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All talksFrontend Internationalization That Reads Like English (Thanks, gettext!)
React Summit US 2025
19 min
Frontend Internationalization That Reads Like English (Thanks, gettext!)

Henry Lee presents a frontend internationalization approach using React and discusses challenges in naming keys for translations. The Talk addresses issues with naming keys in JSON dictionaries, refactoring keys to eliminate translation challenges using GNU GetTex, exploring GetTex workflow for efficient localization with Lingui, defining messages and extraction with Lingui workflow, optimizing Lingui compilation and translation, enhancing Lingui features for translation, and encouraging Lingui adoption for projects by addressing reasons for underutilization and promoting trial and migration.
Secure Micro-Frontends: Authentication Magic at Dutch Railways
React Summit US 2025
35 min
Secure Micro-Frontends: Authentication Magic at Dutch Railways

Pieter Eigenmans discusses Microfrontends, authentication at Dutch railways, Model Federation, OIDC, and Kubernetes configuration. The SporeViewer app enables real-time train tracking in the Netherlands with multiple applications on one screen. Transitioning from monolithic to modular architecture allows for independent feature deployment and multifederation framework utilization. Microfrontend setup involves splitting applications into front and back end components, organizing them into verticals using domain-driven design. Efficient frontend building with module federation, Web Components, and model federation enhances speed and scalability. Authentication challenges are addressed using OIDC, MSAL integration for token management, and secure API calls via MSAL libraries. Kubernetes configuration enables versatile environment setup using config maps for loading configuration files.
The 2025 State of JavaScript Testing
JSNation US 2025
27 min
The 2025 State of JavaScript Testing

Speaker reflects on the importance of testing, shares insights from the state of JS survey, and discusses future plans for JavaScript testing in 2025. Companies are exploring testing tools and methodologies based on surveys and personal data. Evolution of testing practices from browser to node-based environment with VTest adoption. Advancements in testing technology include VTest's role, Playwright for end-to-end testing, and comprehensive testing solutions. Progress in self-healing tests, AI integration, and tool resurgence like Storybook and MSW for API mocking. Diverse opinions on testing in 2025, with a focus on static analysis, VTest, and end-to-end testing resurgence to browser.
Forging the Agentic Engine Room: A Human-Centric Playbook
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
31 min
Forging the Agentic Engine Room: A Human-Centric Playbook

The speaker shares experiences in AI project production and the importance of leadership in increasing successful AI product launches. Challenges in implementing AI solutions include resource allocation and adapting to new technologies. The transition to Python for a project launch in September involved upskilling the team. Establishing clear expectations and career frameworks for engineers is crucial for success. Fostering growth through experimentation and innovation events enhances skills and collaboration. Effective communication, user experience focus, and continuous testing are key to project success in AI initiatives. Encouraging psychological safety and involving employees in AI adoption are important strategies for transformative journeys.
Styled & SASSy: Choosing the Right React Styling Solution
React Summit US 2025
28 min
Styled & SASSy: Choosing the Right React Styling Solution

Bri explores React styling solutions and the CSS landscape in 2025, highlighting challenges with styled components and the emergence of Panda CSS. React 19 introduces new features like resource hoisting and form actions, impacting styling practices. Discussions revolve around CSS paradigms, Tailwind CSS for utility-first approach, and the importance of dynamic state in styling evolution. Considerations for selecting the right styling solution based on team size, experience, and interactivity needs are emphasized, along with insights on optimizing CSS tools and Panda CSS adoption.
Building Browser Extensions with React - That Don't Break Browsers
React Summit US 2025
20 min
Building Browser Extensions with React - That Don't Break Browsers

Jonny Fekete discusses building web extensions with React, the simplicity of manifest.json, the shift from manifest.v2 to manifest.v3 in Chrome, and the impact on functionalities like persistent background scripts and access restrictions. The transition to manifest.v3 for web extensions, the siloed contexts of web extensions, and the use of sendMessage API for communication between different contexts. Challenges in web extension development, complexities of setting up custom configurations, and the modern approach with the WXT framework for easier development and state persistence. Challenges in state persistence and data storage in web extensions, including local, session, and event sync storage methods. Managing multiple tabs' state and data storage with consideration for tab IDs to prevent memory leaks. Consider using storage over Redux for better debugging and architecture. Address CSS collision with Shadow DOM and custom web components to isolate styles from the underlying web page. Utilize background script for throttling and debouncing, efficient storage utilization, and the WXT framework for ease of development and communication.
Practical Guide to Animation in React
React Summit US 2025
27 min
Practical Guide to Animation in React

The importance of animations in enhancing user experience by bridging the gap between user expectations and digital interfaces. Practical examples of creating animations using CSS transitions and keyframes for smooth and complex effects. Utilizing timing functions with cubic Bezier curves for diverse animations and accessibility considerations. Introducing Vue Transitions as a powerful web API for seamless animations with broad browser support. Customizing Vue Transitions for unique effects, optimizing usage with unique names and global disabling, and transitioning to Spring-based animations for natural UI interactions. Exploring FramerMotion and Motion Library for React animations, configuring spring behavior for smooth effects, and enhancing animations with Motion and CSS for improved user experience.
The State of Node.js 2025
JSNation US 2025
19 min
The State of Node.js 2025

Matteo Collina presents an updated talk on Node.js, discussing roles, open-source projects, and dispelling myths. He highlights Node.js vitality, contrasts with legacy technologies like COBOL and jQuery. The talk covers Node.js popularity, software reuse, module growth, and download stats. It addresses risks of not updating Node.js, LTS support phases, version updates, adoption rates, security measures, Node 24 features like ESM support and stable permissions. Collaboration processes, TSC role, governance, and benefits of Platformatic VAT for app development are also discussed.
The End of Frontend Fragmentation? How Rust is Unifying Frameworks & Tooling
JSNation US 2025
26 min
The End of Frontend Fragmentation? How Rust is Unifying Frameworks & Tooling

Starting a Greenfield project involves choosing frameworks, testing tools, linting, formatting, and runtime with the aim of unifying frameworks and tooling using Rust. The End of Framework Fragmentation with Rust aims for a great Developer Experience (DX) by choosing frameworks and tools based on ease of use, integration, documentation, ecosystem, speed, reliability, and future-proofing. Development benefits from the Vite server with HMR, native ESM, and optimized production builds, aiming to unify tools into the Rolldown bundler. Understanding dependency graphs, build steps, JSX, TypeScript, and bundle optimization are crucial for code organization and user experience enhancement. Bundling optimizes code for faster load times, while tool selection streamlining simplifies production builds. Vappack and OXE offer optimization features, and module resolution, code transformation, build transformation, and minification optimization play key roles in performance. Benchmarking shows SWC and OXC Minify performance comparison, and linting and formatting tools like OxLint and OXC Minify enhance development efficiency. VTest provides seamless testing, aiming for performance and compatibility, with plans for roll on Vite to become the default bundler for smoother processes.
Let’s build K.I.T.T. With JavaScript
React Advanced 2025
29 min
Let’s build K.I.T.T. With JavaScript

