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Speeding Up Your Node Sever With Rust
JSNation 2025JSNation 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.
Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
27 min
Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web
Joshua introduces Transformers JS and Hugging Face, emphasizing community collaboration and pre-trained models. Transformers JS evolution led to 1.4 million monthly users, supporting 155 architectures. The library's browser-based capabilities offer real-time processing, cost-efficiency, and scalability. Integration enhancements include native web GPU execution and React Native implementation. Web ML implementation focuses on Onyx Runtime for device execution and web GPU for resource optimization. Browser-based ML applications cover vision, speech recognition, and text-to-speech. Advanced implementations include multimodal applications and educational tools. Interactive AI demonstrations showcase semantic search and conversational AI scenarios. Model licensing transitions to ECMAScript for efficiency and model redownloading factors are discussed.
Becoming a Tech Lead: From Tech to People
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
14 min
Becoming a Tech Lead: From Tech to People
Annamarie Fischer discusses transitioning to a tech lead role, highlighting the importance of soft skills development. Tech leads need to focus on both technical expertise and people skills, including conflict resolution and clear processes. Developing soft skills like active listening, relationship-building, and delegation tools is crucial for effective tech leadership. Mindset shifts from individual to team focus, coding to value-driven decisions, and short-term to long-term thinking are essential for tech leads to succeed in enabling team success and strategic direction.
Prompt Engineering Toolkit
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
16 min
Prompt Engineering Toolkit
Manoj Sureddy discusses building a toolkit for prompt engineering with LLM-based solutions, emphasizing the need for a structured approach like React. The toolkit provides a structured approach for prompt development, ensuring organized and reusable templates for various LLM-based solutions. Integration with version control and CI-CD pipeline for automated evaluations, advanced quality evaluation mechanisms using Gemma, and integration of human in the loop evaluations. Focus on maintaining prompt quality, subjective metrics in evaluations, and insights on prompt drift, versioning, real user feedback, and evaluation automation.
Build Your Own Reactivity: A Deep Dive Into Signals
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
28 min
Build Your Own Reactivity: A Deep Dive Into Signals
Karl Vorden introduces signals for reactivity in JavaScript, aiming to demystify its implementation for better understanding. Signals in JavaScript provide efficient reactivity by updating only the necessary code without extra work. Different frameworks offer signal implementations like createSignal in solid JS, resembling React's useEffect but functioning differently. Vue signals are called refs, created with the ref function, returning an object with a value property. Define effect functions for tracking changes and execution in reactive signals. Explore computed functions for complex operations within reactive signals. Beware of pitfalls with conditionals affecting signal execution.
Resourceful Suspense
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
30 min
Resourceful Suspense
Minko Gedev presents tradeoffs of deferred loading in Angular and React, addressing misconceptions about the frameworks. Exploring Deferred Loading Nuances and Angular vs. React Implementation with Large Language Models. Beginning with AngularJS, Transition to React, and Contribution to Angular Community. Joining Angular Team at Google, Building React App, Comparing Functionality with Angular. AI Assistance in Angular App, Using Chat Functionality with AI for Actions, Implementing Function Calling for Cart Items. Adding T-shirts to Cart Using AI, Simple Implementation and Tool Addition for AI.generate Call, Visualizing Messages and Adding Products to Cart. Speeding up Application with Lazy Loading in React and Angular, Configuring Chat Functionality. Configuring Chat Data in React, Dependency Observation in Component Tree. Async Function Issue in React, Component Data Dependency, Data Loading in Angular. Inspiration from Amazon for Lazy Loading, React and Angular Implementation, Visibility with IntersectionObservers. Adding Prefetching in Angular and Server-Side Rendering Considerations with Incremental Hydration. React and Angular Trade-offs in Templating and Framework Features. Evaluating JavaScript Frameworks and SEO Impact. Utilizing GenKit API for Function Mapping and React Component Logic Abstraction. Exploring requestIdleCallback in Safari and Signals vs. RxJS in Angular. Considering Framework Selection Criteria Beyond Popularity and Trendiness. Exploring React Features and Angular Templating in TypeScript. Disadvantages of Angular Partial Hydration and Waterfall Effects.
