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ChatGPT eCommerce Apps with Shopify

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

ChatGPT now has native Shopif...

Running Efficient Meetups: A Practical Guide for Stronger Tech Communities

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

React Server Components: The Next Evolution in Web Development

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

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

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

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

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

Spanish translations for 2000+ React and JavaScript talks from GitNation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What led you to...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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What is the ReactFlight protocol?

ReactFlight is a protocol in React 19 used to serialize content so it can be sent from a server to a client, enhancing the sharing of rendering jobs between them.

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

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

Why is the web considered important by Svelte developers?

Svelte developers believe the web is a critically important technology with unmatched openness and potential as an application delivery mechanism, which needs to be preserved and improved.

What is the main goal of Svelte as a framework?

The main goal of Svelte is to provide a better developer experience without compromising user experience, aiming to be the framework with the best vibes rather than focusing solely on performance metrics.

What is HTTP pipelining in Undici?

HTTP pipelining in Undici allows sending multiple requests in a single connection without waiting for the previous response, improving throughput.

How does the new architecture in React Native differ from the old architecture?

The new architecture replaces the asynchronous bridge with a synchronous JavaScript Interface (JSI), enabling direct communication between JavaScript and native code, reducing latency and improving performance.

What is Doubleloop's unique tradition on Fridays?

On Fridays, Doubleloop employees do not work for customers or perform usual tasks. Instead, they explore new topics and engage in activities different from their regular work.

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 the primary focus of Alex Russell's engineering philosophy?

Alex Russell emphasizes building solutions that work well for end-users, focusing on quality and performance rather than popularity of tools or frameworks.

Why is optimizing for users at the margins important?

Optimizing for users at the margins, who often use lower-end devices, can significantly improve engagement and business outcomes, as these users make up a large part of the market.

Deep Dives

Deep Dive: Growing to Tech Lead

Growing to Tech Lead

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

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

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

... and 10 more talks and workshops

Deep Dive: AI Assisted Coding

AI Assisted Coding

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

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

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

... and 11 more talks and workshops

Deep Dive: Mastering Full-stack

Mastering Full-stack

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

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

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

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

... and 15 more talks and workshops

AI Coding Summit 2026

16 min

From Prompt Spaghetti to Bounded Contexts: DDD for Agentic Codebases

Nikita Golovko

Siemens

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.

architecture

How I Build Web Applications in 2026

AI Coding Summit 2026

31 min

How I Build Web Applications in 2026

Kent C. Dodds

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

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

web development

Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code

AI Coding Summit 2026

29 min

Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code

Ado Kukic

Anthropic

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

best practices

React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine

React Advanced 2025

20 min

React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine

Danny Povolotski

CTO, Gator Labs

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

game development

Understanding React’s Fiber Architecture

React Advanced 2022

29 min

Understanding React’s Fiber Architecture

Top Content

Tejas Kumar

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

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

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Your AI Code Reviews Are Missing the Point (And How to Fix It)

AI Coding Summit 2026

25 min

Your AI Code Reviews Are Missing the Point (And How to Fix It)

Yishai Beeri

LinearB

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.

inspiration

Advanced Claude Code Techniques: Agentic Engineering With Context Driven Development

JSNation US 2025

29 min

Advanced Claude Code Techniques: Agentic Engineering With Context Driven Development

Cole Medin

Dynamous LLC

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

artificial intelligence

Advanced Cursor Techniques for Building Fullstack Apps

AI Coding Summit 2026

119 min

Advanced Cursor Techniques for Building Fullstack Apps

Workshop

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...

artificial intelligence

Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding

AI Coding Summit 2026

21 min

Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding

Daniel Sogl

Thinktecture AG

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

artificial intelligence devtools developer experience best practices

Gatsby v4's New Rendering Modes

React Advanced 2021

24 min

Gatsby v4's New Rendering Modes

Sid Chatterjee

Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare

Gatsby V4 introduces deferred static generation (DSG), combining the benefits of static site generation (SSG) and server-side rendering (SSR). This approach allows for faster builds and a more deterministic cache. Gatsby V4 also includes features such as parallel query running and LMDB for enhanced performance. The focus is on integrations and improving the developer experience (DX) in the future.

