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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...

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Top ideas

What techniques can help in understanding business needs during software development?

Event storming and domain storytelling are two techniques that help team members understand business needs by focusing on user behavior and system interaction, rather than technology.

What is Doubleloop's unique tradition on Fridays?

On Fridays, Doubleloop employees do not work for customers or perform usual tasks. Instead, they explore new topics and engage in activities different from their regular work.

What is the potential future of React Server Components in mobile applications?

The future involves experimental and perhaps production implementations of React Server Components in mobile applications. This development could lead to faster updates, smaller application sizes, and more dynamic content delivery.

Can React Server Components be integrated into React Native?

Yes, React Server Components can potentially be integrated into React Native. Although primarily used in web contexts, their integration into mobile can help manage component updates and reduce data usage by only streaming necessary components.

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.

Is React.js a framework or a library?

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

How does the new architecture in React Native differ from the old architecture?

The new architecture replaces the asynchronous bridge with a synchronous JavaScript Interface (JSI), enabling direct communication between JavaScript and native code, reducing latency and improving performance.

What is the ultimate goal of a good software architecture?

The ultimate goal is to create adaptive architectures that can evolve over time, rather than ones that are intended to last forever without change.

Who is the creator of Transformers JS?

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

What are some limitations of server components in RSC?

Server components are stateless and not interactive, meaning they cannot use state-managing hooks or perform client-side interactions like alerts.

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

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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

JSNation 2026

17 min

400 Tech Leads. Same Problems. None of Them Technical

Anemari Fiser

Mentorship available

Tech Lead trainer

Anri Fisher, with over 12 years in tech, focuses on training tech leads and addressing time management challenges. Tech leads shift to a supportive role in empowering team members in growth discussions and one-on-one meetings. Overcoming feedback and delegation struggles through clear communication and expectations is crucial for effective leadership. Strategies for proper delegation include setting clear expectations, agreeing on timelines, and defining processes. Ensuring team alignment, shared timelines, and clear ownership are key for project success in tech teams.

soft skills

Configurational Dependencies in pnpm

JSNation 2025

25 min

Configurational Dependencies in pnpm

Zoltan Kochan

Lead maintainer of pnpm

Introduced new feature in PNPM v10 called config dependency, allowing custom plugins. Centralizing configuration and dependencies management. Early installation of limited config dependencies in PNPM. Trusted dependencies for lifecycle scripts in PNPM. Versatility of pmpm hooks in configuration. Example of a config dependency for fixing type script issues. Discussion on project sustainability, security, contributors, and hiring prospects. Comparison of migration tools, hosting preferences, and package version restrictions.

packaging

Unreal Engine in WebAssembly/WebGPU

JS GameDev Summit 2022

33 min

Unreal Engine in WebAssembly/WebGPU

Top Content

Alex St. Louis

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer @ Wonder Interactive

Alex Saint-Louis, co-founder of Wunder Interactive, shares the mission of bringing Unreal Engine to the browser, enabling cross-platform 3D applications and games. They are working on a WebGPU back end for Unreal Engine to push the limits of 3D on the web. Wunder Interactive has improved compression, built their own asset file system, and offers powerful tools for game developers. They are utilizing modern web technologies like WebAssembly, WebGL, and WebGPU, and plan to support other engines like Unity and Godot. The team aims to transform the industry by bringing console-quality games to the browser and providing an alternative distribution path. They are excited to bring Unreal Engine 5 to the web with WebGPU support and are working on WebXR support for cross-platform 3D experiences, including VR.

webgl webassembly game development webgpu game engine

React's Most Useful Types

React Day Berlin 2023

21 min

React's Most Useful Types

Top Content

Matt Pocock

Independent

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

typescript react element vs component react fc react with typescript

What is a Vulnerability and What’s Not? Making Sense of Node.js and Express Threat Models

Node Congress 2025

17 min

What is a Vulnerability and What’s Not? Making Sense of Node.js and Express Threat Models

Ulises Gascón

Node.js core collaborator, member of the Express Technical Committee (TC)

