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TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
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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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What is a MonoRepo?

A MonoRepo, or monolithic repository, is a single repository that contains multiple distinct projects with well-defined relationships. This setup allows for easier code sharing, atomic changes across projects, and streamlined dependency management.

What is HTTP pipelining in Undici?

HTTP pipelining in Undici allows sending multiple requests in a single connection without waiting for the previous response, improving throughput.

What types of state are best managed by Redux?

Redux is best suited for managing state that is needed by multiple components, state that needs to persist beyond the lifecycle of a single component, and state where it is beneficial to have a clear history of actions and updates. It is less suitable for managing local component state or form state.

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 is React Query?

React Query is a popular open-source library designed to manage server state in React applications. It provides features like caching, request deduplication, and background updates.

What is the ReactFlight protocol?

ReactFlight is a protocol in React 19 used to serialize content so it can be sent from a server to a client, enhancing the sharing of rendering jobs between them.
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.
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.
Ripple: the Good Parts of React, Svelte, and Solid
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
27 min
Ripple: the Good Parts of React, Svelte, and Solid
Eric Rasmussen discusses a new framework addressing current framework issues, focusing on React developers and the evolution of UI concepts. React's reactivity concept prioritizes safety and re-evaluation strategies. Fine-grained reactivity in React tracks dependencies for precise updates. Signals in Solid enable code reruns based on changes. Ripple introduces fine-grained reactivity, readable code, and supports a smooth syntax transition from React. Ripple's state management simplifies updates and effects handling. Ripple's design philosophy offers an alternative approach to React's limitations, emphasizing fine-grained value changes. Ripple stands out for SSR challenges, superior reactivity, and imperative syntax.
TresJS, a declarative way of creating 3D scenes from Vue components
Vue.js London 2023Vue.js London 2023
27 min
TresJS, a declarative way of creating 3D scenes from Vue components
The speaker discovered 3D with 3GS and was inspired to create a 3D ecosystem for the Vue community using Troy.js. The process of setting up a 3D scene and objects in Tress was explained, along with creating and configuring 3D objects. The talk also covered animating objects with Tress and the 'Cientos' package, as well as the future of Tress.js and its compatibility with older versions of Three. The speaker expressed gratitude to sponsors and contributors and highlighted the potential for product customization with Tress.js.
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
26 min
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
Top Content
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.
Taking a Dump: Using Heap Dumps to Find and Fix NodeJS Memory and CPU Problems
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
22 min
Taking a Dump: Using Heap Dumps to Find and Fix NodeJS Memory and CPU Problems
Talking about using heap dumps to find and fix Node.js memory and CPU problems. Starting with a horror story of server crashes and memory leaks in Node.js environment. Exploring why memory leaks occur in JavaScript and how garbage collection works in programming languages. Memory leaks can occur in garbage collected environments. Understanding how garbage collection works in JavaScript and general programming languages. Exploring the mark and sweep phases of garbage collection to identify and reclaim unreachable objects. The garbage collection process involves two phases: mark and sweep. Objects not reachable from roots are marked for removal. The issue arises when objects can still be reached, causing memory leaks like with unbound caches. Memory leaks can occur due to global references or unclosed hooks causing objects to remain in memory, leading to potential memory overflow. Memory usage fluctuates due to garbage collection cycles, which prevent memory leaks by releasing unused memory. A memory leak leads to increasing memory and CPU usage, potentially causing system unresponsiveness. Pinpointing memory leaks is challenging as they affect the entire application, often appearing in production environments. Heap and memory dumps help analyze memory issues, generated in multiple ways like DevTools and command line. Exploring memory usage through Node.js application launch, debug mode, and heap snapshot analysis in Chrome DevTools. Exploring memory snapshots and pinpointing memory leaks by creating diffs between snapshots to identify leaked objects and their references for easy fixes. Exploring different methods for generating memory snapshots, including CLI flags, experimental node flags, and API usage, to efficiently identify memory leaks and manage heap dumps in Node.js environments. Discussing security considerations, challenges in memory leak detection, utilizing heap dumps for resolution, and emphasizing the importance of data security and verification in fixing memory leaks.
