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Emma Bostian: I landed my dream job by sharing my blogs on Twitter

Software engineer, lecturer, podcast host, author — is there something Emma Bostian hasn't done? She moved from America to Sweden, started working at Spotify, and took up a few challenges along the way. And now she has some career tips to share.

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Kent C. Dodds: Consume, build, and teach — and level up your career

Even though his bio offers quite a hefty reading, he only applied for one job in his career. The rest came along as he was building his name as a renowned speaker, teacher, and a prolific figure of the open-source community. How did Kent do it? “Commit to creating high-quality content,” he sa...

Spanish translations for 2000+ React and JavaScript talks from GitNation

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Who is Nadia?

Nadia is a developer who has worked for a small startup and Atlassian on the product JIRA. She loves to travel and moved from Australia to Austria. Her hobbies include investigating how things work and writing about them.

How does Svelte differ from React?

Svelte is HTML-first, focusing on states rather than changes between states like JavaScript does. It allows developers to use valid HTML directly in components, offering a more intuitive approach compared to React's JSX.

How has Redux evolved over time?

Redux has evolved from being a minimal library requiring a lot of boilerplate code to Redux Toolkit, which simplifies common tasks like creating stores and reducers, and includes features like RTK Query for data fetching. Modern React features like hooks have also been integrated into Redux.

What types of state are best managed by Redux?

Redux is best suited for managing state that is needed by multiple components, state that needs to persist beyond the lifecycle of a single component, and state where it is beneficial to have a clear history of actions and updates. It is less suitable for managing local component state or form state.

Who is Alex Russell?

Alex Russell is a product manager and engineer who previously worked on the Chrome team at Google and on TC39, focusing on JavaScript frameworks and libraries.

What is Hugging Face?

Hugging Face is a platform where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets, and applications, aiming to democratize machine learning.

What is the purpose of mastering JavaScript patterns?

Mastering JavaScript patterns helps developers write code more clearly and efficiently, improve code architecture, catch up with team members, and potentially become a consultant or mentor with better skills and deeper understanding of software principles.
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Deep Dive: Growing to Tech Lead

Growing to Tech Lead

Learn directly from other Senior+ and Lead engineers on how to progress your engineering career, strengthen your foundational skills and become and irreplaceable engineer.

  • Talk: Pocket Guide to Seniority
  • Talk: Why Engineers Must Become Multipliers in the AI-Era
  • Talk: Walking the Netflix Paved Road (Bumps Included): Web Framework, Hawkins Design System
  • Talk: Transforming Your Tech Interviews in the AI Agent Age
  • Talk: 5 Tough Conversations Managers Need to Have
... and 14 more talks and workshops
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AI Assisted Coding

Remove the noise, master agentic coding patterns actually tested in production directly from Senior practitioners. 

  • Talk: Templates and Components for Claude Code: The Future of AI Coding Workflows
  • Talk: Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
  • Talk: Building Blocks of an Agentic Engineering Platform: What SRE Taught Us About Running Agents
  • Workshop: AI-Powered Code Review
  • Workshop: Operating Agent-Based Systems - Overview, Configure, Run, Orchestrate, Monitor
... and 22 more talks and workshops
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Mastering Full-stack

Master full-stack and fundamental engineering skills for AI-enabled future. 

