
Rachel Kaufman
Rachel Kaufman is a full-stack software engineer working in the martech space. She loves writing unit tests (seriously), strongly-typed languages, and the Oxford comma. She’s also a lead organizer with Women and Gender eXpansive Coders DC, a group for women and nonbinary people in tech in the Washington, DC area.
Gotta Go Fast: React at 60 FPS
React Summit 2026
Upcoming
Gotta Go Fast: React at 60 FPS

How can you create performant animations, backed by fast-updating data, on the web, using React?
Come learn how to make silky-smooth data-powered animations without having to give up the convenience of React. (Mostly…)
React is great for manipulating the DOM, but all that shadow DOM logic can bog down data-powered animations and slow down sites. There’s a trick to getting it right (and, spoiler alert, some of it’s not React). We’ll go through a real-world case-study and along the way, learn about:
- how to get data from the backend to your frontend mega-fast
- why requestAnimationFrame beats setInterval hands down
- the power of HTML Canvas for web-based animation
Come see how fast React can be!
Come learn how to make silky-smooth data-powered animations without having to give up the convenience of React. (Mostly…)
React is great for manipulating the DOM, but all that shadow DOM logic can bog down data-powered animations and slow down sites. There’s a trick to getting it right (and, spoiler alert, some of it’s not React). We’ll go through a real-world case-study and along the way, learn about:
- how to get data from the backend to your frontend mega-fast
- why requestAnimationFrame beats setInterval hands down
- the power of HTML Canvas for web-based animation
Come see how fast React can be!