Nico introducing himself and his work in machine learning and AI. Exploring the essence of Kit and its human-like features, and the use of Transform.js for machine learning in the browser. Understanding the significance of model parameters and the availability of open source models like Apertus and GEMMA3. Creating a fine-tuned version of the AI pipeline using prompt engineering with a new system prompt for improved behavior and responses. Utilizing Reddit to extract scenes, transforming screenplays into structured JSON, and creating an LLM summarizer for semantic similarity comparisons. Introduction to Agentic Rack System and Autonomous Task Completion by AA Agents. Utilizing TensorFlow and Transformer JS for Various Tasks and Models. Running LLMs in the browser is not practical due to large model sizes. Device performance matters in browser-based AI processing.
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Keeping Up with The Fast and Furious Web
JSNation US 2025
29 min
Keeping Up with The Fast and Furious Web

Scott Talinsky's journey in web development highlights his transition from YouTube tutorials to creating educational content and courses, reflecting his passion for teaching. The evolution of web development tools showcases advancements from limited colors to modern frameworks like React and CSS features like squircles. Adapting to new technologies emphasizes core skills and freedom in tool selection. User-centric development prioritizes accessibility and understanding the purpose of tools. Learning strategies focus on fundamentals, hands-on learning, and avoiding influencer bias. Standing out in tech roles requires quality projects, broad knowledge, and effective communication.
Motion Control With Multimodal LLMs
JSNation 2025
39 min
Motion Control With Multimodal LLMs

The Talk delves into motion control with multimodal AI, exploring TensorFlow.js models for gesture recognition and enhancing user interactions. It discusses leveraging LLMs for gesture-based interaction, investigating Gemiini for gesture recognition, and controlling light states with Gemini functions. The conversation includes webcam-based gesture recognition, custom gesture databases, and the future of personalized AI assistance with acoustic recognition.
From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching
React Advanced 2025
27 min
From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching

Introduction to Cache Components in Next.js 16, transforming the app router with new features like partial pre-rendering, Dynamic I.O., and caching directives. Deep dive into static params generation in Next.js focusing on changes in generating static params for improved performance. Exploring challenges of generating static params and balancing static vs. dynamic rendering for better performance. Addressing challenges with cache components, optimizing static and dynamic rendering for improved performance. Understanding impact of parameters on rendering with cache components, managing dynamic components, and introducing suspense boundaries for faster page loads. Enhancing cache life APIs, introducing a new caching model for static outputs in Next.js. Revolutionizing cache management with granular control over cache lifetimes and dynamic segment configuration. Navigating data and caching in Next.js, exploring cache components guidance and caching differences between server and client components.
The State of the Web
JSNation 2025
32 min
The State of the Web

Sasha Grief discusses the state of the web through web development surveys, leading to an interactive quiz about the state of JS and usage of front end frameworks. Discussion on popular front-end libraries like React, Vue, Angular, and the rising popularity of TypeScript among developers in recent surveys. Discussion on TypeScript adoption, TC39 committee proposals, favorite CSS feature 'has,' and browser support for 'has' selector. Browser interoperability, browser vendors' initiatives, AI usage among web developers, and survey insights. Job titles linked to higher income, diversity of survey topics, top hobby among developers, and popular specific video games. Learnings on CSS features, TypeScript default, AI usage, survey benefits, challenges in reaching diverse survey participants. Surprising positivity in JavaScript usage, stable framework landscape, AI adoption challenges, mainstream AI tools, successful situp.js survey. Inconsistent respondent numbers, manual data normalization efforts, subjective question selection process, community input, mitigation of selection bias. Reason for starting surveys, transition from Meteor JS, exploration of JavaScript ecosystem.
Frontend’s Lost Decade and the Performance Inequality Gap
JSNation 2025
32 min
Frontend’s Lost Decade and the Performance Inequality Gap
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Alex Russell's journey from engineering to product management, the focus on improving web experiences, and optimizing software for end-user success. Considerations include device performance, web diversity, and API constraints. Challenges of web platforms encompass hardware and network limitations, prioritizing user experience. Understanding the impact of Moore's Law on device performance and adapting browsers for efficiency. Emphasis on code optimization, user-focused development, and quality in web UI. Addressing challenges in PWA success, developer learning, and balancing frameworks with platform understanding.
Never Worry About CORS Again
JSNation US 2025
28 min
Never Worry About CORS Again

Talk on Bund: Overview of Bund, its speed optimization, components like runtime, package manager, test runner, and bundler. Efficient features include fast npm manager, pnpm lockfile support, Jest-compatible test runner, and optimized runtime components. Built-in features like modern password hashing, WebSocket server, file glob API, and database clients. API design focuses on common use cases and optimization. Enhanced JavaScript functionality with SIMD, native code, and performance improvements. Challenges in JavaScript productivity, BUN adoption, deployment, and support. React support, community involvement, security, Next.js compatibility, and transition.
Rethinking Bundling: Why You Don’t Need Less JavaScript
JSNation US 2025
30 min
Rethinking Bundling: Why You Don’t Need Less JavaScript

The speaker, Daniel, shares insights on his role as an open source maintainer, projects Nuxt and Nitro, and living in Edinburgh. Nuxt, a full-stack framework, evolved with community support, emphasizing community-driven development. Optimization strategies for JavaScript, CSS, and font loading in Nuxt were discussed. Integration of Nuxt Scripts for web performance, challenges in meta framework development, and considerations for Nuxt V3 rewrite were highlighted. Future plans include smoother migrations and open-source access to emoji slides integration.
Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling
JSNation 2025
23 min
Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling
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Evan Yeo discusses Vite's growth, challenges with dependencies like ES Build and Rollup, and the creation of the bundler Rolldown. The JavaScript ecosystem faces fragmentation, but the company aims for a unified JavaScript stack. Rust is chosen for lower-level development, while JavaScript and TypeScript for high-level APIs. Roldown offers advanced bundling features, outperforming existing tools. Integration with Vite leads to tailored optimizations and significant speed improvements. Vite+ development focuses on creating a comprehensive toolkit. VitePlus integrates TS-down for library bundling, ViteTest for testing, and OX-Lint for linting. Future plans include monorepo awareness, build orchestration, and framework-like features.
Thinking Like an Architect
Node Congress 2025
31 min
Thinking Like an Architect
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In modern software development, architecture is more than just selecting the right tech stack; it involves decision-making, trade-offs, and considering the context of the business and organization. Understanding the problem space and focusing on users' needs are essential. Architectural flexibility is key, adapting the level of granularity and choosing between different approaches. Holistic thinking, long-term vision, and domain understanding are crucial for making better decisions. Effective communication, inclusion, and documentation are core skills for architects. Democratizing communication, prioritizing value, and embracing adaptive architectures are key to success.
The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends
React Advanced 2025
29 min
The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends

In the Talk, various key points were discussed regarding micro-front-end architecture. These included challenges with micro-intents, common mistakes in system design, the differences between micro-intents and components, granularity in software architecture, optimizing micro-front-end architecture, efficient routing and deployment strategies, edge computing strategies, global state and data sharing optimization, managing data context, governance and fitness functions, architectural testing, adaptive growth, value of micro-frontends, repository selection, repo structures, and web component usage.
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Demystifying npm: What Actually Happens When You Install and Publish
JSNation US 2025
29 min
Demystifying npm: What Actually Happens When You Install and Publish

Today's presentation delves into the inner workings of npm install and npm publish, aiming to enhance understanding and productivity. The exploration of npm CLI, ideal tree construction, and dependency types sheds light on package management intricacies. Peer dependency conflicts, resolution methods, and auditing processes are crucial for package integrity. Efficiency through symlink management and lockfile versions, along with security measures like typosquatting prevention, highlight NPM's commitment to user safety. Emphasizing the importance of maintaining updated dependencies and vigilance against malicious packages, the Talk also discusses upcoming token-related changes for secure publishing.
React at 120FPS: When to Loop
React Summit US 2025
30 min
React at 120FPS: When to Loop

This talk explores challenges and architecture decisions for realtime apps in React, focusing on frame updates and performance at high refresh rates. It delves into optimizing frame animation, managing synchronization, achieving frame rate independence, and implementing physics in animations. The discussion includes resolving data sharing issues, decoupling data for improved focus, enhancing simulation with external state, customizing animation behaviors, and optimizing continuous updates with Kuta. The talk also covers experimenting with ball physics, tool optimization, and enhancing rendering performance through Canvas, React3Fiber, Sandpack, and Kuta for animations.
Performance is User Experience: Optimizing the Frontend for the Users
JSNation 2022
8 min
Performance is User Experience: Optimizing the Frontend for the Users

Today's Talk discusses software performance and optimizing the frontend for the user. It emphasizes the importance of passive performance, which is a subjective measure of how well users perceive the application's performance. Techniques to improve performance include using a shared cache, HTTP2, preloading requests, and CDN. Optimizing frontend performance involves avoiding blocking the main thread, loading necessary resources first, using progress bars, and implementing optimistic patterns. It also highlights the importance of considering users' changing expectations throughout their interaction with the application.
If You Were a React Compiler
React Summit US 2024
26 min
If You Were a React Compiler
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In this talk, the speaker aims to build an accurate understanding of how the new React compiler works, focusing on minimizing re-renders and improving performance. They discuss the concept of memoization and how it can be used to optimize React applications by storing the results of function calls. The React compiler automates this process by analyzing code, checking dependencies, and transpiling JSX. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being aware of memory concerns when using memoization and explains how the React compiler detects changes in function closure values. They also mention the Fibre Tree, which drives the reconciliation process and helps optimize performance in React. Additionally, the speaker touches on JSX transpilation, compiler caching, and the generation of code. They encourage developers to understand the code generated by the compiler to optimize specific sections as needed.
Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: Optimizing UX in Suboptimal Conditions
React Summit US 2025
28 min
Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: Optimizing UX in Suboptimal Conditions

Farris emphasizes the need to build resilient applications for real-world usage challenges like high latency and unreliable networks. Creating fast and seamless user experiences is crucial for business success. Core technologies like React and Next, along with Tanstack Query, are discussed. Strategies include optimizing state management, network requests, and data transfer methods for enhanced user experience. The talk also covers data caching, query criticality, prefetching, and handling server retries for robust application performance.
Ensuring your Users are on the Right Path: the Future of Modals and Focus Management
JSNation 2022
17 min
Ensuring your Users are on the Right Path: the Future of Modals and Focus Management

This Talk discusses the new features of Modals and focus management in web development. The dialogue element allows for the creation of modal dialogs that appear on top of other elements and prevent interaction with elements below. The note element can mark a subtree of the DOM as inert, making it unusable. The field set component can group input elements together and disable them. Using these new primitives can improve focus control and user experience in web applications.
Deep Dive on React Hooks Architecture
React Summit US 2025
25 min
Deep Dive on React Hooks Architecture

Introduction to React Hooks and Architecture with insights into Mattermos, React components, and JSX syntax. Understanding React.createElement, React components, and createRoot for DOM rendering. Exploring React rendering process and scheduler's role in managing component work units. Exploring React fiber tree creation and hook mechanism for state management. Exploring React fiber tree mount and update mechanisms with global variable orchestration. Exploring the use of global variables for performance optimization and the process of callback updating in React Fiber tree. Exploring hook rules and different hook mechanisms like useRef and useEffect in React. Effects in React fiber, useState complexity, update mechanisms, and cost considerations. Memory storage considerations for hooks, impact on CPU, and style optimization. Insights into React Fiber storage of props and style comparisons. Summary of topics covered and acknowledgment of additional details for future exploration.
How Good is AI at Coding React (really)?
React Summit US 2025
33 min
How Good is AI at Coding React (really)?

Exploring AI's impact on React coding quality and the importance of context, tools, and practices in leveraging AI effectively. AI as a force multiplier, differences between vibe coding & AI-assisted engineering, AI models' competencies in React prompts, and React developers' favorable position amidst AI advancements. AI's implications for React development, complexity cliff in React work, and AI's design challenges for React developers. React work's complexity cliff, Design Arena benchmarks for AI design capabilities, AI's design challenges for React developers. AI's role in visual design control, Design Arena's insights on scaffolding impact, AI's UI scaffold capabilities and human judgment necessity. Vercell's Next.js evals, Webbench by ByteDance, and Web Dev Arena insights on AI performance in web development. Gemini 3 and GPT-5 catching up in design models, exploring website code generation, and design sensibility in AI for React workflow. Solving the purple problem in AI training, tips for using AI in React development for building sites, and managing AI like a junior developer. Evaluating AI's performance in complex tasks, lessons on using AI like a developer, and the importance of specificity and human oversight in AI usage. Enforcing productivity and supervision, addressing context failures through engineering and providing comprehensive context for agent performance. Template for context engineering, controlling tooling quality, using Context-7 for fresh docs and examples, leveraging MCP servers for real data, and improving overall quality loop. Connecting tools for closed-loop coding, Vive coding for rapid product creation, UI components for isolated, reusable components. UI components arena focus on isolated, reusable components and visual comparisons. Guidance for UI component generation and complex 3D and data visualization models for interactive experiences. AI assistants integration strategies for 3D and data visualization. Importance of specific details like libraries and scene descriptions for optimal AI assistance. Balancing control with AI model generation and the critical factors in AI code success or failure. Debugging workflow lessons applicable to all; New flow state in AI-assisted development focusing on orchestration and code creation; Gemini 3 launch for web development and design leadership. Website aesthetics and design improvements; Proactive tool utilization for React devs; Embrace AI for faster product development. AI in automated debugging with AI agents; Limitless potential of AI in coding quality; Image generation tools for slides; Addressing security and architectural regressions in AI-generated code. AI's Impact on Future Frameworks and Team Alignment in Workflow Standardization. Strategies for Context Bugs and Workflow Optimization.
The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends
React Advanced 2025
29 min
The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends

In the Talk, various key points were discussed regarding micro-front-end architecture. These included challenges with micro-intents, common mistakes in system design, the differences between micro-intents and components, granularity in software architecture, optimizing micro-front-end architecture, efficient routing and deployment strategies, edge computing strategies, global state and data sharing optimization, managing data context, governance and fitness functions, architectural testing, adaptive growth, value of micro-frontends, repository selection, repo structures, and web component usage.
Node.js: More Threads Than You Think
React Advanced 2025
32 min
Node.js: More Threads Than You Think

The talk covers a range of topics including Node.js evolution to a multi-threaded system, scaling with the cluster module, managing PM2 for efficient orchestration, challenges in SSR frameworks, TCP SO reuse port for resource utilization, VAT architecture for smart service routing, zero downtime deployment with shared cache, performance benchmark results, PM2 performance challenges, legality and functionality of TCP SO reuse port, kernel balancing considerations, tool comparison between PM2 and Deno, cache consistency challenges, VAT architecture with worker thread recovery, T-scaling for vertical scaling, and updating Node V6 applications.
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WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers
Node Congress 2025
5 min
WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers

WinterTC is working on standardizing JS runtimes to avoid vendor lock-in and provide a universal API. This involves defining which web APIs should be included, such as URL and WebAssembly. The goal is to create a definitive list of APIs for server-side JS runtimes.
Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution
JSNation 2025
5 min
Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution

JS 0 and JS Sugar proposal for JavaScript evolution. Complexity abstraction to engines. Splitting language into JS0 and JSugar. Lessons learned from developers' concerns and users' preferences. Involvement in shaping JavaScript ecosystem.
Server Components Wars: PHP Strikes Back
React Summit 2025
6 min
Server Components Wars: PHP Strikes Back

Edoardo, a senior dev rel at Storyblok, delves into server components' intricacies, urging a better understanding. The evolution from PHP to React marked a shift in web development paradigms, emphasizing server-side rendering and dynamic client interactions. Facebook transitioned from PHP to React, introducing XHP subset. Isomorphic JavaScript and server-side rendering emerged with data requests and content rendering. React server components enable server-side rendering with data fetched from DBMS or CMS, emphasizing patterns for seamless transitions to new frameworks.
It’s Not Magic: Elevate Auth Security with PKCE Best Practices
Node Congress 2025
5 min
It’s Not Magic: Elevate Auth Security with PKCE Best Practices

The talk discusses the need to enhance auth security with Pixie Best Practices and the limitations of current standards like OAuth 2 and OpenID Connect. It introduces Pixie as an added layer of security over the authorization code flow and explains how it prevents code injection. Pixie enhances security by connecting client requests with responses from the authorization server, preventing cross-site request forgery attacks. It is recommended for public clients and will be required for all clients in the upcoming OAuth 2.1 spec. The talk also highlights the benefits of Pixie for enhancing security in web apps. Learn more about Pixie and best practices at FusionAuth, where Kim Meida, Senior Director of Developer Relations, provides developer-first auth and auth APIs.
A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain
JSNation US 2025
8 min
A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain

Brian Wipo, Developer Relations lead at the Algorand Foundation, discusses the relevance of blockchain in 2025 and its impact on developers. Algorand's high-performance blockchain addresses key issues faced by other platforms, enabling new markets and real-world applications like tokenized assets and supply chain traceability. In 2025, blockchain excels in disintermediating markets, tracking data integrity, and creating new markets such as fractional ownership of assets. Real businesses on Algorand include tokenized solar panels, real estate ownership, supply chain traceability, and more. Using a para wallet with a mastercard debit card, you can buy items at the store with stable coins. Algorand TypeScript 1.0 simplifies writing smart contracts on the chain in TypeScript. TypeScript developers can now integrate blockchain using a compiler that transforms code into Teal assembly language for blockchain execution.
Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse
React Summit US 2025
7 min
Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse

Rahul introduces video optimization principles, emphasizing modern formats, compression, bitrate reduction, and lazy loading. ImageKit simplifies video loading by compressing videos significantly and adapting to network conditions. Pausing videos when not in view saves data costs and enhances user experience.
Reimagine Frontend in the Serverless Era
React Summit 2025
8 min
Reimagine Frontend in the Serverless Era

Evangelia, tech founder of Fioromat Academy, discusses the impact of serverless technologies on frontends, emphasizing a shift towards lightweight, stateless backends split into smaller units and the increased importance of API gateways and serverless functions. The discussion also highlights the significance of optimistic state updates, caching strategies to reduce API calls, resilient connection handling with retries for failed HTTP calls, granular error handling at the component level, and custom fallback UI per component. Overall, the Talk emphasizes the evolving frontend architectures and the necessity of adapting to changes in data structures and technologies.
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
JSNation US 2025
7 min
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows

We're discussing spec-driven development and the innovative AI IDE, QIRO, that supports this approach. QIRO focuses on structured specifications before coding, aiding developers in creating designs. The QIRO mascot, a playful ghost, symbolizes the essence of spec-driven development. Eric Hanchett discusses QIRO, emphasizing its spec-driven development feature integrated into the IDE. QIRO aids in in-depth feature planning, resembling a structured requirements approach. Coding assistants benefit from detailed examples for efficient development. Exploring Manual Coding Assistance: Creating user requirements, building design documents, and task lists manually. Example of using spec mode in a coding assistant to break down requirements, create designs, and implement features.
Zero-Styling Development: Utopia or the Future of Frontend?
React Summit 2025
7 min
Zero-Styling Development: Utopia or the Future of Frontend?