In this talk, we will discuss security, vulnerabilities, and how to improve your overall security. We will explore various vulnerabilities and the difference between developer errors and misconfigurations. Understanding threat models is crucial in determining responsibility for vulnerabilities. Developers have the ultimate responsibility for handling user input, network data, and other factors. Understanding threat models, best practices, and taking ownership of dependencies are key to improving security. Security is an ongoing process that requires dedication and understanding.

security

The AI-Native Software Engineer

JSNation US 2025

35 min

The AI-Native Software Engineer

Top Content

Addy Osmani

Engineering Leader Working on Google Chrome

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

artificial intelligence

We Need More Than Prompts

React Summit 2026

28 min

We Need More Than Prompts

Alex Garrett-Smith

BitterBrains

Alex discusses spec-driven development as the best approach for building software with AI, emphasizing the importance of planning ahead and tools evolution. Reflecting on coding tools evolution towards instructing AI agents and changing roles. Challenges in articulating coding intent and the need for Spec-Driven Development. Importance of changes, goals, and OpenSpec in development. Up-front planning, collaborative nature, and challenges in spec-driven development highlighted. Managing AI limitations, spec updates, and collaborating with non-engineering on specs. Optimizing prompts and spec organization, context importance, and OpenSpec skills.

future of development

WordPress-like Plugins, but for Next.js

React Day Berlin 2023

9 min

WordPress-like Plugins, but for Next.js

Sanket Sahu

GeekyAnts

This Talk discusses the implementation of a plugin system for Next.js, similar to Wordpress. The plugin system allows for the co-location of different functionalities within their own modules. Plugins can be easily added or removed without affecting other parts of the website. The Talk also showcases a demo of the plugin system in action. The key takeaways include the benefits of co-locating features, the importance of code abstraction beyond packages, and the future of copy-pasting as a means of code reuse.

next.js

Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code

React Summit 2025

26 min

Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code

Top Content

Miguel Ángel Durán

midudev

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.

react

Agents on the Canvas With tldraw

Web Engineering Summit 2026

29 min

Agents on the Canvas With tldraw

Max Drake

tldraw

The Talk delves into the exploration of Agents on the Canvas, integrating LLMs with visual elements and spatial relations. It covers the development of the Agent Starter Kit for navigating Canvas tasks and introduces fairies as collaborative agents. The discussion includes managing tasks, utilizing Cloud Code for project collaboration, creating interactive UIs, and customizing UI components. The evolution of agentic canvas code, agent interactions, user actions, token usage, and data handling with LLMs are highlighted, emphasizing experimentation and optimization for SDK integration.

artificial intelligence

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Build a MCP (Model Context Protocol) in Node.js

JSNation US 2025

97 min

Build a MCP (Model Context Protocol) in Node.js

Featured Workshop

Julián Duque

Model Context Protocol (MCP) introduces a structured approach to LLM context management that addresses limitations in traditional prompting methods. In this workshop, you'll learn about the Model Context Protocol, its architecture, and how to build and use and MCP with Node.jsTable of Cont...

node.js

Rethinking Bundling: Why You Don’t Need Less JavaScript

JSNation US 2025

30 min

Rethinking Bundling: Why You Don’t Need Less JavaScript

Daniel Roe

Leads the Nuxt core team

The speaker, Daniel, shares insights on his role as an open source maintainer, projects Nuxt and Nitro, and living in Edinburgh. Nuxt, a full-stack framework, evolved with community support, emphasizing community-driven development. Optimization strategies for JavaScript, CSS, and font loading in Nuxt were discussed. Integration of Nuxt Scripts for web performance, challenges in meta framework development, and considerations for Nuxt V3 rewrite were highlighted. Future plans include smoother migrations and open-source access to emoji slides integration.

bundler

The New AI Workflows

React Advanced 2025

14 min

The New AI Workflows

Steve Sewell

Builder.io

The Talk delves into the impact of LLMs on engineering workflows, emphasizing the shift towards AI for code writing efficiency. It highlights the importance of problem-solving abilities and product development in hiring practices. LLMs enhance productivity for developers, designers, and product managers, enabling faster iterations and collaboration. Efficient product workflows are achieved through simultaneous UI and code work using Builder.io. Task delegation is streamlined with async agents and Builder bots, optimizing project editing and code management. Integration with tools like VS Code and Figma streamlines design and code editing, enhancing collaboration and workflow automation.

artificial intelligence

Why Node.js Needs an Application Server

Node Congress 2026

18 min

Why Node.js Needs an Application Server

Matteo Collina

Node.js TSC committee member. Pino & Fastify author.

