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TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
Oct 23, 2026
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TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
Jun 11, 2026
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Node Congress 2026
Mar 26 - 27, 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026
Feb 26 - 27, 2026
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
Nov 28, 2025
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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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Is Redux still relevant for modern React applications?

Yes, Redux is still relevant for modern React applications. Although there are many state management tools available, Redux provides a consistent and predictable pattern for managing state, especially in larger applications where state needs to be shared across many components.

What is the purpose of mastering JavaScript patterns?

Mastering JavaScript patterns helps developers write code more clearly and efficiently, improve code architecture, catch up with team members, and potentially become a consultant or mentor with better skills and deeper understanding of software principles.

Why was Redux created?

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

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

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

Why is the new event loop important in React Native?

The new event loop is important because it enables synchronous updates and access to layout information, making React Native behave more like React DOM and improving performance by reducing UI flickers and inconsistencies.

What are the benefits of using Redux today?

The benefits of using Redux today include a consistent architectural pattern, predictable data flow, powerful developer tools like Redux DevTools, wide usage and community support, better update performance compared to React context, and strong TypeScript support.
Deep Dives
Deep Dive: Growing to Tech Lead

Growing to Tech Lead

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

  • Talk: Pocket Guide to Seniority
  • Talk: Why Engineers Must Become Multipliers in the AI-Era
  • Talk: Walking the Netflix Paved Road (Bumps Included): Web Framework, Hawkins Design System
  • Talk: Transforming Your Tech Interviews in the AI Agent Age
  • Talk: 5 Tough Conversations Managers Need to Have
... and 14 more talks and workshops
Deep Dive: AI Assisted Coding

AI Assisted Coding

Remove the noise, master agentic coding patterns actually tested in production directly from Senior practitioners. 

  • Talk: Templates and Components for Claude Code: The Future of AI Coding Workflows
  • Talk: Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
  • Talk: Building Blocks of an Agentic Engineering Platform: What SRE Taught Us About Running Agents
  • Workshop: AI-Powered Code Review
  • Workshop: Operating Agent-Based Systems - Overview, Configure, Run, Orchestrate, Monitor
... and 22 more talks and workshops
Deep Dive: Mastering Full-stack

Mastering Full-stack

Master full-stack and fundamental engineering skills for AI-enabled future. 