  • Talk: Building a JavaScript Engine in Rust: Lessons From Boa
  • Talk: Building a JavaScript Engine in Rust: Lessons From Boa
  • Talk: Beyond Benchmarks: node.js, Deno, and Bun in Real Production
  • Workshop: DevOps for Front-end Developers: From Local Code to Production by Docker Captain
  • Workshop: Building Fullstack Apps With Cursor
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The Last Software Engineer
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
21 min
The Last Software Engineer
Kent C. Dodds introduces the concept of durable skills and the importance of physical movement. AI evolution involves fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and uncertainties. Reflecting on the future role of AI in work and the evolving technology landscape. Insights on product engineering emphasize judgment, hitting targets, and prioritizing target selection. The importance of user-centric product engineering, intentional decisions, and adapting skills in the agentic coding world are highlighted.
Real-World Hydration and Rendering Patterns in Modern React Apps
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
20 min
Real-World Hydration and Rendering Patterns in Modern React Apps
Ranjit Dandigam discusses real-world hydration and rendering patterns in modern React apps, exploring UI rendering phases, optimization strategies, and the importance of server-client boundaries. Implementing a streaming strategy in React apps enhances loading efficiency and user experience. Managing hydration mismatches and implementing safe time patterns are crucial for stable rendering. Demonstrations of Next.js rendering variations highlight different approaches to rendering content. Design principles for React app rendering emphasize the significance of streaming with suspense and honesty in rendering decisions.
TresJS, a declarative way of creating 3D scenes from Vue components
Vue.js London 2023Vue.js London 2023
27 min
TresJS, a declarative way of creating 3D scenes from Vue components
The speaker discovered 3D with 3GS and was inspired to create a 3D ecosystem for the Vue community using Troy.js. The process of setting up a 3D scene and objects in Tress was explained, along with creating and configuring 3D objects. The talk also covered animating objects with Tress and the 'Cientos' package, as well as the future of Tress.js and its compatibility with older versions of Three. The speaker expressed gratitude to sponsors and contributors and highlighted the potential for product customization with Tress.js.
Mess to Modern: Refactoring a React Nightmare
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
18 min
Mess to Modern: Refactoring a React Nightmare
Have you ever faced complex and messy React codebases? Caleb Garner shares a five-step playbook to transform a 900-line React component. Addressing systematic modularity and organization structure for better code management. Enhancing codebase structure by extracting business logic for testability and maintainability. Streamlining state and data management for robust codebases. Establishing predictable data handling with userReducer for structured state management. Optimizing component modularity for reusability and efficient data management. Emphasizing caller-controlled layout and streamlined development experience through five key principles.
Building Bridges to a Post-SPA Future
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
33 min
Building Bridges to a Post-SPA Future
The speaker reflects on professionalism, tech collaboration deficiencies, and changing perspectives. They discuss React community involvement, cultural implications of technology choices, and the impact of Core Web Vitals on React sites. External factors like networks influence web development, optimizing JavaScript in browsers is crucial, and rethinking design based on user interactions is highlighted. Income influences smartphone market segmentation, Android pricing impacts the ecosystem, and adapting technology based on user data is essential. Transitioning to HTML-first in browser interfaces and user-centric testing to improve website quality are key takeaways.
The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends
React Advanced 2025React 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.
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
26 min
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
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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.
Supercharging Your Tooling With Rust
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
24 min
Supercharging Your Tooling With Rust
Mael from Mistral.ai discusses the evolution of Yarn, from its origins to the current Yarn 4 and plans for Yarn 6 in Rust. Yarn 4 to Yarn 6 in Rust, Stability, and Codebase Challenges. Challenges with Yarn's Codebase and Performance. Yarn's Performance Challenges and Multi-Ecosystem Support. Yarn's Multi-Ecosystem Vision and Lazy Installation. Yarn's Ecosystem Expansion and Rewrite Challenges. Yarn's Rewrite Efficiency and Test Reusability. Yarn's Rust Rewrite Challenges and Discoveries. Rust's Experimental Features and Challenges. Rust's Rewrite Challenges and AI Usage. Challenges of Integrating Rust Rewrite and Long-Term Maintenance. YARN's Performance Improvement and Long-term Vision.
