+ Remote

We will be
diving deep

2days

In-person & Remote

60+speakers

presenting on advanced topics

500+devs

like-minded JS engineers to meet

October

22 & 25, 2021
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Are you into modern web development with React, React Native, GraphQL, TypeScript and hungry to learn from the best?

The React ecosystem and community have grown drastically in the past years, and so did the complexity of web and JavaScript app development. It's highly recommended to take this journey with the help of others – so connect with the global network of field experts and explore the framework! Engineers of any level are welcome, but be prepared for hardcore.

There will be 2 tracks of talks: General & Pro tracks.

This year, the format of the event will be hybrid, with the first day streamed from the London venue including hybrid networking features and interactive entertainment; and second day, as well as the numerous free workshops, streamed to the global audience online.

Please, read about our Covid-19 measures and policies here.

10+

Free Remote +
Pro workshops

Practice new tech and best practices with our expert trainers during 10+ Free & Pro workshops around the main event days.

22nd

Remote + In-person day

Welcoming guests in London and streaming online with hybrid networking and inclusive interactivity:
Remote - 1:30pm BST / 8:30am EST / 5:30am PST / 2:30pm CEST;
In-Person - 9am BST

25th

Remote Day

Streaming both tracks with speaker QnA's online across time zones - 7am PST/10am EST/3pm BST/4pm CEST

This year, you can expect the authors and core teams of the following libraries / projects:
  • React Native

  • GraphQL

  • TypeScript

  • React Query

  • Next.js

  • Styled Components

  • Expo

Features

In person & virtual networking
Socialize in-person with speakers and other like-minded attendees, re-connect with colleagues and join hybrid speaker rooms & topic-based discussion rooms.
speaker
Top React speakers
Meet & learn from the real-life case studies and authors of core open-source projects.
speaker
Back to partying!
Join our celebration of the first post-covid in-person event with a special after-party show and cozy reception with fellow attendees.

Speakers

Core contributors, community leaders and seasoned application engineers will take over two stages at React Advanced Conference. They’ll shed light on all things puzzling your mind, be it micro-services architecture, Design Systems, GraphQL, types, testing strategies or other.
Kent C. Dodds
Career Advice
Full Info

Kent C. Dodds

Trainer, USA

Talk: Don't Solve Problems, Eliminate Them

Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. Kent is the creator of TestingJavaScript.com and he's an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He's also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and React.

Jenn Creighton

Netflix, USA

Talk: On the Origin of React

Jenn Creighton is a senior software engineer at Netflix. She hosts Single Threaded Podcast. Organizer of Women of React 2020 conference & useReact.NYC meetup. Jenn lives in New York with her two cats and maintains a Home for Abandoned Succulents, Mismanaged Plants and Otherwise Ailing Flora. You can find her online - @gurlcode.

React

Brandon Dail

Discord, USA

Talk: Accessibility at Discord

Senior engineer leading accessibility at Discord. React.js core collaborator once upon a time.

a11y

Evan Bacon
Expo, React Native
Full Info

Evan Bacon

Expo, USA

Talk: Limitless App Development with Expo and React Native

Sometimes Lego Artist, working at Expo (Web, Bluetooth, AR, Gaming, and videos) and React Native (for web) PWAs.

Expo, React Native

Max Stoiber
GraphQL, Infrastructure
Full Info

Max Stoiber

GraphCDN, Austria

Talk: How to Edge Cache GraphQL APIs

Max Stoiber is the co-founder of GraphCDN, the GraphQL CDN, and the creator of Bedrock. He is well known for making styled-components, react-boilerplate, and a wide variety of other open-source projects in the React ecosystem. Previously, he worked at Gatsby & GitHub, who acquired the startup he co-founded, Spectrum.

GraphQL, Infrastructure

Michel Weststrate
Performance
Full Info

Michel Weststrate

Facebook, UK

Talk: Beyond Virtual Lists: How to Render 100K Items with 100s of Updates/sec in React

Open source fanatic, speaker and trainer. Author of MobX, MobX-State-Tree, Immer and a plethora of smaller packages. On a continuous quest to make programming as natural as possible. React, JavaScript and TypeScript fan. Working at Facebook on dev tooling for mobile developers.

Performance

Maggie Appleton

Egghead, UK

Talk: Visualising React: Metaphors, Models, and Spatial Mediums

Maggie is a designer-developer-anthropologist-hybrid at egghead.io. She spends her time designing visual metaphors for invisible programming concepts, helping developers explain their wildly abstract thoughts, and overanalysing the JavaScript community’s strange cultural beliefs. She's also a digital gardening enthusiast and a Marmite lover.

Siddharth Kshetrapal
Component Libraries
Full Info

Siddharth Kshetrapal

GitHub, Netherlands

Talk: Walking the Line Between Flexibility and Consistency

Sid builds tools for developers. In the past, he worked on Design Systems at Auth0 and as the frontend architect at Practo. He loves talking about design, performance and open source.

Component Libraries

Sunil Pai
React 18
Full Info

Sunil Pai

Cloudflare, UK

Talk: Living on the Edge

Sunil works on the Workers Developer Productivity team at Cloudflare. Previously, he's worked on the React team in Facebook, built out the Javascript stack at Myntra, and a whole list of other product and infrastructure teams in his career. He can be found on twitter as @threepointone, or annoying his neighbors in London playing his Les Paul a little too loud.

React 18

Sara Vieira
3D, Animations
Full Info

Sara Vieira

Remote, Germany

Talk: From Blender to the Web - the Journey of a 3D Model

Sara is a developer at Remote. Author of The Opinionated Guide to React. GraphQL and Open Source enthusiast. Conference Speaker and Airport expert. She's also a fan of horror movies, has talents such as banging sticks into a drum kit and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

3D, Animations

Shodipo Ayomide
Webpack
Full Info

Shodipo Ayomide

Stack Overflow, Nigeria

Shodipo Ayomide is a Dev. Relations Manager at Stack Overflow with 9 years of experience in Technology and a track record in web & mobile applications engineering, community management and product design on a global scale.

He has given talks/workshops at developer conferences around the globe at React Atlanta, FutureSync Conference, VueJS Amsterdam, VueJS Toronto, APIDAYS Hong Kong, Frontend Love Conference Amsterdam, FOSSASIA among many, he is also one of the organizers of the Developer Circles Lagos from Facebook, unStack Africa, Open-Source Community Africa, and various other communities empowering Africa and the world. In addition, he is an Expert and Instructor at egghead.io.

Webpack

Michael Chan
React components
Full Info

Michael Chan

React Podcast, USA

Talk: The Worlds Most Expensive React Component and How to Stop Writing It

Michael Chan is building lunch.dev — a community for hungry developers-creators. He’s the host of React Podcast and makes the best smash burgers in San Diego.

React components

Rachel Nabors

Facebook, UK

Learning Community on React Core at Facebook

m4dz 🥑🦄
Documentation
Full Info

m4dz 🥑🦄

<div>RIOTS, France

Talk: The Legendary Fountain of Truth: Componentize Your Documentation!

Principal Developer Advocate at ‹div›RIOTS - makers of Backlight, a Design Systems IDE built for Designers and Developers - m4dz is a curious animal. Former Frontend Dev, Devtools enthusiast, he has made the Developer eXperience (DX) his cherished topic. All the Web technologies are under his radar to get things ever simpler. His moto: "Developers are users just like you." As a life-long dreamer his favorite book will ever remains "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

Documentation

Devlin Duldulao
Module Bundler
Full Info

Devlin Duldulao

Inmeta, Norway

Talk: Vite - The Next Generation Frontend Tooling

Devlin Duldulao is a Filipino full-stack cloud engineer based in Norway. He is a Microsoft MVP, a trainer, a book author, a conference speaker, and a senior consultant at Inmeta. He loves going to universities and user groups to share his expertise.

Module Bundler

Sudhanshu Yadav
Concurrent Mode
Full Info

Sudhanshu Yadav

Prophecy, India

Talk: Cracking the Concurrent Mode

Architect at Prophecy, Ex HackerRank. A JavaScript and React fan, with a deep interest on internals and making theories on how things work. Have authored BrahmosJS, react-number-format, packagebind and several other OSS tools. Also, runs a meet-up group to discuss internals of different tech stack.

