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Deep Dive: Growing to Tech Lead

Growing to Tech Lead

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

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

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

AI Assisted Coding

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Talk: React Server Components in Kubernetes: Ship Happens
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  • Workshop: Exploring Server Side Rendering
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How I Build Web Applications in 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
24 min
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
Kent C. Dodds discusses building web applications in 2026, highlighting the importance of user experience and challenges in offline video downloads. Recent AI advancements in the Epic Workshop app enable offline video downloads with features like bulk downloads and quality control. Efficient AI agent management using agents like Cursor transforms workflow. Leveraging Laravel and Ruby on Rails, Ask Mode enhances project understanding by communicating with AI agents. Emphasizing clear task scoping, iterative planning, and agent feedback improves project development. Utilizing MCP tools and agent workflow, including BugBot for code review, optimizes app development. Closing the agent loop and emphasizing architecture's role in utilizing agent input context are crucial. The talk invites developers to become experienced AI agent managers and join the mailing list for updates.
React Compiler Internals
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
23 min
React Compiler Internals
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Introduction to React Compiler, its benefits, and the problem of memoization in React. Performance issues due to stateful components in React, solution with React.memo and use memo, and the benefits of React compiler in automating memoization. Compiler's transformation into high-level intermediate representation provides a clearer understanding of code operations and data flow, addressing the issues with unique identifiers for variables in complex scenarios. Compiler ensures each variable is assigned exactly once through single static assignment, resolving issues with variable values based on code paths and introducing unique names for assignments. Effects describe how operations interact with data, ensuring safe caching with types like read, store, capture, mutate, and freeze effects. The compiler understands operations but needs to identify values that change between renders for React, leading to the reactive analysis phase to determine reactive values in the component. Variables marked as reactive for potential changes between renders are optimized for caching. Compiler identifies dependencies to group operations for efficient caching. Scopes are established to cache related variables together and ensure efficient rendering and performance improvement in the final JavaScript code. Compiler sets up cache slots for dependencies and outputs to optimize performance. Scopes work independently to recalculate based on changes, ensuring efficient memoization. React Compiler streamlines memoization, providing automatic correct optimizations without manual burden, paving the way for performance-focused code.
Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
21 min
Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding
Welcome to spec-driven development talk by Daniel Sogel. AI agents struggle with benchmarks and real-world tasks. Developers spend extra time fixing code generated by AI agents. Security issues in AI-generated code, limitations with context management, multi-file coordination, silent failures, architecture decisions, and enterprise context challenges addressed by Spectre from development. AI agents removing safety checks, generating code with fake data, silent failures worse than crashes, spectrum development benefits like complete context upfront, structured reasoning, validation checkpoints, and autonomous implementation without manual code review. Act with AI agents like pair programmers, combine spectrum, behavior-driven, and test-driven development. Spec-driven development adoption in the industry, using Keyro IDE by AWS and popular tools like SpecKit and OpenSpec for different project types. Define tech stack, API structure in planning, task phase implementation, handover to AI agents, and choosing the right spec-driven development tools.
5 Tough Conversations Managers Need to Have
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
37 min
5 Tough Conversations Managers Need to Have
Kellie emphasizes the importance of having tough conversations in management, addressing underperformance using the care framework and support strategies. The STAR framework is highlighted for handling difficult feedback effectively. Effective communication with superiors involves acknowledging trade-offs and framing discussions around revenue impact. Setting clear communication boundaries is crucial for work-life balance and team efficiency. Encouraging a feedback culture, addressing promotion discussions transparently, and handling micromanagement concerns with empathy are key points discussed.
Surprise! Svelte Secretly Sending Signals
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
28 min
Surprise! Svelte Secretly Sending Signals
Welcome to a talk on Surprise! Svelte Secretly Sending Signals by Paolo Ricciuti showcasing live coding with a demo of reactivity in Svelte using writable stores and the proxy API. The proxy API in Svelte allows for intercepting object operations to enhance reactivity. Efficient state management, event handling, and dependency management are key topics discussed. Strategies for managing dependencies, handling current and actual effects, clearing sets, scheduling functions efficiently, and handling signal memory cleanup in Svelte are covered. The talk also addresses signal-based frameworks, async issue solutions, and alternative approaches like Solid for handling signals sequentially.
Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
27 min
Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web
Joshua introduces Transformers JS and Hugging Face, emphasizing community collaboration and pre-trained models. Transformers JS evolution led to 1.4 million monthly users, supporting 155 architectures. The library's browser-based capabilities offer real-time processing, cost-efficiency, and scalability. Integration enhancements include native web GPU execution and React Native implementation. Web ML implementation focuses on Onyx Runtime for device execution and web GPU for resource optimization. Browser-based ML applications cover vision, speech recognition, and text-to-speech. Advanced implementations include multimodal applications and educational tools. Interactive AI demonstrations showcase semantic search and conversational AI scenarios. Model licensing transitions to ECMAScript for efficiency and model redownloading factors are discussed.
The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
10 min
The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained
Today, exploring Ralph Wiggum AI method's simplicity and persistence. Ralph loops ensure eventual consistency in problem-solving. Challenges in AI chats revolve around context management, emphasizing the importance of effective loop iterations. Basic example of loop iteration and backpressure in Ralph. Using skip permissions can be risky. Running Cloud in a sandbox mode for safety measures. Ralph Wiggum AI Method: Autonomous coding with thorough spec creation. Careful planning needed. Upsides include autonomous operation and clear task handling.
Why Software Engineering Is Becoming: Plan and Review
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
18 min
Why Software Engineering Is Becoming: Plan and Review
Louis from Vibe Kanban discusses optimizing workflows for software engineers with coding agents, focusing on planning and review. Leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT can enhance productivity by reallocating time effectively. Reflecting on time saved by AI, the focus is on optimizing planning and reviewing to boost productivity. Emphasizing detailed planning processes and effective use of AI coding agents to ensure successful outcomes. Simplifying reviewing processes to save time and enhance productivity through efficient code review. Leveraging Codex and Claude coding agents for efficient code review to optimize time and workflow. Minimizing time spent on code review by providing feedback to coding agents within the editor, working on multiple tasks in parallel, and automating tasks requested by AI for enhanced productivity.
React Components for both the Client & the Server
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
16 min
React Components for both the Client & the Server
Kiko shares the process of building UI components for both client and server sides, highlighting performance benefits and challenges of using server components. Building a reusable UI library with server and client components, aiming for similarity and adaptability. Adding interactivity to a data table in a Next.js application by incorporating client components for reactivity and customization. Building customization by incorporating a custom cell, resolving errors between client and server components, and optimizing syntax highlighting and markdown processing. Achieving composition pattern at the component level by separating client and server parts, maintaining an agnostic component part, and optimizing rendering for client-specific functionalities. Achieving client-server performance optimization by keeping rendering tree agnostic, enabling separate client component extraction, and promoting interactivity within components.
Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
20 min
Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code
The Talk delves into agent decoding in Cloud Code, emphasizing the importance of planning, acting, and verifying changes systematically. It explores maximizing efficiency through Cloud Code acting as an agent, reasoning, reading, writing code, and using tools for successful outcomes. The discussion covers enhancing task planning, utilizing subagents for specialized assistance, and optimizing tool use with MCP integration. It introduces Cloud Skills, plugins for team collaboration, and efficient tool utilization with parallel workflows. The concept of non-interactive agents, guided autonomy, and steps for experiencing agent decoding are also highlighted.
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A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
6 min
A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain
Thanking Git Nation and Algorand team. Exploring blockchain's journey to enlightenment. Algorand's role in blockchain solutions like disintermediation, data integrity, and market access. Highlighting businesses on Algorand mainnet like TravelX, Lofty, and LabTrace. Algorand TypeScript simplifies blockchain development with real TypeScript, avoiding complex assembly language. Examples like asset transfers and key-value storage demonstrate accessibility.
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.
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.
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.
Reimagine Frontend in the Serverless Era
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
8 min
Reimagine Frontend in the Serverless Era
Evangelia, tech founder of Fioromat Academy, discusses the impact of serverless technologies on frontends, emphasizing a shift towards lightweight, stateless backends split into smaller units and the increased importance of API gateways and serverless functions. The discussion also highlights the significance of optimistic state updates, caching strategies to reduce API calls, resilient connection handling with retries for failed HTTP calls, granular error handling at the component level, and custom fallback UI per component. Overall, the Talk emphasizes the evolving frontend architectures and the necessity of adapting to changes in data structures and technologies.
Optimizing the Path From Design to Production in Engineering Workflows
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
Optimizing the Path From Design to Production in Engineering Workflows
Akbar, developer advocate at Figma, highlights the importance of exploration, representation, and production in product development. Figma leverages design systems and AI tools for efficient transition from representation to production, optimizing expertise and automating non-critical tasks. Seamless integration between design elements and the app is achieved through tools like Code Connect and Copilot, fostering collaboration between design and code.