Compiled Atomic JavaScript?
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
22 min
Compiled Atomic JavaScript?
In 2008, the movie Vantage Point inspired the exploration of diverse perspectives in software development. The evolution from traditional CSS to atomic styles in StyleX and the scalability advantage of atomic JavaScript are significant areas of interest. Rethinking server-side rendering with React, Web Components, and the Hano framework introduces new possibilities for interactive components. Custom elements, Shadow DOM, and the Solenoid framework address challenges in CSS scoping and SSR for lighter-weight HTML. Signal functions in Solenoid offer a unique approach to data management and component development, enhancing app efficiency. Real-time interactive server setup, innovative server-side development, and the use of HTML as a source of truth contribute to project speed and efficiency. Debugging, component definition, HTML streaming, and component usage highlight the declarative nature and streaming capabilities of server-generated HTML.
Your Frontend’s Best Friend - How to Ship Fast in 2025
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
20 min
Your Frontend’s Best Friend - How to Ship Fast in 2025
The Talk delves into enhancing success rates in software projects through focusing on iteration velocity and observability. Discussions revolve around the advantages of utilizing full stack web frameworks like Next.js and Remix for efficient software development and improved code sharing. The integration of TurboStream, BFF, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) in full stack development is explored. Vercel and Cloudflare's innovative solutions for integrating MCP servers into Next.js applications are highlighted, simplifying code sharing and enabling diverse front-end experiences.
Configurational Dependencies in pnpm
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
25 min
Configurational Dependencies in pnpm
Introduced new feature in PNPM v10 called config dependency, allowing custom plugins. Centralizing configuration and dependencies management. Early installation of limited config dependencies in PNPM. Trusted dependencies for lifecycle scripts in PNPM. Versatility of pmpm hooks in configuration. Example of a config dependency for fixing type script issues. Discussion on project sustainability, security, contributors, and hiring prospects. Comparison of migration tools, hosting preferences, and package version restrictions.
Server Components Wars: PHP Strikes Back
React Summit 2025React 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.
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Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling
JSNation 2025JSNation 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.
Senior Isn't About Your Tech Skills
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
15 min
Senior Isn't About Your Tech Skills
Being senior isn't just about tech skills; continuous improvement and broadening impact are vital for growth in the tech industry. Being effective in your work means focusing on outcomes that create superpowers for others, increasing your career opportunities and impact. Delivering valuable work creates opportunities for growth and rewards in your career. Being a senior engineer evolves from task execution to leadership and team management, leading to significant career growth and financial rewards. Results on your resume matter for your next job. Leadership, not titles, defines a senior engineer's role. Senior engineers lead projects, create direction in chaos, and focus on delivering results efficiently and effectively.
The AI Developer's Guide to Not Accidentally Summoning Skynet
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
12 min
The AI Developer's Guide to Not Accidentally Summoning Skynet
Introduction to the risks of AI in web development and the potential security threats it poses, drawing parallels to the fictional AI Skynet and emphasizing the importance of understanding and mitigating these risks. Discussion on the OVASP project revealing the top security risks in AI-assisted development, focusing on prompt injection attacks as a significant threat to LLMs. Explanation of prompt injection attacks in AI involving social engineering, role-playing to bypass AI safeguards, and data exfiltration risks, emphasizing the critical threat of privilege escalation in LLMs. Discussion on AI toolkit for authorization in Gen AI projects and the risks associated with over-reliance on AI-generated code, especially in the context of 'white coding' and regex vulnerabilities. Discussion on the risks of using AI-generated regular expressions without validation, the importance of manual review, code analysis, and human approval in AI-assisted development, emphasizing the need for security protocols and vigilance.
JavaScript Isn’t Slow – It’s Just Scheduled Wrong
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
14 min
JavaScript Isn’t Slow – It’s Just Scheduled Wrong
Srilakna discusses JavaScript performance, highlighting scheduling challenges and the limitations of existing models. The introduction of the Post Task Scheduler API addresses these issues, offering promise-based scheduling for specific priorities. The internal workings and implementation of the API are explained, emphasizing task prioritization to ensure smooth UI performance. The API enables developers to control task priorities effectively, preventing UI freeze and lag.