AI-Powered Frontend Development: Building Better UIs Faster
Productivity Conf for Devs and Tech LeadersProductivity Conf for Devs and Tech Leaders
19 min
AI-Powered Frontend Development: Building Better UIs Faster
Today's Talk introduces the use of large language models (LLMs) to enhance front-end development. LLMs can act like our brains by maximizing the good parts and minimizing the bad parts. A demo in Cursor, an IDE, showcases how LLMs can be used with the builder.io Figma plugin. The Talk emphasizes the automation of tasks, such as adding a settings button and resolving errors, with the AI agent. Feedback and manual verification are crucial to ensure desired results. Tests and continuous iteration are recommended for stronger guarantees of correctness. Monitoring and guiding the AI agents is important to stay on track. Connecting to other tools like Figma and using AI prompting can further enhance code generation. The CLI enables code base integration and parallel development. Visual prototyping and seamless updates are possible with the Builder tool. Overall, the Talk highlights how LLMs can revolutionize front-end development by automating tasks, improving efficiency, and facilitating collaboration.
How I Taught LLMs How to Svelte
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
33 min
How I Taught LLMs How to Svelte
Welcome to the talk 'How I taught LLMs how to svelte.' Discussing Svelte basics, syntax evolution in Svelte 5, challenges with LLM training, Model Context Protocol in Svelte, enhancing agentic workflow with MCP, challenges in guiding LLMs for Svelte code, Svelte MCP skills and context management, leveraging ESLint tooling and agent skills, advancements in Svelte ecosystem, and handling warnings with MCP linter.
Build Modern Applications Using GraphQL and Javascript
Node Congress 2024Node Congress 2024
152 min
Build Modern Applications Using GraphQL and Javascript
Workshop
Emanuel Scirlet
Miguel Henriques
2 authors
Come and learn how you can supercharge your modern and secure applications using GraphQL and Javascript. In this workshop we will build a GraphQL API and we will demonstrate the benefits of the query language for APIs and what use cases that are fit for it. Basic Javascript knowledge required.
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Organic Leadership in the Age of AI: Why human Touch Becomes More Valuable Than Ever
TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
8 min
Organic Leadership in the Age of AI: Why human Touch Becomes More Valuable Than Ever
Reflecting on the integration of AI in software development and the implications for leadership and decision-making. AI integration in leadership: embracing context, judgment, and accountability. Principles: Context before output, Intent before optimization, Awareness before efficiency, Accountability before automation. Leadership as an ecosystem with roots, stem, and fruit; AI's role in each part. Using AI at different levels of leadership: fruit, stem, and roots. Decision-making needs context. Leadership bridges information and context gaps. AI for efficiency but human touch for depth and understanding.
CLI, GUI, or Just Blind Trust? A Tour of Code Review Styles
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
6 min
CLI, GUI, or Just Blind Trust? A Tour of Code Review Styles
Introduction to traditional code review methods and challenges faced by developers. Challenges with code review process and the shift towards AI era and CLI-based reviews. Using IDEs for code review, agentic era support, and enhancing code view for human-agent collaboration. New CodeRabbit view for code analysis, free for open source projects, support for old school and agentic engineers.
Ensuring Quality with AI
TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
7 min
Ensuring Quality with AI
Richard Rodenkemper, senior software engineer at Sentry, discusses ensuring quality with AI. GitHub data shows exponential growth in coding. Concerns arise about the reliability of coding agents versus human engineers. Impact of AI and Cloud on code production and app quality is questioned. Challenges in code reliability despite increased production are highlighted. AI as a quality tool in software development. Importance of reliability for product success highlighted. AI's strengths in handling data and searching code base discussed. Examples of AI usage in code reviews and quality assurance at Sentry shared. AI efficiency in endpoint deprecation and system updates highlighted. AI's assistance in migrating design systems and reducing notifications using Cloud Code emphasized.
A Brief History of Code Review (And What's Next)
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
8 min
A Brief History of Code Review (And What's Next)
The Talk explores the transition from solo development to code review history, tracing it back to the Fagin Inspection process in the 1990s. It discusses the evolution of code collaboration from in-person meetings to remote, email-based discussions. The shift to modern code review via pull requests on GitHub improved collaboration efficiency. The integration of AI in code review enhanced processes and enabled instant feedback. Encouraging open source projects to adopt code review tools and prioritize the importance of thorough reviews is highlighted.
Debugging Performance With AI
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
6 min
Debugging Performance With AI
The talk explores using AI to address challenges in rendering performance optimization, highlighting the potential of tools like Chrome developer tools MCP. Leveraging AI with these tools can streamline the process and flatten the learning curve for developers. The approach of isolating performance issues through commit analysis, including systematic testing and synthetic stress tests, is emphasized as a practical method to identify and resolve rendering performance issues effectively.
Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
6 min
Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture
Challenges in OAuth, importance of back end security for front end, and implementation details of OAuth flow between front end, back end, and authorization server. Detailed process of token handling, session management, and user data retrieval in OAuth implementation between front end, back end, and authorization server.
Taming the Flicker: Firebase Patterns for React Server Components
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
7 min
Taming the Flicker: Firebase Patterns for React Server Components
Rosario from Firebase highlights challenges of client-side development and Firebase solutions like server app for authentication. Firestore's offline cache and real-time updates improve user experience. Updating UI to prevent authentication flickers and optimizing real-time components with onSnapshotResume and feature flagging. Introducing Firebase App Hosting and SQL Connect for server-side rendering and SQL database integration, with upcoming Crashlytics for web.
MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
7 min
MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls
Gil Friedman from Backslash Security discussed MCP security, focusing on the Model Context Protocol and AI assistant security risks like GitHub token exposure in auto run mode. Security measures for MCP usage include setting autorun to ask every time, postmarking MCP incidents, handling malicious servers, safeguarding sensitive information, reviewing and disabling unused tools, requiring permission before triggering actions, removing MCP from environments, and revoking API keys when necessary.
Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse
Rahul introduces video optimization principles, emphasizing modern formats, compression, bitrate reduction, and lazy loading. ImageKit simplifies video loading by compressing videos significantly and adapting to network conditions. Pausing videos when not in view saves data costs and enhances user experience.
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.
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FWD: Urgent Opportunity to Claim Your React + MDX Newsletter Inheritance
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
19 min
FWD: Urgent Opportunity to Claim Your React + MDX Newsletter Inheritance
Cesar Alberca demonstrates creating newsletters using React and MDX, enhancing interactivity and liveliness. Content delivery through MDX format for newsletters and websites, multilingual newsletters creation, email rendering challenges, interactivity limitations, email scheduling and distribution, compliance in newsletter delivery, and concluding with newsletter updates, resource availability, and encouraging feedback.
The Agent Runtime Workshop: Node.js, Tools and CI/CD
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
126 min
The Agent Runtime Workshop: Node.js, Tools and CI/CD
Workshop
Alex Korzhikov
Alex Korzhikov
The workshop focuses on theory and practice building production-ready AI agents with Node.js and modern Agent SDKs. We will use a real codebase as an execution environment to explain the core concepts behind agents: the agent loop, tool calling, structured outputs, context management, guardrails,...
Global-Scale React: Architecting for Localization, Multi-Tenancy, and Dynamic Markets
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
14 min
Global-Scale React: Architecting for Localization, Multi-Tenancy, and Dynamic Markets
Sharing lessons on building and scaling global React applications. Front-end complexity with business expansion. Challenges of globalization in React development. Impact of market variability on front-end architecture for global scale. Architectural decisions influenced by operational realities. Technical and organizational problems at a global scale. React dual architectures for global scale. Balancing consistency and flexibility in architecture. Issues with business logic in components, scalability, region-specific deployments, and optimizing performance. Organizational challenges with global feature shipping, release conflicts, slow rollout cycles, and configuration duplication. Issues at global scale: technical and organizational challenges. Avoid business logic in components, scalability issues like user spikes, and deployment time. Market logic in components, region-specific deployments, front-end boundary size increase, and fragmented integrations. Multiple teams shipping globally face challenges like release conflicts, slow rollout cycles, and market-driven behavior testing. Complexity increases with more markets, localization goes beyond translation affecting currency, taxes, compliance, and more. Markets vary operationally requiring adaptive platforms for dynamic changes based on market context. Shift to adaptive platform for dynamic market behavior. Configuration as front-end control plane, like Kubernetes. Feature flags crucial for efficient management, operational flexibility. Market-specific capabilities, safe experiments, unstable features disabling. Region-aware routing enhances operational concerns separation, micro front-end usage for improved performance. Optimizing CDN and SEO for market consistency. Region-aware routing for operational separation, micro front-end performance improvement. Front-end observability critical for global scalability. Evaluation for adaptability, avoiding over-engineering. Challenges in global React application evolution, operational maintainability. Considerations for localization, multi-tenant systems, feature-flag scaling, and global architecture challenges.