React for Good: Creating Inclusive, Secure, and Scalable Applications in Emerging Markets
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
5 min
React for Good: Creating Inclusive, Secure, and Scalable Applications in Emerging Markets
Inosency Andembera, React developer, discusses using React for building scalable, secure, and inclusive applications for emerging markets like Malawi and Africa. Addressing challenges of Internet connectivity, device limitations, security concerns, and inclusivity for first-time Internet users. Utilizing React for performance, security, and inclusion in emerging markets through code splitting, lazy loading, authentication, input validation, multiple language support, and simple UIs. Highlighting React's features in enhancing inclusion by addressing challenges in emerging markets, such as limited digital literacy, creating simple UIs, supporting multiple languages, internationalization, step-by-step UIs, and semantic HTML for accessibility. Zunga, a financial platform in Malawi, showcases React's benefits in addressing financial service gaps, scalability, offline support, and security enhancements.
WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers
Node Congress 2025Node Congress 2025
5 min
WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers
WinterTC is working on standardizing JS runtimes to avoid vendor lock-in and provide a universal API. This involves defining which web APIs should be included, such as URL and WebAssembly. The goal is to create a definitive list of APIs for server-side JS runtimes.
No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
6 min
No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone
Marius from Twilio demonstrates building AI agents for phone calls, addressing latency issues by leveraging Twilio's infrastructure and third-party providers like 11 Labs and Google Cloud. Configuration includes WebSocket integration for message handling, static responses, and text-to-speech with 11 Labs. AI integration involves GPT4 or mini model for conversation history storage. A live demo showcases an AI voice assistant with instant responses and latency improvements.
Improve Your Presentation Skills by Scripting Your Live Coding Demos to Perfection
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
8 min
Improve Your Presentation Skills by Scripting Your Live Coding Demos to Perfection
Elio's tips for perfect live coding: Minimize distractions, prepare well with light themes and larger fonts, adjust cursor style, avoid hover panels. Stay focused on one application during presentations. Changing settings for clarity, stressing the importance of tools like Demo Time for scripted presentations within Visual Studio Code, eliminating context switching between applications, and facilitating audience interaction with shared repositories. Exploring actions in Demo Time: creating code, opening files, highlighting code, and executing VS Code commands for a cleaner presentation. Utilizing Slides for Markdown presentations within Demo Time.
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I Measured React Server Components’ Performance So You Don’t Have To
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
22 min
I Measured React Server Components’ Performance So You Don’t Have To
Nadia introduces React server components and performance, highlighting the benefits of server components in improving performance and the need for a clear understanding of their impact on rendering and data fetching in React applications. Exploring Server-Side Rendering Impact on Performance: Analysis of transitioning from client-side to server-side rendering, including implications on performance and data fetching. Transforming Empty Screen to Performance Improvement: Detailed process of browser work, React rendering, and data fetching impact. Making the Shift to Server-Side Rendering: Impact on interactivity and data fetching optimization. Understanding the Benefits of AppRouter Version in SSR with Reduced JavaScript Payload and Introduction of Server Components. Investigating Smarter Server-Side Rendering with Server Components and Streaming in Next.js. Refactoring for Server Components: Async Data Fetching, Server Component Identification, and Utilizing Suspense for React Streaming Chunks. Enhancing Performance with Server Components: Balancing Rendering Approaches, Importance of Server-Side Data Fetching, and Leveraging Suspense for Improved Streaming.
Rethinking React Styling for the RSC Era
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
19 min
Rethinking React Styling for the RSC Era
Bree discusses the evolution of React styling with React 19, Tailwind, and server-side rendering components, emphasizing static CSS generation. The shift towards native CSS and CSS modules for better scalability and control, and the rise in popularity of Tailwind CSS for its utility-first approach. Challenges in React styling implementations include runtime libraries, streaming UI, scalable theming, and overhead reduction. Panda CSS emerges as a potential successor to Tailwind CSS, offering a blend of CSS and JS experience. Styling decisions in 2025 are philosophical, with Tailwind for speed, Panda CSS for complex design systems, and CSS modules for stability.
