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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.

What led you to...

Kent C. Dodds: Consume, build, and teach — and level up your career

Even though his bio offers quite a hefty reading, he only applied for one job in his career. The rest came along as he was building his name as a renowned speaker, teacher, and a prolific figure of the open-source community. How did Kent do it? “Commit to creating high-quality content,” he sa...

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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How has Redux evolved over time?

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

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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10 Years of Vue: the Past and the Future
Vue.js Live 2024Vue.js Live 2024
29 min
10 Years of Vue: the Past and the Future
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Hello everyone and welcome to Vue.js Live 2024. In this Talk, Evan Yew, the creator of Vue and Vite, shares a 10-year retrospective on Vue.js, discussing its history, technical impact, and how it is being kept alive. Vue has made significant contributions to the JavaScript ecosystem and is the only mainstream framework that remains independent. The latest release, Vue 3.4, introduced performance improvements and a more efficient reactivity system. Future plans include reactivity efficiency improvements, stabilizing reactive props, and exploring vapor mode. Vue is here to stay and will continue to support the community.
Optimizing HTML5 Games: 10 Years of Learnings
JS GameDev Summit 2022JS GameDev Summit 2022
33 min
Optimizing HTML5 Games: 10 Years of Learnings
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PlayCanvas is an open-source game engine used by game developers worldwide. Optimization is crucial for HTML5 games, focusing on load times and frame rate. Texture and mesh optimization can significantly reduce download sizes. GLTF and GLB formats offer smaller file sizes and faster parsing times. Compressing game resources and using efficient file formats can improve load times. Framerate optimization and resolution scaling are important for better performance. Managing draw calls and using batching techniques can optimize performance. Browser DevTools, such as Chrome and Firefox, are useful for debugging and profiling. Detecting device performance and optimizing based on specific devices can improve game performance. Apple is making progress with WebGPU implementation. HTML5 games can be shipped to the App Store using Cordova.
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
AI-generated code is becoming the norm, but who reviews the reviewer? In this session, we explore how to close the feedback loop by letting AI agents review AI-written code. We'll look at local agent setups as well as cloud-based services like GitHub Copilot code review or Greptile, and discuss w...
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.
Lessons From 7 Years of .IO Games: What Works, What Doesn’t Work, Where to Go From Here
JS GameDev Summit 2023JS GameDev Summit 2023
14 min
Lessons From 7 Years of .IO Games: What Works, What Doesn’t Work, Where to Go From Here
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I-O games are multiplayer web games that are easy to pick up but can be played for hours. Developers have added deeper game mechanics and adapted I-O games for mobile, generating high revenue. Acquiring users for I-O games is done by sharing the games to play together at school. Monetization of I-O games is primarily through ads, as it is difficult to generate in-app purchases from the web. Web standards and user-generated content are opening up new possibilities for better web games.
Skill Design for LLM Agents
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
24 min
Skill Design for LLM Agents
What makes an agent skill reliable, performant, and maintainable? We will explore a robust approach to skill design, starting with foundational best practices, moving into automated skill generation, and validation. The second half of the talk focuses on the critical role of evaluation, demonstra...
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.
Learnings From 100+ Experiments Comparing LLMs for AI Coding
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
28 min
Learnings From 100+ Experiments Comparing LLMs for AI Coding
On my YouTube channel AI Coding Daily, I've published 100+ videos comparing different models for coding: Opus vs GPT, Kimi vs GLM, New vs Older versions, Effort Medium vs High, etc. Now I see clear patterns for evaluating models and deciding which one to choose for specific tasks and projects.
Tanstack Start and How It Supports React Server Components
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
27 min
Tanstack Start and How It Supports React Server Components
Introducing 10-Stack Dart, a full-stack framework for client-first applications, with server features and support for React and Solid. Discussion on the necessity of React server components and their role in providing data streams for React. Exploring handling server components in 10 sec start, server functions as the boundary for server-rendered UI, caching mechanisms, and flexibility in returning multiple server components. Managing route-based caching, multiple server components in one function, and using query cache for server-rendered UI. Deciding server composition, client-controlled structure, composite components for interactive UI elements, and ensuring type safety in composition models. Understanding the power and flexibility of server components in application architecture, migration from React router to 10-stack start, and challenges with release stability and usage of RSCs. Discussing the implementation of RSC in 10-stack start, its usage in new projects, differences with Next.js, and comparisons of one-way RSCs with Next.js.
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
19 min
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
Eric Handshed introduces spec-driven development, emphasizing its benefits in creating high-quality code by writing specs before coding. Spec-driven development involves structured specifications written before coding, enhancing collaboration with language models and coding assistants. The approach guides developers and ensures code quality. Hanchett stresses the importance of guiding large language models with context to ensure they follow the right direction amidst evolving software requirements and paradigms. Be cautious with context in spec-driven development to avoid overwhelming or underwhelming large language models. Use skills to guide coding agents effectively and maintain a human-in-the-loop approach for code review in the spec-driven development process. AWS history lesson leading to Kiro release with CLI option and emphasis on vibe and spec mode for larger projects and complex features. Release of spec-driven development process, manual method without Kiro, Speckit usage in Qro for new and existing projects. Requirements document creation, design document tips, implementation phase tasks with property-based tests, and model context protocol for data source connections. MCP maturation, integration with project management, demo of QIRO IDE for project creation, MVP creation, and property-based tests for requirements satisfaction. Creation of a movie website starting with a design document, generation of property tests using FastCheck in TypeScript, development of requirements document, task list update to create an MVP, implementation of MVP features, and examination of property-based tests.