How to Become a Staff Engineer
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
32 min
How to Become a Staff Engineer
The speaker provides insights on transitioning to a staff engineer role, emphasizing the key pillars of technical excellence, organizational impact, and mentorship. They discuss challenges faced in leading projects at Slack and misconceptions in staff engineer development, highlighting the importance of networking and self-promotion. Strategies for advancing to staff engineer level, promotion to senior staff engineer, and selecting strategic projects for career progression are outlined. The talk also covers career advancement strategies, navigating responsibilities as a staff engineer, deciding on the staff engineering path, and considerations in career decisions within engineering.
Advanced Mathematics and Data Analysis With JavaScript
JSNation US 2024JSNation US 2024
11 min
Advanced Mathematics and Data Analysis With JavaScript
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In this talk, we explore advanced mathematics and data analysis with JavaScript, comparing its speed with Python and R. We discuss the role of WebAssembly and cases where plain JavaScript falls short. We introduce Standard Lib, a fundamental library for numerical computation on the web, similar to NumPy or SciPy in Python. We delve into the speed and performance of JavaScript, highlighting its performance compared to Python and R for different array sizes. We also discuss the performance of WebAssembly and native add-ons. Finally, we discuss the features of Standard Lib, including fancy indexing, blast operations, and its integration with Google Sheets.
Tanstack Start - A Client-Side First Full-Stack React Framework
React Summit US 2024React Summit US 2024
30 min
Tanstack Start - A Client-Side First Full-Stack React Framework
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We surveyed thousands of developers to show that a louder audience leads to a better presentation. There has been a shift in web app development towards server-first architectures, which has improved full-stack capabilities but at the cost of complexity and divergence from the client-centric approach. Tanstec Start is a meta-framework that aims to provide the best client-side authoring experience with powerful server-side primitives. The Tansec Router supports advanced routing features, URL state management, and JSON storage. Combined with the server-side rendering capabilities of TanStack Start, it becomes even more powerful. The TanStack Router has isomorphic loaders and integrates seamlessly with TanStack Query for additional features like polling and offline support. UseSuspenseQuery allows for dynamic streaming of data during SSR. TanStack Start also offers server-side features, API routes, server functions, and middleware. The future plans include RSCs, websockets, real-time primitives, and static pre-rendering. TanStack Start is now in beta and is suitable for building React apps. It is open source.
Frontend’s Lost Decade and the Performance Inequality Gap
JSNation 2025JSNation 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.
ESLint One for All Made Easy
JSNation 2024JSNation 2024
27 min
ESLint One for All Made Easy
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ESLint is a popular and constantly improving tool that offers full control and simplicity in JavaScript with native imports. The new Flat Config simplifies the complex tree structure of shared configs and has been in the works for five years. It allows for customization and type generation, maximizing flexibility. ESLint can be used as a formatter and a tool for code mode, providing more control and customization options. It also supports other languages and can be integrated with prettier. Migrating to the Flat Config may be challenging, but compatible packages and tools are available to assist with the transition.
Becoming a Tech Lead: From Tech to People
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
14 min
Becoming a Tech Lead: From Tech to People
Annamarie Fischer discusses transitioning to a tech lead role, highlighting the importance of soft skills development. Tech leads need to focus on both technical expertise and people skills, including conflict resolution and clear processes. Developing soft skills like active listening, relationship-building, and delegation tools is crucial for effective tech leadership. Mindset shifts from individual to team focus, coding to value-driven decisions, and short-term to long-term thinking are essential for tech leads to succeed in enabling team success and strategic direction.
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Zero-Styling Development: Utopia or the Future of Frontend?
React Summit 2025React 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.
WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers
Node Congress 2025Node 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.