Matteo Collina discusses Node.js, its single-threaded design, and the introduction of threads in 2018 for parallelism and CPU utilization. Node.js production monitoring focuses on application health, fault tolerance, and event loop efficiency. VAT architecture improves Node.js applications with thread migration and monitoring. Node.js manages threads and failures independently with Prometheus monitoring. Scalability in Node.js involves Kubernetes clusters and in-process scaling. Next.js with React SSR for Node.js applications enables dynamic scaling and performance. Node.js handles CPU blocking and SSR performance by utilizing multiple threads.

node.js architecture

We Deserve a Better Streams API for the Web

Node Congress 2026

30 min

We Deserve a Better Streams API for the Web

James Snell

Workers team @Cloudflare

James Snell discusses challenges in current stream APIs, proposes a new, faster, and simpler streams API while questioning the existing Web Streams model. Discussion includes the necessity for a new API due to excessive ceremony, confusing locking mechanisms, and complex specifications, especially in controller APIs. Challenges with controller API optimization, hidden buffering, and excessive memory usage are highlighted. The talk delves into the cost and complexity of promises in JavaScript, optimizing readable streams, and managing complexity in stream implementations. Optimizing stream processing in JavaScript, data chunk processing, back pressure policies, multi-consumer patterns, and efficient branch cursor management are explored. The new API aims at simplifying stream processing by eliminating unnecessary operations, reducing promise overhead, and focusing on iterators, transforms, and back pressure for efficiency and simplified design.

performance

How to Build Full-Stack Apps Using Cursor

React Summit US 2025

65 min

How to Build Full-Stack Apps Using Cursor

Featured WorkshopFree

Shrey Shah

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

fullstack

Never Worry About CORS Again

JSNation US 2025

28 min

Never Worry About CORS Again

Jarred Sumner

Creator of Bun.

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

js runtimes

Pragmatic 101 on Custom JS Tooling for Your Project

JSNation US 2025

122 min

Pragmatic 101 on Custom JS Tooling for Your Project

Featured Workshop

Will Klein

Let’s demystify the secrets of modern JavaScript tooling. In this workshop, you will learn how linters, compilers, and code transforms work. You will take your first steps building your own developer tools, writing an ESLint rule, a compiler plugin, and a code transformation. Learn these skills t...

tooling

Agentic Interfaces: Tools, Skills, Generative UI and Web MCP

JSNation 2026

31 min

Agentic Interfaces: Tools, Skills, Generative UI and Web MCP

Wes Bos

Full Stack Developer, Speaker & Teacher, Co-host of Syntax.fm podcast.

Wes discusses the evolving ways of interacting with software, from UI to voice commands and tailored interfaces. He explores generative UI, explaining its three levels: basic, declarative, and fully generative. Discussions on finding a middle ground between known components and fully generative approaches. Discussing challenges with current MCP interfaces and the need for adaptive and reactive interfaces, using smart home examples to illustrate preferences for UI interactions and personalized automation. Exploring the versatility of WebMCP in switching between manual and agent-controlled interactions for enhanced user experiences. Discussing staying hopeful in front-end development, embracing new technologies, and the concept of dynamic UI for user-driven component selection. Discussing the importance of preserving the openness of the web, advocating against centralized control by a few companies, and the risks associated with MCPs in user consent and security.