Building Browser Extensions with React - That Don't Break Browsers
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
20 min
Building Browser Extensions with React - That Don't Break Browsers
Jonny Fekete discusses building web extensions with React, the simplicity of manifest.json, the shift from manifest.v2 to manifest.v3 in Chrome, and the impact on functionalities like persistent background scripts and access restrictions. The transition to manifest.v3 for web extensions, the siloed contexts of web extensions, and the use of sendMessage API for communication between different contexts. Challenges in web extension development, complexities of setting up custom configurations, and the modern approach with the WXT framework for easier development and state persistence. Challenges in state persistence and data storage in web extensions, including local, session, and event sync storage methods. Managing multiple tabs' state and data storage with consideration for tab IDs to prevent memory leaks. Consider using storage over Redux for better debugging and architecture. Address CSS collision with Shadow DOM and custom web components to isolate styles from the underlying web page. Utilize background script for throttling and debouncing, efficient storage utilization, and the WXT framework for ease of development and communication.
Voice Agents Crash Course
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
26 min
Voice Agents Crash Course
Stepan Suvorov, CTO at Roadsoft, discusses the rise of Voice Agents, highlighting market growth, improved models for speech to text and voice generation, reduced latency, and cost-effectiveness. Key components include speech-to-text, LLM analysis, text-to-speech conversion, orchestration, and addressing latency. Delving into essential aspects like voice activity detection, interruption handling, and model selection criteria for Voice Agents. Exploring parameters such as latency, quality, pricing, language support, and voice cloning options. Comparing DIY and managed solutions for Voice Agents, emphasizing flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Discussing cost implications between managed and self-hosted solutions, considering usage volumes and scale. Addressing infrastructure challenges, testing approaches, WAPI limits, model selection, and future plans for voice agents.
Beyond Vibe Coding: Differentiated Workflows with Antigravity
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
10 min
Beyond Vibe Coding: Differentiated Workflows with Antigravity
Alex Astrum
Rody Davis
2 authors
Alex and Rodi discuss antigravity, a powerful coding agent that unifies Google tools. The agent manager orchestrates multiple agents, providing a higher-level view than just code. Features include an AI editor, agent-controlled Chrome browser, and best practices for agent autonomy and usage. AI steering takes time before feeling intuitive. Anti-gravity offers fast and planning modes for building efficiently. The planning mode allows fine-tuning and execution of complex tasks. Playground validates ideas before full projects. The playground in AntiGravity validates project ideas. Image generation, Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini 3 enhance design output. Skills support deep context tasks. Asynchronous nature enables efficient project development. Browser agent serves as a versatile tool for bug fixing. Manual control and inspiration amidst automation. Transition to agent manager for enhanced visibility and decision-making. Encouragement to explore diverse agent-led experiences and updates for workflow improvement.
Why Software Engineering Is Becoming: Plan and Review
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
18 min
Why Software Engineering Is Becoming: Plan and Review
Louis from Vibe Kanban discusses optimizing workflows for software engineers with coding agents, focusing on planning and review. Leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT can enhance productivity by reallocating time effectively. Reflecting on time saved by AI, the focus is on optimizing planning and reviewing to boost productivity. Emphasizing detailed planning processes and effective use of AI coding agents to ensure successful outcomes. Simplifying reviewing processes to save time and enhance productivity through efficient code review. Leveraging Codex and Claude coding agents for efficient code review to optimize time and workflow. Minimizing time spent on code review by providing feedback to coding agents within the editor, working on multiple tasks in parallel, and automating tasks requested by AI for enhanced productivity.
React Components for both the Client & the Server
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
16 min
React Components for both the Client & the Server
Kiko shares the process of building UI components for both client and server sides, highlighting performance benefits and challenges of using server components. Building a reusable UI library with server and client components, aiming for similarity and adaptability. Adding interactivity to a data table in a Next.js application by incorporating client components for reactivity and customization. Building customization by incorporating a custom cell, resolving errors between client and server components, and optimizing syntax highlighting and markdown processing. Achieving composition pattern at the component level by separating client and server parts, maintaining an agnostic component part, and optimizing rendering for client-specific functionalities. Achieving client-server performance optimization by keeping rendering tree agnostic, enabling separate client component extraction, and promoting interactivity within components.
When Less Is More: A Technical Overview of LLMs and the Strength of Smaller Models
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
11 min
When Less Is More: A Technical Overview of LLMs and the Strength of Smaller Models
Lugari Karasen from Red Hat AI discusses the technical aspects of large language models, including data collection, tokenization, and neural network internals. Model training involves converting human language to mathematical representations and adjusting parameters iteratively in a complex environment. Inference engines like VLLM aid in deploying models for rapid data processing. Optimizing model size for efficiency without sacrificing accuracy is crucial, with quantization reducing model size while maintaining precision. Local deployment offers privacy and control, and smaller purpose-driven models can enhance workflows and experimentation.