  • Talk: Building a JavaScript Engine in Rust: Lessons From Boa
  • Talk: Building a JavaScript Engine in Rust: Lessons From Boa
  • Talk: Beyond Benchmarks: node.js, Deno, and Bun in Real Production
  • Workshop: DevOps for Front-end Developers: From Local Code to Production by Docker Captain
  • Workshop: Building Fullstack Apps With Cursor
... and 21 more talks and workshops
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Unreal Engine in WebAssembly/WebGPU
JS GameDev Summit 2022JS GameDev Summit 2022
33 min
Unreal Engine in WebAssembly/WebGPU
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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.
Nested Interactive Elements: An Nightmare in Accessibility
React Advanced 2023React Advanced 2023
23 min
Nested Interactive Elements: An Nightmare in Accessibility
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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.
Temporal: Modern Dates and Times in JavaScript
JSNation US 2024JSNation US 2024
22 min
Temporal: Modern Dates and Times in JavaScript
I'll speak today about the Temporal proposal, which adds modern date and time handling to JavaScript. Temporal is an API that'll be available in browsers soon and will add a built-in library for dates and times, avoiding the need for external libraries like Moment. It offers strong typing with different types for different data, such as calendar dates with or without time. Temporal objects are immutable and designed to work with JavaScript's internationalization facilities. It addresses deficiencies in the global Date object and introduces types like instant and plain types for accurate representation of time and dates across time zones. With the old Date, representing a date without a time can be problematic, especially in time zones where midnight is skipped due to daylight saving time. Temporal introduces types like PlainDate, PlainTime, PlainYearMonth, PlainMonthDay, and ZonedDateTime to accurately represent different scenarios. Additionally, there is a type called Duration for arithmetic operations and unit conversion. Now that I've introduced you to the cast of characters in Temporal, it's time to show how to accomplish a programming task. We'll start with an easy task: getting the current time as a timestamp in milliseconds using the instant type. To convert between Temporal types, you can either drop or add information. The toZonedDateTime method is used for conversion and requires adding a time zone and a time. Although Temporal objects are immutable, you can create new objects with replaced components using the with method. Migrating from the old Date object to Temporal offers a more reliable solution and avoids potential bugs. Check out the documentation for more details and enjoy using Temporal in your codebase!
React at 120FPS: When to Loop
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
30 min
React at 120FPS: When to Loop
This talk explores challenges and architecture decisions for realtime apps in React, focusing on frame updates and performance at high refresh rates. It delves into optimizing frame animation, managing synchronization, achieving frame rate independence, and implementing physics in animations. The discussion includes resolving data sharing issues, decoupling data for improved focus, enhancing simulation with external state, customizing animation behaviors, and optimizing continuous updates with Kuta. The talk also covers experimenting with ball physics, tool optimization, and enhancing rendering performance through Canvas, React3Fiber, Sandpack, and Kuta for animations.
Advanced Claude Code Techniques for 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
127 min
Advanced Claude Code Techniques for 2026
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Cole Medin
Cole Medin
Cole will walk through his agentic coding workflow that allows him to delegate all coding to the agent while still keeping him in the driver's seat (no vibe coding!). The key is to create a structured approach for both the up front planning and the validation - and he'll demonstrate what that loo...
React's Most Useful Types
React Day Berlin 2023React Day Berlin 2023
21 min
React's Most Useful Types
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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.
Make Real: Tldraw’s Accidental AI Play
React Day Berlin 2024React Day Berlin 2024
32 min
Make Real: Tldraw’s Accidental AI Play
I'm Steve Ruiz, the founder and CEO of Tealdraw. TLDR is a canvas app in React that allows developers to build with their SDK. TLDR pays attention to details that enhance the canvas experience and can be used to interact with different elements. TLDR's demos showcase its versatility, but may not perform well on social media. TLDR's AI collaboration features allow users to quickly turn their drawings into AI-generated images. The Make Real project helps users create user interfaces by drawing and providing prompts, generating working prototypes. The system behind Make Real can handle complex interactions and ambitious projects. OpenAI integration and the Steel Draw Computer enable building workflows and multi-stage generations. The goal is to bring the Canvas from being specialized to a primitive for the web. Teal Draw is free for open source and non-commercial use, with options to purchase licenses for additional features.
Why Software Fundamentals Still Matter
TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
31 min
Why Software Fundamentals Still Matter
10x Engineering: How GenAI Tools Transformed My Team's Productivity
AI Coding Summit 2025AI Coding Summit 2025
31 min
10x Engineering: How GenAI Tools Transformed My Team's Productivity