artificial intelligence

Exploring Server Side Rendering

React Advanced 2025

179 min

Exploring Server Side Rendering

Featured Workshop

Krasimir Tsonev

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

ssr react server components

Short takes

Garbage Collection Between V8, cppgc (Oilpan), and Native Runtimes

Node Congress 2026

9 min

Garbage Collection Between V8, cppgc (Oilpan), and Native Runtimes

Mert Can Altin

Node.js Core Contributor Trendyol - Software Engineer Turkey

Today's presentation delves into garbage collection challenges in JavaScript and native code, highlighting the impact on memory leaks and bugs. V8's implementation of minor and major garbage collection is discussed. The evolution of memory management in runtimes, including Node.js and Deno, is explored, emphasizing the shift towards automatic cleanup and improved performance. The complexity of runtime memory management, especially in handling CPP objects and bridging with workers, is outlined. Key points include the efficiency gains from generational garbage collection and the importance of migrating away from certain memory management practices for enhanced runtime performance.

performance

Ensuring Quality with AI

TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

7 min

Ensuring Quality with AI

Richard Roggenkemper

Sentry

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.

artificial intelligence

MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls

AI Coding Summit 2026

7 min

MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls

Gil Friedman

Backslash Security

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.

security

Framework Native Rendering Without Code Duplication?

React Summit 2026

6 min

Framework Native Rendering Without Code Duplication?

Stephen Cooper

AG Grid

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.

best practices

Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill

TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

8 min

Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill

Dave Glencross

Capital on Tap

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.

deep dive

Debugging Performance With AI

JSNation 2026

6 min

Debugging Performance With AI

Bernie Sumption

AG Grid

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.

artificial intelligence

CLI, GUI, or Just Blind Trust? A Tour of Code Review Styles

React Summit 2026

6 min

CLI, GUI, or Just Blind Trust? A Tour of Code Review Styles

Santosh Yadav

CodeRabbit

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.

code quality

Optimizing the Path From Design to Production in Engineering Workflows

React Summit US 2025

7 min

Optimizing the Path From Design to Production in Engineering Workflows

Akbar Mirza

Figma

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.

design

Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse

React Summit US 2025

7 min

Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse

Rahul Nanwani

ImageKit.io

Rahul introduces video optimization principles, emphasizing modern formats, compression, bitrate reduction, and lazy loading. ImageKit simplifies video loading by compressing videos significantly and adapting to network conditions. Pausing videos when not in view saves data costs and enhances user experience.

video

From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode

React Summit US 2025

5 min

From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode

Seungho Park

LG Electronics

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.

best practices

Latest

400 Tech Leads. Same Problems. None of Them Technical

JSNation 2026

17 min

400 Tech Leads. Same Problems. None of Them Technical

The Last Software Engineer

AI Coding Summit London

21 min

The Last Software Engineer

Kent C. Dodds

Creator of EpicWeb.dev, EpicReact.Dev, TestingJavaScript.com

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.

future of development

From Figma to TV & Beyond: Scaling React UI with Design Tokens & MCP

React Summit 2026

17 min

From Figma to TV & Beyond: Scaling React UI with Design Tokens & MCP

Seungho Park

LG Electronics

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.

design systems

From One Repo to Hundreds: Building an AI Agent Fleet for Large-Scale Code Migrations

AI Coding Summit London

30 min

From One Repo to Hundreds: Building an AI Agent Fleet for Large-Scale Code Migrations

Konstantinos Leimonis

monday.com

The Talk delves into the migration journey of over 500 micro frontends, emphasizing the use of AI agents for efficient migration. It discusses the challenges of handling manual PRs and code mods at scale, highlighting the importance of reliable tooling. The balance between automation and human judgment is crucial, with deterministic lanes handling basic tasks and human intervention reserved for complex issues. Scalable agent orchestration, workflow automation, safe PR launches, and stable testing are key themes, emphasizing the collaboration between machines and human judgment for successful migrations.

best practices

Building Bridges to a Post-SPA Future

React Summit 2026

33 min

Building Bridges to a Post-SPA Future

Alex Russell

A key contributor to ES6, Service Workers and Web Components. The Partner PM for Edge at Microsoft and Blink API owner.