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Featured

Frontend’s Lost Decade and the Performance Inequality Gap

JSNation 2025

32 min

Frontend’s Lost Decade and the Performance Inequality Gap

Top Content

Alex Russell

A key contributor to ES6, Service Workers and Web Components. The Partner PM for Edge at Microsoft and Blink API owner.

Alex Russell's journey from engineering to product management, the focus on improving web experiences, and optimizing software for end-user success. Considerations include device performance, web diversity, and API constraints. Challenges of web platforms encompass hardware and network limitations, prioritizing user experience. Understanding the impact of Moore's Law on device performance and adapting browsers for efficiency. Emphasis on code optimization, user-focused development, and quality in web UI. Addressing challenges in PWA success, developer learning, and balancing frameworks with platform understanding.

I Measured React Server Components’ Performance So You Don’t Have To

React Advanced 2025

22 min

I Measured React Server Components’ Performance So You Don’t Have To

Nadia Makarevich

Coder, writer, author of Advanced React book

Nadia introduces React server components and performance, highlighting the benefits of server components in improving performance and the need for a clear understanding of their impact on rendering and data fetching in React applications. Exploring Server-Side Rendering Impact on Performance: Analysis of transitioning from client-side to server-side rendering, including implications on performance and data fetching. Transforming Empty Screen to Performance Improvement: Detailed process of browser work, React rendering, and data fetching impact. Making the Shift to Server-Side Rendering: Impact on interactivity and data fetching optimization. Understanding the Benefits of AppRouter Version in SSR with Reduced JavaScript Payload and Introduction of Server Components. Investigating Smarter Server-Side Rendering with Server Components and Streaming in Next.js. Refactoring for Server Components: Async Data Fetching, Server Component Identification, and Utilizing Suspense for React Streaming Chunks. Enhancing Performance with Server Components: Balancing Rendering Approaches, Importance of Server-Side Data Fetching, and Leveraging Suspense for Improved Streaming.

performance react server components

Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web

JSNation 2025

27 min

Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web

Joshua Lochner

Hugging Face

Joshua introduces Transformers JS and Hugging Face, emphasizing community collaboration and pre-trained models. Transformers JS evolution led to 1.4 million monthly users, supporting 155 architectures. The library's browser-based capabilities offer real-time processing, cost-efficiency, and scalability. Integration enhancements include native web GPU execution and React Native implementation. Web ML implementation focuses on Onyx Runtime for device execution and web GPU for resource optimization. Browser-based ML applications cover vision, speech recognition, and text-to-speech. Advanced implementations include multimodal applications and educational tools. Interactive AI demonstrations showcase semantic search and conversational AI scenarios. Model licensing transitions to ECMAScript for efficiency and model redownloading factors are discussed.

webgpu machine learning

Never Worry About CORS Again

JSNation US 2025

28 min

Never Worry About CORS Again

Jarred Sumner

Creator of Bun.

Talk on Bund: Overview of Bund, its speed optimization, components like runtime, package manager, test runner, and bundler. Efficient features include fast npm manager, pnpm lockfile support, Jest-compatible test runner, and optimized runtime components. Built-in features like modern password hashing, WebSocket server, file glob API, and database clients. API design focuses on common use cases and optimization. Enhanced JavaScript functionality with SIMD, native code, and performance improvements. Challenges in JavaScript productivity, BUN adoption, deployment, and support. React support, community involvement, security, Next.js compatibility, and transition.

js runtimes

From Frontend to Fullstack Development With Next.js

React Summit 2025

91 min

From Frontend to Fullstack Development With Next.js

Featured Workshop

Eric Burel

Join us as we journey from React frontend development to fullstack development with Next.js. During this workshop, we'll follow along the official Next.js Learn tutorial with Eric Burel, professional trainer and author of NextPatterns.dev. Together, we'll set up a Next.js website and explore its...

