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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
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  • Workshop: Exploring Server Side Rendering
... and 15 more talks and workshops
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Building Full Stack React Apps with Bun
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
14 min
Building Full Stack React Apps with Bun
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Bun is a fast JavaScript runtime aiming to improve Node.js compatibility and streamline the development toolchain. It offers seamless full-stack development capabilities with features like WebSocket support and code-splitting. The efficient package management in Bun optimizes production processes by reducing parsing time and system calls. Bun's collaboration plans include enhancing monorepo support and integrating with frameworks and routers for improved functionality and runtime efficiency.
From Prompt Spaghetti to Bounded Contexts: DDD for Agentic Codebases
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
16 min
From Prompt Spaghetti to Bounded Contexts: DDD for Agentic Codebases
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Nikita, AI Architect at Siemens, discusses challenges in JNTX system development, emphasizing domain-driven design for scalability and stability. Clear responsibilities, bounded contexts, and structured schemas are crucial for reducing complexity. The anti-corruption layer and context maps play vital roles in integration architecture. Key takeaways include the importance of contracts, firewalls, and CI gates for system development.
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
76 min
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
WorkshopFree
Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
This workshop introduces Sandboxes as a general computing primitive and uses Cloudflare Sandboxes as the concrete implementation. Participants explore common, real-world use cases for sandboxed execution and learn how to reason about when and why sandboxes are the right tool.

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Svelte 5: North Star
JSNation US 2024JSNation US 2024
29 min
Svelte 5: North Star
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As a child, the speaker was fascinated with space and finding direction. Svelte is an HTML-first approach to web development that simplifies tasks and offers efficient reactivity. The speaker reflects on Svelte's growth, goals, and design philosophy. Svelte aims to fix broken software and prioritize user focus. The future direction includes error boundaries, better debugging, and AI's role. Building open source software is challenging, and Rust's impact is discussed. The speaker values framework diversity and highlights the advancements and challenges faced by web development.
Advanced Claude Code Techniques: Agentic Engineering With Context Driven Development
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
29 min
Advanced Claude Code Techniques: Agentic Engineering With Context Driven Development
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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.
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
31 min
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
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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.
Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
29 min
Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code
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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.
MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
7 min
MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls
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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.
Advanced Cursor Techniques for Building Fullstack Apps
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
119 min
Advanced Cursor Techniques for Building Fullstack Apps
Workshop
Mike Mikula
Mike Mikula
In this workshop, you’ll learn a repeatable process for building full stack apps in Cursor. We’ll start with an idea and use an agent to shape clear requirements. Next, we’ll generate a database schema and set up the build tools. Then we’ll create the backend and frontend, and wire the layers tog...
Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
21 min
Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding
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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.
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How to Build an Open Telemetry SDK in 7 Minutes
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
6 min
How to Build an Open Telemetry SDK in 7 Minutes
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Showcasing adding observability with OpenTelemetry. Benefits of extensive telemetry data for insights. Contrasting uninstrumented, manual, and automatic instrumented apps. Example of instrumenting fetch calls for telemetry signals. Technique for modifying functions without core updates. Using JS proxy as a modern approach for patching. OpenTelemetry standardizes instrumentation with APIs and tools. Example of setting up OpenTelemetry with instrumentations.
Deploy Your AI Code in Minutes
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
7 min
Deploy Your AI Code in Minutes
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Shifra guides the migration of a Repl.it app to Render with emphasis on simplicity and mock data. Ensure Render deployment requirements are met, including specifying root directory, build and start commands, and correct port. Configure GitHub repository setup, connect to Git, and create a repository. Confirm code in the repository and deploy on Render, showcasing a sample landing page.
Improve Your Presentation Skills by Scripting Your Live Coding Demos to Perfection
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
8 min
Improve Your Presentation Skills by Scripting Your Live Coding Demos to Perfection
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Elio's tips for perfect live coding: Minimize distractions, prepare well with light themes and larger fonts, adjust cursor style, avoid hover panels. Stay focused on one application during presentations. Changing settings for clarity, stressing the importance of tools like Demo Time for scripted presentations within Visual Studio Code, eliminating context switching between applications, and facilitating audience interaction with shared repositories. Exploring actions in Demo Time: creating code, opening files, highlighting code, and executing VS Code commands for a cleaner presentation. Utilizing Slides for Markdown presentations within Demo Time.
