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Deep Dive: Growing to Tech Lead

Growing to Tech Lead

This Deep Dive covers all the aspects of Software Engineer's growth into Tech Lead and Staff positions. Learn directly from distinguished engineers which foundational hard and soft skills you must invest in to accelerate carreer growth.

Become an irreplaceble engineer - attend events, discussions and workshops throughout the year together with your peers and field experts.

  • Talk: 5 Tough Conversations Managers Need to Have
  • Talk: Leadership Insights From Growing 2X in 8 Months
  • Talk: How AI is Impacting Engineering Leadership
  • Talk: Staying Human in the Age of AI: What Tech Leaders Need to Preserve
  • Talk: Thinking Like an Architect
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Deep Dive: AI Assisted Coding

AI Assisted Coding

Learn how to navigate rapidly evolving evolution of developer tools supercharged by AI instruments. From writing efficient prompts, to delegating work via agents and automated code reviews.

Follow this Deep Dive to see what the most productive teams and developers are using in practice and how to apply this in your daily tasks.

  • Talk: Design to Code Using a Custom Design System with AI
  • Talk: The AI-Native Software Engineer
  • Talk: Sub Agent Context Sharing: How to Enable Effective Sub Agents for Coding
  • Workshop: Advanced Claude Code Techniques: Agentic Engineering With Context Driven Development
  • Workshop: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Deep Dive: 2-Hour Interactive Workshop
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Deep Dive: Mastering Full-stack

Mastering Full-stack

With an increasing demand for Software Engineers capable of solving a wider array of tasks, it's crucial to quickly adapt to changing landspace and cover Full-stack fundamentals.

Every year we see more developers identifying themselves as Full-stack, learn what real-life practitioners are focusing in their roles and focus on what's important.

This Deep Dives explores everchanging role of a Full-stack developer in the age of AI assisted development.