Templates and Components for Claude Code: The Future of AI Coding Workflows
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
30 min
Templates and Components for Claude Code: The Future of AI Coding Workflows
Daniel Avila discusses Cloud Code templates and components for AI coding, emphasizing the importance of proper configuration and incorporating skills. Control permissions, settings, commands, sub-agents, and skills are essential for efficient workflow in Cloud Code. Cloud Code development benefits from skills injecting context for AI agents and providing clarity in configurations. Managing skill invocation, model selection, and advanced skill configuration are crucial for optimizing Cloud Code capabilities. Efficiently utilizing file references, scripts, and skill context enhance the functionality of well-crafted skills. Community interaction on GitHub and effective skill sharing practices contribute to successful team collaboration in Cloud Code development.
Scaling React: What Actually Matters
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
30 min
Scaling React: What Actually Matters
Tathagath discusses the misconception of React's role in app slowness and emphasizes architecture over React performance. Context impact on app rendering is explored, along with React compiler enhancements. Global state misuse and state management in React are addressed. Performance pitfalls, optimizing app performance, and the impact of third-party scripts on React are discussed. Strategic management of third-party scripts and common mistakes in SSR applications are highlighted. Recognizing hydration costs and architectural impacts in React, as well as shifting mindset for performance optimization, are key points.
Framework Native Rendering Without Code Duplication?
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
6 min
Framework Native Rendering Without Code Duplication?
Talking about an experiment in Agigrid to render to multiple frameworks without duplicating code. Exploring MVC approach for structuring code base and handling view complexity efficiently. Exploring new ways to structure view logic and render components efficiently across frameworks within Agic Grid experiment.
What RSCs Can Do in Next.js Today
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
36 min
What RSCs Can Do in Next.js Today
Aurora discusses the journey of React Server Components in Next.js, emphasizing the importance of composability and scalability. The shift to server-side data fetching with enhanced composability and declarative nature is explored. The significance of self-contained components for fast server-side data fetching and improved user experience is highlighted. NextGIS app router is discussed for enhanced performance and optimized data caching. Version 16 introduces cache components for optimized data caching and instant navigations. Improvement in user experience with Next 16.3 through app shells, partial prefetching, and instant insights is emphasized. The talk also covers new components and features for server-side rendering, optimizing loading speed, animations, and playlist integration in Next.js.
Supercharging Your Tooling With Rust
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
24 min
Supercharging Your Tooling With Rust
Mael from Mistral.ai discusses the evolution of Yarn, from its origins to the current Yarn 4 and plans for Yarn 6 in Rust. Yarn 4 to Yarn 6 in Rust, Stability, and Codebase Challenges. Challenges with Yarn's Codebase and Performance. Yarn's Performance Challenges and Multi-Ecosystem Support. Yarn's Multi-Ecosystem Vision and Lazy Installation. Yarn's Ecosystem Expansion and Rewrite Challenges. Yarn's Rewrite Efficiency and Test Reusability. Yarn's Rust Rewrite Challenges and Discoveries. Rust's Experimental Features and Challenges. Rust's Rewrite Challenges and AI Usage. Challenges of Integrating Rust Rewrite and Long-Term Maintenance. YARN's Performance Improvement and Long-term Vision.
Panel Discussion: Fullstack is Eating Frontend — Should FE Engineers Adapt?
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
35 min
Panel Discussion: Fullstack is Eating Frontend — Should FE Engineers Adapt?
Kathryn Grayson Nanz
Kevin Ball
Scott Tolinski
Sam Selikoff
Alem Tuzlak
Ryan Skinner
6 authors
Full stack vs. frontend specialization debate. Importance of understanding the full system for developers. Analogy of developers being like doctors knowing the whole system but specializing in certain areas. Specialization in the age of AI. Importance of specialists in the era of quick generalization with AI. The value of being a frontend developer post-AI, emphasizing the importance of specialization and knowing how to guide AI in specific areas. Specialization in Frontend Development and the Evolution of Frameworks. Importance of specialized frontend development skills in the modern age. The shift towards empowering app developers to handle database setup and configuration. The evolution of frontend frameworks to abstract complex tasks and empower developers to manage caching and CDNs. AI reliance on good documentation for effective performance. The importance of human guidance and interaction in maximizing AI capabilities across development specialties. AI as a complementary tool, not a substitute. Understanding the importance of skill set integration with AI technologies for effective outcomes. Frontend engineers must embrace continuous learning and understanding AI's first principles. Embracing curiosity and adapting to rapid technological changes for professional growth and development. Discovering the limitations of specific knowledge transfer and the importance of fundamental skills over tool-specific expertise. Embracing a patient approach to adopting new technologies and focusing on learning essential skills for AI without chasing every new tool or trend. Exploration of using agents for self-learning workflows, preparing for questions through Q&A sessions, and elevating thinking by utilizing tools effectively. Importance of motivated learning, questioning, and utilizing agents effectively in the learning process, recognizing significant technological advancements, and the value of independent learning over solely relying on agents.