Ref() vs. Reactive(): What to Choose Using Vue 3 Composition API?
Vue.js London 2023Vue.js London 2023
22 min
Ref() vs. Reactive(): What to Choose Using Vue 3 Composition API?
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This talk compares Rev and Reactive in Vue 3, exploring reactivity and their limitations. It discusses the use of watchers, identity issues, and migration strategies. The talk also highlights the benefits of using the Ref function for better reactivity and the recommended pattern of grouping Refs. Opinions from the Vue community are shared, with a majority preferring Ref over Reactive.
Machine Learning in Game Development
JS GameDev Summit 2023JS GameDev Summit 2023
18 min
Machine Learning in Game Development
Today's Talk explores cheating in video games and the role of machine learning in detecting and preventing it. Trust and fairness are crucial in gaming, as players invest time and emotion into virtual worlds. Traditional rule-based models assess player actions, while machine learning can detect complex and evolving cheating methods. Training models and organizing data are key challenges in utilizing machine learning for cheating detection. The future lies in collaborative security systems that combine rule-based models with machine learning to protect against cheating.
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Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
6 min
Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture
Challenges in OAuth, importance of back end security for front end, and implementation details of OAuth flow between front end, back end, and authorization server. Detailed process of token handling, session management, and user data retrieval in OAuth implementation between front end, back end, and authorization server.
Garbage Collection Between V8, cppgc (Oilpan), and Native Runtimes
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
9 min
Garbage Collection Between V8, cppgc (Oilpan), and Native Runtimes
Today's presentation delves into garbage collection challenges in JavaScript and native code, highlighting the impact on memory leaks and bugs. V8's implementation of minor and major garbage collection is discussed. The evolution of memory management in runtimes, including Node.js and Deno, is explored, emphasizing the shift towards automatic cleanup and improved performance. The complexity of runtime memory management, especially in handling CPP objects and bridging with workers, is outlined. Key points include the efficiency gains from generational garbage collection and the importance of migrating away from certain memory management practices for enhanced runtime performance.
A Brief History of Code Review (And What's Next)
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
8 min
A Brief History of Code Review (And What's Next)
The Talk explores the transition from solo development to code review history, tracing it back to the Fagin Inspection process in the 1990s. It discusses the evolution of code collaboration from in-person meetings to remote, email-based discussions. The shift to modern code review via pull requests on GitHub improved collaboration efficiency. The integration of AI in code review enhanced processes and enabled instant feedback. Encouraging open source projects to adopt code review tools and prioritize the importance of thorough reviews is highlighted.
Navigating Islands of Interactivity
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
9 min
Navigating Islands of Interactivity
Islands in web development are interactive components that are rendered on the server and hydrated separately. They offer fine-grain control over JavaScript, speed up page loading, and reduce JavaScript shipping. Applications of islands span across eCommerce, media sites, docs, and blogs, providing interactivity without excessive JavaScript. Nanostores enable state sharing among islands. Key takeaways include utilizing Nanostores for state management, exploring ASTRO and islands for development, and using client directives for JavaScript control.
From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
9 min
From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams
Sharing insights on scaling AI coding assistance & adopting AI native dev tools. Discussing the need for a shift from viewing adoption as a tech problem to a change management challenge. Exploring a tactical framework with three key phases: onboard, adopt, succeed. Emphasizing the importance of onboarding developers, ensuring access to licenses, and setting clear policies to avoid 'shadow AI'. Highlighting the necessity of human infrastructure for successful AI dev tool implementation, including AI advocates, communities of practice, and executive sponsorship. Adoption strategies require a focus on interconnected metrics and all pillars simultaneously. Leadership checklist for post-conference actions involves measuring metrics, distinguishing between strategic and tactical points, and staying connected through platforms like WhatsApp and LinkedIn.
Optimizing the Path From Design to Production in Engineering Workflows
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
