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ChatGPT eCommerce Apps with Shopify

ChatGPT’s Shopify integration enables in-chat shopping, but merchants lose control over branding, data, and margins. This article introduces an SDK for building custom ChatGPT shopping assistants with full ownership and zero commission.

ChatGPT now has native Shopif...

Running Efficient Meetups: A Practical Guide for Stronger Tech Communities

Meetups are one of the most powerful ways to bring people together, share knowledge, and strengthen community bonds, but a great meetup doesn’t happen by accident; it’s the result of thoughtful planning, consistent communication, and a deep understanding of what your audience values, and whether...

React Server Components: The Next Evolution in Web Development

React Server Components (RSC) represent one of the most significant advancements in the React ecosystem since its initial release. Introduced with React 18, RSC provides an innovative solution for optimizing performance and improving developer experience in modern web applications.

React Query: The Modern Solution for Managing Server State in React Applications

React Query is a powerful open-source library designed for managing server state in React applications. It streamlines data fetching, caching, and synchronization, addressing the complexities associated with handling asynchronous data in modern web development. Notable for its ability to simplify these processes compared to traditional state management solutions like Redux, React Query has gained widespread adoption among developers for enhancing the efficiency and performance of applications reliant on API interactions.

Explore what's new in the 2024 editions of JSNation and React Summit!

JSNation and React Summit are the key JavaScript and React conferences of the year, expecting over 3K attendees, featuring 110+ speakers, and offering 15+ Free and PRO workshops altogether...

Spanish translations for 2000+ React and JavaScript talks from GitNation

GitNation, known for organizing JavaScript and React conferences, has rolled out significant updates to its video platform. These new features are designed to improve content accessibility and discoverability for developers worldwide and marks the start of ongoing localisation efforts with more l...

2000+ grabaciones de conferencias React y JavaScript en español por GitNation

GitNation, conocida por organizar conferencias de JavaScript y React, ha implementado importantes actualizaciones en su plataforma de video. Estas nuevas características están diseñadas para mejorar la accesibilidad y la capacidad de descubrimiento de contenido para desarrolladores en todo el mun...

Shawn Swyx Wang's career tips: Knowing how to market yourself is not scammy

As it is with many developers, his path to coding was not straightforward. And looking at Shawn's bio, it's apparent he applied that experience to his whole career: he's the head of developer experience at Temporal.io, author of a bestselling book on progressing career in IT, and a sought-aft...

Career tips by Tomasz Łakomy: I strive to challenge myself as often as I can

Speakers are not made — they are born out of circumstances. And Tomasz is a perfect example of a self-starter who rose to the occasion. “I started at local meetups and climbed my way up to bigger and bigger events,” he says, nodding at the fact that he's now also a seasoned instructor revolut...

Lee Robinson's career advice: My golden rule to success is being helpful

Developer, writer, creator, says the headline of Lee’s site, a front-end developer with 10k YouTube subscribers and 5k newsletter followers. Today an internationally recognized speaker and author of extensive courses on Re...

Charlie Gerard's Career Advice: Be intentional about how you spend your time and effort

When it comes to career, Charlie has one trick: to focus. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try different things — currently a senior front-end developer at Netlify, she is also a sought-after speaker, mentor, and a machine learni...

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.

What led you to...

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...

React Table Libraries: A Deep Dive into Modern Data Grid Solutions

React Table Libraries empower developers to implement powerful data grids with essential features like filtering, sorting, and pagination in React applications. This article serves as your gateway to expert knowledge from GitNation's conference talks, where industry leaders share practical implementation strategies and cutting-edge patterns for data table components.

Catalin Pit: Each time I learn something new, I write an article about it

He turned a successful blog into a thriving YouTube channel, a newsletter with thousands of subscribers, and a great online presence. “I owe a significant part of my career to content creation and social media,” says Catalin Pit in his interview with GitNation.

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Top ideas

Who is the creator of Transformers JS?

Joshua, a 25-year-old machine learning engineer from South Africa, is the creator of Transformers JS.

What is the shift-left approach in software development?

The shift-left approach involves moving responsibilities earlier in the development process, meaning developers now make more architectural decisions rather than relying solely on designated roles like architects.

Why did Dominik remove multiple signatures from useQuery in React Query?

Dominik removed multiple signatures from useQuery to simplify the API and improve TypeScript support, reducing the complexity and potential for confusing error messages.

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.

Why does Dominik believe TypeScript is important in API design?