AI Can Generate Tests for You, Now What?
Web Engineering Summit 2026Web Engineering Summit 2026
22 min
AI Can Generate Tests for You, Now What?
Living in an exciting and productive period with AI's assistance in test generation and scalability, led by Maya, a Staff Software Engineer passionate about AI accessibility. Streamlined test generation through AI can compromise code quality if not placed correctly, emphasizing the importance of test validity over quantity. Challenges of test generation include cost impacts on code quality, highlighting the need for validity over quantity and the importance of placing tests correctly. Understanding risks and validation criteria in code testing, with an example focusing on search functionality. Importance of mapping tests to specific quarens for effective validation in Agile Testing. Exploring AI integration into Agile Testing, balancing AI and human input for effective workflows. Transitioning to a new scalable workflow with AI test plan generation for enhanced efficiency. Establishing collaboration standards with AI, prioritizing strategic testing tactics over quantity and ensuring code safety beyond complete coverage.
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Real-World Hydration and Rendering Patterns in Modern React Apps
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
20 min
Real-World Hydration and Rendering Patterns in Modern React Apps
Ranjit Dandigam discusses real-world hydration and rendering patterns in modern React apps, exploring UI rendering phases, optimization strategies, and the importance of server-client boundaries. Implementing a streaming strategy in React apps enhances loading efficiency and user experience. Managing hydration mismatches and implementing safe time patterns are crucial for stable rendering. Demonstrations of Next.js rendering variations highlight different approaches to rendering content. Design principles for React app rendering emphasize the significance of streaming with suspense and honesty in rendering decisions.
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.
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...
Replacing Form Libraries With Native Web APIs
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
17 min
Replacing Form Libraries With Native Web APIs
Jamin discusses the shift from using form libraries to native web APIs in React development, emphasizing the benefits of exploring web-native APIs before relying on libraries. The talk covers topics such as Constraint Validation API, React 19 form actions, and CSS pseudo-classes for form building without libraries. It highlights real-time validation, simplified form submission, and custom error handling in React forms. The importance of customizing error messages, setting up custom error handling, and optimizing form performance are also addressed, along with challenges and recommendations for utilizing web native APIs in form development.
Modernizing Your React App: Compiler, useEffectEvent, Activity & Friends
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
27 min
Modernizing Your React App: Compiler, useEffectEvent, Activity & Friends
Victor shares experiences inheriting codebase and explains the importance of React's updates for code cleanliness. Agenda includes React evolution, API usage, modernization playbook, and insightful discussions. React 19 impact on React's evolution towards a declarative model for state management and form handling. React's shift towards a declarative model, impacting form handling and state management with React 19 updates, including new APIs and the importance of the React compiler for efficient development. Using React compiler for efficient development and code simplification. Measuring code base changes with memorization hooks identification. Introducing user fact event API for dependency-free code. Handling state persistence challenges with the Activity API for seamless user experiences and resource management. Utilizing the Activity API for precise state management and resource optimization in React Native applications. Exploring powerful user cases: tabs example, pre-rendering, and back navigation benefits with the Activity API. Exploring the value of instant experiences with back navigation and code optimization through API adoption. Measuring success, avoiding AI dependence, and understanding the importance of learning for effective development. Addressing challenges post-AI era, emphasizing responsibility in learning, maintaining control, and ensuring security. Practical steps include using React compiler, auditing code for Activity API integration, and optimizing data flow for enhanced user experience.
Mess to Modern: Refactoring a React Nightmare
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
18 min
Mess to Modern: Refactoring a React Nightmare
Have you ever faced complex and messy React codebases? Caleb Garner shares a five-step playbook to transform a 900-line React component. Addressing systematic modularity and organization structure for better code management. Enhancing codebase structure by extracting business logic for testability and maintainability. Streamlining state and data management for robust codebases. Establishing predictable data handling with userReducer for structured state management. Optimizing component modularity for reusability and efficient data management. Emphasizing caller-controlled layout and streamlined development experience through five key principles.