No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
6 min
No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone
Marius from Twilio demonstrates building AI agents for phone calls, addressing latency issues by leveraging Twilio's infrastructure and third-party providers like 11 Labs and Google Cloud. Configuration includes WebSocket integration for message handling, static responses, and text-to-speech with 11 Labs. AI integration involves GPT4 or mini model for conversation history storage. A live demo showcases an AI voice assistant with instant responses and latency improvements.
Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
7 min
Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy
Authentication is crucial for system security, with options including building, buying, or using open source. Modern security complexities are addressed by purchasing systems with enterprise-level security features. Cost considerations in authentication highlight maintenance and scaling costs, with buying solutions providing peace of mind and predictable costs.
Next.js Adapters: Build Once, Deploy Everywhere
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
7 min
Next.js Adapters: Build Once, Deploy Everywhere
Hello, React Summit. Excited to talk about Next.js adapters. Evolution towards adapter solutions to simplify deployment complexities. Minimalist adapter interface for customization and structured output handling. Key hooks and configurations for platform-specific optimizations. Partners collaboration for enhanced experiences in Next.js deployments. Simplified, platform-agnostic deployments for better developer experience.
Building React Primitives to Power In-App Messaging
React Summit US 2024React Summit US 2024
8 min
Building React Primitives to Power In-App Messaging
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Hi, everyone. I'm Chris, the CTO at Nock. We help product teams power user-centric cross-channel notification experiences. Today, I'll talk about extending the abilities of our in-app messaging and how you can power any kind of in-app messaging using our platform. We optimize for flexibility, customization, and a shallow learning curve. Our pre-built React components include a banner, modal, card, and notification feed. All of this comes out-of-the-box, supporting light mode and dark mode. Easily show modals and announcements with no additional code. Own the rendered components for performance and customization. Build custom components with minimal code. Use hooks for fetching data and real-time updates. Noc provides a schema for strong data integrity.
Aligning Patterns Across Design and Development
React Summit US 2024React Summit US 2024
8 min
Aligning Patterns Across Design and Development
I'm Jake, a developer advocate at Figma, and today I'll be discussing aligning patterns between design and development. Collaboration between designers and developers requires recognizing our different perspectives. The goal is to close the gap between design and development, but this is often aspirational. The optimal path between design and development is somewhere in between, depending on factors like friction or waves. By recognizing each other's areas of resistance, we can find ways to make collaboration more effective. Figma's Code Connect fills the gap between Figma component logic and code logic by allowing teams to publish code-based informed component code snippets. CodeConnect currently supports HTML, Web Components, Angular, Vue, React, SwiftUI, and Jetpack Compose, and seeks to support more languages.
What’s With Micro Frontends
JSNation US 2024JSNation US 2024
7 min
What’s With Micro Frontends
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Micro-frontends break down a large frontend into smaller, independently deployable pieces. This approach improves scalability, team autonomy, and code maintenance. Two primary ways to implement micro-frontends are build time and run time. Module federation, introduced in Webpack 5, allows for dynamic real-time updates across teams. Challenges in implementing micro-frontends include getting type safety with TypeScript and testing at runtime. Module federation 2.0 introduced type extraction and manifest updates. Full site federation allows testing the whole app. Micro frontends involve trade-offs, so choose what benefits you the most.
Reimagine Frontend in the Serverless Era
React Summit 2025React 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.
It’s Not Magic: Elevate Auth Security with PKCE Best Practices
Node Congress 2025Node 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.
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Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
JSNation 2025JSNation 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.