Dominik believes TypeScript helps in designing APIs that are easy to understand and type, reducing complexity and maintenance burden while providing better developer experience.

Is Redux still relevant for modern React applications?

Yes, Redux is still relevant for modern React applications. Although there are many state management tools available, Redux provides a consistent and predictable pattern for managing state, especially in larger applications where state needs to be shared across many components.

How does code sharing work in a MonoRepo?

In a MonoRepo, code sharing is facilitated by direct access to the shared codebase within the repository. Teams can easily export and import functions or components across different projects without the need for separate package management.

Can RSC be used with languages other than JavaScript?

While RSC is primarily JavaScript-based, there are experimental libraries like rscx for Rust that attempt to implement RSC-like functionality in other languages.

Why did Alex Russell join the Chrome team?

Alex Russell joined the Chrome team to work on ChromeFrame, aiming to integrate Chrome into Internet Explorer as a plug-in to improve web experiences.

How does Redux compare to using React's useReducer and useContext?

While useReducer and useContext can mimic some Redux patterns, they differ in that Redux keeps state outside the React component tree, leading to fewer re-renders and better performance in some scenarios. Redux also offers powerful developer tools not available with useReducer and useContext.

Deep Dives

Deep Dive: Growing to Tech Lead

Growing to Tech Lead

This Deep Dive covers all the aspects of Software Engineer's growth into Tech Lead and Staff positions. Learn directly from distinguished engineers which foundational hard and soft skills you must invest in to accelerate carreer growth.

Become an irreplaceble engineer - attend events, discussions and workshops throughout the year together with your peers and field experts.

Talk: 5 Tough Conversations Managers Need to Have
Talk: Leadership Insights From Growing 2X in 8 Months
Talk: How AI is Impacting Engineering Leadership
Talk: Staying Human in the Age of AI: What Tech Leaders Need to Preserve
Talk: Thinking Like an Architect

... and 10 more talks and workshops

Deep Dive: AI Assisted Coding

AI Assisted Coding

Learn how to navigate rapidly evolving evolution of developer tools supercharged by AI instruments. From writing efficient prompts, to delegating work via agents and automated code reviews.

Follow this Deep Dive to see what the most productive teams and developers are using in practice and how to apply this in your daily tasks.

Talk: Design to Code Using a Custom Design System with AI
Talk: The AI-Native Software Engineer
Talk: Sub Agent Context Sharing: How to Enable Effective Sub Agents for Coding
Workshop: Advanced Claude Code Techniques: Agentic Engineering With Context Driven Development
Workshop: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Deep Dive: 2-Hour Interactive Workshop

... and 11 more talks and workshops

Deep Dive: Mastering Full-stack

Mastering Full-stack

With an increasing demand for Software Engineers capable of solving a wider array of tasks, it's crucial to quickly adapt to changing landspace and cover Full-stack fundamentals.

Every year we see more developers identifying themselves as Full-stack, learn what real-life practitioners are focusing in their roles and focus on what's important.

This Deep Dives explores everchanging role of a Full-stack developer in the age of AI assisted development.

Talk: React Server Components in Kubernetes: Ship Happens
Talk: Node.js: More Threads Than You Think
Talk: What Happens When an AI Has Access to a Node.js Environment? Spoiler: Wild Things
Talk: Meta Framework for Kubernetes: TypeScript Meets Cluster Control
Workshop: Exploring Server Side Rendering

... and 15 more talks and workshops

JSNation US 2025

29 min

Advanced Claude Code Techniques: Agentic Engineering With Context Driven Development

Cole Medin

Dynamous LLC

Welcome to a guide on context engineering, focusing on using errors to our advantage and building a self-evolving AI coding assistant. Transitioning from engineering to AI development, embracing opportunities from personal automations to enterprise-grade AI deployments. Evolution of trust in AI coding assistants by leveraging errors for system evolution and self-correction. PIV loop as a main mental model for coding process, emphasizing active involvement, structured planning, and implementation. System evolution involves identifying gaps, adapting based on analysis, testing, and live demo update processes. Code validation process improvement through better validation commands and workflow optimization. Utilizing end-to-end testing for error detection and system improvement in coding assistant systems.

artificial intelligence

Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code

AI Coding Summit 2026

29 min

Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code

Ado Kukic

Anthropic

The Talk delves into agent decoding in Cloud Code, emphasizing the importance of planning, acting, and verifying changes systematically. It explores maximizing efficiency through Cloud Code acting as an agent, reasoning, reading, writing code, and using tools for successful outcomes. The discussion covers enhancing task planning, utilizing subagents for specialized assistance, and optimizing tool use with MCP integration. It introduces Cloud Skills, plugins for team collaboration, and efficient tool utilization with parallel workflows. The concept of non-interactive agents, guided autonomy, and steps for experiencing agent decoding are also highlighted.