next.js

Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor

JSNation 2025

46 min

Building Full Stack Apps With Cursor

Featured Workshop

Mike Mikula

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

artificial intelligence

Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling

JSNation 2025

23 min

Vite and the Future of JavaScript Tooling

Top Content

Evan You

Vue.js & Vite Creator

Evan Yeo discusses Vite's growth, challenges with dependencies like ES Build and Rollup, and the creation of the bundler Rolldown. The JavaScript ecosystem faces fragmentation, but the company aims for a unified JavaScript stack. Rust is chosen for lower-level development, while JavaScript and TypeScript for high-level APIs. Roldown offers advanced bundling features, outperforming existing tools. Integration with Vite leads to tailored optimizations and significant speed improvements. Vite+ development focuses on creating a comprehensive toolkit. VitePlus integrates TS-down for library bundling, ViteTest for testing, and OX-Lint for linting. Future plans include monorepo awareness, build orchestration, and framework-like features.

vite

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

How to Build Full-Stack Apps Using Cursor

React Summit US 2025

65 min

How to Build Full-Stack Apps Using Cursor

Featured WorkshopFree

Shrey Shah

In this workshop, I’ll guide participants through a process for building full-stack applications using Cursor. We’ll cover setting up Cursor workflows, including rules, commands, and custom modes, to streamline development. We will use Cursor to draft PRDs, database schema, etc and a simple SOW....

fullstack

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

React Advanced 2025

27 min

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

Wyatt Johnson

Vercel

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

next.js react performance frontend react server components server cache

Short takes

Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy

JSNation 2025

7 min

Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy

Mark Robustelli

FusionAuth

Authentication is crucial for system security, with options including building, buying, or using open source. Modern security complexities are addressed by purchasing systems with enterprise-level security features. Cost considerations in authentication highlight maintenance and scaling costs, with buying solutions providing peace of mind and predictable costs.

authentication

How to Build an Open Telemetry SDK in 7 Minutes

JSNation 2025

6 min

How to Build an Open Telemetry SDK in 7 Minutes

Charly Gomez

Sentry, Software Engineer

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.

observability

Zero-Styling Development: Utopia or the Future of Frontend?

React Summit 2025

7 min

Zero-Styling Development: Utopia or the Future of Frontend?

Mateusz Jagodziński

Workflow Builder

Mateusz Jagodziński presenting on Zero Styling Development and the challenges faced with manual styling implementations, leading to the adoption of a zero styling approach for efficiency and consistency in design implementation. Workflow Builder adopts a zero-styling approach beginning with design tokens in Figma, followed by automation for CSS generation and implementation using CSS variables, ensuring easy styling changes without developer intervention.

web apps

From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode

React Summit US 2025

5 min

From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode

Seungho Park

LG Electronics, Web Engine & Web Framework Lead

Seungho Park discusses the importance of spatial navigation for TV apps and the challenges of supporting remote, pointer, and touch inputs. Real examples are explored, including focus placement, restoring focus, and grouping elements for stable navigation. Challenges in TV app navigation such as key scrolling in grid lists and managing input mode transitions are highlighted. The talk also delves into handling input modes, designing for 5-way, pointer, and touch input, and addressing edge cases. Implementing the W3C spatial navigation standard, defining focus properties for container elements, and encouraging exploration of React UI spatial navigation support are key points.

best practices

Server Components Wars: PHP Strikes Back

React Summit 2025

6 min

Server Components Wars: PHP Strikes Back

Edoardo Dusi

Storyblok

Edoardo, a senior dev rel at Storyblok, delves into server components' intricacies, urging a better understanding. The evolution from PHP to React marked a shift in web development paradigms, emphasizing server-side rendering and dynamic client interactions. Facebook transitioned from PHP to React, introducing XHP subset. Isomorphic JavaScript and server-side rendering emerged with data requests and content rendering. React server components enable server-side rendering with data fetched from DBMS or CMS, emphasizing patterns for seamless transitions to new frameworks.

