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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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Who is Dominik and what does he do?

Dominik is a software engineer from Vienna, working as a front-end tech leader at Verity. He is also known for maintaining the open-source library React Query, now called PanStack React Query.

What are some trade-offs of using Redux?

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

Why was Redux created?

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

What is the main goal of Transformers JS?

The main goal of Transformers JS is to bring state-of-the-art pre-trained models directly to the web and browsers, allowing easy integration of machine learning functionality into web applications.
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: 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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Debugging JS
React Summit 2023React Summit 2023
24 min
Debugging JS
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Debugging JavaScript is a crucial skill that is often overlooked in the industry. It is important to understand the problem, reproduce the issue, and identify the root cause. Having a variety of debugging tools and techniques, such as console methods and graphical debuggers, is beneficial. Replay is a time-traveling debugger for JavaScript that allows users to record and inspect bugs. It works with Redux, plain React, and even minified code with the help of source maps.
From Zero to Streaming: Implementing React Server Components Yourself
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
116 min
From Zero to Streaming: Implementing React Server Components Yourself
Workshop
Krasimir Tsonev
Krasimir Tsonev
Discover the power of Server Components in React without the need for a framework. In this workshop, we will explore how to build a server-side rendering solution using "only" vanilla JavaScript and Node.js. We'll dive into the core concepts of Server Components, including how to render component...
Don’t Make These Testing Mistakes
TestJS Summit - January, 2021TestJS Summit - January, 2021
27 min
Don’t Make These Testing Mistakes
The Talk discusses common mistakes in Cypress tests, such as accessing the file system directly instead of using the Cypress command, and the importance of writing effective Cypress tests for different scenarios. It also emphasizes the need for adding assertions during navigation and alternating commands and assertions. The Talk highlights the significance of documentation and examples in providing support and addresses the advantages of using the Cypress Node test runner. It concludes with tips on debugging, data tests, and testing user journeys and edge cases.
The Last Software Engineer
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
21 min
The Last Software Engineer
Kent C. Dodds introduces the concept of durable skills and the importance of physical movement. AI evolution involves fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and uncertainties. Reflecting on the future role of AI in work and the evolving technology landscape. Insights on product engineering emphasize judgment, hitting targets, and prioritizing target selection. The importance of user-centric product engineering, intentional decisions, and adapting skills in the agentic coding world are highlighted.
​How I use AI as a Technical Educator
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
31 min
​How I use AI as a Technical Educator
Starting with recent comments criticizing the stance on AI and coding, highlighting the divide between senior and junior developers' perspectives. Reflecting on the impact of AI on teaching code and content creation, transitioning to AI-driven teaching methods. Challenges in transitioning to AI-driven teaching focused on critical thinking over syntax. Discussion on scaling AI tools, Bloom's Taxonomy, and the shift to creation-focused development. Importance of critical thinking in software engineering and nurturing junior talents in the evolving industry. AI's role as a teaching tool, concerns about job replacement, and the need for continuous skill growth. The significance of maintaining critique ability in AI output evaluation.
JavaScript Haikus: My Adventures in Tiny Coding
JS GameDev Summit 2023JS GameDev Summit 2023
27 min
JavaScript Haikus: My Adventures in Tiny Coding
This Talk is about writing super tiny JavaScript programs, known as tiny code. It explores the concept of code golf and the use of a live editor for instant feedback. The Talk discusses various ways to share tiny code, including Twitter.net. It also covers creating graphics, games, and sound in a small space. The speaker highlights inspiring tweets and showcases examples of tiny code, including asemic writing. The future of tiny code includes new techniques, better browser support, and AI-assisted programming.
React Code Reviews in Open Source: Ensuring Quality and Collaboration
React Advanced 2023React Advanced 2023
6 min
React Code Reviews in Open Source: Ensuring Quality and Collaboration
Open Source promotes accessibility, inclusivity, collaboration, innovation, transparency, and trust. Code reviews are a collaborative process in software development, with challenges including language barriers, documentation changes, and review backlog. Best practices for effective code reviews include clear objectives, focusing on the code, and using code review tools. Linters are important for scanning code issues, and measuring success in code reviews can be done using key metrics. React Code Reviews are crucial for the success of open-source projects.
Debugging What React DevTools Can’t See
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
22 min
Debugging What React DevTools Can’t See
The speaker recounts debugging an e-commerce application, emphasizing the need for monitoring business logic. They discuss building custom DevTools for specific business logic debugging and explore limitations of React DevTools in handling complex scenarios. The importance of developing custom DevTools architecture, white-coded UI, efficient domain communication, and inspecting DevTools architecture is highlighted. Additionally, analyzing domain inspector functionality, maintaining React DevTools in a monorepo, and ensuring DevTool safety and utility through ongoing maintenance and user feedback are discussed.
