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Articles

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...

10 Storyblok CMS Agencies and Development Companies for Your Next Build (October 2026)

Storyblok CMS agency quality varies less on platform familiarity and more on content-modeling discipline, website migration methodology, and post-launch governance. We've chosen 10 Storyblok services, proven by real expertise. A top Storyblok agency is evaluated by its ability to architect the ri...

14 Sanity CMS Agencies and Development Companies: Verified List (2026)

If you are looking for a Sanity CMS agency or a Sanity developers to run your website development or content operations software migration, this guide gives you a verified shortlist and the exact questions to ask before signing anything.

Most "Top Sanity...

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Top ideas

What advice does Dominik give for API design in open source libraries?

Dominik advises considering types from the beginning, taking time before adding features to avoid bloating the API, and ensuring that APIs are intuitive and flexible to meet diverse user needs.

What is SvelteKit and how does it relate to Svelte?

SvelteKit is a companion project to Svelte, designed to solve broader application development problems such as setting up build tooling and defining routes, enhancing Svelte's capabilities.

Why was Redux created?

Redux was created to manage client-side state in React applications, providing a predictable state update pattern and solving issues related to keeping state in sync across different parts of an application, as initially addressed by the Flux architecture.

How does TanStack Start differ from other frameworks?

TanStack Start emphasizes unmatched type safety, URL state management, and integrated data fetching and caching primitives, setting it apart from other frameworks.

What are the advantages of buying an authentication solution?

Buying an authentication solution provides a ready-made, secure, and scalable system maintained by experts. It offers enterprise-level security features and reduces the burden on your team, as security patches and feature enhancements are handled by a dedicated team.

What is the potential future of React Server Components in mobile applications?

The future involves experimental and perhaps production implementations of React Server Components in mobile applications. This development could lead to faster updates, smaller application sizes, and more dynamic content delivery.

Why is the new event loop important in React Native?

The new event loop is important because it enables synchronous updates and access to layout information, making React Native behave more like React DOM and improving performance by reducing UI flickers and inconsistencies.

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.

What is Redux Toolkit and how does it improve Redux usage?

Redux Toolkit is an official, opinionated, batteries-included toolset for efficient Redux development. It simplifies the process of setting up a Redux store, writing reducers, and includes RTK Query for data fetching, effectively solving many common issues and reducing boilerplate code.

What problem does Svelte aim to solve in software development?

Svelte aims to solve the problem of building resilient, accessible, and delightful software by focusing on ease of use, efficient performance, and a strong developer community.

Deep Dives

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

Deep Dive: AI Assisted Coding

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

Deep Dive: Mastering Full-stack

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

... and 21 more talks and workshops

React Advanced 2026

27 min

Controlling Async Chaos in React with Effect-TS

Violina Popova

ClipMyHorse.TV

As React applications scale, asynchronous logic often turns into a source of fragility and frustration. Scattered useEffect hooks, ad-hoc retries, manual loading states, and inconsistent error handling create race conditions, memory leaks, and business logic that’s nearly impossible to test relia...

architecture

Beyond Rubber Ducking - Engineering in Times of AI (LLMs)

TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

28 min

Beyond Rubber Ducking - Engineering in Times of AI (LLMs)

Carlos Fuentes

Auth0

We used to explain our bugs to rubber ducks. Now, the duck talks back, writes code, and occasionally lies to our faces.

LLMs are incredible tools. They can cure "blank screen syndrome," instantly write boilerplate, and explain weird legacy code. But treating them like senior engi...

productivity

How to Build AI-Native Engineering Teams

TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

28 min

How to Build AI-Native Engineering Teams

Gregor Ojstersek

Founder of Engineering Leadership newsletter (190k+ subscribers) - Helping you become a great engineering leader!

2 years ago, the engineering team's structure was fairly standardized, 2-pizza cross-functional teams and an engineering manager leading the team. These days, everyone is figuring it out as they go, making adjustments and seeing what may work and what not.

In this talk, Gregor wi...

future of development best practices

Faster and Lonelier: AI, Isolation, and the Erosion of Engineering Collaboration

TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

25 min

Faster and Lonelier: AI, Isolation, and the Erosion of Engineering Collaboration

Daniil Mazepin

CoreWeave

AI makes individual engineers faster - and quietly more isolated.
As coding agents become everyone's default pair, the collaboration that keeps an org healthy erodes: pairing fades, context gets trapped in private chat histories, knowledge stops diffusing, teams drift into silos.
...

artificial intelligence

I Reverse Engineered RSC. Then I Integrated Fizz.