Mateusz Jagodziński presenting on Zero Styling Development and the challenges faced with manual styling implementations, leading to the adoption of a zero styling approach for efficiency and consistency in design implementation. Workflow Builder adopts a zero-styling approach beginning with design tokens in Figma, followed by automation for CSS generation and implementation using CSS variables, ensuring easy styling changes without developer intervention.
Improve Your Presentation Skills by Scripting Your Live Coding Demos to Perfection
React Summit 2025
8 min
Improve Your Presentation Skills by Scripting Your Live Coding Demos to Perfection

Elio's tips for perfect live coding: Minimize distractions, prepare well with light themes and larger fonts, adjust cursor style, avoid hover panels. Stay focused on one application during presentations. Changing settings for clarity, stressing the importance of tools like Demo Time for scripted presentations within Visual Studio Code, eliminating context switching between applications, and facilitating audience interaction with shared repositories. Exploring actions in Demo Time: creating code, opening files, highlighting code, and executing VS Code commands for a cleaner presentation. Utilizing Slides for Markdown presentations within Demo Time.
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How Much RAM Is Your UseMemo Using? Let’s Profile It!
React Day Berlin 2023Watch video: How Much RAM Is Your UseMemo Using? Let’s Profile It!
20 min
How Much RAM Is Your UseMemo Using? Let’s Profile It!
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Memory usage is often overlooked in web applications, but excessive memory usage impacts performance and user experience. It's important to analyze memory usage and optimize it, considering concepts like count versus size and shallow versus retain memory. The Chrome Memory Profiler and Memlab are useful tools for analyzing memory usage. By optimizing React components and using tools like Memlab, memory usage can be reduced significantly. React hooks can be expensive for large-scale projects, and memory analysis is a challenging task.
Impact: Growing as an Engineer
React Summit 2022
26 min
Impact: Growing as an Engineer
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This Talk explores the concepts of impact and growth in software engineering. It emphasizes the importance of finding ways to make the impossible possible and the role of mastery in expanding one's sphere of impact. The Talk also highlights the significance of understanding business problems and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. Effective communication, accountability, and decision-making are essential skills for engineers, and setting goals and finding sponsors can help drive career growth. Feedback, goal setting, and stepping outside of comfort zones are crucial for personal development and growth. Taking responsibility for one's own growth and finding opportunities for impact are key themes discussed in the Talk.
Options API vs Composition API: Choosing the Right Approach for Your Team
Vue.js London Live 2021
23 min
Options API vs Composition API: Choosing the Right Approach for Your Team
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Today's Talk discusses the Options API and Composition API in Vue 3, highlighting the differences and considerations when choosing an approach. The Composition API offers more flexibility and integrates well with TypeScript, but may require more familiarity with JavaScript. Combining both APIs allows for structure and flexibility, with the ability to progressively enhance code. Team preferences and the level of TypeScript usage should be considered when choosing the right approach for a project.
Understanding React’s Fiber Architecture
React Advanced 2022
29 min
Understanding React’s Fiber Architecture
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This Talk explores React's internal jargon, specifically fiber, which is an internal unit of work for rendering and committing. Fibers facilitate efficient updates to elements and play a crucial role in the reconciliation process. The work loop, complete work, and commit phase are essential steps in the rendering process. Understanding React's internals can help with optimizing code and pull request reviews. React 18 introduces the work loop sync and async functions for concurrent features and prioritization. Fiber brings benefits like async rendering and the ability to discard work-in-progress trees, improving user experience.
Building Multiplayer Applications with Cloudflare Workers & Durable Objects
Node Congress 2023
27 min
Building Multiplayer Applications with Cloudflare Workers & Durable Objects
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Durable Objects are a part of CloudFlare's long-term goal to expand application possibilities on workers, allowing for the building of scalable collaborative applications. Durable Objects provide a way to store global state and coordinate multi-client applications. They can be created as close to the user as possible and have unique IDs for routing requests. Durable Objects have a persistent storage API with strongly consistent semantics and IO gates to prevent correctness errors. They are well-suited for collaborative applications and can be used with WebSockets. Performance impact and read replicas are considerations for accessing Durable Objects globally.
Modern Web Debugging
JSNation 2023
29 min
Modern Web Debugging
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This Talk discusses modern web debugging and the latest updates in Chrome DevTools. It highlights new features that help pinpoint issues quicker, improved file visibility and source mapping, and ignoring and configuring files. The Breakpoints panel in DevTools has been redesigned for easier access and management. The Talk also covers the challenges of debugging with source maps and the efforts to standardize the source map format. Lastly, it provides tips for improving productivity with DevTools and emphasizes the importance of reporting bugs and using source maps for debugging production code.
On Becoming a Tech Lead
TechLead Conference 2023
24 min
On Becoming a Tech Lead
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The role of a Tech Lead involves shaping the roadmap, helping the team be more effective, and working on important projects. Lessons learned include encouraging idea sharing, avoiding taking on all the work, and focusing on delegation. Tech Leads focus on the outcome, involve the team in decision-making, and make plans based on how different pieces will interact. The role of a Tech Lead is to focus on engineering and guide the team in figuring out how the whole system should fit together. Architecting can become problematic when it loses touch with the coding part, resulting in implementation issues.
Routing in React 18 and Beyond
React Summit 2022
20 min
Routing in React 18 and Beyond
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Routing in React 18 brings a native app-like user experience and allows applications to transition between different environments. React Router and Next.js have different approaches to routing, with React Router using component-based routing and Next.js using file system-based routing. React server components provide the primitives to address the disadvantages of multipage applications while maintaining the same user experience. Improving navigation and routing in React involves including loading UI, pre-rendering parts of the screen, and using server components for more performant experiences. Next.js and Remix are moving towards a converging solution by combining component-based routing with file system routing.
Jotai Atoms Are Just Functions
React Day Berlin 2022
22 min
Jotai Atoms Are Just Functions
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State management in React is a highly discussed topic with many libraries and solutions. Jotai is a new library based on atoms, which represent pieces of state. Atoms in Jotai are used to define state without holding values and can be used for global, semi-global, or local states. Jotai atoms are reusable definitions that are independent from React and can be used without React in an experimental library called Jotajsx.
Speeding Up Your React App With Less JavaScript
React Summit 2023Watch video: Speeding Up Your React App With Less JavaScript
32 min
Speeding Up Your React App With Less JavaScript
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Mishko, the creator of Angular and AngularJS, discusses the challenges of website performance and JavaScript hydration. He explains the differences between client-side and server-side rendering and introduces Quik as a solution for efficient component hydration. Mishko demonstrates examples of state management and intercommunication using Quik. He highlights the performance benefits of using Quik with React and emphasizes the importance of reducing JavaScript size for better performance. Finally, he mentions the use of QUIC in both MPA and SPA applications for improved startup performance.
JavaScript
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
JSNation 2025
25 min
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime

Speaker's involvement in Temporal proposal and TC39 meetings for JavaScript standardization. Date conversion challenges faced in development. Addressing time zone discrepancies with Temporal to prevent bugs. Exploration of Temporal types and design philosophy. Usage of Java's time zone serialization in JavaScript Temporal. Challenges in implementing Temporal proposal and its transformative potential in ECMAScript.
10 Years of Best of JS
JSNation 2025
28 min
10 Years of Best of JS