react server components

No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone

JSNation 2025

6 min

No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone

Marius Obert

Twilio

Marius from Twilio demonstrates building AI agents for phone calls, addressing latency issues by leveraging Twilio's infrastructure and third-party providers like 11 Labs and Google Cloud. Configuration includes WebSocket integration for message handling, static responses, and text-to-speech with 11 Labs. AI integration involves GPT4 or mini model for conversation history storage. A live demo showcases an AI voice assistant with instant responses and latency improvements.

artificial intelligence

Reimagine Frontend in the Serverless Era

React Summit 2025

8 min

Reimagine Frontend in the Serverless Era

Evangelia Mitsopoulou

Mentorship available

Tech Founder, Mentor @Philomath Academy

Evangelia, tech founder of Fioromat Academy, discusses the impact of serverless technologies on frontends, emphasizing a shift towards lightweight, stateless backends split into smaller units and the increased importance of API gateways and serverless functions. The discussion also highlights the significance of optimistic state updates, caching strategies to reduce API calls, resilient connection handling with retries for failed HTTP calls, granular error handling at the component level, and custom fallback UI per component. Overall, the Talk emphasizes the evolving frontend architectures and the necessity of adapting to changes in data structures and technologies.

serverless

From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams

TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

9 min

From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams

Maxim Salnikov

Microsoft, Norway

Sharing insights on scaling AI coding assistance & adopting AI native dev tools. Discussing the need for a shift from viewing adoption as a tech problem to a change management challenge. Exploring a tactical framework with three key phases: onboard, adopt, succeed. Emphasizing the importance of onboarding developers, ensuring access to licenses, and setting clear policies to avoid 'shadow AI'. Highlighting the necessity of human infrastructure for successful AI dev tool implementation, including AI advocates, communities of practice, and executive sponsorship. Adoption strategies require a focus on interconnected metrics and all pillars simultaneously. Leadership checklist for post-conference actions involves measuring metrics, distinguishing between strategic and tactical points, and staying connected through platforms like WhatsApp and LinkedIn.

artificial intelligence

Navigating Islands of Interactivity

React Advanced 2025

9 min

Navigating Islands of Interactivity

Reuben Tier

Pragma

Islands in web development are interactive components that are rendered on the server and hydrated separately. They offer fine-grain control over JavaScript, speed up page loading, and reduce JavaScript shipping. Applications of islands span across eCommerce, media sites, docs, and blogs, providing interactivity without excessive JavaScript. Nanostores enable state sharing among islands. Key takeaways include utilizing Nanostores for state management, exploring ASTRO and islands for development, and using client directives for JavaScript control.

astro

A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain

JSNation 2025

6 min

A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain

Brian Whippo

Algorand Foundation

Thanking Git Nation and Algorand team. Exploring blockchain's journey to enlightenment. Algorand's role in blockchain solutions like disintermediation, data integrity, and market access. Highlighting businesses on Algorand mainnet like TravelX, Lofty, and LabTrace. Algorand TypeScript simplifies blockchain development with real TypeScript, avoiding complex assembly language. Examples like asset transfers and key-value storage demonstrate accessibility.

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Latest

Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code

AI Coding Summit 2026

29 min

Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code

Ado Kukic

Anthropic

best practices

Automated Accessibility Testing in React: Beyond the Basics

React Advanced 2025

9 min

Automated Accessibility Testing in React: Beyond the Basics

Vinicios Neves

Ustwo

Introduction to Accessibility Testing in React applications, emphasizing early automation and challenges in scaling. Importance of instant feedback, Unity test, and entry testing for code accessibility. Utilizing end-to-end testing tools like Jest-Axi and Cypress to ensure accessibility compliance. Emphasis on manual testing alongside automated tools. Encouragement for discussions on LinkedIn to enhance accessibility knowledge.

testing

Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding

AI Coding Summit 2026

21 min

Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding

Daniel Sogl

Thinktecture AG

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Voice Agents Crash Course

AI Coding Summit 2026

26 min

Voice Agents Crash Course

Stepan Suvorov

Roadsoft

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.