React Advanced 2026

26 min

I Reverse Engineered RSC. Then I Integrated Fizz.

Ryan Skinner

rari

I built an RSC renderer in Rust by reverse engineering React's Flight protocol. The wire format, the serializer, the streaming machinery. I got it wrong in ways that taught me exactly how React internals work. Then I integrated the canonical Fizz renderer and discovered why React's approach exist...

react server components

Skill Design for LLM Agents

AI Coding Summit London

24 min

Skill Design for LLM Agents

Minko Gechev

Google

Minko Getschev, AI lead at Google, shares insights on building effective agent skills, including architecture, skill creation best practices, and evaluation methods. Agent decision-making, planning, and hybrid architectures are explored, with a focus on the React loop for tool utilization. Context expansion and management, utilizing tools like MCP and CLIs, enhance agent power. The discussion includes comparisons between MCP and CLIs in agent systems, emphasizing context handling and debugging. Agent skills are structured as procedural instructions, with an open standard focused on tasks and workflow logic. Best practices for skill workflow involve avoiding redundancy, optimizing front matter, and focusing on predictable execution. Utilization and management of agent skills are crucial for performance optimization. Continuous skill evaluation, testing, and improvement are highlighted, with SkillGrade for evaluating agent skills. Skill workflow execution analysis involves identifying failures, log analysis, and rerunning workflows for successful execution.

best practices

Are Frameworks Dead in the Age of AI

React Advanced 2026

32 min

Are Frameworks Dead in the Age of AI

Jack Herrington

Blue Collar Coder

artificial intelligence

From Figma to Production Code: Building a Reliable AI-Driven UI Workflow

React Advanced 2026

28 min

From Figma to Production Code: Building a Reliable AI-Driven UI Workflow

Rivka Ungar

monday.com

Frontend teams are increasingly using AI to speed up UI development by generating code directly from designs. While the results can look impressive, they often fall short in real production environments: incorrect components, missing accessibility, and broken design-system rules are common failur...

artificial intelligence

What RSCs Can Do in Next.js Today

React Advanced 2026

25 min

What RSCs Can Do in Next.js Today

Aurora Scharff

Vercel

Building app-like UX on the web has historically meant reaching for an SPA. You ship the data layer to the browser, manage a client cache, juggle loading states, coordinate mutations, and write a lot of code to keep the UI feeling fast and fresh. The result can be great, but the cost is high, and...

next.js react server components

Interviewing in the Post-LLM World

TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

30 min

Interviewing in the Post-LLM World

Dünya Kirkali

Author | Team Leader at Remote.com

As LLMs become everyday tools for developers, the way we interview engineers must evolve.
We will learn strategies to adapt technical interviews, embracing AI as a tool while still assessing judgment, critical thinking, and collaboration.

career artificial intelligence

Featured

Agentic Interfaces: Tools, Skills, Generative UI and Web MCP

JSNation 2026

31 min

Agentic Interfaces: Tools, Skills, Generative UI and Web MCP

Wes Bos

Full Stack Developer, Speaker & Teacher, Co-host of Syntax.fm podcast.

Wes discusses the evolving ways of interacting with software, from UI to voice commands and tailored interfaces. He explores generative UI, explaining its three levels: basic, declarative, and fully generative. Discussions on finding a middle ground between known components and fully generative approaches. Discussing challenges with current MCP interfaces and the need for adaptive and reactive interfaces, using smart home examples to illustrate preferences for UI interactions and personalized automation. Exploring the versatility of WebMCP in switching between manual and agent-controlled interactions for enhanced user experiences. Discussing staying hopeful in front-end development, embracing new technologies, and the concept of dynamic UI for user-driven component selection. Discussing the importance of preserving the openness of the web, advocating against centralized control by a few companies, and the risks associated with MCPs in user consent and security.

artificial intelligence

Vinext: Deploy Next.js Without Next.js

React Advanced 2026

23 min

Vinext: Deploy Next.js Without Next.js

Jan Peer Stöcklmair

Open-source contributor. JS fanatic. I love optimizing workflows.