Optimizing the Path From Design to Production in Engineering Workflows
Akbar, developer advocate at Figma, highlights the importance of exploration, representation, and production in product development. Figma leverages design systems and AI tools for efficient transition from representation to production, optimizing expertise and automating non-critical tasks. Seamless integration between design elements and the app is achieved through tools like Code Connect and Copilot, fostering collaboration between design and code.
Debugging Performance With AI
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
6 min
Debugging Performance With AI
The talk explores using AI to address challenges in rendering performance optimization, highlighting the potential of tools like Chrome developer tools MCP. Leveraging AI with these tools can streamline the process and flatten the learning curve for developers. The approach of isolating performance issues through commit analysis, including systematic testing and synthetic stress tests, is emphasized as a practical method to identify and resolve rendering performance issues effectively.
MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
7 min
MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls
Gil Friedman from Backslash Security discussed MCP security, focusing on the Model Context Protocol and AI assistant security risks like GitHub token exposure in auto run mode. Security measures for MCP usage include setting autorun to ask every time, postmarking MCP incidents, handling malicious servers, safeguarding sensitive information, reviewing and disabling unused tools, requiring permission before triggering actions, removing MCP from environments, and revoking API keys when necessary.
From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
5 min
From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode
Seungho Park discusses the importance of spatial navigation for TV apps and the challenges of supporting remote, pointer, and touch inputs. Real examples are explored, including focus placement, restoring focus, and grouping elements for stable navigation. Challenges in TV app navigation such as key scrolling in grid lists and managing input mode transitions are highlighted. The talk also delves into handling input modes, designing for 5-way, pointer, and touch input, and addressing edge cases. Implementing the W3C spatial navigation standard, defining focus properties for container elements, and encouraging exploration of React UI spatial navigation support are key points.
Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse
React Summit US 2025React 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.
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Streaming Systems, Hidden Risks, And AI-driven Consequences
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
27 min
Streaming Systems, Hidden Risks, And AI-driven Consequences
The Talk covers various aspects of deception and security in AI and data systems. It discusses the historical use of misinformation during World War II to influence decision-making. AI model poisoning through malicious data input and the challenges of ensuring data integrity in real-time pipelines are highlighted. The importance of peripheral information attacks, data contracts, stream governance, and anomaly detection in maintaining AI system security is emphasized. Strategies for protecting data integrity, detecting anomalies, and choosing appropriate AI models are also discussed.
I Did Everything Wrong So You Don't Have To
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
6 min
I Did Everything Wrong So You Don't Have To
Angel from ImageKit demonstrates the use of MCPs to improve image and video performance on React websites. The Chrome Developer Tools MCP helps identify and address performance issues by analyzing image loading speeds. MCPs automate issue resolution on websites, leveraging Chrome developer tools for analysis and Image Kit for optimizing images efficiently.
From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
30 min
From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering
Kitze introduces the purpose of conferences as networking, meeting people, and teaching. The speaker discusses their businesses Sizzy and Benji, emphasizing tools for developers and a life OS solution. They highlight Zero to Shift, Tinker Club, and SuperMac. React's evolution and frontend development advancements are summarized. Vibe coding and management practices are discussed, focusing on quick changes and embracing code nuances. Vibe engineering involves leveraging agents and committing often. Effective prompting, voice dictation, and vibe coding challenges are addressed. AI's impact on programming jobs and the importance of innovation are highlighted. Role-based frameworks like React Cowboys and Fibre engineering's code consistency are emphasized.
The Evolution of App Development
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
27 min
The Evolution of App Development