  • Talk: React Server Components in Kubernetes: Ship Happens
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Running Java in Node.js with WebAssembly
Node Congress 2025Node Congress 2025
19 min
Running Java in Node.js with WebAssembly
Hello, everyone. Welcome to my talk on running Java in Node.js with WebAssembly. Many organisations have a lot of Java code, and as they adopt newer technologies such as Node.js or CloudFloat workers, maintaining interoperability with this existing code becomes important. WebAssembly is a stack machine-based thing, like the JVM, but with a different instruction set. It improves over Asm.js with a new binary format and supports streaming compilation, SIMD, and 64-bit integers. Compiling Java code to WebAssembly involves converting JVM instructions, handling local slots, recovering if statements, and understanding control flow. Short circuit conditionals and loops are important to consider in the conversion process. Additionally, memory allocation, object creation, and program memory are key concepts. Overall, this talk explores the challenges and techniques involved in running Java in Node.js with WebAssembly.
Why Node.js Needs an Application Server
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
18 min
Why Node.js Needs an Application Server
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.
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
31 min
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
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.
React-First Micro Frontends in Regulated Industries
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
23 min
React-First Micro Frontends in Regulated Industries
Welcome to React-first micro-frontends in regulated industries. Introduction to micro-frontends and subdomains in web applications. Challenges of developing applications in regulated industries with strict rules and compliance regulations. Challenges of managing documentation and dependencies in micro front end solutions. Challenges in transitioning to a hybrid centralized-distributed approach for micro front ends. Control and orchestration in microfront-end environments; decentralized development and deployment with centralized oversight. Teams can choose not to upgrade to the latest version immediately; orchestration involves provisioning for end users and utilizing feature flags. In production, carefully selected microfront-ends are used. Using React offers advantages like easy version updates and dependency management. Avoid tightly coupling components from different micro-frontends. Opt for a loosely based approach with a registry in the central app shell for registering necessary fragments.
Scaling AI Agents for Production Codebases: Patterns for Accuracy and Efficiency
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
24 min
Scaling AI Agents for Production Codebases: Patterns for Accuracy and Efficiency
Discussing top AI coding best practices in 2026, including semantic understanding and context window management. Exploring the role of Language Server Protocol (LSP) in code refactoring. Efficient code renaming using LSP and code intelligence in Kiro. Impact of not using LSP on code renaming efficiency. Manual approaches without LSP significantly impact efficiency and resource consumption. Context window usage doubles without LSP, affecting code handling. Utilizing subagents for specialized tasks enhances codebase security. Spec-driven development and detailed design documents for efficient agent alignment.
Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
27 min
Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web
Joshua introduces Transformers JS and Hugging Face, emphasizing community collaboration and pre-trained models. Transformers JS evolution led to 1.4 million monthly users, supporting 155 architectures. The library's browser-based capabilities offer real-time processing, cost-efficiency, and scalability. Integration enhancements include native web GPU execution and React Native implementation. Web ML implementation focuses on Onyx Runtime for device execution and web GPU for resource optimization. Browser-based ML applications cover vision, speech recognition, and text-to-speech. Advanced implementations include multimodal applications and educational tools. Interactive AI demonstrations showcase semantic search and conversational AI scenarios. Model licensing transitions to ECMAScript for efficiency and model redownloading factors are discussed.
Building End-to-End Encrypted Apps (Web & React Native)
React Summit 2024React Summit 2024
32 min
Building End-to-End Encrypted Apps (Web & React Native)
This Talk explores the concept and advantages of end-to-end encryption in software development. It discusses the challenges of data encryption and conflict resolution in collaborative apps. The integration of end-to-end encryption with conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) is highlighted. The talk also covers simplified document sync, real-time sync and encryption, key management, and authentication. Additionally, it mentions the importance of local-first integration, CRDT frameworks, and data search indices.
One Year Into Vue 3
Vue.js London Live 2021Vue.js London Live 2021
20 min
One Year Into Vue 3
Top Content
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.
Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
23 min
Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling
Top Content
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.
Tanstack Start - A Client-Side First Full-Stack React Framework
React Summit US 2024React Summit US 2024
30 min
Tanstack Start - A Client-Side First Full-Stack React Framework
Top Content
We surveyed thousands of developers to show that a louder audience leads to a better presentation. There has been a shift in web app development towards server-first architectures, which has improved full-stack capabilities but at the cost of complexity and divergence from the client-centric approach. Tanstec Start is a meta-framework that aims to provide the best client-side authoring experience with powerful server-side primitives. The Tansec Router supports advanced routing features, URL state management, and JSON storage. Combined with the server-side rendering capabilities of TanStack Start, it becomes even more powerful. The TanStack Router has isomorphic loaders and integrates seamlessly with TanStack Query for additional features like polling and offline support. UseSuspenseQuery allows for dynamic streaming of data during SSR. TanStack Start also offers server-side features, API routes, server functions, and middleware. The future plans include RSCs, websockets, real-time primitives, and static pre-rendering. TanStack Start is now in beta and is suitable for building React apps. It is open source.