Next.js is a great framework - until you want to deploy it somewhere that isn't Vercel. vinext is a Vite plugin from Cloudflare that reimplements the Next.js API surface from scratch, so your existing app runs everywhere with a single command. In this talk, we'll look at why this exists, how Cl...

next.js fullstack frameworks

Build LLM agents in TypeScript with Mastra and Vercel AI SDK

React Advanced 2025

145 min

Build LLM agents in TypeScript with Mastra and Vercel AI SDK

Featured WorkshopFree

Eric Burel

LLMs are not just fancy search engines: they lay the ground for building autonomous and intelligent pieces of software, aka agents.
Companies are investing massively in generative AI infrastructures. To get their money's worth, they need developers that can make the best out of an LLM, and t...

typescript artificial intelligence

npm install && pray

Node Congress 2026

29 min

npm install && pray

Jo Franchetti

PayPal

JavaScript developers face security risks in npm packages with self-replicating worms compromising packages. Supply chain attacks target prolific maintainers leading to unauthorized code injections. Vulnerabilities in package maintainers and implicit trust contribute to successful attacks. Secure package installation practices vary between npm and Deno. AI-generated code introduces new security risks with embedded secrets. Secure AI code execution involves sandboxing for isolation and secure handling of API keys.

artificial intelligence

Keeping Up with The Fast and Furious Web

JSNation US 2025

29 min

Keeping Up with The Fast and Furious Web

Scott Tolinski

Co-host of Syntax.fm

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

web development

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

The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends

React Advanced 2025

29 min

The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends

Top Content

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

We Deserve a Better Streams API for the Web

Node Congress 2026

30 min

We Deserve a Better Streams API for the Web

James Snell

Workers team @Cloudflare

James Snell discusses challenges in current stream APIs, proposes a new, faster, and simpler streams API while questioning the existing Web Streams model. Discussion includes the necessity for a new API due to excessive ceremony, confusing locking mechanisms, and complex specifications, especially in controller APIs. Challenges with controller API optimization, hidden buffering, and excessive memory usage are highlighted. The talk delves into the cost and complexity of promises in JavaScript, optimizing readable streams, and managing complexity in stream implementations. Optimizing stream processing in JavaScript, data chunk processing, back pressure policies, multi-consumer patterns, and efficient branch cursor management are explored. The new API aims at simplifying stream processing by eliminating unnecessary operations, reducing promise overhead, and focusing on iterators, transforms, and back pressure for efficiency and simplified design.

performance

Why Node.js Needs an Application Server

Node Congress 2026

18 min

Why Node.js Needs an Application Server

Matteo Collina

Node.js TSC committee member. Pino & Fastify author.

Matteo Collina discusses Node.js, its single-threaded design, and the introduction of threads in 2018 for parallelism and CPU utilization. Node.js production monitoring focuses on application health, fault tolerance, and event loop efficiency. VAT architecture improves Node.js applications with thread migration and monitoring. Node.js manages threads and failures independently with Prometheus monitoring. Scalability in Node.js involves Kubernetes clusters and in-process scaling. Next.js with React SSR for Node.js applications enables dynamic scaling and performance. Node.js handles CPU blocking and SSR performance by utilizing multiple threads.

node.js architecture

Why Software Fundamentals Still Matter

React Advanced 2026

31 min

Why Software Fundamentals Still Matter

Matt Pocock

Total TypeScript & AI Hero Author

soft skills

Short takes

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

Arts & Engineering Composite

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

A Brief History of Code Review (And What's Next)

JSNation 2026

8 min

A Brief History of Code Review (And What's Next)

Santosh Yadav

CodeRabbit

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.

code quality

MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls

AI Coding Summit 2026

7 min

MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls

Gil Friedman

Backslash Security

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.

security

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

Organic Leadership in the Age of AI: Why human Touch Becomes More Valuable Than Ever

TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

8 min

Organic Leadership in the Age of AI: Why human Touch Becomes More Valuable Than Ever

Kseniia Korostelova

Mentorship available

Aristocrat Interactive

Reflecting on the integration of AI in software development and the implications for leadership and decision-making. AI integration in leadership: embracing context, judgment, and accountability. Principles: Context before output, Intent before optimization, Awareness before efficiency, Accountability before automation. Leadership as an ecosystem with roots, stem, and fruit; AI's role in each part. Using AI at different levels of leadership: fruit, stem, and roots. Decision-making needs context. Leadership bridges information and context gaps. AI for efficiency but human touch for depth and understanding.