Image Optimization - Quick Win for Improving Performance in Vue & Nuxt Apps
Vue.js London 2023Vue.js London 2023
31 min
Image Optimization - Quick Win for Improving Performance in Vue & Nuxt Apps
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Image optimization is crucial for website performance and user experience. Services like IPX and Cloudinary can help optimize images on the fly. Cloudinary offers additional functionalities and transformations for image management. Lazy loading and the lazy pattern can improve website performance by deferring image loading. Optimized images deliver a better user experience. Fallbacks can mitigate the impact of service failures.
Beyond Benchmarks: node.js, Deno, and Bun in Real Production
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
12 min
Beyond Benchmarks: node.js, Deno, and Bun in Real Production
Vinicius Neves emphasizes practical considerations over speed comparisons when choosing a JavaScript runtime. The discussion delves into debugging and observability differences among Node, Dino, and Bun at 3 a.m. Metrics, error tracking, deployment, and serverless capabilities are explored across these runtimes. Serverless deployment challenges and considerations, including CICD integration and deployment target relevance, are highlighted. Serverless cold start performance is compared, with Bun leading, followed by Dino and Node. The talk also emphasizes hiring considerations, NPM compatibility issues, permission models, and testing workloads before committing to a runtime.
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CLI, GUI, or Just Blind Trust? A Tour of Code Review Styles
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
6 min
CLI, GUI, or Just Blind Trust? A Tour of Code Review Styles
Introduction to traditional code review methods and challenges faced by developers. Challenges with code review process and the shift towards AI era and CLI-based reviews. Using IDEs for code review, agentic era support, and enhancing code view for human-agent collaboration. New CodeRabbit view for code analysis, free for open source projects, support for old school and agentic engineers.
From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
5 min
From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode
Seungho Park discusses the importance of spatial navigation for TV apps and the challenges of supporting remote, pointer, and touch inputs. Real examples are explored, including focus placement, restoring focus, and grouping elements for stable navigation. Challenges in TV app navigation such as key scrolling in grid lists and managing input mode transitions are highlighted. The talk also delves into handling input modes, designing for 5-way, pointer, and touch input, and addressing edge cases. Implementing the W3C spatial navigation standard, defining focus properties for container elements, and encouraging exploration of React UI spatial navigation support are key points.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
8 min
A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain
Brian Wipo, Developer Relations lead at the Algorand Foundation, discusses the relevance of blockchain in 2025 and its impact on developers. Algorand's high-performance blockchain addresses key issues faced by other platforms, enabling new markets and real-world applications like tokenized assets and supply chain traceability. In 2025, blockchain excels in disintermediating markets, tracking data integrity, and creating new markets such as fractional ownership of assets. Real businesses on Algorand include tokenized solar panels, real estate ownership, supply chain traceability, and more. Using a para wallet with a mastercard debit card, you can buy items at the store with stable coins. Algorand TypeScript 1.0 simplifies writing smart contracts on the chain in TypeScript. TypeScript developers can now integrate blockchain using a compiler that transforms code into Teal assembly language for blockchain execution.
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.
Optimizing the Path From Design to Production in Engineering Workflows
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
Optimizing the Path From Design to Production in Engineering Workflows
Akbar, developer advocate at Figma, highlights the importance of exploration, representation, and production in product development. Figma leverages design systems and AI tools for efficient transition from representation to production, optimizing expertise and automating non-critical tasks. Seamless integration between design elements and the app is achieved through tools like Code Connect and Copilot, fostering collaboration between design and code.
Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
6 min
Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture
Challenges in OAuth, importance of back end security for front end, and implementation details of OAuth flow between front end, back end, and authorization server. Detailed process of token handling, session management, and user data retrieval in OAuth implementation between front end, back end, and authorization server.
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From Figma to TV & Beyond: Scaling React UI with Design Tokens & MCP
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
17 min
From Figma to TV & Beyond: Scaling React UI with Design Tokens & MCP
Seungho Park discusses scaling React UI using design tokens and Figma to address UI consistency challenges at LG Electronics. Design tokens managed in Figma and synchronized across platforms using GitHub Actions. Automation of design token updates demonstrated with Figma Sync and GitHub Actions. Shared tokens enable app-wide theme consistency and streamline visual styling with CodeConnect. CodeConnect bridges Figma design to React code, transforming designs with AI and ensuring accurate mapping. Practical insights shared on implementing design tokens for scalable React UI development.
Building RSCs Framework on Rust: Architecture Decisions That Delivered 45x Performance
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
29 min
Building RSCs Framework on Rust: Architecture Decisions That Delivered 45x Performance