How To Get The Most Out Of the Cloud As A Front-End Developer
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
How To Get The Most Out Of the Cloud As A Front-End Developer
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Front-end developers benefit from cloud services like AWS S3 and Lambda. AWS offers services like Cognito for identity management and Bedrock AI models. AWS Amplify provides Hosting and Cloud Development Kit for efficient development. The Cloud Development Kit is recommended for TypeScript deployment. AWS Amplify connects front-end to AWS services and SDK for back-end. QR code feedback is available for the talk.
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
7 min
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
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We're discussing spec-driven development and the innovative AI IDE, QIRO, that supports this approach. QIRO focuses on structured specifications before coding, aiding developers in creating designs. The QIRO mascot, a playful ghost, symbolizes the essence of spec-driven development. Eric Hanchett discusses QIRO, emphasizing its spec-driven development feature integrated into the IDE. QIRO aids in in-depth feature planning, resembling a structured requirements approach. Coding assistants benefit from detailed examples for efficient development. Exploring Manual Coding Assistance: Creating user requirements, building design documents, and task lists manually. Example of using spec mode in a coding assistant to break down requirements, create designs, and implement features.
Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse
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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.
Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
8 min
Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill
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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.
Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
5 min
Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution
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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.
Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
6 min
Everyone Is Now a Manager - Interfaces in the World of Agents
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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.
WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers
Node Congress 2025Node Congress 2025
5 min
WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers
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WinterTC is working on standardizing JS runtimes to avoid vendor lock-in and provide a universal API. This involves defining which web APIs should be included, such as URL and WebAssembly. The goal is to create a definitive list of APIs for server-side JS runtimes.
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Beyond Vibe Coding: Differentiated Workflows with Antigravity
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
10 min
Beyond Vibe Coding: Differentiated Workflows with Antigravity
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Alex Astrum
Rody Davis
2 authors
Alex and Rodi discuss antigravity, a powerful coding agent that unifies Google tools. The agent manager orchestrates multiple agents, providing a higher-level view than just code. Features include an AI editor, agent-controlled Chrome browser, and best practices for agent autonomy and usage. AI steering takes time before feeling intuitive. Anti-gravity offers fast and planning modes for building efficiently. The planning mode allows fine-tuning and execution of complex tasks. Playground validates ideas before full projects. The playground in AntiGravity validates project ideas. Image generation, Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini 3 enhance design output. Skills support deep context tasks. Asynchronous nature enables efficient project development. Browser agent serves as a versatile tool for bug fixing. Manual control and inspiration amidst automation. Transition to agent manager for enhanced visibility and decision-making. Encouragement to explore diverse agent-led experiences and updates for workflow improvement.
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
76 min
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
WorkshopFree
Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
This workshop introduces Sandboxes as a general computing primitive and uses Cloudflare Sandboxes as the concrete implementation. Participants explore common, real-world use cases for sandboxed execution and learn how to reason about when and why sandboxes are the right tool.

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Your AI Code Reviews Are Missing the Point (And How to Fix It)
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
25 min
Your AI Code Reviews Are Missing the Point (And How to Fix It)
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Ishai, CTO at LearnrB, discusses the evolution and impact of AI code reviews in software development. The transition from experimentation to maturity with autonomous AI agents in code reviews is highlighted. Challenges in AI-driven code creation and review processes, as well as the benefits of AI code reviews for productivity and efficiency, are discussed. Common mistakes and challenges in AI code review adoption, along with the importance of adapting processes for AI advancements, are emphasized. The importance of enhancing AI code review processes, measuring their impact, and leveraging AI for productivity metrics is also explored.
When Less Is More: A Technical Overview of LLMs and the Strength of Smaller Models
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
11 min
When Less Is More: A Technical Overview of LLMs and the Strength of Smaller Models
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Lugari Karasen from Red Hat AI discusses the technical aspects of large language models, including data collection, tokenization, and neural network internals. Model training involves converting human language to mathematical representations and adjusting parameters iteratively in a complex environment. Inference engines like VLLM aid in deploying models for rapid data processing. Optimizing model size for efficiency without sacrificing accuracy is crucial, with quantization reducing model size while maintaining precision. Local deployment offers privacy and control, and smaller purpose-driven models can enhance workflows and experimentation.
The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
10 min
The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained
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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.