case study

Rustifying Vite: Designing a Hybrid Toolchain for the Real World

JSNation 2026

6 min

Rustifying Vite: Designing a Hybrid Toolchain for the Real World

Alexander Lichter

VoidZero

Options for pre-bundling, transformation, and minification. Rollup, bundling, and limited chunk control. SWC for React, but complexity with multiple bundlers causing issues for maintainers and developers. Limitations in bundlers, features V8 needs. Improving build times with Rust. Introducing Roldown with rollup's API, compatibility, speed, and advanced chunking. Features like module types, lazy barrel optimization, HMR, and built-in minifier for a performant bundle. Ensuring Rust-based bundler compatibility with JavaScript ecosystem. Introduction of Swangular for efficient plugin handling. Native Rust plugins support with module resolution, aliases, TypeScript JSX transform, dynamic imports. Integration with underlying minifier, transformer, linter, and formatter for tool chain V+.

vite tooling

Ensuring Quality with AI

TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

7 min

Ensuring Quality with AI

Richard Roggenkemper

Sentry

Richard Rodenkemper, senior software engineer at Sentry, discusses ensuring quality with AI. GitHub data shows exponential growth in coding. Concerns arise about the reliability of coding agents versus human engineers. Impact of AI and Cloud on code production and app quality is questioned. Challenges in code reliability despite increased production are highlighted. AI as a quality tool in software development. Importance of reliability for product success highlighted. AI's strengths in handling data and searching code base discussed. Examples of AI usage in code reviews and quality assurance at Sentry shared. AI efficiency in endpoint deprecation and system updates highlighted. AI's assistance in migrating design systems and reducing notifications using Cloud Code emphasized.

artificial intelligence

A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain

JSNation US 2025

8 min

A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain

Brian Whippo

Algorand Foundation

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

blockchain

Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture

JSNation US 2025

6 min

Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture

Kim Maida

FusionAuth

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.

security authentication

Garbage Collection Between V8, cppgc (Oilpan), and Native Runtimes

Node Congress 2026

9 min

Garbage Collection Between V8, cppgc (Oilpan), and Native Runtimes

Mert Can Altin

Node.js Core Contributor Trendyol - Software Engineer Turkey

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.

performance

Latest

One Team, Many AIs

TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

24 min

One Team, Many AIs

Pablo Ibanez

Independent

AI is giving developers unprecedented autonomy. Every engineer can now create their own workflow, combining coding agents, prompts, knowledge bases, and tools in different ways. While this can dramatically increase individual productivity, it introduces a new challenge for engineering leade...

artificial intelligence

Software Craftless: Writing Code That Would Make a Goat Vomit

Web Engineering Summit 2026

15 min

Software Craftless: Writing Code That Would Make a Goat Vomit

César Alberca

Freelance Frontend Architect

The talk delves into the concept of writing complex code to boost creativity and appear smarter, using JavaScript challenges to highlight the importance of front-end development. It suggests adding confusion to code, utilizing complex functions, and mixing library versions. The future of front-end development involves emoji CSS, diverse HTML tags, and functional CSS. Architectural design principles include over-engineering systems, using diagrams with circles and hexagons, and organizing code by type. Effective testing strategies focus on code coverage, unit testing, and test order. Optimizing UI design, AI usage, and ethical AI utilization are essential, alongside audience engagement for feedback and social media interaction.

fun demos

Maintaining Open-Source at the Age of AI

React Advanced 2026

20 min

Maintaining Open-Source at the Age of AI

François Best

47ng

“Open-source is dead”, according to X/Twitter. After all, why would we need to install tons of dependencies (with vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks ramping up), when our AI agents can re-implement everything for us?To be fair, rumours of its death have been strongly exaggerated: the...

open-source

New Era, New Skills, Same Old Story

TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

29 min

New Era, New Skills, Same Old Story

Anna J McDougall

Author "You Belong in Tech: How to Go from Zero Programming Knowledge to Hired"

As agents become a growing part of the software delivery lifecycle, engineers will need to develop new capabilities beyond writing code alone. In this session, IBM HashiCorp Field CTO Anna McDougall introduces the COG Model for engineering skills development in the AI era: Curation, Orchest...

