
Nick Hehr
Nick is an empathetic community member, full-stack developer, avid climber and cyclist. He is currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Viam where he helps people build and manage their hardware projects from anywhere in the world. He is an invited expert with TC53 to help shape the future of JS on things. In his free time, he tinkers with home automation and robots built with JavaScript. His mustache is a figment of your imagination.
Real-Time Robot Control From the Browser With WebRTC
JSNation 2025

Upcoming
Real-Time Robot Control From the Browser With WebRTC

Explore a world of hardware the likes of which you've never seen before! This presentation will contain live demos using both local robots and those in production from across the country. While the technology being used is advanced, the approach is accessible to anyone whose used JavaScript before.The talk covers the architecture of WebRTC as a stack of technologies for enabling peer-to-peer communication, as well as how it can be leveraged for interacting with embedded hardware and robotics from the browser, all using JavaScript APIs. My goal is to make programming devices more accessible to web developers and demonstrate a practical solution for taking hobby projects from your desk to production.
Becoming a Form Wizard: Intuitive Multi-Step Workflows
React Summit 2022

26 min
Becoming a Form Wizard: Intuitive Multi-Step Workflows

Forms are a core part of many applications and complex actions are often broken up into multiple forms as steps in this workflow. Using React’s Context API and a conventional state machine, we can build a reusable system for building these wizards and make the web a bit more magical.