Building 3D Web Apps in 2025 – React, XR & AI?
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
17 min
Building 3D Web Apps in 2025 – React, XR & AI?
Bela, open source maintainer, discusses 3D web app development in 2025, leveraging React for XR apps and AI assistance. Explore the evolution of 3D on the web, React's role, and the impact of AI, focusing on large language models and challenges. 3GS foundation makes 3D web dev accessible; React 3 fiber simplifies scene orchestration and enhances performance. React 3 XR enables cross-platform AR and VR app development with spatial understanding and high-quality media rendering. Using React 3 Fiber and XR components, the canvas sets up interactive scenes with meshes for precise display. Imperative cube rotation for performance, AI's impact on 3D web, and challenges of AI in 3D app development.
Transforming Your Tech Interviews in the AI Agent Age
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
11 min
Transforming Your Tech Interviews in the AI Agent Age
Anna McDougal, director of engineering operations at Blinkist, presents the McDougal method for technical interviews aiming to improve their effectiveness by leveraging emerging technologies. The challenges in technical interviews involve the inadequacy of measuring the right skills through traditional methods like DSA problems and take-home tests. The speaker questions the necessity of perfection in engineering hires and emphasizes problem-solving skills over perfection, especially with AI tools. Hiring criteria are evolving with a focus on attitude alignment and cultural addition rather than just fit. Maximizing value in hiring involves seeking candidates with aligned goals and the necessary toolkit for the job. Ensuring technical interviews reflect actual job conditions and tool usage is crucial, and encouraging experimentation and feedback on proposed methods is essential for improvement.
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JavaScript
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
25 min
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
Speaker's involvement in Temporal proposal and TC39 meetings for JavaScript standardization. Date conversion challenges faced in development. Addressing time zone discrepancies with Temporal to prevent bugs. Exploration of Temporal types and design philosophy. Usage of Java's time zone serialization in JavaScript Temporal. Challenges in implementing Temporal proposal and its transformative potential in ECMAScript.
10 Years of Best of JS
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
28 min
10 Years of Best of JS
Michael discusses the evolution of JavaScript from its early days to modern server-side capabilities, the impact of jQuery, Node.js, and single-page applications with popular libraries like Backbone and AngularJS. The emergence of UI libraries like React, Vue.js, and Angular, alongside meta frameworks like Next.js, Remix, Veltkit, and Solid with server components. The Best of JS project tracks JavaScript project trends, filters out deprecated projects, and monitors GitHub stars for maintenance. The importance of maintaining project relevance, adding new projects continuously, and classifying projects under meaningful tags. The evolution of TypeScript, tool releases like Deno and Burn, styling evolution from CSS to headless components, and the impact of Tailwind CSS. Analysis of CSS optimization, CLI ecosystem, tooling trends, emerging tools, and JavaScript development trends over the past decade.
React
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.
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.
How to React Compiler
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
20 min
How to React Compiler
Introduction to React compiler, differences from React 19, installation of Babel plug-in React compiler, specifying target React versions, and how React compiler detects and processes component dependencies. Configuring React compiler settings, exploring default options and configurations, utilizing React compiler playground website for configurations, dealing with JSX markup re-computation. React compiler feature for extracting JSX from array map callbacks, limitations of enable function outlining, enabling JSX outlining for separate functions. Function memoization in React compiler, React compiler beta stage, potential errors with React compiler. React compiler error: memorization preservation, hidden messages, validation settings. React compiler: validation tools, hooks treatment, memorization challenges. Changing hooks to functions for React compiler optimization. React Compiler usage considerations and potential optimizations.
The State of React and the Community in 2025
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
29 min
The State of React and the Community in 2025
Mark Erickson discusses the state of React in 2025, React community debates on React's direction and misconceptions, React's shift towards client-side frameworks and SSR emphasis, React's feature development process at Meta and Vercel, controversy around Vercel's server components involvement, tight relationship between React and Next, React team's emphasis on frameworks for app performance, critique of React's heavy-handed framework recommendation, React team's delay in adding VEET as a recommended tool, challenges with server components' origins and communication, no official signals support planned for React 19, social media impact on React development decisions, React community diversity and server components usage insights, React's evolving black box concept and tradeoffs discussed.
TDD in Frontend
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
121 min
TDD in Frontend
Workshop
Aleksandr Shinkarev
Aleksandr Shinkarev
Tests first, code last!How to develop your frontend that the code isn't falling apart? How to make it scary free to deliver your work results? How to battle bugs that are chasing you at every step you make?I am going to answer these questions during the workshop and show how to foll...