Temporal: Modern Dates and Times in JavaScript
JSNation US 2024JSNation US 2024
22 min
Temporal: Modern Dates and Times in JavaScript
I'll speak today about the Temporal proposal, which adds modern date and time handling to JavaScript. Temporal is an API that'll be available in browsers soon and will add a built-in library for dates and times, avoiding the need for external libraries like Moment. It offers strong typing with different types for different data, such as calendar dates with or without time. Temporal objects are immutable and designed to work with JavaScript's internationalization facilities. It addresses deficiencies in the global Date object and introduces types like instant and plain types for accurate representation of time and dates across time zones. With the old Date, representing a date without a time can be problematic, especially in time zones where midnight is skipped due to daylight saving time. Temporal introduces types like PlainDate, PlainTime, PlainYearMonth, PlainMonthDay, and ZonedDateTime to accurately represent different scenarios. Additionally, there is a type called Duration for arithmetic operations and unit conversion. Now that I've introduced you to the cast of characters in Temporal, it's time to show how to accomplish a programming task. We'll start with an easy task: getting the current time as a timestamp in milliseconds using the instant type. To convert between Temporal types, you can either drop or add information. The toZonedDateTime method is used for conversion and requires adding a time zone and a time. Although Temporal objects are immutable, you can create new objects with replaced components using the with method. Migrating from the old Date object to Temporal offers a more reliable solution and avoids potential bugs. Check out the documentation for more details and enjoy using Temporal in your codebase!
10 Years of Best of JS
JSNation 2025JSNation 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.
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Let's Build Suspense 🥁
React Summit US 2024React Summit US 2024
20 min
Let's Build Suspense 🥁
Hi, my name is Julian and I am super excited to be speaking at React Summit this year. Today, I will be talking about Suspense on the server and its importance in React server components. React server components allow us to differentiate between static and dynamic components, improving performance and user experience. Suspense improves performance by introducing streaming and out-of-order streaming. We can implement suspense on the server by creating a suspended object to store the suspended children and swapping out the loading state for the actual content using custom elements. Multiple suspense boundaries can be used to render individual loading states for different sections, improving the user experience.
The State of React and the Community in 2025
React Summit 2025React 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.
Tanstack Start - A Client-Side First Full-Stack React Framework
React Summit US 2024React Summit US 2024
30 min
Tanstack Start - A Client-Side First Full-Stack React Framework
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We surveyed thousands of developers to show that a louder audience leads to a better presentation. There has been a shift in web app development towards server-first architectures, which has improved full-stack capabilities but at the cost of complexity and divergence from the client-centric approach. Tanstec Start is a meta-framework that aims to provide the best client-side authoring experience with powerful server-side primitives. The Tansec Router supports advanced routing features, URL state management, and JSON storage. Combined with the server-side rendering capabilities of TanStack Start, it becomes even more powerful. The TanStack Router has isomorphic loaders and integrates seamlessly with TanStack Query for additional features like polling and offline support. UseSuspenseQuery allows for dynamic streaming of data during SSR. TanStack Start also offers server-side features, API routes, server functions, and middleware. The future plans include RSCs, websockets, real-time primitives, and static pre-rendering. TanStack Start is now in beta and is suitable for building React apps. It is open source.
Build AI Apps in 5 Minutes: Live Demo With Vercel AI Sdk, v0.dev, and Rag!
React Summit US 2024React Summit US 2024
12 min
Build AI Apps in 5 Minutes: Live Demo With Vercel AI Sdk, v0.dev, and Rag!
I'm doing a quick lightning talk today, talking about saying no to boilerplate and teaching you how to build an AI app in just minutes. We're going to talk about RAG, v0, fine-tuning for sales AI to SDK, and then talk a little bit about Entity Resolution and your AI toolkit. RAG is a hot topic in chatbot development and allows for creating chatbots with a deeper understanding of specific use cases. Rag offers a versatile AISDK that allows for easy model switching, augmentation, and fine-tuning. Entity resolution is important for resolving entities across multiple points of data, with use cases in personalized marketing, healthcare, and fraud detection.
React Query - The Bad Parts
React Day Berlin 2024React Day Berlin 2024
30 min
React Query - The Bad Parts
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React Query is a popular library with significant weekly downloads and positive user sentiment. It may have trade-offs like bundle size, but the actual size shipped is smaller. Bundle size optimization can be achieved by exporting only necessary features. React Query's declarative approach eliminates the need for custom data fetching solutions. It offers caching, request duplication, background updates, and more. RackQuery doesn't support normalized caching, but refetching after invalidation works fine. React's vision includes suspense architecture and server components. The documentation could be improved with a more structured flow. TensorStack Query can be a good choice for Next.js apps, but not necessary with mature frameworks. The 10 stack query and router concepts were discussed. Combining React Query with HTTP caching provides a robust caching solution.