best practices

The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained

AI Coding Summit 2026

10 min

The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained

Eddy Vinck

FrontValue

Today, exploring Ralph Wiggum AI method's simplicity and persistence. Ralph loops ensure eventual consistency in problem-solving. Challenges in AI chats revolve around context management, emphasizing the importance of effective loop iterations. Basic example of loop iteration and backpressure in Ralph. Using skip permissions can be risky. Running Cloud in a sandbox mode for safety measures. Ralph Wiggum AI Method: Autonomous coding with thorough spec creation. Careful planning needed. Upsides include autonomous operation and clear task handling.

tooling

Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code

AI Coding Summit 2026

76 min

Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code

WorkshopFree

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.

The works...

case study

Refactoring & Migrations with AI: Smarter Code Transformation at Scale

AI Coding Summit

19 min

Refactoring & Migrations with AI: Smarter Code Transformation at Scale

Nikolay Gushchin

AI's role in refactoring and migrations. Tools like GitHub, Copilot, OpenAI Codecs improve transformations. Challenges in large-scale projects and AI's impact on modernizing legacy systems. Google and Reddit's success with AI-powered migrations. Framework migrations with AI: pattern recognition, syntax transformation, and seamless transitions. Successful AI refactoring integrates into CI/CD pipelines, providing critical capabilities like automatic quality gauges and continuous improvement through small changes. Challenges and mitigation strategies in AI refactoring, focusing on testing, human oversight, and organizational obstacles.

artificial intelligence

Install Nothing: App UIs With Native Browser APIs

JSNation 2024

31 min

Install Nothing: App UIs With Native Browser APIs

Top Content

Scott Tolinski

Co-host of Syntax.fm

This Talk introduces real demos using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to showcase new or underutilized browser APIs, with ship scores provided for each API. The dialogue element allows for the creation of modals with minimal JavaScript and is supported by 96% of browsers. The web animations API is a simple and well-supported solution for creating animations, while the view transitions API offers easy animation workarounds without CSS. The scroll snap API allows for swipers without JavaScript, providing a smooth scrolling experience.

browser api

Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding

AI Coding Summit 2026

21 min

Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding

Daniel Sogl

Thinktecture AG

Welcome to spec-driven development talk by Daniel Sogel. AI agents struggle with benchmarks and real-world tasks. Developers spend extra time fixing code generated by AI agents. Security issues in AI-generated code, limitations with context management, multi-file coordination, silent failures, architecture decisions, and enterprise context challenges addressed by Spectre from development. AI agents removing safety checks, generating code with fake data, silent failures worse than crashes, spectrum development benefits like complete context upfront, structured reasoning, validation checkpoints, and autonomous implementation without manual code review. Act with AI agents like pair programmers, combine spectrum, behavior-driven, and test-driven development. Spec-driven development adoption in the industry, using Keyro IDE by AWS and popular tools like SpecKit and OpenSpec for different project types. Define tech stack, API structure in planning, task phase implementation, handover to AI agents, and choosing the right spec-driven development tools.

artificial intelligence devtools developer experience best practices

How I Build Web Applications in 2026

AI Coding Summit 2026

31 min

How I Build Web Applications in 2026

Kent C. Dodds

Creator of EpicWeb.dev, EpicReact.Dev, TestingJavaScript.com

Kent C. Dodds discusses building web applications in 2026, highlighting the importance of user experience and challenges in offline video downloads. Recent AI advancements in the Epic Workshop app enable offline video downloads with features like bulk downloads and quality control. Efficient AI agent management using agents like Cursor transforms workflow. Leveraging Laravel and Ruby on Rails, Ask Mode enhances project understanding by communicating with AI agents. Emphasizing clear task scoping, iterative planning, and agent feedback improves project development. Utilizing MCP tools and agent workflow, including BugBot for code review, optimizes app development. Closing the agent loop and emphasizing architecture's role in utilizing agent input context are crucial. The talk invites developers to become experienced AI agent managers and join the mailing list for updates.

web development

Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor

JSNation 2025

46 min

Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor

Featured Workshop

Mike Mikula

In this workshop I’ll cover a repeatable process on how to spin up full stack apps in Cursor. Expect to understand techniques such as using GPT to create product requirements, database schemas, roadmaps and using those in notes to generate checklists to guide app development. We will dive furth...