William, a portrait painter in the 1800s, dedicated to achieving the truest likeness through anatomy and light. The evolution of building apps with Expo, a framework for React Native, adapting to changing landscapes to enhance user experience. Newbies in mobile development face reduced barriers to entry. AI's impact on new app development: knowns, unknowns, pitfalls. Breaking tutorial into two parts for easier learning and using AI to verify AI. Expo emphasizes skills and tailored MCP for development. Developers' job evolution to more strategic roles. Advice on overcoming the Dunning-Kruger effect and effective training methods for developers. Empowering new developers with AI for better understanding and mentorship experience.
From One Repo to Hundreds: Building an AI Agent Fleet for Large-Scale Code Migrations
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
30 min
From One Repo to Hundreds: Building an AI Agent Fleet for Large-Scale Code Migrations
The Talk delves into the migration journey of over 500 micro frontends, emphasizing the use of AI agents for efficient migration. It discusses the challenges of handling manual PRs and code mods at scale, highlighting the importance of reliable tooling. The balance between automation and human judgment is crucial, with deterministic lanes handling basic tasks and human intervention reserved for complex issues. Scalable agent orchestration, workflow automation, safe PR launches, and stable testing are key themes, emphasizing the collaboration between machines and human judgment for successful migrations.
From Legacy to Delight: The Future of Node.js DX
JSNation 2026JSNation 2026
21 min
From Legacy to Delight: The Future of Node.js DX
Claudio Bunder emphasizes the importance of Node.js documentation, highlighting its impact on the ecosystem and the challenges in maintaining it. Node.js API documentation tooling faces significant design and implementation hurdles, with a lack of documentation hindering user interaction. The transformation of Node.js API documentation was driven by the need to improve user experience. Dockit, an AST engine, streamlines API documentation generation with support for Markdown, JS Doc, and TS Doc, offering modular flexibility and community-driven documentation creation. Dockit's efficient processing of document structures and metadata, combined with a generator system, ensures high performance and scalability in API documentation generation.
Global-Scale React: Architecting for Localization, Multi-Tenancy, and Dynamic Markets
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
14 min
Global-Scale React: Architecting for Localization, Multi-Tenancy, and Dynamic Markets
Sharing lessons on building and scaling global React applications. Front-end complexity with business expansion. Challenges of globalization in React development. Impact of market variability on front-end architecture for global scale. Architectural decisions influenced by operational realities. Technical and organizational problems at a global scale. React dual architectures for global scale. Balancing consistency and flexibility in architecture. Issues with business logic in components, scalability, region-specific deployments, and optimizing performance. Organizational challenges with global feature shipping, release conflicts, slow rollout cycles, and configuration duplication. Issues at global scale: technical and organizational challenges. Avoid business logic in components, scalability issues like user spikes, and deployment time. Market logic in components, region-specific deployments, front-end boundary size increase, and fragmented integrations. Multiple teams shipping globally face challenges like release conflicts, slow rollout cycles, and market-driven behavior testing. Complexity increases with more markets, localization goes beyond translation affecting currency, taxes, compliance, and more. Markets vary operationally requiring adaptive platforms for dynamic changes based on market context. Shift to adaptive platform for dynamic market behavior. Configuration as front-end control plane, like Kubernetes. Feature flags crucial for efficient management, operational flexibility. Market-specific capabilities, safe experiments, unstable features disabling. Region-aware routing enhances operational concerns separation, micro front-end usage for improved performance. Optimizing CDN and SEO for market consistency. Region-aware routing for operational separation, micro front-end performance improvement. Front-end observability critical for global scalability. Evaluation for adaptability, avoiding over-engineering. Challenges in global React application evolution, operational maintainability. Considerations for localization, multi-tenant systems, feature-flag scaling, and global architecture challenges.
AI Reviews AI – Closing the Loop in Agentic Development
AI Coding Summit LondonAI Coding Summit London
28 min
AI Reviews AI – Closing the Loop in Agentic Development
Daniel, a consultant from Germany, discusses AI-generated code and challenges in rapid code shipping. The Pharoes AI case study highlights code reviews and challenges in agile development. Incidence per pull request and code churn issues are discussed in software development. AI-assisted coding and quality gates are introduced. Developing with Angular and TypeScript emphasizes the importance of basics, AI sub-agents, and pull request review services. Utilizing hooks for deterministic code handling and enhancing code handling with various hooks are crucial. Transitioning to behavior-driven development, utilizing tools like PlayWrite and Jira integration, and evaluating code review strategies are key points. Optimizing code review practices, smart integration of AI and hooks, advanced code review models, ownership in code reviews, software metrics, and quality gates challenges are also covered.