The speaker reflects on professionalism, tech collaboration deficiencies, and changing perspectives. They discuss React community involvement, cultural implications of technology choices, and the impact of Core Web Vitals on React sites. External factors like networks influence web development, optimizing JavaScript in browsers is crucial, and rethinking design based on user interactions is highlighted. Income influences smartphone market segmentation, Android pricing impacts the ecosystem, and adapting technology based on user data is essential. Transitioning to HTML-first in browser interfaces and user-centric testing to improve website quality are key takeaways.

performance

Ashes to Ashes, Spec to Spec: The Rebirth of Modern Testing

React Summit 2026

29 min

Ashes to Ashes, Spec to Spec: The Rebirth of Modern Testing

Younes Jaaidi

Software Cook | Marmicode

Gathering to bid farewell to Mocha, Jest, and Karma. From minimalism to Jest's migration with Vitest as the most popular framework. Yunus emphasizes finding the right balance in software tools like Angular and NX. Discussion on transitioning from Jest to VTest with a focus on careful approach and test migration efficiency. Insights on debugging mocks, object mothers, and the use of Wallaby JS for debugging in VTest. Exploring test control, browser debugging, configurations, troubleshooting user events, automation with Playwright, and VTest's automation engine. Focus on unit testing speed, scope, and complexity rules, IDE tools like WallabyJS, and GitWipe alias for development reset.

testing

The UI That Builds Itself: Exploring the Generative Front-End

React Summit 2026

28 min

The UI That Builds Itself: Exploring the Generative Front-End

Kiril Peyanski

Progress

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.

case study

Protecting Your Cookies from Hackers and Hungry Developers!

React Summit 2026

27 min

Protecting Your Cookies from Hackers and Hungry Developers!

Mohamad Shiralizadeh

ING

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.

security

Skills in Claude Code Desktop: Architecture and Execution Runtime

React Summit 2026

25 min

Skills in Claude Code Desktop: Architecture and Execution Runtime

Daniel Ávila

Claude Code Templates Creator, AI Tech Lead at Hedgineer.

Daniel Avila introduces Cloud Code Desktop, a new platform simplifying Cloud Code usage. Explore features like Cowork, connectors, and plugins. Manage sessions, customize environments, and interact with Cloud efficiently. Understand skills, context, and execution in Cloud Code. Develop comprehensive skills with precise control measures. Optimize skill execution, design interfaces, and implement skills in MCPs. Enhance MCPs with Cloud Skills and advanced installation processes in Cloud Code Desktop.

artificial intelligence

From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering

React Summit 2026

30 min

From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering

Kitze

React Academy

Kitze introduces the purpose of conferences as networking, meeting people, and teaching. The speaker discusses their businesses Sizzy and Benji, emphasizing tools for developers and a life OS solution. They highlight Zero to Shift, Tinker Club, and SuperMac. React's evolution and frontend development advancements are summarized. Vibe coding and management practices are discussed, focusing on quick changes and embracing code nuances. Vibe engineering involves leveraging agents and committing often. Effective prompting, voice dictation, and vibe coding challenges are addressed. AI's impact on programming jobs and the importance of innovation are highlighted. Role-based frameworks like React Cowboys and Fibre engineering's code consistency are emphasized.

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React Advanced 2023

23 min

Nested Interactive Elements: An Nightmare in Accessibility

Top Content

Cat Johnson

Khan Academy

Nested interactive elements can cause accessibility issues on websites, and the speaker shares a personal experience with an accessibility bug involving a list component. Mitigating nested interactive structures involves limiting these patterns during development and restructuring existing elements. The speaker provides recommendations for improving accessibility, such as adjusting role properties and gathering user feedback. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of accessible solutions and encourages sharing resources to build more inclusive experiences.

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Thinking in React Query

React Summit 2023

22 min

Thinking in React Query

Top Content

Dominik Dorfmeister

React-Query maintainer

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

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Options API vs Composition API: Choosing the Right Approach for Your Team

Vue.js London Live 2021

23 min

Options API vs Composition API: Choosing the Right Approach for Your Team

Top Content

Ben Hong

Netlify

Today's Talk discusses the Options API and Composition API in Vue 3, highlighting the differences and considerations when choosing an approach. The Composition API offers more flexibility and integrates well with TypeScript, but may require more familiarity with JavaScript. Combining both APIs allows for structure and flexibility, with the ability to progressively enhance code. Team preferences and the level of TypeScript usage should be considered when choosing the right approach for a project.