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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.
Delivering High-Quality Videos on Your ReactJS Website
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
7 min
Delivering High-Quality Videos on Your ReactJS Website
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.
Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
7 min
Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy
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.
How to Build an Open Telemetry SDK in 7 Minutes
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
6 min
How to Build an Open Telemetry SDK in 7 Minutes
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.
MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
7 min
MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls
Gil Friedman from Backslash Security discussed MCP security, focusing on the Model Context Protocol and AI assistant security risks like GitHub token exposure in auto run mode. Security measures for MCP usage include setting autorun to ask every time, postmarking MCP incidents, handling malicious servers, safeguarding sensitive information, reviewing and disabling unused tools, requiring permission before triggering actions, removing MCP from environments, and revoking API keys when necessary.
Zero-Styling Development: Utopia or the Future of Frontend?
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
7 min
Zero-Styling Development: Utopia or the Future of Frontend?
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.
No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
6 min
No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone
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.
From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
9 min
From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams
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.
Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
5 min
Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution
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.
Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse
Rahul introduces video optimization principles, emphasizing modern formats, compression, bitrate reduction, and lazy loading. ImageKit simplifies video loading by compressing videos significantly and adapting to network conditions. Pausing videos when not in view saves data costs and enhances user experience.
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What's Under the Pointer?
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
30 min
What's Under the Pointer?
Let's discuss Tealdraw, a versatile application with a whiteboard feature similar to Miro and Excalitraw. Tealdraw offers an SDK, tealdraw.dev, enabling innovative creations like a liquid simulation. Challenges in Tealdraw included optimizing hit testing, managing selection logic, and addressing shape interactions. The debugging geometry view allows for efficient handling of canvas data and hit detection. Tealdraw's approach to hit testing involves bounding boxes, shape hierarchy navigation, and handling user interactions with polygons. The talk explores technology choices, resolving logic levels, and utilizing CSS masks in Tealdraw, emphasizing the importance of user interaction and efficient hit testing processes.
One Config File To Rule Them All
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
19 min
One Config File To Rule Them All
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.
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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React-First Micro Frontends in Regulated Industries
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
23 min
React-First Micro Frontends in Regulated Industries
Welcome to React-first micro-frontends in regulated industries. Introduction to micro-frontends and subdomains in web applications. Challenges of developing applications in regulated industries with strict rules and compliance regulations. Challenges of managing documentation and dependencies in micro front end solutions. Challenges in transitioning to a hybrid centralized-distributed approach for micro front ends. Control and orchestration in microfront-end environments; decentralized development and deployment with centralized oversight. Teams can choose not to upgrade to the latest version immediately; orchestration involves provisioning for end users and utilizing feature flags. In production, carefully selected microfront-ends are used. Using React offers advantages like easy version updates and dependency management. Avoid tightly coupling components from different micro-frontends. Opt for a loosely based approach with a registry in the central app shell for registering necessary fragments.
How to Help Agents Remember
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
20 min
How to Help Agents Remember
Carly discusses memory, context in LLMs, and managing information for effective results in agentic systems. LLMs hallucinate due to knowledge gaps, biases, overfitting, and incentives. Importance of context in minimizing hallucinations and focus on memory storage for decision-making. Short term memory acts like RAM, while long term memory stores knowledge and experiences. Efficient memory storage using disk, file systems, and semantic memory. Emphasis on managing message context, retrieval, and concatenation for LLM input. Attention to context length, information evaluation, and memory optimization for accurate responses.
Every API is a Tool for Agents with Code Mode
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
32 min
Every API is a Tool for Agents with Code Mode
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.
Breaking the Context Ceiling: Implementing Recursive Language Models with LangGraph and TypeScript
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
21 min
Breaking the Context Ceiling: Implementing Recursive Language Models with LangGraph and TypeScript
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.
Running JavaScript Actually Everywhere
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
21 min
Running JavaScript Actually Everywhere
JavaScript ecosystem enables versatile development for mobile using frameworks like React Native, Expo, and Bear. Challenges arise in porting server logic to mobile due to limitations in reusing core logic between backend and mobile. Bear stands out as a versatile runtime for iOS, Android, React Native, and Expo, allowing selective module integration. The integration of Bear with React Native simplifies mobile app development and background task execution. Bear emphasizes a 'less is more' philosophy, offering flexibility in engine compilation and compatibility with various platforms. It also supports streamlined native add-on development, NAPI support, and controlled upgrades for pushing runtime limits.