artificial intelligence

TypeScript and React: Secrets of a Happy Marriage

React Advanced 2022

21 min

TypeScript and React: Secrets of a Happy Marriage

Top Content

Matt Pocock

Independent

React and TypeScript have a strong relationship, with TypeScript offering benefits like better type checking and contract enforcement. Failing early and failing hard is important in software development to catch errors and debug effectively. TypeScript provides early detection of errors and ensures data accuracy in components and hooks. It offers superior type safety but can become complex as the codebase grows. Using union types in props can resolve errors and address dependencies. Dynamic communication and type contracts can be achieved through generics. Understanding React's built-in types and hooks like useState and useRef is crucial for leveraging their functionality.

typescript react best practices

Featured

Build a MCP (Model Context Protocol) in Node.js

JSNation US 2025

97 min

Build a MCP (Model Context Protocol) in Node.js

Featured Workshop

Julián Duque

Model Context Protocol (MCP) introduces a structured approach to LLM context management that addresses limitations in traditional prompting methods. In this workshop, you'll learn about the Model Context Protocol, its architecture, and how to build and use and MCP with Node.jsTable of Cont...

node.js

Pragmatic 101 on Custom JS Tooling for Your Project

JSNation US 2025

122 min

Pragmatic 101 on Custom JS Tooling for Your Project

Featured Workshop

Will Klein

Let’s demystify the secrets of modern JavaScript tooling. In this workshop, you will learn how linters, compilers, and code transforms work. You will take your first steps building your own developer tools, writing an ESLint rule, a compiler plugin, and a code transformation. Learn these skills t...

tooling

The AI-Native Software Engineer

JSNation US 2025

35 min

The AI-Native Software Engineer

Addy Osmani

Engineering Leader Working on Google Chrome

Software engineering is evolving with AI and VIBE coding reshaping work, emphasizing collaboration and embracing AI. The future roadmap includes transitioning from augmented to AI-first and eventually AI-native developer experiences. AI integration in coding practices shapes a collaborative future, with tools evolving for startups and enterprises. AI tools aid in design, coding, and testing, offering varied assistance. Context relevance, spec-driven development, human review, and AI implementation challenges are key focus areas. AI boosts productivity but faces verification challenges, necessitating human oversight. The impact of AI on code reviews, talent development, and problem-solving evolution in coding practices is significant.

artificial intelligence

The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering

React Summit US 2025

96 min

The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering

Featured WorkshopFree

Niall Maher

A comprehensive workshop designed specifically for React developers ready to become AI engineers. Learn how your existing React skills—component thinking, state management, effect handling, and performance optimization—directly translate to building sophisticated AI applications. We'll cover the...

artificial intelligence

Production-Ready Apps with AI Agents

React Summit 2025

102 min

Production-Ready Apps with AI Agents

Featured Workshop

Alex Shershebnev

Coding assistants are already changing the way we develop code, and in several years they are expected to completely change how developers interact with code and write it. In this workshop, I'll share tips and best practices on using such tools as we develop the production-ready app with Zencoder...

code quality

Exploring Server Side Rendering

React Advanced 2025

179 min

Exploring Server Side Rendering

Featured Workshop

Krasimir Tsonev

Server-side rendering (SSR) is back in the spotlight – and React is evolving fast. In this workshop, we’ll go deep into the mechanics, performance trade-offs, and modern techniques of SSR with React.js. You'll start by building an SSR app from scratch – no frameworks, just raw renderToString and...

ssr react server components

The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends

React Advanced 2025

29 min

The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends

Luca Mezzalira

Author of Front-End Reactive Architectures and Building 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.

architecture

From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching

React Advanced 2025

27 min

From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching

Wyatt Johnson

Vercel

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

react performance next.js frontend server cache react server components

The State of the Web

JSNation 2025

32 min

The State of the Web

Sacha Greif

Devographics

Sasha Grief discusses the state of the web through web development surveys, leading to an interactive quiz about the state of JS and usage of front end frameworks. Discussion on popular front-end libraries like React, Vue, Angular, and the rising popularity of TypeScript among developers in recent surveys. Discussion on TypeScript adoption, TC39 committee proposals, favorite CSS feature 'has,' and browser support for 'has' selector. Browser interoperability, browser vendors' initiatives, AI usage among web developers, and survey insights. Job titles linked to higher income, diversity of survey topics, top hobby among developers, and popular specific video games. Learnings on CSS features, TypeScript default, AI usage, survey benefits, challenges in reaching diverse survey participants. Surprising positivity in JavaScript usage, stable framework landscape, AI adoption challenges, mainstream AI tools, successful situp.js survey. Inconsistent respondent numbers, manual data normalization efforts, subjective question selection process, community input, mitigation of selection bias. Reason for starting surveys, transition from Meteor JS, exploration of JavaScript ecosystem.