React on the Edge
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
17 min
React on the Edge
Welcome to React on the Edge with Amir Sami from S&C Electric exploring React applications for diverse Edge devices beyond browsers. The discussion covers deploying React apps to various Edge devices, addressing challenges like network stability and resource limitations, optimizing bundle size with Preact, and using Brotli compression for efficient web asset compression on Edge devices.
React Bits: The Art of Standout UI
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
21 min
React Bits: The Art of Standout UI
David, creator of React Bits, shares insights on designing standout UI components, emphasizing the importance of distinct interfaces without being noisy. ReactVids focuses on creating reusable visual moments for developers, ensuring standout UI accessibility. Community-driven evolution of React Bits prioritizes customization, usability, and key UI qualities. Magic Rings exemplifies the balance and purpose needed in UI components. The versatility of Magic Rings showcases the importance of a flexible visual system. Exploring shaders enhances the control and visual richness of Magic Rings. Leveraging shader uniforms enables dynamic visual effects in React components. Real creative controls in component design emphasize meaningful customization. Strategic props play a crucial role in reusable creative component development. The philosophy of React Bits focuses on easy adoption, customization, and providing a strong starting point for distinct interfaces. ReactVids aims to create memorable, intentional, and unique user moments in UI design.
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.
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.
Free workshops
Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
108 min
Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers
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
Web Engineering Summit 2026Web Engineering Summit 2026
54 min
Pear: Releasing Production P2P Apps
WorkshopFree
David Mark Clements
Mikkel Malmberg
2 authors
All it takes is a module and a CLI tool to build and deploy production peer-to-peer applications. In this workshop:Build a realtime peer-to-peer applicationConnect with others on your own application, completely peer-to-peer.Understand how to deploy, including produc...
No Servers, No Cloud, No Masters: Make P2P Apps with Pear
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
66 min
No Servers, No Cloud, No Masters: Make P2P Apps with Pear
WorkshopFree
David Mark Clements
Mikkel Malmberg
2 authors
All it takes is a module and a CLI tool to build and deploy production peer-to-peer applications.In this workshop:Convert an existing React application so that it no longer needs a server to deployPrepare the application and setup deployment flow for production release...
Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
73 min
Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers
WorkshopFree
Confidence Okoghenun
Confidence Okoghenun
In this hands on workshop participants will learn how to create a production‑ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on Cloudflare Workers. The session covers defining tool endpoints, integrating external APIs, persisting state with KV storage, and globally deploying the server so AI assistants...
Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
34 min
Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models
WorkshopFree
Paige Bailey
Paige Bailey
In this hands-on session, we'll dive straight into the practical mechanics of working with Google DeepMind’s latest research and models. We'll explore Google AI Studio, Antigravity, and the Gemini APIs, focusing on how to seamlessly integrate these capabilities into your own projects. If you're l...
"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
53 min
"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network
WorkshopFree
Legare Kerrison
Sawyer Bowerman
2 authors
Join us for an interactive workshop where you'll train your first neural network using the classic MNIST handwritten digit dataset. In this hands-on session, participants will use OpenShift AI 3.x Workbenches to build and train a PyTorch model that recognizes handwritten digits from images.
Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
52 min
Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding
WorkshopFree
Gil Friedman
Gil Friedman
Modern AI coding agents don’t just autocomplete. They execute, connect, and automate. With the wrong settings, they can access more of your system than you intended. In this session, I’ll demonstrate how agent autonomy, MCP integrations, and Skills can lead to unexpected security risks. Through e...
Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
49 min
Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop
WorkshopFree
Shifra Williams
Shifra Williams
Ready to bring conversational AI to life? In this hands-on workshop, we'll walk through deploying a real-time voice agent using Render's cloud platform. You'll work directly with LiveKit's voice agent template to create an interactive AI assistant that can listen, think, and respond naturally thr...
Build Your Dream Extensions with AI
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
87 min
Build Your Dream Extensions with AI
WorkshopFree
Brittany Joiner
Brittany Joiner
In this interactive workshop, you’ll build a working internal browser extension you and your team can use to share context across apps you use daily. We’ll start with a practical, real-world example: a web clipper that you’ll customize to send content from GitHub to your team’s communication tool...
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
76 min
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
WorkshopFree
Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
This workshop introduces Sandboxes as a general computing primitive and uses Cloudflare Sandboxes as the concrete implementation. Participants explore common, real-world use cases for sandboxed execution and learn how to reason about when and why sandboxes are the right tool.

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