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Making AI Coding Work for Enterprise-Grade Browser Extensions

AI Coding Summit 2026

10 min

Making AI Coding Work for Enterprise-Grade Browser Extensions

Todd Schiller

PixieBrix

Todd Schiller discusses using AI to code an AI-enabled extension for global use by enterprises, emphasizing empowering users through browser extensions for versatile automation and customization. Browser extensibility covers various customization methods, including user scripts and low-code options like Pixie Bricks. Challenges in applying AI tools to browser extensions include their distributed nature, slower iteration loops, and adaptation to host sites. Understanding browser extensions as distributed systems reveals complexities such as async operations and intricate component lifecycles. Key best practices will be discussed, starting with selecting the appropriate foundation. Choose a productive foundation like libraries or frameworks for browser extension development. Select between user scripts or low-code platforms like Pixiebricks. Focus on encapsulating extension-specific code, using explicit coding, and enforcing boundaries with linters. Create fast feedback loops with tools like TypeScript, Lint rules, and realistic integration testing with mocks and fakes. Encapsulate extension-specific code using standard tactics like dependency injection and explicit coding. Create fast feedback loops with TypeScript, Lint rules, and realistic integration testing. Shift left to catch issues earlier and avoid relying on slow feedback loops. Avoid testing on host pages directly to prevent slow and potentially flaky behavior detection. Utilize dependency induction, mocks, and fakes for realistic integration tests. Test boring components with Storybook and Playwright MCP. Shift left to catch issues earlier, avoid testing directly on host pages, create test pages for encountered patterns, leverage AI for generating test pages, and ensure a stable testing environment.

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Advanced Cursor Techniques for Building Fullstack Apps

AI Coding Summit 2026

119 min

Advanced Cursor Techniques for Building Fullstack Apps

Workshop

Mike Mikula

artificial intelligence

Beyond Vibe Coding: Differentiated Workflows with Antigravity

AI Coding Summit 2026

10 min

Beyond Vibe Coding: Differentiated Workflows with Antigravity

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.

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The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained

AI Coding Summit 2026

10 min

The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained

Eddy Vinck

FrontValue

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

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Oh My GHaaD: Git Hosting as a Database

React Summit US 2025

11 min

Oh My GHaaD: Git Hosting as a Database

Chris Griffing

GitKraken

Chris Griffin discusses the innovative concept of Git Hosting as a Database, emphasizing the importance of data, authentication, and authorization in backend development. The utilization of file-based databases like parket files and the simplicity of authentication and authorization in building platforms similar to GitHub stand out. The architecture of a Git-based backend offers flexibility in backups, privacy features, and serverless advantages. Integrating with frontend frameworks through custom hooks and considering rate limiting issues on platforms like GitHub and GitLab are key points in application development with a backend-free approach using GitHub and GitLab.

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How to Help Agents Remember

AI Coding Summit 2026

20 min

How to Help Agents Remember

Carly Richmond

Developer Advocate at Elastic

Carly discusses memory, context in LLMs, and managing information for effective results in agentic systems. LLMs hallucinate due to knowledge gaps, biases, overfitting, and incentives. Importance of context in minimizing hallucinations and focus on memory storage for decision-making. Short term memory acts like RAM, while long term memory stores knowledge and experiences. Efficient memory storage using disk, file systems, and semantic memory. Emphasis on managing message context, retrieval, and concatenation for LLM input. Attention to context length, information evaluation, and memory optimization for accurate responses.

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React Advanced 2021

19 min

React Query and Auth: Who is Responsible for What?