Stop Guessing Your API: Contract-First React with OpenAPI
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
29 min
Stop Guessing Your API: Contract-First React with OpenAPI
Violina discusses fixing front-end bugs caused by backend field renaming at Click My Horse TV. Systems misalignment led to unexpected outcomes due to evolving APIs. Different shapes from APIs caused cross-platform functionality gaps. Drift in domain shapes slowed velocity and exemplified misalignment in the mobile app. OpenAPI contracts improved code reliability and consistency. Spec-driven development ensured backend and frontend alignment through shared schemas. AI-assisted development benefitted from precise specifications. Trustworthy automation processes relied on accurate component scaffolding and reliable AI output. Ownership clarity and spec integrity were crucial for optimizing development workflow. Investment payoff with shared APIs among frontend clients emphasized. Tech depth accumulation highlighted the importance of treating the API as a product with design discipline.
Framework Native Rendering Without Code Duplication?
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
6 min
Framework Native Rendering Without Code Duplication?
Talking about an experiment in Agigrid to render to multiple frameworks without duplicating code. Exploring MVC approach for structuring code base and handling view complexity efficiently. Exploring new ways to structure view logic and render components efficiently across frameworks within Agic Grid experiment.
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Gotta Go Fast: React at 60 FPS
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
16 min
Gotta Go Fast: React at 60 FPS
Rachel Kaufman discusses animating in React without libraries for high performance. Client project for the International Spy Museum involved facial recognition education using React. React's unconventional use for complex UI animation in museum exhibits. Optimizing animation performance in React with request animation frame and using canvas for drawing. Managing continuous animations in React for smooth transitions. Leveraging canvas and refs for drawing and direct DOM access in React. Implementing complex animations with refs and request animation frame in React. Using memo and request animation frame for preventing unnecessary re-renders. Automating React debugging with Chrome DevTools and performance analysis with console.time.
Pragmatic Testing Recipes: Crafting Tests That Survive the Heat
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
206 min
Pragmatic Testing Recipes: Crafting Tests That Survive the Heat
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Younes Jaaidi
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In this React testing workshop, we’ll trade fragile testing strategies for a testing recipe that actually holds up under pressure. If your current strategy feels like reheated leftovers — mocks that prevent you from refactoring, flaky end-to-end tests, or last-minute releases served raw — it’s ti...
Scaling React: What Actually Matters
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
30 min
Scaling React: What Actually Matters
Tathagath discusses the misconception of React's role in app slowness and emphasizes architecture over React performance. Context impact on app rendering is explored, along with React compiler enhancements. Global state misuse and state management in React are addressed. Performance pitfalls, optimizing app performance, and the impact of third-party scripts on React are discussed. Strategic management of third-party scripts and common mistakes in SSR applications are highlighted. Recognizing hydration costs and architectural impacts in React, as well as shifting mindset for performance optimization, are key points.
Real-World Hydration and Rendering Patterns in Modern React Apps
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
20 min
Real-World Hydration and Rendering Patterns in Modern React Apps
Ranjit Dandigam discusses real-world hydration and rendering patterns in modern React apps, exploring UI rendering phases, optimization strategies, and the importance of server-client boundaries. Implementing a streaming strategy in React apps enhances loading efficiency and user experience. Managing hydration mismatches and implementing safe time patterns are crucial for stable rendering. Demonstrations of Next.js rendering variations highlight different approaches to rendering content. Design principles for React app rendering emphasize the significance of streaming with suspense and honesty in rendering decisions.
Giving AI Agents Hands: Mobile Feedback Loops with Agent Device
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
26 min
Giving AI Agents Hands: Mobile Feedback Loops with Agent Device