Concurrent Mode

Yuraima Estevez
a11y testing
Full Info

Yuraima Estevez

Shopify, USA

Talk: How to do Good Without Doing Anything

Yuraima Estevez is Frontend Development Manager at Shopify. She cares deeply about building open source tools, teaches developers how to create inclusive apps, and is a co-organizer for the useReactNYC meetup. Her superpower is saying hello to every dog she sees, and her current obsession is her Stardew Valley farm.

a11y testing

Andy Richardson

Serverless, UK

Talk: Forms Don't Need to Suck

Andy is a Software Engineer at Formidable and maintains of a number of Open Source projects including urql devtools and Fielder. Not a pro at tennis but is always down for a hit 🎾

Forms

Adam Klein
State Management
Full Info

Adam Klein

500Tech, Israel

Talk: We Don’t Know How React State Hooks Work

Adam is a CTO, a web developer and consultant, web GDE, and author of open source libraries. He is an entrepreneur and co-founder of 500Tech, a company that specializes in frontend technologies. He loves coding, and he loves speaking about code. Adam is very involved in the community, and is part of the organizing team of Angular & React meetups and conferences in Israel. https://dev.to/adamklein

State Management

Anjana Vakil
Data Viz
Full Info

Anjana Vakil

ObservableHQ, USA

Talk: (Easier) Interactive Data Visualization in React

Anjana suffers from a chronic case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. As a developer advocate at Observable, these days she codes & teaches from her home base in San Francisco; in the before-times, you could find her speaking at events around the world. She loves to share the joy of programming and advocate for a more diverse, equitable, and ethical tech industry. Ask her about the Recurse Center & Outreachy, she’s an alumna of both!

Data Viz

Daniel Dunderfelt
MDX, React Native
Full Info

Daniel Dunderfelt

Dunderfelt Consulting , Finland

Talk: MDX in React-Native!?

Freelance full stack developer from Finland with 10+ years in the business. I focus on building services and apps from scratch to production.

MDX, React Native

Alexandre Moureaux
React Native
Full Info

Alexandre Moureaux

BAM, France

Talk: Debugging a Non Reproducible Crash

Alex is a tech lead at BAM where he’s been developing React Native apps for 5 years. Currently his obsession is with performance and making sure React Native apps are on par with native apps on that aspect.

React Native

Tara Z. Manicsic
General Practice
Full Info

Tara Z. Manicsic

Netlify, USA

Talk: Remote Team Collaboration Techniques

Tara Z. Manicsic has spent her career using JavaScript on both back-end and front-end to try to help make coding the web a happy place for devs. She is currently working to bring Angular into the Jamstack at Netlify as a Developer Experience Engineer. As an international technical speaker and workshop leader, she conveys all she has learned while delivering horrible jokes. Tara is a lifelong student, teacher, and maker (crafts, IoT projects, tiny humans, and more). She lives in a house down by the river and hopes to meet you soon!

General Practice

Daniel Skogly
Next.js, Redux
Full Info

Daniel Skogly

Wishy.gift, Norway

Talk: Using Next.JS and Redux for Epic Noscript Web Apps

A full-stack developer and privacy-enthusiast that loves good UX, and to tinker on both personal and open-source projects - often both :)

Next.js, Redux

Facundo Giuliani
Jamstack
Full Info

Facundo Giuliani

Storyblok, Argentina

Talk: Incremental Static Regeneration: Static Sites on Steroids

Facundo is a Developer Relations Engineer at Storyblok. From Buenos Aires, Argentina, he has more than 15 years of experience in software development. Systems Engineer graduated from the National Technological University from Argentina. Full Stack Developer. Auth0 Ambassador. Prisma Ambassador. Cloudinary Media Developer Expert. GitKraken Ambassador. He is also an open-source contributor.

Jamstack

Mike Hartington

Ionic, USA

Talk: A New Kind of Abstraction

Mike is a developer, Google Developer Expert, and Ionic Developer Advocate who's been working in the mobile landscape for most of his professional career. When he's not working Ionic itself, Mike works with community members and helps them succeed at mobile. In his spare time, he’s an aspiring woodworker, occasional musician, and craft beer lover.

Scott Gerlach
Security Testing
Full Info

Scott Gerlach

StackHawk, USA

Talk: Automated Application Security Testing with StackHawk

Scott Gerlach is Co-founder and Chief Security Officer at StackHawk, a Denver-based startup focused on empowering engineers to easily identify and remediate security bugs. Scott brings over two decades of security and engineering experience to his current role, having served as CSO, CISO, and in other executive leadership functions at companies like SendGrid, Twilio, and GoDaddy. When he's not at work, you'll find Scott spending time with family, brewing beer, and playing guitar.

Security Testing

Rita Castro
Testing
Full Info

Rita Castro

SDC:LX, Portugal

Talk: To Mock or Not to Mock - That's the Question

Software Engineer that used to build stand alone applications for data processing and mission planning systems turned into a Full-Stack Developer working with Test Driven Development, XP and Pair Programming. Also a Mom now.

Testing

Colby Fayock
CI/CD, GitHub Actions
Full Info

Colby Fayock

Applitools, USA

Talk: Automating All the Code & Testing Things with GitHub Actions

Learning by doing is the best way to learn and it’s how Colby Fayock helps others learn about Javascript, React, and the static web. His work includes writing on freecodecamp.org, videos on YouTube, and courses on egghead.io as well as his first book 50 Projects for React & the Static Web.

CI/CD, GitHub Actions

Alex Lobera
Micro Frontends
Full Info

Alex Lobera

Hopin, UK

Talk: How Hopin is Moving 10x Faster: Microfrontends at Scale

Principal engineer at Hopin. Coach of high-performing development teams. Alex is an experienced engineer and decision maker with over 17 years of experience in the software industry. He is passionate about scaling React apps and teams.

Micro Frontends

Ruben Casas
Micro Frontends
Full Info

Ruben Casas

American Express, UK

Talk: Micro-Frontends Performance and Centralised Data Caching

Software Engineer and Architect. Currently building Micro Frontends Frameworks At American Express. I enjoy exploring new technologies and sharing my experiences with others.

Micro Frontends

Luke Ehresman
Observability
Full Info

Luke Ehresman

Gazelle, USA

Luke is the co-founder of Gazelle, an all-in-one business automation solution for piano technicians. He founded and bootstrapped the company in 2015, helping piano technicians around the world grow their businesses. Gazelle has customers in over 30 countries and is translated into 11 languages.

Observability

Debbie O'Brien
React Components
Full Info

Debbie O'Brien

Bit, Spain

Talk: Taking Component Driven One Step Further

Debbie O’Brien is Head Developer Advocate at Bit, (bit.dev). Debbie has over 10 years experience in Frontend development. She has worked as a Tech Lead and consultant for many important clients with varios technologies and often with a strong focus on performance. She has lead teams both in house and remotely as well as giving workshops and training. She has many years of experience as a mentor for online learning platforms, Treehouse and OpenClassrooms. Debbie is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in developer technologies, Google Developer Expert in web technologies, GitHub Star and Cloudinary Media Developer Expert, an Auth0 Ambassador and Nuxt Ambassador.

React Components

Andreas Roth
TypeScript
Full Info

Andreas Roth

Esveo, Germany

Talk: How Typed is Your Framework?

Andreas is a developer, trainer and consultant for all things around the web. His favorite topics include TypeScript, React and GraphQL while still having an eye for the complete ecosystem.

TypeScript

Nikhil Sharma
State Management
Full Info

Nikhil Sharma

Postman, India

Talk: setState, We Need to Talk!

Software Engineer at Postman. I build scalable and reactive web apps with React and some caffeine! OSS contributor and maintainer @ OSSN Blogger @Medium Speaker

State Management

Jemima Abu
Web Components
Full Info

Jemima Abu

Telesoftas, Nigeria/Lithuania

Talk: Let's talk about Web Components

Jemima Abu is a self-taught Front End Developer and school-taught Systems Engineer from Lagos, Nigeria, currently shuffling between London and Lithuania.

She currently works at Telesoftas, a software company based in Lithuania. She is an avid advocate for diversity and intersectionality in technology and accessibility in web development.

