Elian Van Cutsem

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.

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.

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

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