The speaker discusses the evolution of AI agent workflow in mobile development, emphasizing the importance of feedback loops and verification. They highlight the challenges of human involvement as agents dominate code production. Agent Device simplifies mobile automation by focusing on accessibility trees and text-based actions. The tool enhances app verification, debugging capabilities, and provides advanced features like network issue identification. Agent Device is versatile for CI setup, feedback loops, and visual regression detection. It supports real devices and offers capabilities for migrations and automation. Additionally, the speaker compares flakiness and TV platform support, showcasing performance improvements over traditional tools.
React Bits: The Art of Standout UI
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
21 min
React Bits: The Art of Standout UI
David, creator of React Bits, shares insights on designing standout UI components, emphasizing the importance of distinct interfaces without being noisy. ReactVids focuses on creating reusable visual moments for developers, ensuring standout UI accessibility. Community-driven evolution of React Bits prioritizes customization, usability, and key UI qualities. Magic Rings exemplifies the balance and purpose needed in UI components. The versatility of Magic Rings showcases the importance of a flexible visual system. Exploring shaders enhances the control and visual richness of Magic Rings. Leveraging shader uniforms enables dynamic visual effects in React components. Real creative controls in component design emphasize meaningful customization. Strategic props play a crucial role in reusable creative component development. The philosophy of React Bits focuses on easy adoption, customization, and providing a strong starting point for distinct interfaces. ReactVids aims to create memorable, intentional, and unique user moments in UI design.
Modernizing Your React App: Compiler, useEffectEvent, Activity & Friends
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
27 min
Modernizing Your React App: Compiler, useEffectEvent, Activity & Friends
Victor shares experiences inheriting codebase and explains the importance of React's updates for code cleanliness. Agenda includes React evolution, API usage, modernization playbook, and insightful discussions. React 19 impact on React's evolution towards a declarative model for state management and form handling. React's shift towards a declarative model, impacting form handling and state management with React 19 updates, including new APIs and the importance of the React compiler for efficient development. Using React compiler for efficient development and code simplification. Measuring code base changes with memorization hooks identification. Introducing user fact event API for dependency-free code. Handling state persistence challenges with the Activity API for seamless user experiences and resource management. Utilizing the Activity API for precise state management and resource optimization in React Native applications. Exploring powerful user cases: tabs example, pre-rendering, and back navigation benefits with the Activity API. Exploring the value of instant experiences with back navigation and code optimization through API adoption. Measuring success, avoiding AI dependence, and understanding the importance of learning for effective development. Addressing challenges post-AI era, emphasizing responsibility in learning, maintaining control, and ensuring security. Practical steps include using React compiler, auditing code for Activity API integration, and optimizing data flow for enhanced user experience.
Conquering React Concurrency
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
25 min
Conquering React Concurrency
The talk at React Summit 2026 by Ariel covers the importance of React concurrency in improving user experience. It delves into the concepts of concurrency, contrasting it with parallelism, and emphasizes the historical relevance of efficient task handling, like the McDonald's kitchen design in 1942. Operating systems use round-robin scheduling for fair process execution. React 18 addresses user impatience and rendering challenges through concurrency. The evolution of React's rendering process from stack reconciliation to fiber reconciliation is highlighted, emphasizing the role of Suspense in managing work prioritization and background rendering efficiently.
React on the Edge
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
17 min
React on the Edge
Welcome to React on the Edge with Amir Sami from S&C Electric exploring React applications for diverse Edge devices beyond browsers. The discussion covers deploying React apps to various Edge devices, addressing challenges like network stability and resource limitations, optimizing bundle size with Preact, and using Brotli compression for efficient web asset compression on Edge devices.
Replacing Form Libraries With Native Web APIs
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
17 min
Replacing Form Libraries With Native Web APIs