She's also a huge nerd, slightly obsessed with cats and can usually be found on her laptop, coding or watching slice-of-life anime.

Web Components

Liran Tal

Snyk, Israel

Talk: Let Me Show You How React Applications Get Hacked in the Real-World

Liran Tal is a software developer, and a GitHub Star, world-recognized for his activism in open source communities and advancing web and Node.js security. He engages in security research through his work in the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js ecosystem security working group, and further promotes open source supply chain security as an OWASP project lead. Liran is also a published author of Essential Node.js Security and O'Reilly's Serverless Security. At Snyk, he is leading the developer advocacy team and on a mission to empower developers with better dev-first security.

Dhrubesh Deb Sharma

Allganize, India

Talk: Magic with Babel Macro

Frontend Developer at Allganize, Host at The Junior Developer Podcast.

Babel

Bonnie Schulkin

Teacher, Coder & Testing Enthusiast, USA

In her 18 years in the software industry, Bonnie has discovered that she loves all things testing (how great is it when testing reveals exactly what you need to fix about your refactor or new feature?). She's particularly devoted to Test Driven Development for its emphasis on planning before coding. Bonnie is equally passionate about teaching, and she's pleased as punch to be producing online content full time. She feels weird writing about herself in the third person.

Marco Cedaro
React Patterns
Full Info

Marco Cedaro

Photobox, UK

Talk: Components, Patterns and sh*t it’s Hard to Deal with

Webmaster before it was cool, pixel pusher, javascript-something, conference organiser, father of two, but mostly known for yelling at clouds.

React Patterns

Sergii Zhuravel

Absio, Ukraine

Talk: Reusing App State in React Native with Recoil

I'm a Lead Software Engineer. I have a master degree in applied mathematics and more than 10 years of experience in IT. Worked with different back-end and front-end technologies. Now I work with React and Redux, and I like them a lot. I like to share my knowledge, so I conduct programming courses (JavaScript), write articles and participate in different events.

Recoil

Thomas Findlay
API Abstraction
Full Info

Thomas Findlay

Findlay Web Tech, UK

Talk: Advanced Patterns for API Management in Large-Scale React Applications

Thomas Findlay is a 5-star rated mentor, full-stack developer, consultant, and technical writer. He works with many different technologies such as JavaScript, Vue, React, React Native, Node.js, Python, PHP, and more. He has obtained MSc in Advanced Computer Science degree with Distinction at Exeter University, as well as First-Class BSc in Web Design & Development at Northumbria University.

Over the years, Thomas has worked with many developers and teams from beginners to advanced and helped them build and scale their applications and products. He also mentored a lot of developers and students, and helped them progress in their careers.

API Abstraction

Perttu Lähteenlahti
Cross-Platform
Full Info

Perttu Lähteenlahti

Mavericks, Finland

Talk: Building Cross-Platform Component Libraries for Web and Native with React

Perttu is a designer & developer who is passionate about building products. Before transitioning into design and coding, Perttu studied cognitive science and worked as a carpenter, something which he still does as a hobby.

Cross-Platform

Shivay Lamba
Machine Learning
Full Info

Shivay Lamba

Fabric, India

Talk: Using MediaPipe to Create Cross Platform Machine Learning Applications with React

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development.

He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and is currently a MLH Fellow. He has also interned at organizations like EY, Genpact.

He is actively involved in community work as well. He is a TensorflowJS SIG member, Mentor in OpenMined and CNCF Service Mesh Community, SODA Foundation and has given talks at various conferences like Github Satellite, Voice Global, Fossasia Tech Summit, TensorflowJS Show & Tell.

Machine Learning

Lee Rowlands

PreviousNext, Australia

Talk: React Server Components - Under the Hood

Lee (larowlan) has been a major contributor to Drupal (🙀) for over 12 years. Lee is a Drupal core Framework manager, member of the Drupal security team and is passionate about code quality. More recently he has turned his focus to JavaScript, most notably React, Gatsby and Next.js, with Drupal's move to being a headless-first CMS. Lee was one of the primary architects of Drupal's testing architecture and champions automated testing and build processes. Lee has worked on several of Australia's largest websites during his 9 years as a Senior Developer with one of Australia's most trusted agencies: PreviousNext.

Paulo Ragonha
Performance
Full Info

Paulo Ragonha

Mojang Studios, Sweden

Talk: Using React to Build Performant Game UIs in Minecraft

Paulo is currently a tech lead at Mojang Studios, where he is helping improve the UI/UX of the biggest game in the planet (Minecraft). Natively from Brazil, he has moved to Sweden six years ago, enough time to adapt to the cold weather and even enjoy commuting with his bicycle during snowstorms. In the past, he has also ventured in book writing, having published books on automated testing in JavaScript.

Performance

Liad Yosef
React Server Components
Full Info

Liad Yosef

Duda, Israel

Talk: Dear Client, I'm Leaving You

Liad is the Frontend Architect and Tech Lead in Duda, in charge of its client-side infrastructure, technologies, and performance.

He is a web dev enthusiast for over a decade, juggling React, Webpack and Buzzwords@latest in order to always build the best user experience.

React Server Components

Denis Artyuhovich

DAZN, UK

Talk: Infrastructure as Code for React Application on AWS Written in TypeScript

Senior Software Engineer and active open source contributor. From Minsk, but now based in London and work at DAZN. I like playing around with TS, React, Redux, MobX/MST, RxJS, WebGL, Serverless, Node, Functional Programming with a focus on performance, system architecture and team productivity.

IaC

Claudia Bressi
Visualizing music
Full Info

Claudia Bressi

Bitrock, Italy

Talk: Visualize Your Music with React, a Sound Design Experiment

Claudia is a Frontend Developer and she's started her career working with mobile and responsive applications. Her favorite language is Javascript in all its flavors combined with Typescript. React is the perfect tool for her to build any kind of user interface and express the web development in a creative but productive way at the same time. As a speaker she held talks about React at ByteConf React 2020, ReactJS CaseStudy Festival 2021 and she presented a speech about Progressive Web applications at PWAConf.

Visualizing music

Roy Derks
GQL, Next.js
Full Info

Roy Derks

StepZen, The Netherlands

Talk: Killing BFFs with GraphQL and Next.js

Roy Derks is a developer, author and public speaker from the Netherlands. His mission is to make the world a better place through tech by training and inspiring developers worldwide. Currently he is working with StepZen on a mission to make GraphQL adoption easy and scalable.

GQL, Next.js

Rob Richardson
Testing, Cypress
Full Info

Rob Richardson

Cyral, USA

Talk: Gaining Confidence with Cypress Tests

Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on twitter at @rob_rich.

Testing, Cypress

Toni Petrina
Asynchronous
Full Info

Toni Petrina

Visma, Denmark

Talk: Asynchronous UX

Tech lead at Visma e-conomic, developer at heart and frequent speaker at conferences, user groups and local events. Started in QBasic, went through C++ to C#, finally settled in...full-stack? He spends most of the time at the keyboard typing yet another demo or application. If you take his keyboard away from him, he will talk endlessly about code...and functional programming. Been coding for over a decade to know if something is a programming fad or not. And no, functional programming is not a fad at all. Strong proponent of Open Source and all things chocolate.

Asynchronous

Alexander Johansson
tRPC, TypeScript, APIs
Full Info

Alexander Johansson

http://trpc.io , Sweden

Talk: Full-stack & Typesafe React (+Native) Apps with tRPC.io

Fully stacked TypeScript consultant & creator of trpc.io - a GraphQL/REST alternative for TS/JS developers.

Alex has been doing HTML since the late 90s and has been working as a dev since the late 00s. Since then, he's lived/worked on 3 continents, and worked for everything from sub-5 people startups to big banks - as a consultant, employee, and founder. Passionate about great DX & especially the intersection between frontend and backend.

tRPC, TypeScript, APIs

Nader Dabit

Edge & Node, The Graph Protocol, USA

Talk: Building Dapps with React

Nader is an author, open source developer, and Developer Relations Engineer working in the blockchain space with Edge & Node and The Graph Protocol.

