are powerful but unpredictable and most tutorials skip the part where you actually have to deal with that in production code. This workshop teaches you to use generative AI as an engineering tool: how to structure prompts around schemas, validate and repair non-deterministic output, and run...
Pear: Releasing Production P2P Apps
Web Engineering Summit 2026Web Engineering Summit 2026
54 min
Pear: Releasing Production P2P Apps
WorkshopFree
David Mark Clements
Mikkel Malmberg
2 authors
All it takes is a module and a CLI tool to build and deploy production peer-to-peer applications. In this workshop:Build a realtime peer-to-peer applicationConnect with others on your own application, completely peer-to-peer.Understand how to deploy, including produc...
No Servers, No Cloud, No Masters: Make P2P Apps with Pear
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
66 min
No Servers, No Cloud, No Masters: Make P2P Apps with Pear
WorkshopFree
David Mark Clements
Mikkel Malmberg
2 authors
All it takes is a module and a CLI tool to build and deploy production peer-to-peer applications.In this workshop:Convert an existing React application so that it no longer needs a server to deployPrepare the application and setup deployment flow for production release...
Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
73 min
Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers
WorkshopFree
Confidence Okoghenun
Confidence Okoghenun
In this hands on workshop participants will learn how to create a production‑ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on Cloudflare Workers. The session covers defining tool endpoints, integrating external APIs, persisting state with KV storage, and globally deploying the server so AI assistants...
Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
34 min
Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models
WorkshopFree
Paige Bailey
Paige Bailey
In this hands-on session, we'll dive straight into the practical mechanics of working with Google DeepMind’s latest research and models. We'll explore Google AI Studio, Antigravity, and the Gemini APIs, focusing on how to seamlessly integrate these capabilities into your own projects. If you're l...
"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
53 min
"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network
WorkshopFree
Legare Kerrison
Sawyer Bowerman
2 authors
Join us for an interactive workshop where you'll train your first neural network using the classic MNIST handwritten digit dataset. In this hands-on session, participants will use OpenShift AI 3.x Workbenches to build and train a PyTorch model that recognizes handwritten digits from images.
Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
52 min
Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding
WorkshopFree
Gil Friedman
Gil Friedman
Modern AI coding agents don’t just autocomplete. They execute, connect, and automate. With the wrong settings, they can access more of your system than you intended. In this session, I’ll demonstrate how agent autonomy, MCP integrations, and Skills can lead to unexpected security risks. Through e...
Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
49 min
Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop
WorkshopFree
Shifra Williams
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...
Build Your Dream Extensions with AI
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
87 min
Build Your Dream Extensions with AI
WorkshopFree
Brittany Joiner
Brittany Joiner
In this interactive workshop, you’ll build a working internal browser extension you and your team can use to share context across apps you use daily. We’ll start with a practical, real-world example: a web clipper that you’ll customize to send content from GitHub to your team’s communication tool...
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
76 min
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
WorkshopFree
Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
This workshop introduces Sandboxes as a general computing primitive and uses Cloudflare Sandboxes as the concrete implementation. Participants explore common, real-world use cases for sandboxed execution and learn how to reason about when and why sandboxes are the right tool.

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