Top Content

Bonnie Schulkin

Teacher, Coder & Testing Enthusiast

This talk introduces React Query and Auth, discussing how React Query maintains server state on the client and handles mutations and data updates. The day spa app example demonstrates the use of React Query to fetch data and handle user authentication. React Query is also useful for managing user data and ensuring accurate data from the server. The talk highlights the importance of addressing the three main players in user data: React Query, Auth Functions, and persistence across sessions.

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React Concurrency, Explained

React Summit 2023

23 min

React Concurrency, Explained

Top Content

Watch video: React Concurrency, Explained

Ivan Akulov

Google Developer Expert, Web Performance Consultant, Netherlands

React 18's concurrent rendering, specifically the useTransition hook, optimizes app performance by allowing non-urgent updates to be processed without freezing the UI. However, there are drawbacks such as longer processing time for non-urgent updates and increased CPU usage. The useTransition hook works similarly to throttling or bouncing, making it useful for addressing performance issues caused by multiple small components. Libraries like React Query may require the use of alternative APIs to handle urgent and non-urgent updates effectively.

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How React Compiler Performs on Real Code

React Advanced 2024

31 min

How React Compiler Performs on Real Code

Top Content

Nadia Makarevich

Coder, writer, author of Advanced React book

I'm Nadia, a developer experienced in performance, re-renders, and React. The React team released the React compiler, which eliminates the need for memoization. The compiler optimizes code by automatically memoizing components, props, and hook dependencies. It shows promise in managing changing references and improving performance. Real app testing and synthetic examples have been used to evaluate its effectiveness. The impact on initial load performance is minimal, but further investigation is needed for interactions performance. The React query library simplifies data fetching and caching. The compiler has limitations and may not catch every re-render, especially with external libraries. Enabling the compiler can improve performance but manual memorization is still necessary for optimal results. There are risks of overreliance and messy code, but the compiler can be used file by file or folder by folder with thorough testing. Practice makes incredible cats. Thank you, Nadia!

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

React Summit Remote Edition 2021

8 min

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

Top Content

Lee Rowlands

PreviousNext

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

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A Guide to React Rendering Behavior

React Advanced 2022

25 min

A Guide to React Rendering Behavior

Top Content

Mark Erikson

Replay.io

This transcription provides a brief guide to React rendering behavior. It explains the process of rendering, comparing new and old elements, and the importance of pure rendering without side effects. It also covers topics such as batching and double rendering, optimizing rendering and using context and Redux in React. Overall, it offers valuable insights for developers looking to understand and optimize React rendering.

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Next.js 13: Data Fetching Strategies

React Day Berlin 2022

53 min

Next.js 13: Data Fetching Strategies

Top Content

Workshop

Alice De Mauro

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

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Network Requests with Cypress

TestJS Summit 2021

33 min

Network Requests with Cypress

Top Content

Cecelia Martinez

Ionic

Cecilia Martinez, a technical account manager at Cypress, discusses network requests in Cypress and demonstrates commands like cydot request and SCI.INTERCEPT. She also explains dynamic matching and aliasing, network stubbing, and the pros and cons of using real server responses versus stubbing. The talk covers logging request responses, testing front-end and backend API, handling list length and DOM traversal, lazy loading, and provides resources for beginners to learn Cypress.

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Full-stack & typesafe React (+Native) apps with tRPC.io

React Advanced 2021

6 min

Full-stack & typesafe React (+Native) apps with tRPC.io

Top Content

Alexander Johansson

The creator of tRPC

Alex introduces tRPC, a toolkit for making end-to-end type-safe APIs easily, with auto-completion of API endpoints and inferred data from backend to frontend. tRPC works the same way in React Native and can be adopted incrementally. The example showcases backend communication with a database using queries and validators, with types inferred to the frontend and data retrieval done using Prisma ORM.