The State of React
React Summit 2025React 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.
Sketching with Code: Integrating React and p5.js
React Summit US 2024React Summit US 2024
30 min
Sketching with Code: Integrating React and p5.js
Hello React Summit! Senior software engineer building educational experiences at NewZella. Passionate about helping people get involved with open source. Creative coding journey started on Neopets. Have a CodePen with examples in p5.js, svg.js, and CSS. Talk is about p5.js and React, building an application to generate a grid pattern. Incorporating user inputs into the creative process using p5.js and React. Art exhibit at the Wellcome Museum inspired by generative art. True shade tiles and the 10 print algorithm inspired the pattern in our example. p5.js is a JavaScript library for creative coding, accessible to different backgrounds. Order is important in p5.js. React is better at managing complex state. Use the p5.js React wrapper to simplify integration. Use p5.js in instance mode to avoid naming collisions. Instance mode is safer and helpful as the project grows. Use destructuring to get values from input. Lerp color function creates color gradients. Use random seed for consistent random numbers in animations. Struggling with making the Canvas mobile-friendly. Animating P5.js sketches without relying on CSS. Optimizing canvas elements. P5.js and WebGL for 3D rendering. Conclusion and appreciation.
Evaluating React Application Performance with a Sip of RUM
React Day Berlin 2024React Day Berlin 2024
10 min
Evaluating React Application Performance with a Sip of RUM
Hello, everybody. How are we all doing? I'm going to talk about Rome, OpenTelemetry, and identifying performance bottlenecks and issues in React applications. The pillars of observability are logs and metrics. Logs are structured messages that warn, indicate, or error. Metrics include throughput, latency, custom and core web vitals. Traces allow us to see through the pathway of our application and identify bottlenecks. One common open standard for collecting these signals is open telemetry. React's client instrumentation is experimental and mostly unspecified. The open telemetry demo provides an example of front-end tracing in React, giving you a unique service name and basic metrics. The demo shows an HTTP POST request with the pathway and timing. The open telemetry project is still working on core web vital metrics and other enhancements. Real user monitoring (RUM) fills the gaps in open telemetry, capturing missing information. In conclusion, we discussed the importance of capturing logs, metrics, and traces and provided resources for further exploration.
Everything You Thought You Knew About React Functional Components Is Wrong
React Summit US 2024React Summit US 2024
22 min
Everything You Thought You Knew About React Functional Components Is Wrong
Thank you for coming to React Summit! I wanted to create clarity around React Hooks and provide tools for troubleshooting React issues. Functional components in React are different from class components in terms of their lifecycle. Understanding the creation and destruction of objects in JavaScript is crucial to comprehend the behavior of functional components. Creating functions and objects that are not used can lead to memory waste and system resource consumption. Storing references to variables can keep them in memory, so it's crucial to ensure there is a direct path from window to the variable. This talk discusses creating objects and storing them in React components using useState and useMemo. It emphasizes the importance of using useCallback in cases where a callback is going into a component with a large state tree to avoid unnecessary renders. The talk also explores different approaches to handling data retrieval and update in React components, highlighting the use of useRef as a solution to access and update data in server-side data sources. Overall, the talk provides insights and tools for troubleshooting issues in React functional components.
Chrome DevTools: State of the Union 2024 - Debugging React & Beyond
React Summit US 2024React Summit US 2024
30 min
Chrome DevTools: State of the Union 2024 - Debugging React & Beyond
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Hi folks, in this Talk we learn about React and Chrome DevTools. We explore the new AI Assistant panel in DevTools that helps with UI tweaking. React DevTools now supports Gemini AI model for error fixing. Extensibility is important and React DevTools has features like highlight updates and server components. We also learn about server logging in the browser console and toggling suspense fallbacks. Browser DevTools allow experimenting with local overrides and improving color contrast. Advanced features include overriding headers, network panel customization, and performance tooling. We also discuss Core Web Vitals, optimizing pages, and debugging UI with DevTools. There are fun tips for enhancing animations and logging workflow. The Talk ends with Q&A and sharing/removing features based on user feedback.