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Frontend’s Lost Decade and the Performance Inequality Gap

JSNation 2025

32 min

Frontend’s Lost Decade and the Performance Inequality Gap

Top Content

Alex Russell

A key contributor to ES6, Service Workers and Web Components. The Partner PM for Edge at Microsoft and Blink API owner.

Alex Russell's journey from engineering to product management, the focus on improving web experiences, and optimizing software for end-user success. Considerations include device performance, web diversity, and API constraints. Challenges of web platforms encompass hardware and network limitations, prioritizing user experience. Understanding the impact of Moore's Law on device performance and adapting browsers for efficiency. Emphasis on code optimization, user-focused development, and quality in web UI. Addressing challenges in PWA success, developer learning, and balancing frameworks with platform understanding.

Levelling up Monorepos with npm Workspaces

DevOps.js Conf 2022

33 min

Levelling up Monorepos with npm Workspaces

Top Content

Ruy Adorno

Node.js TSC member & Founder Engineer @vlt.sh

NPM workspaces help manage multiple nested packages within a single top-level package, improving since the release of NPM CLI 7.0. You can easily add dependencies to workspaces and handle duplications. Running scripts and orchestration in a monorepo is made easier with NPM workspaces. The npm pkg command is useful for setting and retrieving keys and values from package.json files. NPM workspaces offer benefits compared to Lerna and future plans include better workspace linking and adding missing features.

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From Blender to the Web - the Journey of a 3D Model

React Advanced 2021

27 min

From Blender to the Web - the Journey of a 3D Model

Top Content

Sara Vieira

Orama

This Talk is about Blender, a free and open-source 3D software, and integrating 3D models into websites. The speaker discusses exporting 3D models to the web using the gltf format and compressing them using gltf transform and draco compression. They also cover integrating the 3D model into a website using React and React 3 fiber, troubleshooting installation and error issues, and working with refs and frames. The Talk explores rendering, lighting, mathematics, and experimentation in 3D, as well as interaction and rendering effects. The speaker also mentions their favorite creation in Blender.

Vuetify 3: Titan

Vue.js London Live 2021

20 min

Vuetify 3: Titan

Top Content

John Leider

Vuetify

Hi, I'm John Leader, the creator of Viewtify. Viewtify 3 is the upcoming version with new design concepts, improved usability, and compatibility with modern browsers. The framework has added new features like a validation system, style diversity, semantic customization options, and a density concept. Enhanced customization options, improved performance, and advanced browser support with CSS variables are also highlights of Viewtify 3.

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Future Features of JS?!

JSNation 2022

28 min

Future Features of JS?!

Top Content

Hemanth HM

TC39 delegate and ECMA rep

Welcome to the future features of JavaScript, including proposals for array operations, throw expressions, records and TPUs, pipeline operators, and more. The talk covers the introduction of type assertions for imported files, non-mutating array operations, and the simplification of error handling. It also explores the concept of immutability with records and TPUs, and the use of the pipeline operator to simplify code. Other proposals include Map.implace, IteratorHelper, slice notation, type annotations, Array UNIQBY, number ranges, and the Function 1 proposal.

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Welcome to Nuxt 3

Vue.js London Live 2021

29 min

Welcome to Nuxt 3

Top Content

Alexandre Chopin

NuxtLabs

Nux3 has made significant improvements in performance, output optimization, and serverless support. Nuxt Bridge brings the Nitro engine for enhanced performance and easier transition between Nuxt 2 and Nuxt Read. Nuxt 3 supports Webpack 5, Bytes, and Vue 3. NextLab has developed brand new websites using Docus technology. Nuxt.js is recommended for building apps faster and simpler, and Nuxt 2 should be used before migrating to Nuxt 3 for stability. DOCUS is a new project that combines Nuxt with additional features like content modules and an admin panel.