frameworks web standards

The New AI Workflows

React Advanced 2025

14 min

The New AI Workflows

Steve Sewell

Builder.io

The Talk delves into the impact of LLMs on engineering workflows, emphasizing the shift towards AI for code writing efficiency. It highlights the importance of problem-solving abilities and product development in hiring practices. LLMs enhance productivity for developers, designers, and product managers, enabling faster iterations and collaboration. Efficient product workflows are achieved through simultaneous UI and code work using Builder.io. Task delegation is streamlined with async agents and Builder bots, optimizing project editing and code management. Integration with tools like VS Code and Figma streamlines design and code editing, enhancing collaboration and workflow automation.

artificial intelligence

Short takes

Server Components Wars: PHP Strikes Back

React Summit 2025

6 min

Server Components Wars: PHP Strikes Back

Edoardo Dusi

Storyblok

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.

react server components

Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy

JSNation 2025

7 min

Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy

Mark Robustelli

FusionAuth

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.

authentication

Delivering High-Quality Videos on Your ReactJS Website

React Summit 2025

7 min

Delivering High-Quality Videos on Your ReactJS Website

Rahul Nanwani

ImageKit.io

Raul from ImageKit discusses optimizing and streaming videos, highlighting challenges like resolutions and codecs. Developers can use ImageKit Video API for seamless integration and quick optimization. ImageKit offers streamlined video hosting with real-time optimization and adaptive streaming. It enables easy access to cloud storage and transformation of videos for better user experience.

video

Next.js Adapters: Build Once, Deploy Everywhere

React Summit 2025

7 min

Next.js Adapters: Build Once, Deploy Everywhere

JJ Kasper

Vercel

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.

next.js

Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution

JSNation 2025

5 min

Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution

Daniel Hervás

Reckon Digital

JS 0 and JS Sugar proposal for JavaScript evolution. Complexity abstraction to engines. Splitting language into JS0 and JSugar. Lessons learned from developers' concerns and users' preferences. Involvement in shaping JavaScript ecosystem.

web standards

Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse

React Summit US 2025

7 min

Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse

Rahul Nanwani

ImageKit.io

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.

video

Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents

TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

6 min

Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents

Sam Komesarook

Laminar

Sam Kmezverk's talk covers the evolving tech landscape, emphasizing key principles for agents' implementation in tasks and decision-making processes. Addressing challenges in agent orchestration, debugging system issues, and cultivating user trust are crucial for successful interface development.

user interfaces

Navigating Islands of Interactivity

React Advanced 2025

9 min

Navigating Islands of Interactivity

Reuben Tier

Pragma

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.

astro

React for Good: Creating Inclusive, Secure, and Scalable Applications in Emerging Markets

React Summit 2025

5 min

React for Good: Creating Inclusive, Secure, and Scalable Applications in Emerging Markets

Innocencia Ndembera

Chip In Limited as Co-Founder and COO

Inosency Andembera, React developer, discusses using React for building scalable, secure, and inclusive applications for emerging markets like Malawi and Africa. Addressing challenges of Internet connectivity, device limitations, security concerns, and inclusivity for first-time Internet users. Utilizing React for performance, security, and inclusion in emerging markets through code splitting, lazy loading, authentication, input validation, multiple language support, and simple UIs. Highlighting React's features in enhancing inclusion by addressing challenges in emerging markets, such as limited digital literacy, creating simple UIs, supporting multiple languages, internationalization, step-by-step UIs, and semantic HTML for accessibility. Zunga, a financial platform in Malawi, showcases React's benefits in addressing financial service gaps, scalability, offline support, and security enhancements.

case study web development

Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill

TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

8 min

Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill

Dave Glencross

Capital on Tap

Dave, Engineering Manager at Capital Untap, shares a story of AI failure and lessons learned from moving too fast in AI development within the company. The AI team focused on developing a chatbot for customer service, which became a flagship initiative under engineering governance. Issues with accuracy and complexity led to pausing the chatbot project and exploring third-party vendors. Capital OnTap reset AI processes by integrating AI engineers into product teams, emphasizing standard engineering over specialized AI teams.