artificial intelligence

Faster and Lonelier: AI, Isolation, and the Erosion of Engineering Collaboration

TechLead Conf London 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

25 min

Faster and Lonelier: AI, Isolation, and the Erosion of Engineering Collaboration

Daniil Mazepin

CoreWeave

artificial intelligence

How Not to Use TanStack Query

React Advanced 2026

19 min

How Not to Use TanStack Query

Neciu Dan

neciudan.dev

We built a product fully on TanStack Query and skipped adding a state management layer. It worked for a while, then it broke in ways we didn’t expect.This talk dives into how TanStack Query works, what we got wrong, and how to use it properly. From missing optimistic updates to confusing s...

state management

The Dependency Paradox: Shipping 'Headless' Auth Logic via Shadcn & NPM

React Advanced 2026

18 min

The Dependency Paradox: Shipping 'Headless' Auth Logic via Shadcn & NPM

Naveen Chand

Okta

As React shifts from "Black Box" NPM packages to "Copy-Paste" components, we face a new crisis: How do we distribute complex state and security logic without locking down the UI?This talk breaks down the architecture of a multi-distribution system. We’ll explore using TanStack Query as a h...

architecture

When Waiting Becomes a Feature: Rethinking Performance for AI Applications

React Advanced 2026

36 min

When Waiting Becomes a Feature: Rethinking Performance for AI Applications

Muhyideen Akindele

Sinbyte Limited

For decades, frontend performance has been guided by the simple principle that faster is better. We optimize load times, reduce latency, and remove every unnecessary delay from the user journey.While building streaming AI interfaces with React, I discovered that traditional performance met...

performance

Beyond Vibe Coding: An AI Builder’s Guide to Migrating 10k+ React Components

React Advanced 2026

22 min

Beyond Vibe Coding: An AI Builder’s Guide to Migrating 10k+ React Components

Shubham Chaurasia

Top Content

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.

react build tools builders and founders react 19 react forget

Simplifying Server Components

React Advanced 2023

27 min

Simplifying Server Components

Top Content

Mark Dalgleish

Shopify

React server components simplify server-side rendering and provide a mental model of components as pure functions. Using React as a library for server components allows for building a basic RSC server and connecting it to an SSR server. RSC responses are serialized virtual DOM that offload code from the client and handle interactivity. The client manifest maps serialized placeholders to real components on the client, enabling dynamic rendering. Server components combine the best of classic web development and progressive enhancement, offering the advantage of moving logic from the client to the server.

react server components

Building Better Websites with Remix

React Summit Remote Edition 2021

33 min

Building Better Websites with Remix

Top Content

Michael Jackson

React Training

Remix is a web framework built on React Router that focuses on web fundamentals, accessibility, performance, and flexibility. It delivers real HTML and SEO benefits, and allows for automatic updating of meta tags and styles. It provides features like login functionality, session management, and error handling. Remix is a server-rendered framework that can enhance sites with JavaScript but doesn't require it for basic functionality. It aims to create quality HTML-driven documents and is flexible for use with different web technologies and stacks.

react remix frameworks

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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Killing BFFs with GraphQL and Next.js

React Advanced 2021

21 min

Killing BFFs with GraphQL and Next.js

Top Content

Roy Derks

Developer, author (Fullstack GraphQL, React & React Native books) and public speaker

This talk discusses the challenges and benefits of using Backend for Frontends (BFFs) and microservices in software development. It highlights how Next.js can simplify the creation of BFFs and unify the gateway for microservices. The talk also emphasizes the advantages of Next.js API routes in simplifying the development, deployment, and maintenance of APIs. It showcases the implementation of a BFF using Next.js and API routes, and the extension of API routes in an executable way. The speaker also mentions launching a course on using Next.js API routes for building a serverless GraphQL API.

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Handling Breaking Changes in GraphQL

GraphQL Galaxy 2022

22 min

Handling Breaking Changes in GraphQL

Top Content

Kadi Kraman

Expo

This Talk discusses handling breaking changes in a GraphQL schema, including the use of the deprecated directive to tag fields that should no longer be used. It also covers the process of deploying GraphQL APIs and mobile apps, highlighting the challenges of mobile app release adoption. The Talk emphasizes the importance of making safe upgrades in mobile apps and provides strategies for detecting and handling breaking changes, such as using TypeScript and GraphQL Inspector. Overall, the Talk emphasizes the need to minimize user impact when introducing breaking changes in GraphQL schemas.