Metrics That Actually Matter: Evaluating AI Agents Beyond Success Rate
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
16 min
Metrics That Actually Matter: Evaluating AI Agents Beyond Success Rate
John Robert, Lead Data and AI Platform Engineer, discusses evaluating AI agents beyond success rate. Talks about failures of AI projects, the uniqueness of AI agents, and the evaluation process. Creating a Framework for AI Agent Evaluation: Four Evaluation Categories - performance, business, safety, and cost. Metrics creation to enhance AI projects. Includes task completion rates, reasoning quality, accuracy evaluation, tool execution, response time, and recovery time checks. Examining KPIs, Safety, Security, and Cost in AI Agent Projects: Consider ROI, user satisfaction, time-saving, code review, adoption, engagement, risk, regulations, unauthorized actions, and cost efficiency. Checking Infrastructure and Security Metrics: Evaluate project reliability, online presence, errors, resources, prompt injection, data leakages, authorized actions, tool usage.
Why Node.js Needs an Application Server
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
18 min
Why Node.js Needs an Application Server
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.
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10 Years of Best of JS
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
28 min
10 Years of Best of JS
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.
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
25 min
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
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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Suspenseful Component Composition
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
12 min
Suspenseful Component Composition
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.
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
Mateusz Jagodziński, principal developer at Synergy Codes, shares insights on Plug and Play Design Building Extendable React Applications, discussing feature flags, modularity, and real-world use cases. Challenges of feature flags, the concept of alternative modular design for feature management, and the importance of modularity in code organization and development. Configurability and limitations in feature management, showcasing a plugin-based design for flexible tool versions and code manipulation. Explanation of plug and play design for code manipulation and version control with full type safety in TypeScript projects. Exposing functions to register new plugins, organizing plugins' logic within individual folders, and implementing a build setup with a replacement mechanism for plugin files. Replacing missing plugins with a fallback code, enforcing restriction on direct plugin imports, and visualizing the relationship between plugins, adapters, and application components. Exploring pros and cons of self-contained plugins, addressing implementation overhead, and discussing the value of enforced modularity for AI coding tools. Discussing plugin management decisions based on client needs and the scalability of the approach with changing requirements and minor tweaks. Handling plugin version tracking, automated testing challenges, and feature control based on environments. Adapters and maintaining plugin compatibility through iterations and cosmetic changes, leveraging existing solutions for simplicity. Discussing the implications of not shipping separate builds for multiple customers and considering the benefits of smaller bundle size. Exploring the ease of trying out new features with separate plugins to assess overhead and developer experience.
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.
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.
The State of React and the Community in 2025
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
29 min
The State of React and the Community in 2025
Mark Erickson discusses the state of React in 2025, React community debates on React's direction and misconceptions, React's shift towards client-side frameworks and SSR emphasis, React's feature development process at Meta and Vercel, controversy around Vercel's server components involvement, tight relationship between React and Next, React team's emphasis on frameworks for app performance, critique of React's heavy-handed framework recommendation, React team's delay in adding VEET as a recommended tool, challenges with server components' origins and communication, no official signals support planned for React 19, social media impact on React development decisions, React community diversity and server components usage insights, React's evolving black box concept and tradeoffs discussed.
The State of React
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
26 min
The State of React
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.
How to React Compiler
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
20 min
How to React Compiler
Introduction to React compiler, differences from React 19, installation of Babel plug-in React compiler, specifying target React versions, and how React compiler detects and processes component dependencies. Configuring React compiler settings, exploring default options and configurations, utilizing React compiler playground website for configurations, dealing with JSX markup re-computation. React compiler feature for extracting JSX from array map callbacks, limitations of enable function outlining, enabling JSX outlining for separate functions. Function memoization in React compiler, React compiler beta stage, potential errors with React compiler. React compiler error: memorization preservation, hidden messages, validation settings. React compiler: validation tools, hooks treatment, memorization challenges. Changing hooks to functions for React compiler optimization. React Compiler usage considerations and potential optimizations.
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...
TDD in Frontend
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React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
29 min
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AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
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87 min
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141 min
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React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
96 min
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109 min
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58 min
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83 min
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