Siriwong (Ching) Wongthongserm
React Native
Full Info

Siriwong (Ching) Wongthongserm

Coinbase, USA

Talk: How Coinbase Rewrote the App in React Native

Siriwong is an Engineer Manager at Coinbase. He enjoys working on products in the latest technology space. Previously, he worked at Facebook in News feed, Videos, and Portal. At Coinbase, he leads the team to innovate in the Crypto space.

React Native

Prosper Otemuyiwa

Sourcegraph, Nigeria

Talk: Supercharging Developer Productivity With Advanced Code Search

Prosper Otemuyiwa is a software engineer who has worked on biometric, health and developer tools. He is a seasoned developer advocate, community leader and a firm open source hacker who believes immensely in the intersection of people & technology. He co-founded Eden Life & forloop, the largest African developer community (currently in ~8 countries). He's currently a GitHub Star & Developer Advocate at Sourcegraph.

Matt Seccafien

Shopify, Germany

Talk: The Forest for the (Abstract Syntax) Trees

Senior Front End Developer at Shopify, working on the Hydrogen team.

Ebenezer Don
State Management
Full Info

Ebenezer Don

JetBrains, Nigeria

Talk: Efficient State Management With Hookstate

WebStorm Developer Advocate at JetBrains and technical content creator with a passion for building products that ease the lives of users and making difficult concepts easy to understand.

State Management

Kathryn Nanz
Concurrency
Full Info

Kathryn Nanz

Progress, USA

Talk: Coming in React18: startTransition

Kathryn Grayson Nanz is a developer advocate at Progress with a passion for React, UI and design and sharing with the community. She started her career as a graphic designer and was told by her Creative Director to never let anyone find out she could code because she’d be stuck doing it forever. She ignored his warning and has never been happier. You can find her writing, blogging, streaming and tweeting about React, design, UI and more.

Concurrency

Sid Chatterjee

Gatsby, India

Talk: Gatsby v4's New Rendering Modes

Core team at Gatsby. When he isn't writing code, Sid enjoys scuba diving, reading and lazing with his dogs. He lives in Mumbai, India and writes at sidhartha.dev.

Gatsby

Oliver Moradov

NeuraLegion, UK

Talk: React'ive Security is ok.. but Automated Security Testing for Developers is Great!

Oli is VP of NeuraLegion's developer focussed security testing platform, helping developers understand how they can run seamless, fast and accurate security tests on every build.

Oli works closely with security and engineering teams globally to help them ship secure software more efficiently and is passionate about automation, CI/CD and DevOps / DevSecOps.

Oli has spoken at many conferences internationally and is a regular at developer and security related events and meetups.

Simon Zhong

Sentry, USA

Talk: Track Slowdowns and Crashes in your React apps

Simon Zhong is a Sales Engineer at Sentry with almost 10 years of experience in enterprise software. He attended the University of Edinburgh and is a graduate of University of California, Davis in Computer Science. He is an American born Chinese (ABC) who is a native English speaker with conversational proficiency in Cantonese.

Patrick Mullarkey

Snyk, UK

Talk: So Now You Know: Learnings on People, Product and Culture from Hypergrowth at Snyk

Learning and Development Lead @ Snyk

Simeon Griggs

Sanity.io, Australian based in the UK

Talk: How do Localise and Personalize Content with Sanity.io and Next.js

Full stack developer and Solution Engineer @ Sanity.io.

Meet your MC's

Eli Schutze

Twitter, UK

Software engineer based in London. Originally from Nicaragua, Eli is also a speaker and community organiser, so when she’s not working you can find her at tech events, teaching people to code or tweeting.

Nathaniel Okenwa

Twilio, UK

Nathaniel is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio working to create magical moments for developers with their products. He is a die hard fan of JavaScript, sports, superheroes and mixed martial arts. His life goals are to have Batman's brains, Deadpool's humour, T'Challa's fashion sense, Killmonger's Wokeness, and Thanos' determination! He serves the Javascript community in the UK and the rest of Europe.

Mettin Parzinski

Passionate People, Netherlands

A frontend developer that started out writing ActionScript, did jQuery and thus has all sorts of knowledge on deprecated stuff. Currently consulting at med-tech startup Aidence to help them detect early-stage lung cancer, using React and ML. Part of a frontend development couple that produced a kid.

Jani Eväkallio

Software Engineer, UK

Location

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The city on the edge of tomorrow

Home to thousands of startups, many of the world's largest tech companies, and more tech "unicorns" than any other European city, London is the perfect setting for a stimulating weekend of talks and workshops. Get ready to learn, be inspired, and connect with other React developers and enthusiasts in one of the world's fastest-growing tech hubs.

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October 22nd schedule

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  • 2021-10-22T08:10:00.000Z
    Day 1 Opening Ceremony
  • 2021-10-22T08:20:00.000Z
    Living on the Edge
    Sunil Pai

    React 18 introduces new APIs for rendering applications asynchronously on the server, enabling a simpler model for architecting and shipping user interfaces. When deployed on edge networking platforms like Cloudflare Workers, we can get dramatic performance and user experience improvements in our applications. In this talk, Sunil will demo and walk through this new model of writing React applications, with some insight into the implications for data fetching, styling, and overall direction of the React ecosystem.

  • 2021-10-22T08:50:00.000Z
    QnA with Sunil Pai
  • 2021-10-22T09:10:00.000Z
    From Blender to the Web - the Journey of a 3D Model
    Sara Vieira

    Creating 3D experiences in the web can be something that sounds very daunting. I’m here to remove this idea from your mind and show you that the 3D world is for everyone. For that we will get a model from the 3D software Blender into the web packed with animations, accessibility controls and optimised for web use so join me in this journey as we make the web more awesome.

  • 2021-10-22T09:30:00.000Z
    QnA with Sara Vieira
  • 2021-10-22T09:40:00.000Z
    Beyond Virtual Lists: How to Render 100K Items with 100s of Updates/sec in React
    Michel Weststrate

    There is generally a good understanding on how to render large (say, 100K items) datasets using virtual lists, …if they remain largely static. But what if new entries are being added or updated at a rate of hundreds per second? And what if the user should be able to filter and sort them freely? How can we stay responsive in such scenarios? In this talk we discuss how Flipper introduced map-reduce inspired FSRW transformations to handle such scenarios gracefully. By applying the techniques introduced in this talk Flipper frame rates increased at least 10-fold and we hope to open source this approach soon.

  • 2021-10-22T10:00:00.000Z
    QnA with Michel Weststrate
  • 2021-10-22T10:10:00.000Z
    Coffee Break
  • 2021-10-22T10:30:00.000Z
    Micro-Frontends Performance and Centralised Data Caching
    Ruben Casas

    Common myths about Micro-Frontends hold that they are bad for performance or that developers implementing this architectural style don’t care about the performance implications because they are focusing on fixing the developer experience and organizational issues rather than focusing on the user experience, however, the reality is altogether different. Micro-Frontends are not inheritably bad for performance and, as is often the case in software development, making best use of the technology depends on correct implementation. This talk will demonstrate how Micro-Frontends can make your applications faster and more resilient while keeping the benefits of independent deployments.

  • 2021-10-22T10:50:00.000Z
    QnA with Ruben Casas
  • 2021-10-22T11:00:00.000Z
    How Hopin is Moving 10x Faster: Microfrontends at Scale
    Alex Lobera

    Hopin is the fastest-growing startup in the world. Many engineers join every month. Companies with different technologies are acquired every other month. It brings many challenges to our front-end architecture. In this talk I'll explain how we're breaking up our React monoliths and enabling interoperability using multiple React trees and reactive variables.

  • 2021-10-22T11:20:00.000Z
    QnA with Alex Lobera
  • 2021-10-22T11:30:00.000Z
    Lunch
  • 2021-10-22T12:20:00.000Z
    Don't Solve Problems, Eliminate Them
    Kent C. Dodds

    Humans are natural problem solvers and we're good enough at it that we've survived over the centuries and become the dominant species of the planet. Because we're so good at it, we sometimes become problem seekers too–looking for problems we can solve. Those who most successfully accomplish their goals are the problem eliminators. Let's talk about the distinction between solving and eliminating problems with examples from inside and outside the coding world.