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Vite: Rethinking Frontend Tooling

JSNation Live 2021

31 min

Vite: Rethinking Frontend Tooling

Top Content

Evan You

Vue.js & Vite Creator

Vite is a next-generation build tool that leverages native ES modules for improved performance. It eliminates the need for bundling and improves hot module replacement. Vite provides an opinionated default configuration while still allowing advanced customization through plugins. It is framework agnostic and can be used for React and other applications. Vite is being adopted by Next.js and Create React App, and integration with Nuxt 3 offers significant speed improvements.

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Understanding React’s Fiber Architecture

React Advanced 2022

29 min

Understanding React’s Fiber Architecture

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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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Micro-Frontends With React & Vite Module Federation

React Advanced 2023

20 min

Micro-Frontends With React & Vite Module Federation

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Giorgio Boa

Claranet

Microfrontends is an architecture used by big companies to split monolithic frontend applications into manageable parts. Maintaining a consistent look and feel across different microfrontends is a challenge. Sharing styles can be done through Vanilla CSS, CSS modules, or CSS in JS. JavaScript variables can be used in styles, but readability and runtime overhead are considerations. Sharing state in microfrontends can be achieved through custom events, broadcast channels, shared state managers, or custom PubSub implementations. Module federation with Vite allows for client composition and sharing dependencies. Configuration is similar to Webpack, and future work includes working on the QUIC framework.

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Pushing the Limits of Video Encoding in Browsers With WebCodecs

JSNation 2023

25 min

Pushing the Limits of Video Encoding in Browsers With WebCodecs

Top Content

Akash Hamirwasia

ElevenLabs

This Talk explores the challenges and solutions in video encoding with web codecs. It discusses drawing and recording video on the web, capturing and encoding video frames, and introduces the WebCodecs API. The Talk also covers configuring the video encoder, understanding codecs and containers, and the video encoding process with muxing using ffmpeg. The speaker shares their experience in building a video editing tool on the browser and showcases Slantit, a tool for making product videos.

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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

Nicolas Gallagher

Meta

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

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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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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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Lessons From Adopting React Compiler

React Summit US 2025

23 min

Lessons From Adopting React Compiler

Akash Hamirwasia

ElevenLabs

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

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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

Clerk

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.

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From Fiber to Async React

React Advanced 2026

29 min

From Fiber to Async React

Nonso Otoh

Konrad Group

Almost a decade ago, React’s rendering algorithm was rebuilt, and with that it brought about new tools, ideas, and ways of building UI. But those tools arrived incrementally and were adopted in isolation, often framed as “optimizations” rather than part of a unified model. So are they truly indep...

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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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Suspenseful Component Composition

React Summit US 2025

12 min

Suspenseful Component Composition

Simeon Griggs

Sanity

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

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Free workshops

Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers

JSNation 2026

108 min

Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers

WorkshopFree

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...

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Pear: Releasing Production P2P Apps

Web Engineering Summit 2026

54 min

Pear: Releasing Production P2P Apps

WorkshopFree

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...

Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers

Node Congress 2026

73 min

Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers

WorkshopFree

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...

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Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models

AI Coding Summit 2026

34 min

Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models

WorkshopFree

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...

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"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network

AI Coding Summit 2026

53 min

"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network

WorkshopFree

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.

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Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding

AI Coding Summit 2026

52 min

Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding

WorkshopFree

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...

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Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop

AI Coding Summit 2026

49 min

Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop

WorkshopFree

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...

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Build Your Dream Extensions with AI

AI Coding Summit 2026

87 min

Build Your Dream Extensions with AI

WorkshopFree

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...

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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.

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Building AI workflow editor UI in React with Workflow Builder SDK

React Summit US 2025

141 min

Building AI workflow editor UI in React with Workflow Builder SDK

WorkshopFree

Łukasz Jaźwa

Join us to learn how to build your own Zapier-like interface in days, not months. Discover how to save 1,000+ hours of design and coding upfront, building a complex workflow editor UI from scratch. Customize it for AI orchestration, automations, business processes visualization and other real-wor...

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