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Why You Should Use Redux in 2024

React Summit 2024

33 min

Why You Should Use Redux in 2024

Top Content

Mark Erikson

Replay.io

Mark Erickson explains the history, creation, evolution, and benefits of Redux. Redux was designed to make state updates and action history maintenance easy, incorporating functional programming principles. Redux Toolkit was created to simplify Redux usage. Redux is still a valid choice for its consistent pattern and separation of state from UI. The decision to use Redux depends on the specific use case and the need for centralized state management.

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Using useEffect Effectively

React Advanced 2022

30 min

Using useEffect Effectively

Top Content

David Khourshid

Stately

Today's Talk explores the use of the useEffect hook in React development, covering topics such as fetching data, handling race conditions and cleanup, and optimizing performance. It also discusses the correct use of useEffect in React 18, the distinction between Activity Effects and Action Effects, and the potential misuse of useEffect. The Talk highlights the benefits of using useQuery or SWR for data fetching, the problems with using useEffect for initializing global singletons, and the use of state machines for handling effects. The speaker also recommends exploring the beta React docs and using tools like the stately.ai editor for visualizing state machines.

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JavaScript

10 Years of Best of JS

JSNation 2025

28 min

10 Years of Best of JS

Michael Rambeau

Creator of Best of JS and JS Rising Stars projects.

Michael discusses the evolution of JavaScript from its early days to modern server-side capabilities, the impact of jQuery, Node.js, and single-page applications with popular libraries like Backbone and AngularJS. The emergence of UI libraries like React, Vue.js, and Angular, alongside meta frameworks like Next.js, Remix, Veltkit, and Solid with server components. The Best of JS project tracks JavaScript project trends, filters out deprecated projects, and monitors GitHub stars for maintenance. The importance of maintaining project relevance, adding new projects continuously, and classifying projects under meaningful tags. The evolution of TypeScript, tool releases like Deno and Burn, styling evolution from CSS to headless components, and the impact of Tailwind CSS. Analysis of CSS optimization, CLI ecosystem, tooling trends, emerging tools, and JavaScript development trends over the past decade.

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Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime

JSNation 2025

25 min

Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime

Philip Chimento

Igalia, S.L.

Speaker's involvement in Temporal proposal and TC39 meetings for JavaScript standardization. Date conversion challenges faced in development. Addressing time zone discrepancies with Temporal to prevent bugs. Exploration of Temporal types and design philosophy. Usage of Java's time zone serialization in JavaScript Temporal. Challenges in implementing Temporal proposal and its transformative potential in ECMAScript.

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React

Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code

React Summit 2025

26 min

Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code

Miguel Ángel Durán

midudev

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.

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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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How to React Compiler

React Summit 2025

20 min

How to React Compiler

Anton Nepsha

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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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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The State of React and the Community in 2025

React Summit 2025

29 min

The State of React and the Community in 2025

Mark Erikson

Replay.io

Mark Erickson discusses the state of React in 2025, React community debates on React's direction and misconceptions, React's shift towards client-side frameworks and SSR emphasis, React's feature development process at Meta and Vercel, controversy around Vercel's server components involvement, tight relationship between React and Next, React team's emphasis on frameworks for app performance, critique of React's heavy-handed framework recommendation, React team's delay in adding VEET as a recommended tool, challenges with server components' origins and communication, no official signals support planned for React 19, social media impact on React development decisions, React community diversity and server components usage insights, React's evolving black box concept and tradeoffs discussed.

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The State of React

React Summit 2025

26 min

The State of React

Sacha Greif

Devographics

Introduction to the State of React survey and the history of developer surveys. Detailed analysis of survey results, user demographics, and job titles. Examination of React API trends, user sentiment towards APIs, and new API challenges. Analysis of React library satisfaction, particularly with Next.js. Discussion on React state management and data loading, including pain points. Insights on React library usage patterns and application trends. Key takeaways include staying calm, appreciating foundational React elements, and relying on data for a balanced view.

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Panel Discussion: The State of React

React Summit 2025

35 min

Panel Discussion: The State of React

7 authors

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

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Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications

React Summit US 2025

29 min

Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications

Mateusz Jagodziński

Workflow Builder

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

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React 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