React Advanced 2021

With the release of React 18 we finally get the long awaited concurrent rendering. But how is that going to affect your application? What are the benefits of concurrent rendering in React? What do you need to do to switch to concurrent rendering when you upgrade to React 18? And what if you don’t want or can’t use concurrent rendering yet?

There are some behavior changes you need to be aware of! In this workshop we will cover all of those subjects and more.

Join me with your laptop in this interactive workshop. You will see how easy it is to switch to concurrent rendering in your React application. You will learn all about concurrent rendering, SuspenseList, the startTransition API and more.

ReactJS is wildly popular and thus wildly supported. TypeScript is increasingly popular, and thus increasingly supported.

The two together? Not as much. Given that they both change quickly, it's hard to find accurate learning materials.

React+TypeScript, with JetBrains IDEs? That three-part combination is the topic of this series. We'll show a little about a lot. Meaning, the key steps to getting productive, in the IDE, for React projects using TypeScript. Along the way we'll show test-driven development and emphasize tips-and-tricks in the IDE.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to build your first full stack dapp on the Ethereum blockchain, reading and writing data to the network, and connecting a front end application to the contract you've deployed. By the end of the workshop, you'll understand how to set up a full stack development environment, run a local node, and interact with any smart contract using React, HardHat, and Ethers.js.

Hydrogen is an opinionated React framework and SDK for building fast, custom storefronts powered Shopify. Hydrogen embraces React Server Components and makes use of Vite and Tailwind CSS. In this workshop participants will get a first look at Hydrogen, learn how and when to use it, all while building a fully functional custom storefront with the Hydrogen team themselves.

Blitz.js is the Fullstack React Framework. It's heavily inspired Ru on Rails and is focused on making you as productive as possible. It's built on Next.js and adds all the missing pieces you need for building a fullstack app with a database. By far the biggest innovation of Blitz is the new "Zero-API" data layer that abstracts away the API so you don't have to mess with REST or GraphQL APIs!

Simon will introduce all the important parts & guide you through getting started with Blitz, so you'll know if you might want to use it or not.

In this workshop, we’ll learn how to build a type-safe chain from API to the client with generated TypeScript tooling. Creating a type-safe environment for development reduces the number of bugs that get shipped to production, but also creates faster feature development once the ground-work is in place.

This will be a fast-paced workshop covering an opinionated stack of features, but in the end, you’ll have a functioning framework for eloquent and type-safe development.

Table of contents

- We’ll begin creating a GraphQL API on Hasura Cloud and define some basic access controls and actions.
- Then we’ll scaffold a TypeScript-ready framework with NextJs.
- With the framework and API in place, we’ll generate an SDK using GraphQL Zeus.
- Lastly, we’ll generate some type-safe state management wrappers with easy-peasy for implementing a basic login and authentication flow.

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Freelancing is no longer an unstable career choice.

This workshop will help you design a sustainable and profitable full-time (or part-time) freelancing career. We will give you tools, tips, best practices, and help you avoid common pitfalls.
Table of contents

Module 1: Dispelling common myths about freelancing
Module 2: What does freelancing look like in 2021 and beyond
Module 3: Freelancing choices and what to look for (and what to avoid)
Module 4: Benefits of freelancing from a freelancer + case study
BREAK
Module 6: How to get started freelancing (experience, resume, preparation)
Module 7: Common paths to full-time freelancing
Module 8: Essentials: setting your rate and getting work
Module 9: Next steps: networking with peers, upskilling, changing the world
Module 10: Freelancer AMA

In this workshop, we'll build out a fully functional website and integrated blog with Next.js and Strapi.

Table of contents:
- An introduction to Headless CMS and supported architectures
- Getting up and Running with Strapi and Next.js
- Integrating Blog functionality into a Next.js app
- Deploying your Next.js and Strapi Apps Bonus
- Implementing content previews with Next.js

Prerequisites:Basic React Knowledge Basic knowledge of Node.js and npm Basic Web Concepts.

Join Sentry’s Evan Purkhiser and David Wang as they walk through Sentry’s 230k LoC Typescript/React codebase. They’ll tell war stories of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Gaze in wonder at their modern usage of Typescript, react hooks, and styled components. Recoil in disgust at their legacy Reflux usage and perplexing Webpack configuration. Step away from the workshop with a working knowledge of techniques to keep a large-scale frontend codebase modern and maintainable.

Content is a crucial part of what you build on the web. Modern web technologies brings a lot to the developer experience in terms of building content-driven sites, but how can we improve things for editors and content creators? In this workshop you’ll learn how use Sanity.io to approach structured content modeling, and how to build, iterate, and configure your own CMS to unify data models with efficient and delightful editor experiences. It’s intended for web developers who want to deliver better content experiences for their content teams and clients.

When building an app, there are many options choices developers need to make. Is it a web app? Does need to be a native app? What should I use for UI? In this workshop will look at how to make use of Ionic for building your app and how to deploy it to not only the web, but native as well.

We’ve all heard the buzz around pushing application security into the hands of developers, but if you’re like most companies, it has been hard to actually make this a reality. You aren’t alone – putting the culture, processes, and tooling in place to make this happen is tough – especially for sophisticated applications like those backed GraphQL.

In this hands-on technical session, StackHawk Senior DevOps Engineer, Zachary Conger, will walk through how to protect your GraphQL APIs from vulnerabilities using automated security testing. Get ready to roll-up your sleeves for automated AppSec testing.

As a developer, you need to deliver fast, and you simply don't have the time to constantly think about security. Still, if something goes wrong it's your job to fix it, but security testing blocks your automation, creates bottlenecks and just delays releases...but it doesn't have to...

NeuraLegion's developer-first Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) scanner enables developers to detect, prioritise and remediate security issues EARLY, on every commit, with no false positives / alerts, without slowing you down.

Join this workshop to learn different ways developers can access Nexploit & start scanning without leaving the terminal!

Table of contents:

- What developer-first DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing) actually is and how it works
- See where and how a modern, accurate dev-first DAST fits in the CI/CD
- Integrate NeuraLegion's Nexploit scanner with GitHub Actions
- Understand how modern applications, APIs and authentication mechanisms can be tested
- Fork a repo, set up a pipeline, run security tests and look at the results