Welcome to my talk on transforming team productivity with JNI technologies. Meet Adir, an AI enthusiast. I'm Dennis, the director of AI engineering at Elementor. I'll share how AI has revolutionized my team's work. The turning point? Cursor. Cursor's organic adoption revolutionizes developer workflows. Streamlining PR reviews with Cursor automation. Simplifying GCP Secrets Manager updates with Cursor. Efficiency boost with PR automation using Cursor. Simplifying GCP Secrets Manager updates effortlessly. Empowering engineers with AI hacks for enhanced productivity. AI-driven efficiency boost through Devin's workflow integration and onboarding transformation with Rovo. AI-driven transformation of onboarding process with Devin and Rovo for efficient code understanding and task delegation. Improving code efficiency by formalizing cursor rules on individual, team, and company levels for consistent outcomes and implementing AI-powered code generation for enhanced quality and productivity. Enhancing Workflow Efficiency with Zapier AI Integrations and Automated Newsletter Creation for Streamlined Communication and Enhanced Productivity. Unlocking Insights from User Data with AI-Categorized Feedback for Product Improvement and Quality Enhancement. AI-Powered Insights, Fixes, and Adoption Strategies for Team Efficiency and Quality Enhancement. AI Adoption Challenges and Strategies: Start Small, Gain Trust, Invest in Documentation. Over-Reliance on AI and Maintaining Engineering Mindset
AHA Programming
React Summit Remote Edition 2020React Summit Remote Edition 2020
32 min
AHA Programming
Top Content
The Talk discusses the concept of AHA programming, which emphasizes thoughtful abstractions. It presents a live-coded example of the life-cycle of an abstraction and demonstrates how to fix bugs and enhance abstractions. The importance of avoiding complex abstractions and the value of duplication over the wrong abstraction are highlighted. The Talk also provides insights on building the right abstractions and offers resources for further learning.
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Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
6 min
Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents
Sam Kmezverk's talk covers the evolving tech landscape, emphasizing key principles for agents' implementation in tasks and decision-making processes. Addressing challenges in agent orchestration, debugging system issues, and cultivating user trust are crucial for successful interface development.
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.
From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
5 min
From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode
Seungho Park discusses the importance of spatial navigation for TV apps and the challenges of supporting remote, pointer, and touch inputs. Real examples are explored, including focus placement, restoring focus, and grouping elements for stable navigation. Challenges in TV app navigation such as key scrolling in grid lists and managing input mode transitions are highlighted. The talk also delves into handling input modes, designing for 5-way, pointer, and touch input, and addressing edge cases. Implementing the W3C spatial navigation standard, defining focus properties for container elements, and encouraging exploration of React UI spatial navigation support are key points.
From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
9 min
From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams
Sharing insights on scaling AI coding assistance & adopting AI native dev tools. Discussing the need for a shift from viewing adoption as a tech problem to a change management challenge. Exploring a tactical framework with three key phases: onboard, adopt, succeed. Emphasizing the importance of onboarding developers, ensuring access to licenses, and setting clear policies to avoid 'shadow AI'. Highlighting the necessity of human infrastructure for successful AI dev tool implementation, including AI advocates, communities of practice, and executive sponsorship. Adoption strategies require a focus on interconnected metrics and all pillars simultaneously. Leadership checklist for post-conference actions involves measuring metrics, distinguishing between strategic and tactical points, and staying connected through platforms like WhatsApp and LinkedIn.
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.
Does AI Actually Make You Faster? How We Built a Self-Improving Delivery Loop That Did.
TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
5 min
Does AI Actually Make You Faster? How We Built a Self-Improving Delivery Loop That Did.
Every team measures the engineering part of delivery - and it's already the fastest part. We measured the whole thing, from idea to learning, using data we already had: issue changelogs, structured experiment records, engineering analytics. We reconstructed the real clocks of our delivery a...
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.
How To Get The Most Out Of the Cloud As A Front-End Developer
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
How To Get The Most Out Of the Cloud As A Front-End Developer
Front-end developers benefit from cloud services like AWS S3 and Lambda. AWS offers services like Cognito for identity management and Bedrock AI models. AWS Amplify provides Hosting and Cloud Development Kit for efficient development. The Cloud Development Kit is recommended for TypeScript deployment. AWS Amplify connects front-end to AWS services and SDK for back-end. QR code feedback is available for the talk.
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.
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How TanStack AI Made the Hidden Complexity of AI Simple for You
React Advanced 2026React Advanced 2026
28 min
How TanStack AI Made the Hidden Complexity of AI Simple for You
We have been supporting builders of AI products with over a dozen of features in TanStack AI. Today I want to show you how most AI workflows work under the hood, what it takes to run a harness, what is important after the initial implementation of a chat experience and how to grow your functional...
Dangerous Reactivity: Why AI Output Is React's New XSS
React Advanced 2026React Advanced 2026
24 min
Dangerous Reactivity: Why AI Output Is React's New XSS
React developers (amongst others, ofc) know one golden rule: never use dangerouslySetInnerHtml on user input. Yet, as we're integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into our applications, we often make a fatal mistake. We're treating AI output as a trusted source. This is fine. Well, not automati...
How to Build AI-Native Engineering Teams
TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
28 min
How to Build AI-Native Engineering Teams
2 years ago, the engineering team's structure was fairly standardized, 2-pizza cross-functional teams and an engineering manager leading the team. These days, everyone is figuring it out as they go, making adjustments and seeing what may work and what not.