deep dive

Latest

React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine

React Advanced 2025

20 min

React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine

Danny Povolotski

CTO, Gator Labs

Talk on React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine, covering the integration journey, importance in mobile app development, and current methods of game UI creation. Innovative approach of rendering UI in games using a browser headlessly onto a texture. Challenges and benefits of using React Native for game UIs, including handling JavaScript overrides and showcasing a demo. Exploration of applying shaders to React Native UI in a gaming context and invitation to engage with React Native on Unreal Engine for future game development.

game development

AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Agent Orchestration

AI Coding Summit 2026

10 min

AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Agent Orchestration

Ido Salomon

Creator, AgentCraft | AI Lead @ CEO Office, monday.com

Welcome to AgentCraft with Iddo Salomon, AI lead. Scale up agents for efficient work but consider cognitive overload. Agent orchestrators are crucial for task management and real-time reactions. AgentCraft is a tool inspired by real-time strategy games to manage agents effectively, with features like heroes and buildings. It visualizes repository files through terrain projection, simplifies code inspection, and enhances task management with cloud code support. Task delivery is streamlined with code merging, quests, and hero summoning for project improvement.

best practices

React Components for both the Client & the Server

React Summit US 2025

16 min

React Components for both the Client & the Server

Kiril Peyanski

Progress

Kiko shares the process of building UI components for both client and server sides, highlighting performance benefits and challenges of using server components. Building a reusable UI library with server and client components, aiming for similarity and adaptability. Adding interactivity to a data table in a Next.js application by incorporating client components for reactivity and customization. Building customization by incorporating a custom cell, resolving errors between client and server components, and optimizing syntax highlighting and markdown processing. Achieving composition pattern at the component level by separating client and server parts, maintaining an agnostic component part, and optimizing rendering for client-specific functionalities. Achieving client-server performance optimization by keeping rendering tree agnostic, enabling separate client component extraction, and promoting interactivity within components.

react server components

Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code

AI Coding Summit 2026

76 min

Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code

WorkshopFree

Craig Dennis

case study

When Raspberry Pi Said No to Node: How We Rewired Our Next.js App

React Summit US 2025

20 min

When Raspberry Pi Said No to Node: How We Rewired Our Next.js App

Tapas Adhikary

Mentorship available

CreoWis Technologies

Welcome to a storytelling session intertwined with technology aspects, showcasing how a Nexus application was rewired due to unexpected constraints after deployment for an EV client on Raspberry Pi without Node.js. Discussing the initial architecture of a battery management application for electric vehicles using NixJS, D3JS, and edge caching. Challenges faced when Node.js was removed and the impact on server-side rendering and application performance. Facing constraints without Node.js in NixJS app, investigation on adapting to hardware realities, and finding a solution by dissecting NixJS to remove dependencies. Replacing ISR without Node.js, adapting to static export in Next.js, optimizing API calls for client-side performance, rewiring to local setup for enhanced performance, and accidental discovery of static advantage over dynamic. Design for hardware constraints, understand tools and frameworks deeply, stay adaptable, and keep solutions portable.

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Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding

AI Coding Summit 2026

21 min

Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding

Daniel Sogl

Thinktecture AG

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A JavaScript Less Future - New Browser APIs and Their Impact on the Future of React Development

React Summit US 2025

21 min

A JavaScript Less Future - New Browser APIs and Their Impact on the Future of React Development

Ameer Sami

S&C Electric - Staff Software Engineer

Introduction to JavaScript Less Future, impact of new browser APIs on front-end development, S&C Electric Company overview, shift towards less JavaScript, historical perspective of web development challenges, importance of browser APIs in modern development, focus on key browser APIs for enhanced user experiences, demonstration of date picker functionality. Exploring Date Picker Functionality with Code Integration and Browser APIs. Closing Panel and Utilizing New Browser APIs for Date Time Picker. Controlling Date Time Picker Panel Position with New Browser APIs. Customizing Date Range Styling with CSS and Anchor API. Animating Date Range Picker with View Transitions and CSS Attributes. Developing Text Formatter with Dual Layers and Event Handling. Developing Plain Text Only Content Editable Layer with Highlighting API. Applying Styles with CSS Selector and Color API.