Michael discusses the evolution of JavaScript from its early days to modern server-side capabilities, the impact of jQuery, Node.js, and single-page applications with popular libraries like Backbone and AngularJS. The emergence of UI libraries like React, Vue.js, and Angular, alongside meta frameworks like Next.js, Remix, Veltkit, and Solid with server components. The Best of JS project tracks JavaScript project trends, filters out deprecated projects, and monitors GitHub stars for maintenance. The importance of maintaining project relevance, adding new projects continuously, and classifying projects under meaningful tags. The evolution of TypeScript, tool releases like Deno and Burn, styling evolution from CSS to headless components, and the impact of Tailwind CSS. Analysis of CSS optimization, CLI ecosystem, tooling trends, emerging tools, and JavaScript development trends over the past decade.
React
The State of React
React Summit 2025
26 min
The State of React

Introduction to the State of React survey and the history of developer surveys. Detailed analysis of survey results, user demographics, and job titles. Examination of React API trends, user sentiment towards APIs, and new API challenges. Analysis of React library satisfaction, particularly with Next.js. Discussion on React state management and data loading, including pain points. Insights on React library usage patterns and application trends. Key takeaways include staying calm, appreciating foundational React elements, and relying on data for a balanced view.
Suspenseful Component Composition
React Summit US 2025
12 min
Suspenseful Component Composition

Simeon Griggs discusses Suspenseful Component Composition, the use of fallback props, and the basics of suspense in React applications with a demo showcasing data fetching and layout shifting. Exploring issues with data fetching and suspense boundaries. Addressing the challenges of using suspense boundaries and data fetching for individual rows in React applications. Creating consistent fallback elements for smooth loading experiences in tables by aligning sizes and optimizing data fetching placement. Optimizing data fetching placement for smoother loading experiences. Consider exporting suspense boundary to enhance code cleanliness and be defensive against data fetching errors. Use error boundaries to handle errors in suspenseful data fetching components for a smoother user experience.
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications
React Summit US 2025
29 min
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications

Mateusz Jagodziński, principal developer at Synergy Codes, shares insights on Plug and Play Design Building Extendable React Applications, discussing feature flags, modularity, and real-world use cases. Challenges of feature flags, the concept of alternative modular design for feature management, and the importance of modularity in code organization and development. Configurability and limitations in feature management, showcasing a plugin-based design for flexible tool versions and code manipulation. Explanation of plug and play design for code manipulation and version control with full type safety in TypeScript projects. Exposing functions to register new plugins, organizing plugins' logic within individual folders, and implementing a build setup with a replacement mechanism for plugin files. Replacing missing plugins with a fallback code, enforcing restriction on direct plugin imports, and visualizing the relationship between plugins, adapters, and application components. Exploring pros and cons of self-contained plugins, addressing implementation overhead, and discussing the value of enforced modularity for AI coding tools. Discussing plugin management decisions based on client needs and the scalability of the approach with changing requirements and minor tweaks. Handling plugin version tracking, automated testing challenges, and feature control based on environments. Adapters and maintaining plugin compatibility through iterations and cosmetic changes, leveraging existing solutions for simplicity. Discussing the implications of not shipping separate builds for multiple customers and considering the benefits of smaller bundle size. Exploring the ease of trying out new features with separate plugins to assess overhead and developer experience.
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
React Summit 2025
26 min
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code

Speaker delves into global state management in React, mentioning Redux and alternatives like React context. Creating a global state manager in under 50 lines of code with React context, highlighting challenges with performance and React specificity. Building a custom hook named user store for state management, implementing state and API for store, handling partial state updates efficiently. Managing listeners for state changes, setting up custom hooks and selectors, and subscribing to external stores. Demonstrating optimization in state management and preventing unnecessary button re-renders. Discussion on Redux, Signals, debugging, and various global state management choices like Zestand and Redux toolkit.
React Beyond the DOM
React Summit US 2025
27 min
React Beyond the DOM

Eric Rasmussen discusses React beyond the DOM, React PDF, Ink tools, and rendering to Markdown. The overview includes React Reconciler, host configuration, state management with real-world entities like light bulbs, and building a traffic light state machine visually. The talk also covers securing third-party JavaScript, expanding React rendering possibilities, advanced tooling for state machines, controlling light bulbs via renderer callbacks, server functions for fetch in the cloud, and potential robot programming with React.
How to React Compiler
React Summit 2025
20 min
How to React Compiler

Introduction to React compiler, differences from React 19, installation of Babel plug-in React compiler, specifying target React versions, and how React compiler detects and processes component dependencies. Configuring React compiler settings, exploring default options and configurations, utilizing React compiler playground website for configurations, dealing with JSX markup re-computation. React compiler feature for extracting JSX from array map callbacks, limitations of enable function outlining, enabling JSX outlining for separate functions. Function memoization in React compiler, React compiler beta stage, potential errors with React compiler. React compiler error: memorization preservation, hidden messages, validation settings. React compiler: validation tools, hooks treatment, memorization challenges. Changing hooks to functions for React compiler optimization. React Compiler usage considerations and potential optimizations.
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler
React Summit US 2025
23 min
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler

Akash Hamilwasia presenting at React Summit 2025, shares React Compiler learnings and works on an AI audio platform. Memoization in React helps optimize UI performance by preventing unnecessary re-renders. React Compiler offers automatic memoization through static code analysis. React rules emphasize purity and immutability. The compiler analyzes and memoizes code changes for optimization. React Compiler package usage improves performance through code analysis. Understanding reactivity issues is crucial for handling React state. Compiler optimization requires correct dependency arrays and usage of external libraries. Measure React Compiler impact using React Profiler for optimization and real user impact analysis.
The State of React and the Community in 2025
React Summit 2025
29 min
The State of React and the Community in 2025

Mark Erickson discusses the state of React in 2025, React community debates on React's direction and misconceptions, React's shift towards client-side frameworks and SSR emphasis, React's feature development process at Meta and Vercel, controversy around Vercel's server components involvement, tight relationship between React and Next, React team's emphasis on frameworks for app performance, critique of React's heavy-handed framework recommendation, React team's delay in adding VEET as a recommended tool, challenges with server components' origins and communication, no official signals support planned for React 19, social media impact on React development decisions, React community diversity and server components usage insights, React's evolving black box concept and tradeoffs discussed.
React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web
React Summit US 2025
29 min
React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web

Talk on cross-platform React using ReactStrict DOM to unify web and native React, standardizing for consistent UI development. Fragmentation challenges in React due to lack of standardized styling systems, impacting development efficiency and product consistency. Exploring unsuccessful cross-platform React approaches and the importance of minimizing migration costs. Enabling web developers to build native apps with React Native while enhancing it with web APIs for seamless code migration. Benefits of code sharing for cross-platform apps, AI integration for React Strict DOM, and the future vision for React Native as a web renderer. Unified styling in React Native, Tailwind integration, and UI best practices. Flexibility and readiness in React DOM, potential inclusion in React Foundations, and considerations for reversibility of decisions in React DOM.
Panel Discussion: The State of React
React Summit 2025







