Elian Van Cutsem

Elian Van Cutsem or "ElianCodes" is a full-stack developer, creative technologist, and all-around internet troublemaker based in Belgium. He’s the **CTO at Vulpo** and works in **Developer Relations at React Bricks**, focusing on developer experience, documentation, and education. Previously, he was a Software Engineer and core maintainer at Astro. Elian is also a co-organizer of several major JavaScript communities and events, including **BeJS**, **React Paris**, **React Brussels**, and **React Africa**. Alongside his professional work, he creates provocative and experimental AI projects, designed to challenge our assumptions about ethics, automation, and human behavior. His work blends code and commentary, often in ways that are both hilarious and uncomfortably real. Elian is known for his passion, puns, and offbeat sense of humor. His talks combine technical insight with a strong dose of creative chaos—guaranteed fun on stage.

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Make the Web Weird Again

React Day Berlin 2024

29 min

Make the Web Weird Again

The web is capable of way more than we might think. During this talk, we'll explore some lesser known parts of the web. Did you know you can control the web via webHID or send and receive notes to devices via webMIDI? In this interactive talk we might make some music together, by controlling synthesisers and exploring the wide range of strange web API's. All that in vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks needed.

web development

Astro: All Hands On

React Day Berlin 2024

126 min

Astro: All Hands On

Workshop

The web is capable of way more than we might think. During this workshop, we'll explore some lesser known parts of the web. Did you know you can control the web via webHID or send and receive notes to devices via webMIDI? In this interactive talk we might make some music together, by controlling synthesisers and exploring the wide range of strange web API's. All that in vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks needed.

astro

Diving Into Server Islands

React Advanced 2024

27 min

Diving Into Server Islands

In this talk, we'll explore building full-stack web applications powered by Astro and Astro DB.We'll start by discovering the basics of Astro, why and where it's useful, and how to build a simple web application with it. We'll discover how to use Astro's hybrid rendering mode to add API routes and dynamic server-side rendering to the application.Then we'll dive into Astro DB, a simple, yet powerful ORM used to communicate between a LibSQL database and your Astro application. Also, Astro 5.0-beta has been released, we’ll round up the talk by looking at the new features, some demos and discovering how to upgrade.

fullstack database astro

Panel discussion "Innovation in React"

React Day Berlin 2023

32 min

Panel discussion "Innovation in React"

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innovation

All Things Astro

React Day Berlin 2023

28 min

All Things Astro

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Astro 3 was released a while ago and brought some amazing new features with it. In this talk, we’ll take a look at some of the newly released features in Astro 3, do some live coding and have some fun. We can take a look at what’s coming next in Astro 4 and there also might be a 'one more thing

astro

Extending React Using Astro

React Summit 2023

24 min

Extending React Using Astro

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We'll start out by taking a look at Astro; What is Astro, why does it exist and what problems does it solve. How can we optimise our React application / components by using Astro? Let's do some live coding and start out exploring Astro in combination with React! Main talking points: - What is Astro - Astro integrations - React in Astro - Partial Hydration - Server Side Rendering vs Server Side Generation