Node.js
Make Hono work on Node.js
Node Congress 2025Node 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.
What We All Pretend to Know: The Differences Between the JS Engine & JS Runtime
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
11 min
What We All Pretend to Know: The Differences Between the JS Engine & JS Runtime
Karina Ionkina
Samiul Huque
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.
The State of Node.js 2025
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
30 min
The State of Node.js 2025
The speaker covers a wide range of topics related to Node.js, including its resilience, popularity, and significance in the tech ecosystem. They discuss Node.js version support, organization activity, development updates, enhancements, and security updates. Node.js relies heavily on volunteers for governance and contribution. The speaker introduces an application server for Node.js enabling PHP integration. Insights are shared on Node.js downloads, infrastructure challenges, software maintenance, and the importance of update schedules for security.
Running Java in Node.js with WebAssembly
Node Congress 2025Node 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.
The Path to Native TypeScript
Node Congress 2025Node 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.
What's in a Node.js Bug – A Case Study
Node Congress 2025Node 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.
The Alleged ‘End’ of Node.js Is Much Ado About Nothing
Node Congress 2025Node Congress 2025
26 min
The Alleged ‘End’ of Node.js Is Much Ado About Nothing
Hello, welcome to Node Congress 2025. Node is not dead and will remain popular for a long time. Node has a large number of downloads across different platforms. Despite known vulnerabilities, older versions of Node are still widely used. Node.js is an active and thriving project with a strong focus on security. Recent updates have introduced new features and improvements, including ESM support, stable threads, and web platform compatibility. Node is governed by the OpenJS Foundation and maintained by collaborators. Consensus-seeking is important for the project's development. Start contributing and be part of the future of Node.js.
NodeJS & AI: Building Smarter Applications
Node Congress 2025Node 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.
Run TypeScript Natively in Node.js
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
28 min
Run TypeScript Natively in Node.js
Discussion on TypeScript adoption in Node.js, typescript's popularity, challenges in integrating TypeScript with Node.js due to versioning differences, introducing strip types to remove non-JavaScript syntax, leveraging the SWC library through Amaro for efficient code execution, Node.js support for TypeScript with experimental strip types, enabling transform types and source maps by default, TypeScript evolution with new flags for type checking, TypeScript ESM code evaluation in Node, issues with TypeScript and JavaScript syntax ambiguity, collaboration between Node.js and TypeScript teams, recommendations on using TypeStripping for production projects, comparison of performance between TS Node and Node for TypeScripting, handling type definitions and runtime checking in TypeScript using Zod.
Testing
Accessibility Granted: Building Inclusive Components One Test at a Time
React Summit US 2024React Summit US 2024
18 min
Accessibility Granted: Building Inclusive Components One Test at a Time
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At Evinced, the mission is to make the web more accessible for everyone. Accessibility issues are common despite intentions. Today's Talk focuses on coding in an accessible way using TDD to catch defects early. Unit tests can be written to ensure accessibility requirements are met. Testing Library provides utilities for testing accessibility. The ATDD approach allows continuous creation of tests for compliance. Unit testing is valuable for complex components. Advanced has developed an SDK called the Unit Tester for automating accessibility tests.
Advanced Playwright Techniques for Flawless Testing
JSNation US 2024JSNation US 2024
20 min
Advanced Playwright Techniques for Flawless Testing
Hi, everyone. My name is Debbie O'Brien, Principal Technical PM at Microsoft. I'm focusing on Playwright, a reliable end-to-end testing tool for modern web apps. It works on any browser and platform, has powerful tooling, and tests run fast. Advanced techniques include UI mode, HTML reports, and trace viewer. Use annotations in Playwright to enhance reporting and test organization. Mocking API responses and external links is possible with Playwright. You can also test date and time by setting a fixed fake time. Playwright offers CLI test options and has a vibrant community. Join the Playwright Discord server and follow the important docs and YouTube channel for more information.