  • 2021-10-22T13:00:00.000Z
    QnA with Kent C Dodds
  • 2021-10-22T13:10:00.000Z
    Walking the Line Between Flexibility and Consistency
    Siddharth Kshetrapal

    Design systems aim to bring consistency to a brand's design and make the UI development productive. Component libraries with well thought API can make this a breeze. But, sometimes an API choice can accidentally overstep and slow the team down! There's a balance there... somewhere. Let's explore some of the problems and possible creative solutions.

  • 2021-10-22T13:30:00.000Z
    QnA with Siddharth Kshetrapal
  • 2021-10-22T13:40:00.000Z
    How Typed is Your Framework?
    Andreas Roth

    We are slowly getting to a point, where TypeScript-support is a must-have feature of a framework and not a nice-to.have. But this is not a simple yes or no question. Let's take a look at the different framework areas where TypeScript can help you develop quality applications.

  • 2021-10-22T14:00:00.000Z
    QnA with Andreas Roth
  • 2021-10-22T14:10:00.000Z
    Coffee Break
  • 2021-10-22T14:40:00.000Z
    Lightning Talks
    Full-stack & Typesafe React (+Native) Apps with tRPC.io - Alexander Johansson

    Why are we devs so obsessed with decoupling things that are coupled by nature? tRPC is a library that replaces the need for GraphQL or REST for internal APIs. When using it, you simply write backend functions whose input and output shapes are instantly inferred in your frontend without any code generation; making writing API schemas a thing of the past. It's lightweight, not tied to React, HTTP-cacheable, and can be incrementally adopted.

    In this talk, I'll give a glimpse of the DX you can get from tRPC and how (and why) to get started.

    Visualize Your Music with React, a Sound Design Experiment - Claudia Bressi

    React is a great library to design user interfaces, but what about rendering sounds ? In this talk we'll dive deeper in handling sounds, creating a transformation to convert any input vibration into images

    A New Kind of Abstraction - Mike Hartington

    Developers often look at abstractions as being "the closer to the metal, the better," meaning that as abstractions become further removed from the lowest possible level, the more you give up in terms of performance and features. But abstractions work as a spectrum also. We'll look at how we can adjust our view of abstractions and what kind of examples we can use to better understand that abstractions have less to do with programming and more to do with where we deploy.

    Supercharging Developer Productivity With Advanced Code Search - Prosper Otemuyiwa

    Google & Facebook Engineers are able to search over their gargantuan codebase using an internal code search engine. The search engine accelerates the ability of their developers (both old & new) to understand any part of their codebase & start contributing immediately! What about the rest of us?

    In this talk, I’ll walk through the different types of code search, tools & software, and advanced tips & tricks to navigate any type of codebase easily. With the advent of large code repositories and sophisticated search capabilities, code search is increasingly becoming a key software development activity. Every developer in the world that spends an insane amount of time reading rather than writing code should have access to the best code search tools that amplifies their productivity. The audience will walk away with everything they need to confidently onboard, navigate & understand any small, medium-sized and daunting codebase.

    React'ive Security is ok.. but Automated Security Testing for Developers is Great! - Oliver Moradov

    NeuraLegion's developer friendly security scanner enables development teams to run dead accurate security tests on every build as part of their pipeline. Periodic infrequent scanning results in technical and security debt, as well as insecure product. But what is developer friendly DAST, when and how should you be integrating it into your pipelines and what should you be looking for when enhancing your security testing automation? Join this talk to get up to date.

  • 2021-10-22T15:15:00.000Z
    Forms Don't Need to Suck
    Andy Richardson

    Why form-wide validation schemas are bad for developers and users - and how we can fix this!

  • 2021-10-22T15:35:00.000Z
    QnA with Andy Richardson
  • 2021-10-22T15:45:00.000Z
    Visualising React: Metaphors, Models, and Spatial Mediums
    Maggie Appleton

    All the React you've seen is presented one way: as a linear text file. There's good reason for this. Textual syntax is an ideal medium for constructing abstract logic. It's quick to write, informationally dense, and endlessly flexible. However, brevity has its downsides. What information can't we see in static text? How can visual representations and metaphorical comparisons expand our understanding of how React works? Come find out what happens when we explore alternate ways of seeing React.

  • 2021-10-22T16:05:00.000Z
    QnA with Maggie Appleton
  • 2021-10-22T16:15:00.000Z
    Day 1 Closing Ceremony
  • 2021-10-22T18:00:00.000Z
    Afterparty 🎉
  • 2021-10-22T09:10:00.000Z
    How to Edge Cache GraphQL APIs
    Max Stoiber

    For years, not being able to cache GraphQL was considered one of its main downsides compared to RESTful APIs. Not anymore. GraphCDN makes it possible to cache almost any GraphQL API at the edge, and not only that but our cache is even smarter than any RESTful cache could ever be. Let's dive deep into the inner workings of GraphCDN to figure out how exactly we make this happen.

  • 2021-10-22T09:30:00.000Z
    QnA with Max Stoiber
  • 2021-10-22T09:40:00.000Z
    Components, Patterns and sh*t it’s Hard to Deal with
    Marco Cedaro

    Everyone has a pattern library or dreams about having one. We went through conversations and the codification of our visual dictionary and then we ended up with a beautiful living document.

    But what happens when we need to re-use our components and they don’t fit in the design? How do we re-use our patterns in slightly different use cases?

    We have all the tech to make a front end really modular, we have techniques and methodologies which enabled us avoiding the bad parts of the languages we use. Every part of the puzzle seems to be falling in the right place.

    Yet, sometimes we are struggling in handling the variations of our patterns in a reliable and maintainable way. Our codebase is getting filled with exceptions and overrides and refactoring of base patterns becomes impossible.

    Not a recipe for success, more of a way to frame the problem, identify some ideas we tried and re-discuss the way we approach componentisation.

  • 2021-10-22T10:00:00.000Z
    QnA with Marco Cedar
  • 2021-10-22T10:10:00.000Z
    Coffee Break
  • 2021-10-22T10:30:00.000Z
    Building Dapps with React
    Nader Dabit

    Decentralized apps (dApps) are continuing to gain momentum in the industry. These developers are also now some of the highest paid in the entire trade. Building decentralized apps is a paradigm shift that requires a different way of thinking than apps built with traditional centralized infrastructure, tooling, and services – taking into consideration things like game theory, decentralized serverless infrastructure, and cryptoeconomics. As a React developer, I initially had a hard time understanding this entirely new (to me) ecosystem, how everything fit together, and the mental model needed to understand and be a productive full stack developer in this space (and why I would consider it in the first place). In this talk, I'll give a comprehensive overview of the space, how you can get started building these types of applications, and the entire tech stack broken apart then put back together to show how everything works.

  • 2021-10-22T10:50:00.000Z
    QnA with Nader Dabit
  • 2021-10-22T11:00:00.000Z
    Gatsby v4's New Rendering Modes
    Sid Chatterjee

    Gatsby v4 now has SSR and a new rendering mode called DSG. Between SSG, SSR, DSG, ISR and DPR, the Jamstack has recently seen a flurry of new rendering modes that work for every use case that seemed unviable in the past. But knowing what to pick for your site or a portion of your site and what each of these really do under the hood is confusing and easy to do incorrectly.

    This track will clear the confusion and dive deep into each of these, discuss nuances and even peek under the hood to see how they work and what scalability and consistency promises they offer and which promises they keep.

  • 2021-10-22T11:30:00.000Z
    Lunch
  • 2021-10-22T12:20:00.000Z
    Infrastructure as Code for React Application on AWS Written in TypeScript
    Denis Artyuhovich

    We consider what IaC (Infrastructure as Code) is and why we should invest our time/money into it. It’s going to be a workshop-style talk and as the result, by the end of it you will have complete infrastructure as code for React application on AWS written in TypeScript.

  • 2021-10-22T13:00:00.000Z
    QnA with Denis Artyuhovich
  • 2021-10-22T13:10:00.000Z
    How Coinbase Rewrote the App in React Native
    Siriwong (Ching) Wongthongserm

    Last year, our team rewrote the Coinbase app from Android/iOS Native to React Native. The new app was launched successfully and with higher quality. The native engineers were re-platformed to React Native, and our productivity has increased. The talk will share our journey from the start of the transition, how we mitigate the risks, and the lessons learned.