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Your New Job

AI Coding Summit 2026

15 min

Your New Job

Ken Wheeler

React Artist

Ken Wheeler discusses the evolving software landscape, emphasizing the shift towards higher efficiency and less typing in job roles. The evolution of coding practices from manual formatting to automated tools like Prettier is compared to advancements in construction tools for efficiency. The use of AI for work efficiency and financial benefits, alongside considerations about the future of software engineers in light of AI advancements, is highlighted. Adapting to industry shifts, embracing new technologies like React, and leveraging early AI adoption for career growth are key points. Transitioning to higher-level roles by combining domain knowledge with AI for decision-making and seizing new opportunities is emphasized.

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Optimizing React Applications: Deep Dive into the React Compiler

React Summit US 2025

24 min

Optimizing React Applications: Deep Dive into the React Compiler

Vitor Malencar

@vitormalencar

Victor Alencar introduces the React compiler and discusses its potential optimizations, including evolution of state management to hooks and performance improvements. The talk delves into using memorization techniques, compiler optimizations, and code transformations for better React performance. It also covers cache utilization, automated memorization, and gradual adoption of the React compiler for enhanced UI rendering. Additionally, the discussion involves compiler assumptions, debugging recommendations, and code simplification for optimized React usage.

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Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code

AI Coding Summit 2026

29 min

Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code

Ado Kukic

Anthropic

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Next.js 13: Data Fetching Strategies

React Day Berlin 2022

53 min

Next.js 13: Data Fetching Strategies

Top Content

Workshop

Alice De Mauro

- Introduction- Prerequisites for the workshop- Fetching strategies: fundamentals- Fetching strategies – hands-on: fetch API, cache (static VS dynamic), revalidate, suspense (parallel data fetching)- Test your build and serve it on Vercel- Future: Server compone...

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Record & Tuple: Immutable Data Structures in JS

JSNation 2022

24 min

Record & Tuple: Immutable Data Structures in JS

Top Content

Robin Ricard

Software Infrastructure engineer @ Bloomberg

Today's Talk introduces the concept of record and tuple in JavaScript, which provide a new way to handle data. The Talk explores the references and mutability of objects, strings, and numbers in JavaScript. It discusses the limitations of freezing objects and proposes record and tuple as a solution. The Talk also covers methods and syntax for tuples, the status of the proposal, and acknowledges the contributions of various individuals. Overall, the Talk aims to redefine how data is handled in JavaScript and encourages waiting for broader browser support before implementing these features.

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React Compiler - Understanding Idiomatic React (React Forget)

React Advanced 2023

33 min

React Compiler - Understanding Idiomatic React (React Forget)

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2 authors

The Talk discusses React Forget, a compiler built at Meta that aims to optimize client-side React development. It explores the use of memoization to improve performance and the vision of Forget to automatically determine dependencies at build time. Forget is named with an F-word pun and has the potential to optimize server builds and enable dead code elimination. The team plans to make Forget open-source and is focused on ensuring its quality before release.

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Levelling up Monorepos with npm Workspaces

DevOps.js Conf 2022

33 min

Levelling up Monorepos with npm Workspaces

Top Content

Ruy Adorno

Node.js TSC member & Founder Engineer @vlt.sh

NPM workspaces help manage multiple nested packages within a single top-level package, improving since the release of NPM CLI 7.0. You can easily add dependencies to workspaces and handle duplications. Running scripts and orchestration in a monorepo is made easier with NPM workspaces. The npm pkg command is useful for setting and retrieving keys and values from package.json files. NPM workspaces offer benefits compared to Lerna and future plans include better workspace linking and adding missing features.

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Draft.js, Editor.js, Slate.js: Choosing the Best Text Editor for Your React Project

React Summit Remote Edition 2021

8 min

Draft.js, Editor.js, Slate.js: Choosing the Best Text Editor for Your React Project

Top Content

Lee Rowlands

PreviousNext

Welcome to my session on DraftJS, EditJS, and SlideJS. We will discuss their strengths and data model, focusing on React's component and prop model. We will evaluate the editors based on their sustainability, funding, support, maturity, license, editor features, release cycle, data structure, ecosystem, browser support, usage, and GitHub stars. The first editor we'll discuss is Draft.js, which is used by Facebook Messenger, comments, status posts, and the Facebook Notes app. It's funded and supported by Facebook, has a version of 0.11.7, and requires custom code for additional features. The license is MIT. It's a bare metal, in terms of features. The release cycle is semantic version. The data structure is JSON. It's used by 83,000 packages and has 20,000 stars. The data model is made up of blocks with text and entities. It supports various editor features including block styles, inline styles, undo/redo, paste, lists, nested lists, media, and links. Editor.js is a block-based editor written in vanilla JavaScript. It has a 2.19 release, Apache 2.0 license, and a semver release cycle. The data structure is JSON, and there are numerous plugins available. It has 1,500 packages using it and 15,000 stars. The editor features include block styles, inline styles, undo/redo, paste, lists, nested blocks, media, and links.