35 min
Panel Discussion: The State of React








7 authors
Panelists introduced themselves and discussed React Server Components (RSCs), exploring usage in production and alternative frameworks. Challenges of adopting RSCs and benefits of universal data fetching were highlighted. The complexities of implementing RSCs were discussed, emphasizing the need for better integration. The potential of server components for composability and evolving architecture was explored. The React compiler's impact on performance optimization and component re-rendering was examined. Discussions included enhancing React with compiler features, evolving feature sets, and reimagining state management. Improvements in communication, community engagement, and dependency management within the React ecosystem were emphasized. Recommendations for managing dependencies, component performance, and audience appreciation were shared.
Node.js
What's in a Node.js Bug – A Case Study
Node Congress 2025
23 min
What's in a Node.js Bug – A Case Study

I'm going to talk about character encodings, specifically a Node.js bug related to UTF-8. Two popular encodings are UTF8 and UTF16. The bug was discovered in August 2024 and was traced to a specific pull request in the Node.js core repository. The bug is caused by an incorrect implementation of the fast write string method. Lessons learned include the importance of naming conventions and thorough testing beyond coverage analysis.
What We All Pretend to Know: The Differences Between the JS Engine & JS Runtime
JSNation 2025


11 min
What We All Pretend to Know: The Differences Between the JS Engine & JS Runtime



2 authors
The talk delves into the intricacies of JavaScript engine and runtime, emphasizing the importance of understanding execution processes for effective development and debugging. It discusses how JavaScript engines optimize code through parsing, abstract syntax trees, and byte code execution. Strategies for optimizing code include maintaining type stability, using type-stable arrays, and consistent object shapes to avoid deoptimization. Recommendations for enhancing JavaScript execution involve ensuring input type consistency, using type-stable arrays, and understanding the event loop's role in code execution across different runtimes and engines.
JavaScript File Handling Like a Pro: From ZIP Streams to Memory-Efficient Parsing
JSNation US 2025
24 min
JavaScript File Handling Like a Pro: From ZIP Streams to Memory-Efficient Parsing

Node.js offers significant capabilities for efficient file handling, emphasizing the importance of processing files effectively to avoid crashes and memory issues. Understanding streams, backpressure, and stream concepts like readable, writable, duplex, and transform streams is crucial for efficient file handling. Streams enable working with data in chunks, ensuring stable memory usage and efficient applications. Backpressure in streams optimizes memory usage by processing data incrementally, unlike loading entire files into memory. Utilizing readable streams in processing improves concurrency and avoids blocking the event loop.
The Path to Native TypeScript
Node Congress 2025
24 min
The Path to Native TypeScript

Today's Talk discusses the integration of TypeScript in Node.js. The path to native TypeScript in Node.js is explored, including the history of user requests for native support. Implementing TypeScript in Node.js poses challenges due to differences in stability guarantees and tool compatibility. TypeStripping is a transpilation-focused implementation that removes non-JavaScript features, making it stable across TypeScript versions. The Amaro package, built on SWC, provides compatibility and speed for type stripping. Experimental Strip Types and Transform Types flags enable erasable TypeScript features. TypeScript has limitations such as namespace and enum support in JavaScript and code migration issues. TypeScript Import Types and Syntax Detection are ongoing developments. Ambiguity in syntax between JavaScript and TypeScript is addressed with an erasable syntax only flag. Future steps include bug fixing, performance improvements, and upcoming Node.js releases.
Make Hono work on Node.js
Node Congress 2025
15 min
Make Hono work on Node.js

Today's Talk is about making Hono work on Node.js. Hono is a backend for web frameworks that supports TypeScript. It started as a Cloudflare workers framework and now supports multiple runtimes. The Node.js adapter allows Hono applications to run in Node.js by converting Node.js APIs into web standard APIs. Benchmark tests show that Hono is faster than Express but slower in some core areas. The Node.js adapter has been widely used and has undergone performance improvements. Overall, adding Node.js support to Hono has been successful in reaching more users and improving quality.
Running Java in Node.js with WebAssembly
Node Congress 2025
19 min
Running Java in Node.js with WebAssembly

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my talk on running Java in Node.js with WebAssembly. Many organisations have a lot of Java code, and as they adopt newer technologies such as Node.js or CloudFloat workers, maintaining interoperability with this existing code becomes important. WebAssembly is a stack machine-based thing, like the JVM, but with a different instruction set. It improves over Asm.js with a new binary format and supports streaming compilation, SIMD, and 64-bit integers. Compiling Java code to WebAssembly involves converting JVM instructions, handling local slots, recovering if statements, and understanding control flow. Short circuit conditionals and loops are important to consider in the conversion process. Additionally, memory allocation, object creation, and program memory are key concepts. Overall, this talk explores the challenges and techniques involved in running Java in Node.js with WebAssembly.
Speeding Up Your Node Sever With Rust
JSNation 2025
21 min
Speeding Up Your Node Sever With Rust

Talk on improving Node server efficiency with Rust. Node's ease of use but inefficiency for some tasks. Example of a slow express server handling high scores inefficiently. Native modules in Rust provide a safer alternative to C for improving efficiency. Rust empowers developers to build reliable and efficient software, with strong static typing and immutability by default. Rust's result and option enums handle error and value absence cases. The ownership system in Rust ensures safe memory management without manual intervention. The importance of ownership in Rust for memory management and error prevention. Writing native modules in Rust with NAPI for easier project creation and code integration. Exploring the efficiency gains of using Rust's native modules for faster performance and reduced risks in development.
Node.js + TypeScript: A Native Integration Years in the Making
JSNation US 2025
19 min
Node.js + TypeScript: A Native Integration Years in the Making

Welcome to JS Nation. Marco Ippolito discusses NodeJS and TypeScript integration, challenges, and growth. TypeStripping in Node.js removes TypeScript syntax for execution. Efficient TypeStripping in Node 22 skips SourceMaps, aligns with TypeScript versions. Enhanced features in Node 22 support experimental TypeScript features with limitations. Node.js supports TypeScript features with erasable syntax and namespace in Node 23.8. Importing types correctly crucial to avoid errors. Node.js TypeScript integration update includes switching to TypeScript, browser support, and community involvement.
Node.js: More Threads Than You Think
React Advanced 2025
32 min
Node.js: More Threads Than You Think

The talk covers a range of topics including Node.js evolution to a multi-threaded system, scaling with the cluster module, managing PM2 for efficient orchestration, challenges in SSR frameworks, TCP SO reuse port for resource utilization, VAT architecture for smart service routing, zero downtime deployment with shared cache, performance benchmark results, PM2 performance challenges, legality and functionality of TCP SO reuse port, kernel balancing considerations, tool comparison between PM2 and Deno, cache consistency challenges, VAT architecture with worker thread recovery, T-scaling for vertical scaling, and updating Node V6 applications.
NodeJS & AI: Building Smarter Applications
Node Congress 2025
19 min
NodeJS & AI: Building Smarter Applications