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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.
Navigating Islands of Interactivity
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
9 min
Navigating Islands of Interactivity
Islands in web development are interactive components that are rendered on the server and hydrated separately. They offer fine-grain control over JavaScript, speed up page loading, and reduce JavaScript shipping. Applications of islands span across eCommerce, media sites, docs, and blogs, providing interactivity without excessive JavaScript. Nanostores enable state sharing among islands. Key takeaways include utilizing Nanostores for state management, exploring ASTRO and islands for development, and using client directives for JavaScript control.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Rustifying Vite: Designing a Hybrid Toolchain for the Real World
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
6 min
Rustifying Vite: Designing a Hybrid Toolchain for the Real World
Options for pre-bundling, transformation, and minification. Rollup, bundling, and limited chunk control. SWC for React, but complexity with multiple bundlers causing issues for maintainers and developers. Limitations in bundlers, features V8 needs. Improving build times with Rust. Introducing Roldown with rollup's API, compatibility, speed, and advanced chunking. Features like module types, lazy barrel optimization, HMR, and built-in minifier for a performant bundle. Ensuring Rust-based bundler compatibility with JavaScript ecosystem. Introduction of Swangular for efficient plugin handling. Native Rust plugins support with module resolution, aliases, TypeScript JSX transform, dynamic imports. Integration with underlying minifier, transformer, linter, and formatter for tool chain V+.
400 Tech Leads. Same Problems. None of Them Technical
Web Engineering Summit 2026Web Engineering Summit 2026
17 min
400 Tech Leads. Same Problems. None of Them Technical
Henri Fischer discusses tech lead challenges, emphasizing the importance of defining the tech lead role and addressing time management issues through delegation. Transitioning from a driver to a support role in one-on-one meetings improves efficiency and accountability. Strategies for effective feedback, delegation, and process management include reducing fear, setting clear expectations, and ensuring clear ownership for successful project management.
Building a JavaScript Engine in Rust: Lessons From Boa
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
24 min
Building a JavaScript Engine in Rust: Lessons From Boa
Jason Williams, a senior software engineer at Bloomberg and TC39 delegate, discusses contributing to Servo project in Rust. The process of developing Boa JavaScript Engine involved highlighting its speed, memory safety, and performance compared to Gecko. Principles of building a JavaScript engine in Rust are compared to processing plants with stages like tokenization and parsing. Tokenization involves breaking down JavaScript code into tokens following the ECMAScript specification. Boa's community contributions focused on enhancing CPU caching, inline caching, and testing for conformance. The engine successfully implemented Temporal, achieving a high test pass rate and integration into major engines.
From Prompting to Orchestrating: Coding Is Now a System
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
26 min
From Prompting to Orchestrating: Coding Is Now a System
We thought AI would help us write code faster. Instead, it's changing what coding actually is.
We started with prompts, then copilots, then agents. Each step felt like a leap forward — until you try to build something real at scale.Because prompts don’t remember.
Agents don’t coo...
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
AI-generated code is becoming the norm, but who reviews the reviewer? In this session, we explore how to close the feedback loop by letting AI agents review AI-written code. We'll look at local agent setups as well as cloud-based services like GitHub Copilot code review or Greptile, and discuss w...
Designing for Failure: The Senior React Dev's Production Toolkit
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
29 min
Designing for Failure: The Senior React Dev's Production Toolkit
The talk delves into the importance of designing for failure in software engineering, highlighting the significance of resilience in React applications. It emphasizes the challenges of error detection and prevention, introduces resilience patterns like Circuit Breaker, and discusses implementing these patterns in Next.js. The talk also covers managing API retries, handling timeouts, addressing latency challenges, and strategic placement of error boundaries for improved user experience. Additionally, it touches on understanding user experience, error perception, and common anti-patterns in React error handling.
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.
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.
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.
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Pragmatic Testing Recipes: Crafting Tests That Survive the Heat
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
206 min
Pragmatic Testing Recipes: Crafting Tests That Survive the Heat
Workshop
Younes Jaaidi
Younes Jaaidi
In this React testing workshop, we’ll trade fragile testing strategies for a testing recipe that actually holds up under pressure. If your current strategy feels like reheated leftovers — mocks that prevent you from refactoring, flaky end-to-end tests, or last-minute releases served raw — it’s ti...
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
One of the exciting things about web development is that the underlying technology that we use is constantly evolving. It’s hard to believe, but Server Components, partial hydration and hybrid rendering are no longer experimental features and are here to stay. With more projects adopting these ne...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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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
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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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