The talk discusses the performance boost achieved by replacing Node.js with Rust and V8 in React architecture. It emphasizes the benefits of server-side components for better performance and reduced bundle size. Challenges of server-side rendering and hydration are highlighted, along with lessons learned from Rust on correcting React architecture. The evolution of route strategies for improved performance, the efficiency of server performance with RARI, and the integration of caching and backend systems in Rari are also explored. Additionally, insights on enhancing RARI with custom Rust endpoints and potential performance improvements by rewriting Next.js in Rust are shared.
Ripple: the Good Parts of React, Svelte, and Solid
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
27 min
Ripple: the Good Parts of React, Svelte, and Solid
Eric Rasmussen discusses a new framework addressing current framework issues, focusing on React developers and the evolution of UI concepts. React's reactivity concept prioritizes safety and re-evaluation strategies. Fine-grained reactivity in React tracks dependencies for precise updates. Signals in Solid enable code reruns based on changes. Ripple introduces fine-grained reactivity, readable code, and supports a smooth syntax transition from React. Ripple's state management simplifies updates and effects handling. Ripple's design philosophy offers an alternative approach to React's limitations, emphasizing fine-grained value changes. Ripple stands out for SSR challenges, superior reactivity, and imperative syntax.
AI Reviews AI – Closing the Loop in Agentic Development
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
28 min
AI Reviews AI – Closing the Loop in Agentic Development
Daniel, a consultant from Germany, discusses AI-generated code and challenges in rapid code shipping. The Pharoes AI case study highlights code reviews and challenges in agile development. Incidence per pull request and code churn issues are discussed in software development. AI-assisted coding and quality gates are introduced. Developing with Angular and TypeScript emphasizes the importance of basics, AI sub-agents, and pull request review services. Utilizing hooks for deterministic code handling and enhancing code handling with various hooks are crucial. Transitioning to behavior-driven development, utilizing tools like PlayWrite and Jira integration, and evaluating code review strategies are key points. Optimizing code review practices, smart integration of AI and hooks, advanced code review models, ownership in code reviews, software metrics, and quality gates challenges are also covered.
Taste in Software Development
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
10 min
Taste in Software Development
Steven discusses the role of taste in software development and its implications for the future of software engineering. The focus is on Cognition's product Devon, an AI software engineer, augmenting the team's capabilities and achieving significant outcomes. Devon's extended responsibilities include testing, reviewing, and monitoring features, with a prediction of English becoming the primary source of truth in software engineering. The transition to English as the primary language for software development is envisioned, emphasizing stability, history-awareness, and spec-driven development.
A Brief History of Code Review (And What's Next)
Web Engineering Summit 2026Web Engineering Summit 2026
8 min
A Brief History of Code Review (And What's Next)
The speaker delves into the history of code review, highlighting the Fagan inspection process from the 1990s. Code review processes evolved from print-based reviews in the 1990s to collaborative online reviews via emails and diff tools in the 2000s. The modernization of code review processes includes the shift to pull requests with GitHub, challenges of increased PR reviews in the remote work era, and the role of AI in providing instant feedback on code quality. The future of AI-augmented code review envisions an asynchronous process with AI agents offering feedback through various channels, including CLI usage, and CodeRabbit's innovative approach to code review tools.
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.
What Claude Stats Tell Us About AI Coding Tools
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
25 min
What Claude Stats Tell Us About AI Coding Tools
Exploring AI engineering and agent-assisted development through Claude's Code on GitHub. Analysis of Cloud Code commits, repository scale, and language distribution. The impact of agents on coding in various languages like Python, TypeScript, Rust, Dart, and Zig, facilitating easier coding in traditionally more complex languages. The significance of stars on repositories in Cloud Code projects and the observation of growth patterns post-Christmas season. The impact of Christmas on exponential growth in commits per day, the current doubling time trend, and a focused analysis on the top 100 popular repositories in Cloud Code projects. Highlighting key differences in commits between AI and non-AI repositories, focusing on feature contributions, bug fixes, and UI changes. Exploring diverse use cases of Cloud Code, highlighting how Clickhouse utilizes extensive Cloud Code for optimization, CI testing, and infrastructure, fostering engineers' focus on more impactful tasks like feature development and bug fixes, along with the emerging trend of Cloud Skill repositories. The growing trend of active projects utilizing AI contributions, specifically Cloud Code's significant impact on real, critical software projects beyond AI-focused repositories. Exploring models and coding agents that self-identify like Cloud Code, particularly the aggressive nature of Cloud in generating code, as observed with GitHub Copilot and other models like Mistral. Projects adopting AI development observe an increase in GitHub issues due to code production, leading to functional issues. The popularity growth of Clickhouse may be linked to active use of Claude to accelerate development, not directly boosting popularity. Metrics tracking revealed exponential growth in the use of short codes, focusing on valuable contributions to critical code with continued usage.
React on the Edge
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
17 min
React on the Edge
Welcome to React on the Edge with Amir Sami from S&C Electric exploring React applications for diverse Edge devices beyond browsers. The discussion covers deploying React apps to various Edge devices, addressing challenges like network stability and resource limitations, optimizing bundle size with Preact, and using Brotli compression for efficient web asset compression on Edge devices.