Jamin discusses the shift from using form libraries to native web APIs in React development, emphasizing the benefits of exploring web-native APIs before relying on libraries. The talk covers topics such as Constraint Validation API, React 19 form actions, and CSS pseudo-classes for form building without libraries. It highlights real-time validation, simplified form submission, and custom error handling in React forms. The importance of customizing error messages, setting up custom error handling, and optimizing form performance are also addressed, along with challenges and recommendations for utilizing web native APIs in form development.
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Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
108 min
Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers
WorkshopFree
Jo Franchetti
Jo Franchetti
LLMs are powerful but unpredictable and most tutorials skip the part where you actually have to deal with that in production code. This workshop teaches you to use generative AI as an engineering tool: how to structure prompts around schemas, validate and repair non-deterministic output, and run...
Pear: Releasing Production P2P Apps
Web Engineering Summit 2026Web Engineering Summit 2026
54 min
Pear: Releasing Production P2P Apps
WorkshopFree
David Mark Clements
Mikkel Malmberg
2 authors
All it takes is a module and a CLI tool to build and deploy production peer-to-peer applications. In this workshop:Build a realtime peer-to-peer applicationConnect with others on your own application, completely peer-to-peer.Understand how to deploy, including produc...
No Servers, No Cloud, No Masters: Make P2P Apps with Pear
React Summit 2026React Summit 2026
66 min
No Servers, No Cloud, No Masters: Make P2P Apps with Pear
WorkshopFree
David Mark Clements
Mikkel Malmberg
2 authors
All it takes is a module and a CLI tool to build and deploy production peer-to-peer applications.In this workshop:Convert an existing React application so that it no longer needs a server to deployPrepare the application and setup deployment flow for production release...
Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
73 min
Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers
WorkshopFree
Confidence Okoghenun
Confidence Okoghenun
In this hands on workshop participants will learn how to create a production‑ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on Cloudflare Workers. The session covers defining tool endpoints, integrating external APIs, persisting state with KV storage, and globally deploying the server so AI assistants...
Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
34 min
Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models
WorkshopFree
Paige Bailey
Paige Bailey
In this hands-on session, we'll dive straight into the practical mechanics of working with Google DeepMind’s latest research and models. We'll explore Google AI Studio, Antigravity, and the Gemini APIs, focusing on how to seamlessly integrate these capabilities into your own projects. If you're l...
"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
53 min
"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network
WorkshopFree
Legare Kerrison
Sawyer Bowerman
2 authors
Join us for an interactive workshop where you'll train your first neural network using the classic MNIST handwritten digit dataset. In this hands-on session, participants will use OpenShift AI 3.x Workbenches to build and train a PyTorch model that recognizes handwritten digits from images.
Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
52 min
Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding
WorkshopFree
Gil Friedman
Gil Friedman
Modern AI coding agents don’t just autocomplete. They execute, connect, and automate. With the wrong settings, they can access more of your system than you intended. In this session, I’ll demonstrate how agent autonomy, MCP integrations, and Skills can lead to unexpected security risks. Through e...
Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
49 min
Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop
WorkshopFree
Shifra Williams
Shifra Williams
Ready to bring conversational AI to life? In this hands-on workshop, we'll walk through deploying a real-time voice agent using Render's cloud platform. You'll work directly with LiveKit's voice agent template to create an interactive AI assistant that can listen, think, and respond naturally thr...
Build Your Dream Extensions with AI
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
87 min
Build Your Dream Extensions with AI
WorkshopFree
Brittany Joiner
Brittany Joiner
In this interactive workshop, you’ll build a working internal browser extension you and your team can use to share context across apps you use daily. We’ll start with a practical, real-world example: a web clipper that you’ll customize to send content from GitHub to your team’s communication tool...
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
76 min
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
WorkshopFree
Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
This workshop introduces Sandboxes as a general computing primitive and uses Cloudflare Sandboxes as the concrete implementation. Participants explore common, real-world use cases for sandboxed execution and learn how to reason about when and why sandboxes are the right tool.

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