The State of React
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
26 min
The State of React
Introduction to the State of React survey and the history of developer surveys. Detailed analysis of survey results, user demographics, and job titles. Examination of React API trends, user sentiment towards APIs, and new API challenges. Analysis of React library satisfaction, particularly with Next.js. Discussion on React state management and data loading, including pain points. Insights on React library usage patterns and application trends. Key takeaways include staying calm, appreciating foundational React elements, and relying on data for a balanced view.
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
Free workshops
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...
The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
96 min
The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering
Featured WorkshopFree
Niall Maher
Niall Maher
A comprehensive workshop designed specifically for React developers ready to become AI engineers. Learn how your existing React skills—component thinking, state management, effect handling, and performance optimization—directly translate to building sophisticated AI applications. We'll cover the...
Build LLM agents in TypeScript with Mastra and Vercel AI SDK
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
145 min
Build LLM agents in TypeScript with Mastra and Vercel AI SDK
Featured WorkshopFree
Eric Burel
Eric Burel
LLMs are not just fancy search engines: they lay the ground for building autonomous and intelligent pieces of software, aka agents.
Companies are investing massively in generative AI infrastructures. To get their money's worth, they need developers that can make the best out of an LLM, and t...
How To Enhance an Existing React App With AI, Without Rewriting It From Scratch
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
109 min
How To Enhance an Existing React App With AI, Without Rewriting It From Scratch
WorkshopFree
 Greg Brimble
Greg Brimble
In this workshop, we will incrementally augment an existing React application with AI. I'm sure most of you probably already maintain a React app, so rather than starting from the ground-up, let's take something that already works, and develop some patterns for adding practical, real-world AI fea...
On-Premise Open-Source LLMs with Ollama & FastAPI
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
58 min
On-Premise Open-Source LLMs with Ollama & FastAPI
WorkshopFree
Brendon Co
Brendon Co
This workshop introduces how to use open-source LLMs on-premise for enhanced data control, privacy, and cost efficiency. It highlights Ollama for simplified LLM management (downloading, running models offline) and FastAPI for efficient local hosting, enabling fast API development and seamless int...
Data is Beautiful: Creating Compelling Data Visualisations with AG Charts
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
83 min
Data is Beautiful: Creating Compelling Data Visualisations with AG Charts
WorkshopFree
James Swinton-Bland
James Swinton-Bland
AG Charts is a JavaScript Charting Library, built by AG Grid, that you can use to create beautiful and compelling data visualisations in React, with a simple, intuitive, flexible API.What You'll Learn: In this workshop, you'll learn how to get started with AG Charts to create simple visual...
Debugging with Sentry AI using Seer, MCP, and Agent Monitoring
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
55 min
Debugging with Sentry AI using Seer, MCP, and Agent Monitoring
WorkshopFree
Paul Jaffré
Paul Jaffré
This workshop explores how to leverage Sentry’s AI-driven tools (Seer, MCP and Agent Monitoring) to streamline debugging, error monitoring, and observability in full-stack applications. It guides participants through Setting up Sentry from scratchInstrumenting errors,...
Full-stack App in half a Day: Next.js 15 Development Bootcamp
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
175 min
Full-stack App in half a Day: Next.js 15 Development Bootcamp
Featured WorkshopFree
Maurice de Beijer
Maurice de Beijer
Unlock the Power of Modern Full-Stack Development in Half a Day!Ready to build lightning-fast, scalable web applications? Join our immersive 4-hour interactive workshop and dive headfirst into the world of Full-Stack Next.js 15!This isn't just another theory session. You'll roll up...
Build and Customize a Node-Based Workflow Builder With React
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
140 min
Build and Customize a Node-Based Workflow Builder With React
WorkshopFree
Łukasz Jaźwa
Łukasz Jaźwa
Node-based user interfaces offer an intuitive and powerful way to represent complex data flows and processes. In this interactive 3-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to create engaging diagram UIs using React and the popular React Flow library. We’ll start by exploring key libraries for creating cu...
Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
46 min
Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor
Featured WorkshopFree
Mike Mikula
Mike Mikula
In this workshop I’ll cover a repeatable process on how to spin up full stack apps in Cursor.  Expect to understand techniques such as using GPT to create product requirements, database schemas, roadmaps and using those in notes to generate checklists to guide app development.  We will dive furth...
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