Protecting Your Cookies from Hackers and Hungry Developers!
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
27 min
Protecting Your Cookies from Hackers and Hungry Developers!
Mohamad from ING Bank discusses cookie origins and functions, exploring storage, encryption, and security measures. The talk delves into enhancing security through attribute settings, value generation, and decoding manipulation. It also covers domain, path setup, expiry, XSS vulnerability prevention, and Same Site vs. Same Origin comparisons. Additionally, it touches on GitHub.io complexity, Same Site attribute effects, default values, Chrome settings, and managing cookie partitioning with the Secure flag.
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Real-World Hydration and Rendering Patterns in Modern React Apps
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
20 min
Real-World Hydration and Rendering Patterns in Modern React Apps
Ranjit Dandigam discusses real-world hydration and rendering patterns in modern React apps, exploring UI rendering phases, optimization strategies, and the importance of server-client boundaries. Implementing a streaming strategy in React apps enhances loading efficiency and user experience. Managing hydration mismatches and implementing safe time patterns are crucial for stable rendering. Demonstrations of Next.js rendering variations highlight different approaches to rendering content. Design principles for React app rendering emphasize the significance of streaming with suspense and honesty in rendering decisions.
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.
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.
Giving AI Agents Hands: Mobile Feedback Loops with Agent Device
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
26 min
Giving AI Agents Hands: Mobile Feedback Loops with Agent Device
The speaker discusses the evolution of AI agent workflow in mobile development, emphasizing the importance of feedback loops and verification. They highlight the challenges of human involvement as agents dominate code production. Agent Device simplifies mobile automation by focusing on accessibility trees and text-based actions. The tool enhances app verification, debugging capabilities, and provides advanced features like network issue identification. Agent Device is versatile for CI setup, feedback loops, and visual regression detection. It supports real devices and offers capabilities for migrations and automation. Additionally, the speaker compares flakiness and TV platform support, showcasing performance improvements over traditional tools.
Scaling React: What Actually Matters
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
30 min
Scaling React: What Actually Matters
Tathagath discusses the misconception of React's role in app slowness and emphasizes architecture over React performance. Context impact on app rendering is explored, along with React compiler enhancements. Global state misuse and state management in React are addressed. Performance pitfalls, optimizing app performance, and the impact of third-party scripts on React are discussed. Strategic management of third-party scripts and common mistakes in SSR applications are highlighted. Recognizing hydration costs and architectural impacts in React, as well as shifting mindset for performance optimization, are key points.
React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
29 min
React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web
Talk on cross-platform React using ReactStrict DOM to unify web and native React, standardizing for consistent UI development. Fragmentation challenges in React due to lack of standardized styling systems, impacting development efficiency and product consistency. Exploring unsuccessful cross-platform React approaches and the importance of minimizing migration costs. Enabling web developers to build native apps with React Native while enhancing it with web APIs for seamless code migration. Benefits of code sharing for cross-platform apps, AI integration for React Strict DOM, and the future vision for React Native as a web renderer. Unified styling in React Native, Tailwind integration, and UI best practices. Flexibility and readiness in React DOM, potential inclusion in React Foundations, and considerations for reversibility of decisions in React DOM.
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.
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.
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.
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
29 min
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications
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108 min
Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers
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54 min
Pear: Releasing Production P2P Apps
WorkshopFree
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React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
66 min
No Servers, No Cloud, No Masters: Make P2P Apps with Pear
WorkshopFree
David Mark Clements
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2 authors
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73 min
Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers
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AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
34 min
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WorkshopFree
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AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
53 min
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WorkshopFree
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2 authors
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AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
52 min
Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding
WorkshopFree
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49 min
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AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
87 min
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WorkshopFree
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AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
76 min
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