  • 2021-10-22T13:30:00.000Z
    QnA with Siriwong (Ching) Wongthongserm
  • 2021-10-22T13:40:00.000Z
    (Easier) Interactive Data Visualization in React
    Anjana Vakil

    If you’re building a dashboard, analytics platform, or any web app where you need to give your users insight into their data, you need beautiful, custom, interactive data visualizations in your React app. But building visualizations by hand with a low-level library like D3 can be a huge headache, involving lots of wheel-reinventing. In this talk, we’ll see how data viz development can get so much easier thanks to tools like Plot, a high-level dataviz library for quick & easy charting, and Observable, a reactive dataviz prototyping environment, both from the creator of D3. Through live coding examples we’ll explore how React refs let us delegate DOM manipulation for our data visualizations, and how Observable’s embedding functionality lets us easily repurpose community-built visualizations for our own data & use cases. By the end of this talk we’ll know how to get a beautiful, customized, interactive data visualization into our apps with a fraction of the time & effort!

  • 2021-10-22T14:00:00.000Z
    QnA with Anjana Vakil
  • 2021-10-22T14:10:00.000Z
    Coffee Break
  • 2021-10-22T14:40:00.000Z
    Lightning talks
    Supercharging Developer Productivity With Advanced Code Search - Prosper Otemuyiwa

    Google & Facebook Engineers are able to search over their gargantuan codebase using an internal code search engine. The search engine accelerates the ability of their developers (both old & new) to understand any part of their codebase & start contributing immediately! What about the rest of us?

    In this talk, I’ll walk through the different types of code search, tools & software, and advanced tips & tricks to navigate any type of codebase easily. With the advent of large code repositories and sophisticated search capabilities, code search is increasingly becoming a key software development activity. Every developer in the world that spends an insane amount of time reading rather than writing code should have access to the best code search tools that amplifies their productivity. The audience will walk away with everything they need to confidently onboard, navigate & understand any small, medium-sized and daunting codebase.

    Visualize Your Music with React, a Sound Design Experiment - Claudia Bressi

    React is a great library to design user interfaces, but what about rendering sounds ? In this talk we'll dive deeper in handling sounds, creating a transformation to convert any input vibration into images

    Full-stack & Typesafe React (+Native) Apps with tRPC.io - Alexander Johansson

    Why are we devs so obsessed with decoupling things that are coupled by nature? tRPC is a library that replaces the need for GraphQL or REST for internal APIs. When using it, you simply write backend functions whose input and output shapes are instantly inferred in your frontend without any code generation; making writing API schemas a thing of the past. It's lightweight, not tied to React, HTTP-cacheable, and can be incrementally adopted.

    In this talk, I'll give a glimpse of the DX you can get from tRPC and how (and why) to get started.

    A New Kind of Abstraction - Mike Hartington

    Developers often look at abstractions as being "the closer to the metal, the better," meaning that as abstractions become further removed from the lowest possible level, the more you give up in terms of performance and features. But abstractions work as a spectrum also. We'll look at how we can adjust our view of abstractions and what kind of examples we can use to better understand that abstractions have less to do with programming and more to do with where we deploy.

    React'ive Security is ok.. but Automated Security Testing for Developers is Great! - Oliver Moradov

    NeuraLegion's developer friendly security scanner enables development teams to run dead accurate security tests on every build as part of their pipeline. Periodic infrequent scanning results in technical and security debt, as well as insecure product. But what is developer friendly DAST, when and how should you be integrating it into your pipelines and what should you be looking for when enhancing your security testing automation? Join this talk to get up to date.

  • 2021-10-22T15:15:00.000Z
    Limitless App Development with Expo and React Native
    Evan Bacon

    App development is hard, React and Expo make it easy!

    It's never been simpler to build and deploy powerful mobile apps with incredible features to both Android and iOS users all over the world.

    We’ll discuss building and deploying mobile apps seamlessly from the cloud using EAS, creating powerful dev clients (like browsers but for mobile app development) for testing your app, pushing OTA updates instantly to users, and much more — no native experience required!

  • 2021-10-22T15:35:00.000Z
    QnA with Evan Bacon
  • 2021-10-22T15:45:00.000Z
    Let's talk about Web Components
    Jemima Abu

    Before the dawn of some of the most popular frameworks (read: React and Vue), there was Web components. Web Components take one of the best parts of these frameworks (reusable components) and combine it with the best parts of web development (native browser support and not needing to set up a build process). As if that's not enough, web components allow you use the same functions across any framework.

    If at this point, you're wondering "If web components are so awesome, why haven't I heard about them before?", then you're in luck because that's exactly what this talk is about.

    In this presentation, we'll take a look at what web components are, why web components are awesome, why web components can be a pain and how we can use web components both as a standalone tool and together with frameworks.

  • 2021-10-22T16:05:00.000Z
    QnA with Jemima Abu

October 25th schedule

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  • 2021-10-25T14:00:00.000Z
    Day 2 Opening Ceremony
  • 2021-10-25T14:10:00.000Z
    On the Origin of React
    Jenn Creighton

    This talk looks at how components in React have evolved. We'll look back at previous versions of React, the headlining features, and how milestones like Fiber and Concurrent changed how we wrote React components. Some more details: I want to give attendees a glimpse of how React components looked at different major points in the history of React. Components written in 2013 don't look like components written in 2015 or today. This is a history of React that for some will be a walk down memory lane and for others, completely new information.

  • 2021-10-25T14:35:00.000Z
    The Worlds Most Expensive React Component and How to Stop Writing It
    Michael Chan

    We need to stop building expensive React components — components that promise the world but are impossible to maintain. Let's fight the apropcylpse and set aside our prop drills with this prop-osal for a more productive way working in React.

  • 2021-10-25T15:00:00.000Z
    The Legendary Fountain of Truth: Componentize Your Documentation!
    m4dz 🥑🦄

    "In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream." The same goes for your super-brand-new-revolutionary project: Documentation is the key to get people speaking about it.

    Building well-fitted documentation can be tricky. Having it updated each time you release a new feature had to be a challenging part of your adventure. We tried many things to prevent the gap between doc and code: code-generated documentation, live examples a-la-Storybook, REPL...

    It's time for a new era of documentation where people-oriented content lives along with code examples: this talk will guide you from Documentation Best Practices – covered from years of FOSS collaborative documentation – to the new fancy world of Components in Markdown: MDX, MDJS, MD Vite, and all.

    Let's build shiny documentation for brilliant people!

  • 2021-10-25T15:25:00.000Z
    Coffee Break
  • 2021-10-25T15:30:00.000Z
    Automating All the Code & Testing Things with GitHub Actions
    Colby Fayock

    Code tasks like linting and testing are critical pieces of a developer’s workflow that help keep us sane like preventing syntax or style issues and hardening our core business logic. We’ll talk about how we can use GitHub Actions to automate these tasks and help keep our projects running smoothly.

  • 2021-10-25T15:50:00.000Z
    End-to-end i18n
    Luke Ehresman

    There are some great libraries that help with i18n in React, but surprisingly little guidance on how to handle i18n end-to-end. This talk will discuss best practices and practical advice for handling translations in React. We will discuss how to extract strings from your code, how to manage translation files, how to think about long-term maintenance of your translations, and even avoiding common pitfalls where single-language developers tend to get stuck.

  • 2021-10-25T16:15:00.000Z
    React Server Components - Under the Hood
    Lee Rowlands

    A look behind the scenes of how React server components work.

    In this session we'll take a look at React server components looking at:

    • the basic concepts behind them
    • the type of data communicated between the client and server
    • how this data is built
    • a look at what's running on the server side
    • what this might mean for future projects
  • 2021-10-25T16:35:00.000Z
    Using MediaPipe to Create Cross Platform Machine Learning Applications with React
    Shivay Lamba

    This talk gives an introduction about MediaPipe which is an open source Machine Learning Solutions that allows running machine learning models on low powered devices and helps integrate the models with mobile applications. It gives these creative professionals a lot of dynamic tools and utilizes Machine learning in a really easy way to create powerful and intuitive applications without having much / no knowledge of machine learning beforehand. So we can see how MediaPipe can be integrated with React. Giving easy access to include machine learning use cases to build web applications with React.