Building 3D Web Apps in 2025 – React, XR & AI?
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
17 min
Building 3D Web Apps in 2025 – React, XR & AI?
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Bela, open source maintainer, discusses 3D web app development in 2025, leveraging React for XR apps and AI assistance. Explore the evolution of 3D on the web, React's role, and the impact of AI, focusing on large language models and challenges. 3GS foundation makes 3D web dev accessible; React 3 fiber simplifies scene orchestration and enhances performance. React 3 XR enables cross-platform AR and VR app development with spatial understanding and high-quality media rendering. Using React 3 Fiber and XR components, the canvas sets up interactive scenes with meshes for precise display. Imperative cube rotation for performance, AI's impact on 3D web, and challenges of AI in 3D app development.
Voice Agents Crash Course
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
26 min
Voice Agents Crash Course
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Stepan Suvorov, CTO at Roadsoft, discusses the rise of Voice Agents, highlighting market growth, improved models for speech to text and voice generation, reduced latency, and cost-effectiveness. Key components include speech-to-text, LLM analysis, text-to-speech conversion, orchestration, and addressing latency. Delving into essential aspects like voice activity detection, interruption handling, and model selection criteria for Voice Agents. Exploring parameters such as latency, quality, pricing, language support, and voice cloning options. Comparing DIY and managed solutions for Voice Agents, emphasizing flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Discussing cost implications between managed and self-hosted solutions, considering usage volumes and scale. Addressing infrastructure challenges, testing approaches, WAPI limits, model selection, and future plans for voice agents.
Your New Job
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
15 min
Your New Job
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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.
Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
29 min
Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code
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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.
Designing Sandboxed Dev Environments for Coding Agents
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
20 min
Designing Sandboxed Dev Environments for Coding Agents
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A demo of an animated goose following the cursor in a unique environment with real-time updates. Advanced models for long-running agents performing complex tasks. Exploring sandbox environments for agent coding, focusing on isolation, containers, networking, and persistence. Challenges in sandbox orchestration, including handling heavy processing, managing sessions, and security concerns. Importance of agent control, Micro VMs for isolation, and networking in sandbox environments. Strategies for efficient sandbox operations with pre-built images, persistent volumes, and warm pools. Utilizing sandbox primitives for simple usage with focus on isolation, networking, and persistence.
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JavaScript
10 Years of Best of JS
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
28 min
10 Years of Best of JS
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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.
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
25 min
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
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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.
React
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
29 min
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications
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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.
The State of React and the Community in 2025
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
29 min
The State of React and the Community in 2025
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Mark Erickson discusses the state of React in 2025, React community debates on React's direction and misconceptions, React's shift towards client-side frameworks and SSR emphasis, React's feature development process at Meta and Vercel, controversy around Vercel's server components involvement, tight relationship between React and Next, React team's emphasis on frameworks for app performance, critique of React's heavy-handed framework recommendation, React team's delay in adding VEET as a recommended tool, challenges with server components' origins and communication, no official signals support planned for React 19, social media impact on React development decisions, React community diversity and server components usage insights, React's evolving black box concept and tradeoffs discussed.
React Beyond the DOM
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
27 min
React Beyond the DOM
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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.
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
26 min
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
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Speaker delves into global state management in React, mentioning Redux and alternatives like React context. Creating a global state manager in under 50 lines of code with React context, highlighting challenges with performance and React specificity. Building a custom hook named user store for state management, implementing state and API for store, handling partial state updates efficiently. Managing listeners for state changes, setting up custom hooks and selectors, and subscribing to external stores. Demonstrating optimization in state management and preventing unnecessary button re-renders. Discussion on Redux, Signals, debugging, and various global state management choices like Zestand and Redux toolkit.
Panel Discussion: The State of React
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
35 min
Panel Discussion: The State of React
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Tanner Linsley
Naman Goel
Evan Bacon
Shruti Kapoor
Mark Erikson
Jarred Sumner
Sacha Greif
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.
Suspenseful Component Composition
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
12 min
Suspenseful Component Composition
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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.
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
23 min
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler
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Akash Hamilwasia presenting at React Summit 2025, shares React Compiler learnings and works on an AI audio platform. Memoization in React helps optimize UI performance by preventing unnecessary re-renders. React Compiler offers automatic memoization through static code analysis. React rules emphasize purity and immutability. The compiler analyzes and memoizes code changes for optimization. React Compiler package usage improves performance through code analysis. Understanding reactivity issues is crucial for handling React state. Compiler optimization requires correct dependency arrays and usage of external libraries. Measure React Compiler impact using React Profiler for optimization and real user impact analysis.