In this talk, Gregor wi...
Building a Browser-Native AI Video Runtime With React
React Advanced 2026React Advanced 2026
21 min
Building a Browser-Native AI Video Runtime With React
Browser-native AI video runtimes utilize technologies such as React, Web Workers, Web Codecs, Offscreen Canvas, and browser-compatible models to perform fully client-side video processing, thereby eliminating the need for large video files to be uploaded to the cloud before they can be processed....
Think Like a Tester: What to Look For in AI-Generated Code
Web Engineering Summit 2026Web Engineering Summit 2026
16 min
Think Like a Tester: What to Look For in AI-Generated Code
Developers write code to make things work. Wendy, QA Automation Engineer, introduces John, a great developer who encounters challenges implementing a new feature. Checkout is critical for the company's existence, emphasizing its importance. When a coupon expires, issues arise with discounts. John faces challenges fixing the code, revealing different perspectives between developers and testers. Developers and testers are partners balancing each other's perspectives. Introducing the QAI for adding QA insights to development processes. Ensuring code matches agreements is crucial. Phase B scans code for potential issues. Code alignment is the gate to address discrepancies between agreements and code. Product oversight in code scenarios. Code failures can be concealed and dangerous. Handling hidden failures is crucial in code development. User faced invisible failures; handled vs. hidden code distinction. Fast code requires a security lens and skepticism. Trust gap between front end assumptions and back end validations. Distinguishing code gaps; AI lacks awareness; critical accessibility issues; distinct code failure types with separate focuses. Utilizing team patterns for efficiency; AI effectiveness through direction with QAI; improving code quality with QAI assistance. Contradiction between PRD and Figma resolved by John; Efficient bug fixing and code scanning; Enjoying exploring edge cases and unique challenges. Importance of clean code for efficient development; Addressing bugs at the right time saves resources; Transition from bug finding in development to production.
The Dependency Paradox: Shipping 'Headless' Auth Logic via Shadcn & NPM
React Advanced 2026React Advanced 2026
18 min
The Dependency Paradox: Shipping 'Headless' Auth Logic via Shadcn & NPM
As React shifts from "Black Box" NPM packages to "Copy-Paste" components, we face a new crisis: How do we distribute complex state and security logic without locking down the UI?This talk breaks down the architecture of a multi-distribution system. We’ll explore using TanStack Query as a h...
Usage Lies - What Actually Proves an Internal AI Tool Works
TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
25 min
Usage Lies - What Actually Proves an Internal AI Tool Works
Our telemetry dashboard was green — a bug-fixer skill firing hundreds of times a week, a test-coverage agent running on every diff, manual-tester agents driving browser test cases across products, security reviews kicking off across teams, daily active users climbing. And I still couldn't a...
The Meta-Harness: Scaling Agentic Development Beyond the CLI
React Advanced 2026React Advanced 2026
21 min
The Meta-Harness: Scaling Agentic Development Beyond the CLI
Agentic development feels like magic to some teams and overhyped to others. Harnesses like Claude Code or Codex have been built around the local loop, the way things have always been done: a single developer changing code before opening a PR. Inside real organizations, agents hit walls: re...
I Replaced React's Renderer With Signals – Here's What Happened
React Advanced 2026React Advanced 2026
14 min
I Replaced React's Renderer With Signals – Here's What Happened
React re‑renders components on every state change. Signals write directly to the DOM – no re‑renders, no reconciler. I built four npm packages that run unmodified React components on signals. Live demo: building a signal from 3 lines of code, then flipping a real React app onto the signal engine....
Beyond Rubber Ducking - Engineering in Times of AI (LLMs)
TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
28 min
Beyond Rubber Ducking - Engineering in Times of AI (LLMs)
We used to explain our bugs to rubber ducks. Now, the duck talks back, writes code, and occasionally lies to our faces.