At the Top of the Pyramid: Playwright Testing at Scale
React Summit 2025React 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.
Maestro & Expo: Crafting the Future of Efficient e2e Testing
React Advanced 2024React Advanced 2024
20 min
Maestro & Expo: Crafting the Future of Efficient e2e Testing
End-to-end testing is important for catching hard-to-find bugs, but it can be complex and time-consuming. The speaker shares their journey at YOLO apps and how they addressed these issues using Maestro, a newer testing tool. Maestro allows interaction with all aspects of the app and offers a web interface for building tests. It also provides features like auto retry and test videos for troubleshooting. The speaker also discusses automating CI/CD using Expo and EAS, which simplified the app build and distribution process. They demonstrate how EAS and MySQL Cloud can be used for reporting and investigation. The power of end-to-end testing is showcased, with a fast CI/CD time and free tests and EAS updates. Maestro has some limitations, but it offers easy test writing and 100 free tests per month, with additional tests available at a cost.
The 2025 State of JavaScript Testing
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
24 min
The 2025 State of JavaScript Testing
The talk delves into JavaScript testing challenges, company testing practices diversity, and the evolution of testing tools. It explores the transition to user-centric testing, browser-based component testing, and advancements in AI testing tools. The evolving landscape includes Playwright's features and comprehensive testing solutions. Future trends discuss network mocking, AI testing advancements, and the role of AI in JavaScript testing practices.
Beyond React Testing Library: Testing React Libraries (and library-like code)
React Advanced 2024React Advanced 2024
33 min
Beyond React Testing Library: Testing React Libraries (and library-like code)
Today's talk is called Beyond Testing Library, Testing React Libraries and Library-like Code. The speaker, Lenz Liebertronik, discusses the special requirements for testing libraries, including minimizing re-renders, avoiding tearing, and rendering components granularly. They highlight scenarios where React Testing Library falls short and introduce the Testing Library React render stream as a solution. The speaker demonstrates how to test hooks, multiple hooks, and assert re-renders using different techniques. They caution about potential issues with React upgrades, test-only components, ACT batching, and Suspense boundaries. The speaker shares real-world usage of the render stream library and discusses the limitations of correlating renders with DOM commits. They emphasize the importance of testing libraries and gradually optimizing code. They also mention the benefits of using the testing library and conclude with gratitude and a Dutch lesson.
AI-Powered E2E UI Testing: Faster Creation, Easier Maintenance
JSNation US 2024JSNation US 2024
10 min
AI-Powered E2E UI Testing: Faster Creation, Easier Maintenance
Hello, everyone. Today we are going to explore AI-powered end-to-end testing. Unlike unit tests, UI testing has a huge layer of obstructions between the source code and the rendered UI. The source code includes HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, which are transpiled into JavaScript and bundled with tools like Webpack. AI can generate tests effectively for standard websites or blogs, but it may struggle with niche applications behind strict authorization or on-premise tools. AI-powered end-to-end testing for complex scenarios requires our guidance. We use meaningful data test IDs and follow the page objects model pattern. Additionally, we rely on useful tools like the end-to-end test helper in-browser extension and the continue IDE extension. Now, let's proceed to the demo, where we will create tests for the Pokemon application, including the ability to filter by name or type. We will navigate to the Pokemon details page and use our extension to manage settings and prompts. Additionally, we will create the details page object together and generate the test file. The Pokemon details page has 105 elements. We can view the elements for debugging purposes, including page object name, Pokemon details page, and system message. We will copy the page object and save it to a file. We need to make it exportable. Then, we will use the extension to create an end-to-end test and pass the context. I will use all the open files, including the page objects and the test case itself. I will send them to EI along with the predefined prompt. There is a system message and additional information we need to be aware of. The test runs successfully, and that concludes this part.
Inside the Engine: How Modern JS Test Runners Work and the Traps They Hide
Node Congress 2025Node 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.
Testing the Waters With Deno
JSNation 2025JSNation 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.
Validating the Web: The Evolution of Form Validation
React Summit 2025React 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.
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