The State of React
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
26 min
The State of React
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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.
Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
125 min
Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router
Workshop
Aurora Scharff
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...
How to React Compiler
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
20 min
How to React Compiler
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Introduction to React compiler, differences from React 19, installation of Babel plug-in React compiler, specifying target React versions, and how React compiler detects and processes component dependencies. Configuring React compiler settings, exploring default options and configurations, utilizing React compiler playground website for configurations, dealing with JSX markup re-computation. React compiler feature for extracting JSX from array map callbacks, limitations of enable function outlining, enabling JSX outlining for separate functions. Function memoization in React compiler, React compiler beta stage, potential errors with React compiler. React compiler error: memorization preservation, hidden messages, validation settings. React compiler: validation tools, hooks treatment, memorization challenges. Changing hooks to functions for React compiler optimization. React Compiler usage considerations and potential optimizations.
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Building AI workflow editor UI in React with Workflow Builder SDK
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
141 min
Building AI workflow editor UI in React with Workflow Builder SDK
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Łukasz Jaźwa
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...
The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
96 min
The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering
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Niall Maher
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...
How To Enhance an Existing React App With AI, Without Rewriting It From Scratch
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
109 min
How To Enhance an Existing React App With AI, Without Rewriting It From Scratch
WorkshopFree
 Greg Brimble
Greg Brimble
In this workshop, we will incrementally augment an existing React application with AI. I'm sure most of you probably already maintain a React app, so rather than starting from the ground-up, let's take something that already works, and develop some patterns for adding practical, real-world AI fea...
On-Premise Open-Source LLMs with Ollama & FastAPI
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
58 min
On-Premise Open-Source LLMs with Ollama & FastAPI
WorkshopFree
Brendon Co
Brendon Co
This workshop introduces how to use open-source LLMs on-premise for enhanced data control, privacy, and cost efficiency. It highlights Ollama for simplified LLM management (downloading, running models offline) and FastAPI for efficient local hosting, enabling fast API development and seamless int...
Data is Beautiful: Creating Compelling Data Visualisations with AG Charts
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
83 min
Data is Beautiful: Creating Compelling Data Visualisations with AG Charts
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James Swinton-Bland
James Swinton-Bland
AG Charts is a JavaScript Charting Library, built by AG Grid, that you can use to create beautiful and compelling data visualisations in React, with a simple, intuitive, flexible API.What You'll Learn: In this workshop, you'll learn how to get started with AG Charts to create simple visual...
Debugging with Sentry AI using Seer, MCP, and Agent Monitoring
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
55 min
Debugging with Sentry AI using Seer, MCP, and Agent Monitoring
WorkshopFree
Paul Jaffré
Paul Jaffré
This workshop explores how to leverage Sentry’s AI-driven tools (Seer, MCP and Agent Monitoring) to streamline debugging, error monitoring, and observability in full-stack applications. It guides participants through Setting up Sentry from scratchInstrumenting errors,...
Build and Customize a Node-Based Workflow Builder With React
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
140 min
Build and Customize a Node-Based Workflow Builder With React
WorkshopFree
Łukasz Jaźwa
Łukasz Jaźwa
Node-based user interfaces offer an intuitive and powerful way to represent complex data flows and processes. In this interactive 3-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to create engaging diagram UIs using React and the popular React Flow library. We’ll start by exploring key libraries for creating cu...
Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
46 min
Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor
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Mike Mikula
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...
Enhancing React Apps with Playwright Monitoring
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
68 min
Enhancing React Apps with Playwright Monitoring
WorkshopFree
Nica Mellifera
Nica Mellifera
Test and trust your React app by combining Playwright’s powerful browser automation with modern synthetic monitoring. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to write real user flow tests with Playwright, run them locally, and then scale them into production-ready monitoring with Checkly....
Building Dynamic Grids and Charts
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
140 min
Building Dynamic Grids and Charts
WorkshopFree
Brian Love
Brian Love
AG Grid and AG Charts are enterprise grid and chart libraries that are built for performance. In this workshop, you'll learn the basics of getting started with building feature-rich grids and charts in your React applications.
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