Today's Talk explored combining Node.js and artificial intelligence to build smart applications. Two types of models, closed and open source, were discussed, with closed models accessed via an API and open source models hosted locally or on the cloud. The use of RAC (Retrieve of Method Generation) to enhance models was explained, along with the process of obtaining data and improving retrieval performance. Chunking, embedding, and vector databases were introduced as techniques for organizing and transforming data. The Talk also covered data retrieval using semantic search and the generation of human-readable answers using models. The concept of enhancing models with agents was discussed, focusing on how agents break down complex goals and utilize external functions. The use of tools and the React pattern in implementing agents was highlighted. Lastly, the Talk touched on implementing agent patterns and enhancing LLMs, with demos and code available for further exploration.
Testing
Testing the Waters With Deno
JSNation 2025
24 min
Testing the Waters With Deno

Today's discussion delves into testing in Deno, emphasizing its simplicity and built-in tooling. Deno offers a seamless testing experience for developers, allowing tests to be written in TypeScript without extensive setup. The platform supports BDD-style testing, provides various assertion types, advanced features like code coverage and snapshot testing, and allows for filtering tests based on keywords. Additionally, Deno facilitates component testing, dependency mocking, and migration of test suites from Jest to Deno with minimal changes.
Fast-Tracking Quality for Hundreds of React Applications With Automated Testing Layers
React Advanced 2025
29 min
Fast-Tracking Quality for Hundreds of React Applications With Automated Testing Layers

Discussion on improving release cycles and testing efficiency, transitioning to React Native, quality assurance challenges addressed through redefined responsibilities and test automation, shift-left approach for early testing and diversification of automated tests, efficient test execution with caching strategies, impact of caching on CI performance, efficiency with change recognition and caching, project-specific approaches for testing, test optimization with AI and Pyramid test structure, QA team transitioning to engineering, handling unautomated tests and test association, maintaining test stability with Git revert strategy.
Inside the Engine: How Modern JS Test Runners Work and the Traps They Hide
Node Congress 2025
22 min
Inside the Engine: How Modern JS Test Runners Work and the Traps They Hide

Hello, I'm grateful that you chose to watch my talk. Thank you. Last week, I had to run some unit tests while I was coding. Business performance can be awesome. It has very interesting and outstanding features. These test sets are overly complex. It's easy to find yourself troubleshooting for hours. VTest has almost 200 configuration options. By explaining how things work, we can answer questions about using complex third-party runners versus the built-in node.js runner. Understanding better helps avoid pitfalls, troubleshoot faster, and identify opportunities for configuring things better. The CLI layer does validation and hands over to the VTest class. It searches for test files, runs them efficiently using a pool of workers, and ensures isolation to prevent issues with dirty state. VTest uses the piscina library to facilitate work with multiple workers and improve performance. The workers prepare by setting the right globals, initializing snapshots, deciding the test runner file, and starting coverage collection. Each worker executes all the tests in a file and sends an RPC message when done. The decision to reuse or create a fresh worker is determined by the isolate configuration option. Consider spreading tests among more files to fully utilize the machine. Choose between process, thread, or VM as the worker type. In terms of isolation, you can choose between using a process, a thread, or a VM. Process is the heaviest in terms of performance cost, while thread is lighter. VM performance depends on known slower aspects like accessing globals. Process is the classic choice for stability, but thread has limitations and known issues. VM has reporting issues with memory leaks. Benchmark results showed that using multiple processes was 50% better for real-world applications, but for unit tests, one process was ten times faster. Thread was slightly faster than process, and VM was slower. The price of isolation with process worker types was approximately three minutes. Without isolation, the tests lasted only two minutes, much faster, but with a few failures. Threads showed similar results with a few failures. The risk of dealing with testing issues increases without isolation. By default, tests run sequentially inside workers, but you can configure them to run in parallel using the 'concurrent' keyword. However, tests still run sequentially despite specifying 'concurrent'. Concurrency in VTest is based on promises and requires asynchronous work. Unit tests run sequentially and concurrency has no isolation. Mocking in one test affects other tests running simultaneously. In choosing worker configurations, it depends on the context. In-file concurrency is best avoided, and the process worker type is recommended as the default. Isolation is crucial in integration tests but not mandatory in unit tests. Inside the worker, a TypeScript file is handled, and failures can occur when mocking functions. Mocking doesn't work in the worker. The worker handles TypeScript files and transpiles them using Vite server. Vite server replaces imports and hoists the mocking. Vite introduces a new module loader in the runtime. Vite hoisted the mock to the first line in the transform code to make it before the import. Additionally, Vite changes mocks to dynamic imports, ensuring that mocking works. Vite intercepts function calls on the file import level, but cannot intercept calls between functions in the same file. Moving function two to a different file or using an object export can solve this issue. Function one calls function two on the same object context. Use Spy to replace functions inside the object. Vite offers a range of plugins for different functionalities. You can fix import issues by customizing Vite's runtime. The Vite server handles dependency resolution and transformation. Consider using the built-in test runner or mockup for small-scale testing. Gain a better testing experience with Vite's customized runtime.
At the Top of the Pyramid: Playwright Testing at Scale
React Summit 2025
25 min
At the Top of the Pyramid: Playwright Testing at Scale

Introduction to Playwright as an end-to-end testing tool with easy installation and code generation. Features include visual comparisons, API testing, and best-in-class developer experience. Playwright offers AI capabilities, practical testing tools, and innovative testing strategies. Challenges in testing specialized domains are addressed, along with best practices for test dependencies and readability. Optimizing testing efficiency through parallelism, code organization, and network cache usage. The discussion also covers test performance enhancement, managing workers, optimizing dependencies, stability of test functions, and the use of Playwright sharding in CI/CD runs.
Validating the Web: The Evolution of Form Validation
React Summit 2025
20 min
Validating the Web: The Evolution of Form Validation

Exploring the evolution of web forms from HTML2 to Web 3.0 and the crucial role of form validation in application development. The importance of form validation, challenges, and the need for better approaches. Introducing VEST as a flexible validation tool inspired by unit testing frameworks. Highlighting VEST's logic separation, asynchronous validation, and advanced features like caching. Discussing warning states, user guidance, and the impact of form validation on user experience and application success.
Automated Accessibility Testing in React: Beyond the Basics
React Advanced 2025
9 min
Automated Accessibility Testing in React: Beyond the Basics

Introduction to Accessibility Testing in React applications, emphasizing early automation and challenges in scaling. Importance of instant feedback, Unity test, and entry testing for code accessibility. Utilizing end-to-end testing tools like Jest-Axi and Cypress to ensure accessibility compliance. Emphasis on manual testing alongside automated tools. Encouragement for discussions on LinkedIn to enhance accessibility knowledge.
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