LLMs are incredible tools. They can cure "blank screen syndrome," instantly write boilerplate, and explain weird legacy code. But treating them like senior engi...
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React Beyond the DOM
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
27 min
React Beyond the DOM
Eric Rasmussen discusses React beyond the DOM, React PDF, Ink tools, and rendering to Markdown. The overview includes React Reconciler, host configuration, state management with real-world entities like light bulbs, and building a traffic light state machine visually. The talk also covers securing third-party JavaScript, expanding React rendering possibilities, advanced tooling for state machines, controlling light bulbs via renderer callbacks, server functions for fetch in the cloud, and potential robot programming with React.
React 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.
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.
From Fiber to Async React
React Advanced 2026React Advanced 2026
29 min
From Fiber to Async React
Almost a decade ago, React’s rendering algorithm was rebuilt, and with that it brought about new tools, ideas, and ways of building UI. But those tools arrived incrementally and were adopted in isolation, often framed as “optimizations” rather than part of a unified model. So are they truly indep...
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.
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
29 min
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications
Mateusz Jagodziński, principal developer at Synergy Codes, shares insights on Plug and Play Design Building Extendable React Applications, discussing feature flags, modularity, and real-world use cases. Challenges of feature flags, the concept of alternative modular design for feature management, and the importance of modularity in code organization and development. Configurability and limitations in feature management, showcasing a plugin-based design for flexible tool versions and code manipulation. Explanation of plug and play design for code manipulation and version control with full type safety in TypeScript projects. Exposing functions to register new plugins, organizing plugins' logic within individual folders, and implementing a build setup with a replacement mechanism for plugin files. Replacing missing plugins with a fallback code, enforcing restriction on direct plugin imports, and visualizing the relationship between plugins, adapters, and application components. Exploring pros and cons of self-contained plugins, addressing implementation overhead, and discussing the value of enforced modularity for AI coding tools. Discussing plugin management decisions based on client needs and the scalability of the approach with changing requirements and minor tweaks. Handling plugin version tracking, automated testing challenges, and feature control based on environments. Adapters and maintaining plugin compatibility through iterations and cosmetic changes, leveraging existing solutions for simplicity. Discussing the implications of not shipping separate builds for multiple customers and considering the benefits of smaller bundle size. Exploring the ease of trying out new features with separate plugins to assess overhead and developer experience.
From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
27 min
From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching
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.
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
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
108 min
Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers
WorkshopFree
Jo Franchetti
Jo Franchetti
LLMs are powerful but unpredictable and most tutorials skip the part where you actually have to deal with that in production code. This workshop teaches you to use generative AI as an engineering tool: how to structure prompts around schemas, validate and repair non-deterministic output, and run...
Pear: Releasing Production P2P Apps
JSNation 2026JSNation 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...
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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Building AI workflow editor UI in React with Workflow Builder SDK
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
141 min
Building AI workflow editor UI in React with Workflow Builder SDK
WorkshopFree
Łukasz Jaźwa
Łukasz Jaźwa
Join us to learn how to build your own Zapier-like interface in days, not months. Discover how to save 1,000+ hours of design and coding upfront, building a complex workflow editor UI from scratch. Customize it for AI orchestration, automations, business processes visualization and other real-wor...