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Using CodeMirror to Build a JavaScript Editor with Linting and AutoComplete

React Day Berlin 2022

86 min

Using CodeMirror to Build a JavaScript Editor with Linting and AutoComplete

Top Content

Workshop

2 authors

Using a library might seem easy at first glance, but how do you choose the right library? How do you upgrade an existing one? And how do you wade through the documentation to find what you want?
In this workshop, we’ll discuss all these finer points while going through a genera...

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Build a Design System with React and Tailwind CSS

React Summit 2022

27 min

Build a Design System with React and Tailwind CSS

Top Content

Shruti Balasa

Tech Educator

This Talk discusses design systems and how to build one using React and Tailwind CSS. Tailwind CSS provides utility classes for building complex layouts without writing CSS rules. Custom colors can be added to the Tailwind CSS config file, and font styles and text sizes can be customized. The entire Tailwind CSS configuration can be customized to meet specific requirements. Base styles can be added to the config file itself using a plugin. Reusable components can be created with Tailwind CSS, allowing for easy customization of size and color.

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Understanding React’s Fiber Architecture

React Advanced 2022

29 min

Understanding React’s Fiber Architecture

Top Content

Tejas Kumar

Author of the "Fluent React" bestselling book, software engineer with 23 years of experience, and host of the developer-loved ConTejas Code podcast.

This Talk explores React's internal jargon, specifically fiber, which is an internal unit of work for rendering and committing. Fibers facilitate efficient updates to elements and play a crucial role in the reconciliation process. The work loop, complete work, and commit phase are essential steps in the rendering process. Understanding React's internals can help with optimizing code and pull request reviews. React 18 introduces the work loop sync and async functions for concurrent features and prioritization. Fiber brings benefits like async rendering and the ability to discard work-in-progress trees, improving user experience.

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Next.js for React.js Developers

React Day Berlin 2023

157 min

Next.js for React.js Developers

Top Content

Featured WorkshopFree

Adrian Hajdin

In this advanced Next.js workshop, we will delve into key concepts and techniques that empower React.js developers to harness the full potential of Next.js. We will explore advanced topics and hands-on practices, equipping you with the skills needed to build high-performance web applications and...

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AWS Lambda under the hood

Node Congress 2023

22 min

AWS Lambda under the hood

Top Content

Luca Mezzalira

Author of Front-End Reactive Architectures and Building Micro-Frontends

In this Talk, key characteristics of AWS Lambda functions are covered, including service architecture, composition, and optimization of Node.js code. The two operational models of Lambda, asynchronous and synchronous invocation, are explained, highlighting the scalability and availability of the service. The features of Lambda functions, such as retries and event source mapping, are discussed, along with the micro VM lifecycle and the three stages of a Lambda function. Code optimization techniques, including reducing bundle size and using caching options, are explained, and tools like webpack and Lambda Power Tuning are recommended for optimization. Overall, Lambda is a powerful service for handling scalability and traffic spikes while enabling developers to focus on business logic.

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JavaScript

10 Years of Best of JS

JSNation 2025

28 min

10 Years of Best of JS

Michael Rambeau

Creator of Best of JS and JS Rising Stars projects.

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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Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime

JSNation 2025

25 min

Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime

Philip Chimento

Igalia, S.L.

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.

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React

The State of React and the Community in 2025

React Summit 2025

29 min

The State of React and the Community in 2025

Mark Erikson

Replay.io

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.

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Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications

React Summit US 2025

29 min

Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications

Mateusz Jagodziński

Workflow Builder

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

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React Beyond the DOM

React Summit US 2025

27 min

React Beyond the DOM

Erik Rasmussen

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

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The State of React

React Summit 2025

26 min

The State of React

Sacha Greif

Devographics

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.

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Panel Discussion: The State of React

React Summit 2025

35 min

Panel Discussion: The State of React

7 authors

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

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Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router

React Summit US 2025

125 min

Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router

Workshop

Aurora Scharff

In this workshop, we will explore React's latest features: Server Components, Server Functions, and forms. Discover how to optimize server-side rendering, build smooth user experiences with React Suspense and Transitions, and enhance application interactivity with Server Functions and new React 1...

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React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web

React Summit US 2025

29 min

React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web