React Summit US 2025

It's easy to forget what the creators of React knew from the start: that React is not only for building web pages. Most of us have heard of React Native, that renders to native mobile components, but React doesn't have to render to "components" at all. There's React PDF to generate PDFs and Ink for building UI in the terminal.At my company, we've built a way for developers to use React to build plugins for our webapp that render to our custom components, giving us full control over the UI design (the "how"), whilst giving the plugin developer full control UX (the "what").In my talk, I'll explain what it's like to build a React renderer and reconciler, what they are and how to use them.I'd like to do a live demo showing how React can be used to convert html to markdown. And then I'd like to demonstrate how React can render to the Real World, by controlling IOT devices.

Join us as we explore the fascinating journey of a pixel in rendering a React application, starting from the moment a user types a URL into their browser, all the way to the final rendering and interaction phase. We will dive into each stage in detail, covering what happens behind the scenes, why it happens, and how developers can optimize each part for a smoother user experience. This talk will provide insights into key areas like server calls, JavaScript processing, resource fetching, and dynamic rendering. It’s ideal for web developers looking to deepen their understanding of the entire rendering process and find actionable ways to improve application efficiency and performance.

This talk explores how we built an AI-powered system that transforms Figma designs into production-ready React code using Razorpay’s custom Design System. Learn how we solved the problem of brand inconsistency in generic AI tools and created a solution that understands our unique design language, enabling faster development without compromising on quality.

What do you do when your frontend performance crumbles, but you have zero control over the backend? This was the reality we faced while building a fintech payments dashboard. Massive payloads, strict compliance, and an unchangeable API were slowing operators down and wrecking workflows.In this talk, I’ll walk through our real-world quest to rescue the user experience without touching the backend. You’ll see how we profiled true bottlenecks, built a Backend-for-Frontend layer to reshape data for the UI, managed financial data caching strategies, and balanced performance against several constraints.Expect live demos, battle-tested patterns, and hard-earned lessons for shipping resilient, user-centric frontends, even when the backend isn’t on your side.

When DeepL added Arabic—its first RTL language—it wasn’t just a styling problem, it was a design systems challenge. This talk will go deep on logical CSS, platform-agnostic icon mirroring and automation, soft enforcement strategies for design consistency, and how to wield influence across hundreds of engineers with minimal headcount. This isn’t a story about building components—it’s about wiring them together at scale, with smart defaults, localization and directional and empathy.