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On Becoming a Tech Lead

TechLead Conference 2023

24 min

On Becoming a Tech Lead

Top ContentPremium

Swizec Teller

Plasmidsaurus

The role of a Tech Lead involves shaping the roadmap, helping the team be more effective, and working on important projects. Lessons learned include encouraging idea sharing, avoiding taking on all the work, and focusing on delegation. Tech Leads focus on the outcome, involve the team in decision-making, and make plans based on how different pieces will interact. The role of a Tech Lead is to focus on engineering and guide the team in figuring out how the whole system should fit together. Architecting can become problematic when it loses touch with the coding part, resulting in implementation issues.

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React

From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching

React Advanced 2025

27 min

From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching

Wyatt Johnson

Clerk

Introduction to Cache Components in Next.js 16, transforming the app router with new features like partial pre-rendering, Dynamic I.O., and caching directives. Deep dive into static params generation in Next.js focusing on changes in generating static params for improved performance. Exploring challenges of generating static params and balancing static vs. dynamic rendering for better performance. Addressing challenges with cache components, optimizing static and dynamic rendering for improved performance. Understanding impact of parameters on rendering with cache components, managing dynamic components, and introducing suspense boundaries for faster page loads. Enhancing cache life APIs, introducing a new caching model for static outputs in Next.js. Revolutionizing cache management with granular control over cache lifetimes and dynamic segment configuration. Navigating data and caching in Next.js, exploring cache components guidance and caching differences between server and client components.

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React Bits: The Art of Standout UI

React Summit 2026

21 min

React Bits: The Art of Standout UI

David Haz

React Bits

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.

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Real-World Hydration and Rendering Patterns in Modern React Apps

React Summit 2026

20 min

Real-World Hydration and Rendering Patterns in Modern React Apps

Raju Dandigam

Navan

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.

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Gotta Go Fast: React at 60 FPS

React Summit 2026

16 min

Gotta Go Fast: React at 60 FPS

Rachel Kaufman

Attentive

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.

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Taming the Flicker: Firebase Patterns for React Server Components

React Summit 2026

7 min

Taming the Flicker: Firebase Patterns for React Server Components

Rosario Fernandes

Google

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.

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Pragmatic Testing Recipes: Crafting Tests That Survive the Heat

React Summit 2026

206 min

Pragmatic Testing Recipes: Crafting Tests That Survive the Heat

Workshop

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...

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Lessons From Adopting React Compiler

React Summit US 2025

23 min

Lessons From Adopting React Compiler

Akash Hamirwasia

ElevenLabs

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.

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Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router

React Summit US 2025

125 min

Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router

Workshop

Aurora Scharff

In this workshop, we will explore React's latest features: Server Components, Server Functions, and forms. Discover how to optimize server-side rendering, build smooth user experiences with React Suspense and Transitions, and enhance application interactivity with Server Functions and new React 1...

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Scaling React: What Actually Matters

React Summit 2026

30 min

Scaling React: What Actually Matters

Tathagat Thapliyal

Mentorship available

Simbian

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.

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Giving AI Agents Hands: Mobile Feedback Loops with Agent Device

React Summit 2026

26 min

Giving AI Agents Hands: Mobile Feedback Loops with Agent Device

Mike Grabowski

Codex Ambassador, React Native contributor, CTO

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.

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Free workshops

Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers

React Summit 2026

108 min

Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers

WorkshopFree

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...

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Pear: Releasing Production P2P Apps

Web Engineering Summit 2026

54 min

Pear: Releasing Production P2P Apps

WorkshopFree

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 2026

66 min

No Servers, No Cloud, No Masters: Make P2P Apps with Pear

WorkshopFree

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 2026

73 min

Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers

WorkshopFree

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...

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Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models

AI Coding Summit 2026

34 min

Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models

WorkshopFree

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...

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"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network

AI Coding Summit 2026

53 min

"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network

WorkshopFree

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.

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Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding

AI Coding Summit 2026

52 min

Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding

WorkshopFree

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...

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Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop

AI Coding Summit 2026

49 min

Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop

WorkshopFree

Shifra Williams

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

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Build Your Dream Extensions with AI

AI Coding Summit 2026

87 min

Build Your Dream Extensions with AI

WorkshopFree

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...

artificial intelligence

Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code

AI Coding Summit 2026

76 min

Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code

WorkshopFree

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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