  • 2021-10-25T17:00:00.000Z
    Coffee Break
  • 2021-10-25T17:05:00.000Z
    Lightning Talks
    Automated Application Security Testing with StackHawk - Scott Gerlach

    With StackHawk, engineering teams can run security tests against JS applications and the backing APIs to find and fix vulnerabilities faster. With automated testing on every PR, you can be confident that your app is secure. Join StackHawk co-founder Scott Gerlach for a quick overview of application security testing with StackHawk.

    The Forest for the (Abstract Syntax) Trees - Matt Seccafien

    Call it "kickstarting", "scaffolding", "bootstrapping" or simply "typing words in a terminal and getting files to start with", this is often the first opportunity for a framework to either delight or disappoint developers. How easily can they get up and running, can they extend it with their ideal toolchain and how well will it scale? In this talk we'll explore the limitations of current solutions and examine the ways we set out to improve the developer onboarding experience of Shopify's new Hydrogen React framework and SDK.

    Efficient State Management With Hookstate - Ebenezer Don

    If you’ve worked with the React useState hook before, you might have wondered why global state management can’t be just as easy. Why do we still need so much boilerplate to manage state with the Context API? What if we don’t want to be constrained by opinionated tools like Redux Toolkit or forced to use actions and reducers in our React applications? This is where Hookstate comes in. Hookstate is not just another state management solution. Apart from being feature-rich, fast, and flexible, the library takes the idea of simplifying state management in React apps to a whole new level. In this talk, I’ll introduce Hookstate as a simple and efficient state management solution for React applications.

    Coming in React18: startTransition - Kathryn Nanz

    If you've heard people talk about React18, you've probably heard the word "concurrency". Join us for this lightning talk where we take a quick look at what that means, as well as one of the new concurrent features coming in the new release – startTransition – and what we'll be able to do with it.

    So Now You Know: Learnings on People, Product and Culture from Hypergrowth at Snyk - Patrick Mullarkey

    Everyone wants ‘hyper growth’, to be the organisation that is backed by market investment and interest - but what is the reality of getting there? What challenges does it provide in terms of people, leadership, system and scale? This talk will explore Snyk’s journey so far from its founding in 2015 and exponential growth in the last 18 months culminating in its Series F funding this past September. Exploring some of the key principles of culture, leadership and recruitment on this hyper growth journey, we will share some of our lessons learned from our experiences so far.

    Track Slowdowns and Crashes in your React apps - Simon Zhong

    In this lightning talk, you will see:

    • The lack of visibility on React applications
    • How to install the Sentry React SDK
    • How Sentry can help you identify errors and slowdowns within your React App so you can see faster, solve quicker and continuously learn from your applications
    How do Localise and Personalize Content with Sanity.io and Next.js - Simeon Griggs

    Structuring your content with Sanity.io means you can query content based on signals from your visitors, such as their location. Personalisation is a tricky problem with static sites and the jamstack, this demo will show you how it can be done with Sanity.io, Next.js, and Vercel.

  • 2021-10-25T18:00:00.000Z
    React Query and Auth: Who is Responsible for What?
    Bonnie Schulkin

    React Query manages server state on the client, and auth manages user signin/signup/signout. Where do these two overlap, and how do you separate concerns? This talk proposes a data flow with custom hooks for both auth and React Query to manage authentication status and user profile updates.

  • 2021-10-25T18:20:00.000Z
    Taking Component Driven One Step Further
    Debbie O'Brien

    Let's face it React is a way of building component driven applications. So technically we are all doing component driven development. But are we. Are our components really isolated, composed and tested in isolation or are they still coupled together just a little bit!! Let's take a look at how you can really be component driven so you can build, scale and reuse React components across all your React applications.

  • 2021-10-25T18:40:00.000Z
    Cracking the Concurrent Mode
    Sudhanshu Yadav

    With concurrent mode coming in React 18, let's talk about the complexities behind providing declarative APIs for concurrent rendering. While implementing concurrent mode APIs from scratch for Brahmos.js, I came across lot of use cases and variability which made it one of the most interesting problem to solve, and appreciate more the React's effort on advocating Concurrent UI. In this talk we will see what concurrent mode means for a web app, what are the internal complexities and how I solved it for Brahmos.js.

  • 2021-10-25T19:15:00.000Z
    Coffee Break
  • 2021-10-25T19:20:00.000Z
    Incremental Static Regeneration: Static Sites on Steroids
    Facundo Giuliani

    Static sites are great. They are fast, cheap, secure, and easy to maintain. But generating static assets is a process that takes more and more time while our site gets bigger. We will talk about ISR, a feature that Next.js framework offers us to generate static pages at runtime.

  • 2021-10-25T19:40:00.000Z
    Using React to Build Performant Game UIs in Minecraft
    Paulo Ragonha

    This talk will go briefly about the history of how Mojang Studios decided to use web standards and React to build the new UI stack for Minecraft (Bedrock Edition), the challenges we faced around performance and how we landed on a solution that allowed us to continue to write declarative UI, but without the virtual DOM.

  • 2021-10-25T20:10:00.000Z
    Accessibility at Discord
    Brandon Dail
  • 2021-10-25T20:30:00.000Z
    How to do Good Without Doing Anything
    Yuraima Estevez

    There’s no arguing that building accessible websites is a force for good. But ensuring that our React websites and apps work for everyone can be time-consuming and isn’t always easy to get right. Luckily, investing a little bit of time on your accessibility workflow and setting up a series of automated tools will end up saving you tons of time and energy in the long run.

    In this talk I will demonstrate how you can leverage automated tools, clearly documented code standards and a well-defined development process in order to make building and testing accessible React apps a breeze. I will discuss the ways that I automate certain aspects of my development workflows to catch accessibility errors, define and set up tests and go through the entire lifecycle of accessibility feature development using a real-world example.

  • 2021-10-25T21:05:00.000Z
    Let Me Show You How React Applications Get Hacked in the Real-World
    Liran Tal

    Modern frontend frameworks like React are well thought-of in their application security design and that’s great. However, there is still plenty of room for developers to make mistakes and use insecure APIs, vulnerable components, or generally do the wrong thing that turns user input into a Cross-site Scripting vulnerability (XSS). Let me show you how React applications get hacked in the real-world.

  • 2021-10-25T21:25:00.000Z
    Day 2 Closing Ceremony
  • 2021-10-25T14:00:00.000Z
    Day 2 Opening Ceremony
  • 2021-10-25T14:10:00.000Z
    Remote Team Collaboration Techniques
    Tara Z. Manicsic

    Whether your team has recently moved to a distributed setup or you’ve been working remotely for some time, keeping team collaboration up can be difficult. Working in a silo, not physically surrounded by teammates can make morale and code suffer. I was fortunate to be on a team that found ways to not only make us feel united in building projects together but also as a team of people who could laugh, commiserate, and be open with each other. In this talk I’ll cover the techniques and tools teams have found that strengthen team bonds and morale while keeping up productivity and collaborative project work.

  • 2021-10-25T14:35:00.000Z
    We Don’t Know How React State Hooks Work
    Adam Klein

    We use them all the time, and we think we know state hooks work (useState, useReducer). But under the hood, as expected, things are not what you imagine. This talk is about update queues, batching, eager and lazy updates, and some other cool things learned from looking at Hooks source code. It also contains practical takeaways that will help you better understand and debug your code.

  • 2021-10-25T15:00:00.000Z
    setState, We Need to Talk!
    Nikhil Sharma

    One of the biggest pain points when developing an app is the tricky business of managing state, race conditions, etc. Finite state machines can help eliminate such bugs entirely while providing a welcome, structured way to build components. Looks cool? Let’s build one, it’s even cooler!

  • 2021-10-25T15:25:00.000Z
    Coffee Break
  • 2021-10-25T15:30:00.000Z
    Debugging a Non Reproducible Crash
    Alexandre Moureaux

    POV: Your app has a crash affecting thousands of users, but for the life of you, you can't reproduce it and have no idea what's causing it. Hear the story of an epic struggle to vanquish a non reproducible bug and learn what to do (and what not to do) when facing such a foe.

  • 2021-10-25T15:50:00.000Z
    MDX in React-Native!?
    Daniel Dunderfelt

    How to use MDX in React-Native to great effect and the challenges you didn't know you signed up for.

  • 2021-10-25T16:15:00.000Z
    Reusing App State in React Native with Recoil
    Sergii Zhuravel

    A group of volunteers all over the world is working on React and React Native apps for the ADHD America program (non-for profit organization). In our work we use Recoil - quite a new React state management tool that looks quite promising. I'll show how we use it in both apps - for web and for mobile and explain why we decided to try it.

  • 2021-10-25T16:35:00.000Z
    Vite - The Next Generation Frontend Tooling
    Devlin Duldulao

    How will we build web apps in the future? Let's learn how esbuild and bundlers like Vite built on top of it work to see how it can speed up our dev workflows.

  • 2021-10-25T17:00:00.000Z
    Coffee Break
  • 2021-10-25T17:05:00.000Z
    Lightning Talks, re-streamed from General Track
    Automated Application Security Testing with StackHawk - Scott Gerlach

    With StackHawk, engineering teams can run security tests against JS applications and the backing APIs to find and fix vulnerabilities faster. With automated testing on every PR, you can be confident that your app is secure. Join StackHawk co-founder Scott Gerlach for a quick overview of application security testing with StackHawk.

    The Forest for the (Abstract Syntax) Trees - Matt Seccafien

    Call it "kickstarting", "scaffolding", "bootstrapping" or simply "typing words in a terminal and getting files to start with", this is often the first opportunity for a framework to either delight or disappoint developers. How easily can they get up and running, can they extend it with their ideal toolchain and how well will it scale? In this talk we'll explore the limitations of current solutions and examine the ways we set out to improve the developer onboarding experience of Shopify's new Hydrogen React framework and SDK.

    Efficient State Management With Hookstate - Ebenezer Don

    If you’ve worked with the React useState hook before, you might have wondered why global state management can’t be just as easy. Why do we still need so much boilerplate to manage state with the Context API? What if we don’t want to be constrained by opinionated tools like Redux Toolkit or forced to use actions and reducers in our React applications? This is where Hookstate comes in. Hookstate is not just another state management solution. Apart from being feature-rich, fast, and flexible, the library takes the idea of simplifying state management in React apps to a whole new level. In this talk, I’ll introduce Hookstate as a simple and efficient state management solution for React applications.

    Coming in React18: startTransition - Kathryn Nanz

    If you've heard people talk about React18, you've probably heard the word "concurrency". Join us for this lightning talk where we take a quick look at what that means, as well as one of the new concurrent features coming in the new release – startTransition – and what we'll be able to do with it.

    So Now You Know: Learnings on People, Product and Culture from Hypergrowth at Snyk - Patrick Mullarkey

    Everyone wants ‘hyper growth’, to be the organisation that is backed by market investment and interest - but what is the reality of getting there? What challenges does it provide in terms of people, leadership, system and scale? This talk will explore Snyk’s journey so far from its founding in 2015 and exponential growth in the last 18 months culminating in its Series F funding this past September. Exploring some of the key principles of culture, leadership and recruitment on this hyper growth journey, we will share some of our lessons learned from our experiences so far.

    Track Slowdowns and Crashes in your React apps - Simon Zhong

    In this lightning talk, you will see:

    • The lack of visibility on React applications
    • How to install the Sentry React SDK
    • How Sentry can help you identify errors and slowdowns within your React App so you can see faster, solve quicker and continuously learn from your applications
    How do Localise and Personalize Content with Sanity.io and Next.js - Simeon Griggs

    Structuring your content with Sanity.io means you can query content based on signals from your visitors, such as their location. Personalisation is a tricky problem with static sites and the jamstack, this demo will show you how it can be done with Sanity.io, Next.js, and Vercel.

  • 2021-10-25T18:00:00.000Z
    To Mock or Not to Mock - That's the Question
    Rita Castro

    To mock or not to mock, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler for the code of the programmers to engage with spies and stubs in outrageous tests, or to take the real components against a sea of timeouts, and by enduring, to validate their code: to commit, to push.

  • 2021-10-25T18:25:00.000Z
    Gaining Confidence with Cypress Tests
    Rob Richardson

    Have you ever wanted to refactor mercilessly but didn't want to break the fragile tower? Or have you ever pushed to production only to spend the next few days cleaning up the regressions? You need end-to-end tests, and Cypress is a great, fast way to build them. With a simple JavaScript or TypeScript interface, you can automate browsers to hit those critical functions in your app to prove it works as expected -- this time and every time. Join us to dive into building Cypress tests and leave with confidence to refactor your way to greatness.

  • 2021-10-25T18:50:00.000Z
    Using Next.JS and Redux for Epic Noscript Web Apps
    Daniel Skogly

    A short exploration of a method for building websites that work without JS, while still enjoying the convenience of modern frontend and backend technologies - with live coding!

  • 2021-10-25T19:15:00.000Z
    Coffee Break
  • 2021-10-25T19:20:00.000Z
    Advanced Patterns for API Management in Large-Scale React Applications
    Thomas Findlay

    In this talk, you will discover how to manage async operations and request cancellation by implementing a maintainable and scalable API layer and enhancing it with de-coupled cancellation logic. You will also learn how to handle different API states in a clean and flexible manner.

  • 2021-10-25T19:40:00.000Z
    Magic with Babel Macro
    Dhrubesh Deb Sharma

    The talk will cover all the possibilities Babel Macro opens up and also gives an overview of Abstract Syntax Tree.

  • 2021-10-25T20:00:00.000Z
    Asynchronous UX
    Toni Petrina

    "Please do not close or leave this page" may send shivers down your spine, but coding the proper UX flow for async might make you question your daily job. How can we properly handle UX for asynchronous code in highly responsive applications? Let's explore how introducing asynchronous code creates a challenge for UX.

  • 2021-10-25T20:20:00.000Z
    Killing BFFs with GraphQL and Next.js
    Roy Derks

    Frontend applications are getting more and more complicated, often delivering far more than just a UI. With this growing complexity comes a growing need for knowledge from the developers creating it, as they have to deal with matters like state-management, authorization, routing and more. In this talk, I'll show you how to use GraphQL in your Next.js application to create a data layer for your application, that exists between your frontend and your backend. In this data layer, you can handle complex matters to help you to keep your frontend application clean and "stupid".

  • 2021-10-25T20:45:00.000Z
    Building Cross-Platform Component Libraries for Web and Native with React
    Perttu Lähteenlahti

    Building products for multiple platforms such as web and mobile often requires separate code-based despite most of the components being identical in look and feel. Is there a way where we could use shared React component library on different platforms and save time? In this presentation I'll demonstrate one way to build truly cross-platform component library with a unique approach of using React & React Native in combination.

  • 2021-10-25T21:05:00.000Z
    Day 2 Closing Ceremony

Discussion Rooms

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Ruben Casas

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Siddharth Kshetrapal

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Facundo Giuliani

Perttu Lähteenlahti

Shivay Lamba

Testing React Advanced
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Liran Tal

Bonnie Schulkin

State management react advanced
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Daniel Skogly

Daniel Dunderfelt

Sergii Zhuravel

Thomas Findlay

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Konstantinos Leimonis

DAZN, UK

Software engineer, focused in the Javascript ecosystem. Curious about new technologies and open-source.

Jessica Leach

BBC, UK

Jessica is a React developer from the UK. She is currently a full stack engineer at BBC iPlayer. She made a transition into development after taking part in Rails Girls Summer of Code and she has also built an open source project, ScienceMotions, which teaches high school-level science with animation.

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Passionate People, Netherlands

A frontend developer that started out writing ActionScript, did jQuery and thus has all sorts of knowledge on deprecated stuff. Currently consulting at med-tech startup Aidence to help them detect early-stage lung cancer, using React and ML. Part of a frontend development couple that produced a kid.

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GDevelop, France

Clément is a software engineer passionate about creating applications of quality at speed, making sure he can be involved in every aspect of the development. Currently CTO of GDevelop, he’s a big believer in Lean, ensuring the best quality in the apps built by improving Developer Velocity.

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