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Deep Dive: Growing to Tech Lead

Growing to Tech Lead

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

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

  • Talk: 5 Tough Conversations Managers Need to Have
  • Talk: Leadership Insights From Growing 2X in 8 Months
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  • Talk: Thinking Like an Architect
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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
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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.

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Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
34 min
Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models
WorkshopFree
Paige Bailey
Paige Bailey
In this hands-on session, we'll dive straight into the practical mechanics of working with Google DeepMind’s latest research and models. We'll explore Google AI Studio, Antigravity, and the Gemini APIs, focusing on how to seamlessly integrate these capabilities into your own projects. If you're l...
Advanced Cursor Techniques for Building Fullstack Apps
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
119 min
Advanced Cursor Techniques for Building Fullstack Apps
Workshop
Mike Mikula
Mike Mikula
In this workshop, you’ll learn a repeatable process for building full stack apps in Cursor. We’ll start with an idea and use an agent to shape clear requirements. Next, we’ll generate a database schema and set up the build tools. Then we’ll create the backend and frontend, and wire the layers tog...
Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
27 min
Transformers.js: State-of-the-Art Machine Learning for the Web
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.
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
31 min
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
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.
Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
52 min
Hands-On Guide to Secure AI-Driven Coding
WorkshopFree
Gil Friedman
Gil Friedman
Modern AI coding agents don’t just autocomplete. They execute, connect, and automate. With the wrong settings, they can access more of your system than you intended. In this session, I’ll demonstrate how agent autonomy, MCP integrations, and Skills can lead to unexpected security risks. Through e...
Advanced Claude Code Techniques for 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
127 min
Advanced Claude Code Techniques for 2026
Top Content
Workshop
Cole Medin
Cole Medin
Cole will walk through his agentic coding workflow that allows him to delegate all coding to the agent while still keeping him in the driver's seat (no vibe coding!). The key is to create a structured approach for both the up front planning and the validation - and he'll demonstrate what that loo...
Navigating Islands of Interactivity
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
9 min
Navigating Islands of Interactivity
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.
Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
21 min
Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding
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.
React Query - The Bad Parts
React Day Berlin 2024React Day Berlin 2024
30 min
React Query - The Bad Parts
Top Content
React Query is a popular library with significant weekly downloads and positive user sentiment. It may have trade-offs like bundle size, but the actual size shipped is smaller. Bundle size optimization can be achieved by exporting only necessary features. React Query's declarative approach eliminates the need for custom data fetching solutions. It offers caching, request duplication, background updates, and more. RackQuery doesn't support normalized caching, but refetching after invalidation works fine. React's vision includes suspense architecture and server components. The documentation could be improved with a more structured flow. TensorStack Query can be a good choice for Next.js apps, but not necessary with mature frameworks. The 10 stack query and router concepts were discussed. Combining React Query with HTTP caching provides a robust caching solution.
Building AI Co-Worker with Codex SDK
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
72 min
Building AI Co-Worker with Codex SDK
Workshop
Rudrank Riyam
Rudrank Riyam
Join this interactive 2-hour workshop to learn how to create your own AI co-worker using the Codex SDK, inspired by Rudrank’s work on a GitHub/Slack bot he created to automate code reviews, bug fixes, and feature additions to overcome the opposite timezone differences at work.

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Deploy Your AI Code in Minutes
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
7 min
Deploy Your AI Code in Minutes
Shifra guides the migration of a Repl.it app to Render with emphasis on simplicity and mock data. Ensure Render deployment requirements are met, including specifying root directory, build and start commands, and correct port. Configure GitHub repository setup, connect to Git, and create a repository. Confirm code in the repository and deploy on Render, showcasing a sample landing page.
Zero-Styling Development: Utopia or the Future of Frontend?
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
7 min
Zero-Styling Development: Utopia or the Future of Frontend?
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.
React for Good: Creating Inclusive, Secure, and Scalable Applications in Emerging Markets
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
5 min
React for Good: Creating Inclusive, Secure, and Scalable Applications in Emerging Markets
Inosency Andembera, React developer, discusses using React for building scalable, secure, and inclusive applications for emerging markets like Malawi and Africa. Addressing challenges of Internet connectivity, device limitations, security concerns, and inclusivity for first-time Internet users. Utilizing React for performance, security, and inclusion in emerging markets through code splitting, lazy loading, authentication, input validation, multiple language support, and simple UIs. Highlighting React's features in enhancing inclusion by addressing challenges in emerging markets, such as limited digital literacy, creating simple UIs, supporting multiple languages, internationalization, step-by-step UIs, and semantic HTML for accessibility. Zunga, a financial platform in Malawi, showcases React's benefits in addressing financial service gaps, scalability, offline support, and security enhancements.
Optimizing the Path From Design to Production in Engineering Workflows
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
Optimizing the Path From Design to Production in Engineering Workflows
Akbar, developer advocate at Figma, highlights the importance of exploration, representation, and production in product development. Figma leverages design systems and AI tools for efficient transition from representation to production, optimizing expertise and automating non-critical tasks. Seamless integration between design elements and the app is achieved through tools like Code Connect and Copilot, fostering collaboration between design and code.
From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
5 min
From TV to Touch: How We Made React UI Work Across Every Input Mode
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.
From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
9 min
From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling AI Coding Assistants Across Engineering Teams
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.
Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
6 min
Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture
Challenges in OAuth, importance of back end security for front end, and implementation details of OAuth flow between front end, back end, and authorization server. Detailed process of token handling, session management, and user data retrieval in OAuth implementation between front end, back end, and authorization server.
Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
7 min
Video Optimization for the Web: The Missing Piece in Lighthouse
Rahul introduces video optimization principles, emphasizing modern formats, compression, bitrate reduction, and lazy loading. ImageKit simplifies video loading by compressing videos significantly and adapting to network conditions. Pausing videos when not in view saves data costs and enhances user experience.
Navigating Islands of Interactivity
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
9 min
Navigating Islands of Interactivity
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.
WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers
Node Congress 2025Node Congress 2025
5 min
WinterTC and How Standards Help Developers
WinterTC is working on standardizing JS runtimes to avoid vendor lock-in and provide a universal API. This involves defining which web APIs should be included, such as URL and WebAssembly. The goal is to create a definitive list of APIs for server-side JS runtimes.
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"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
53 min
"Hello World" on OpenShift AI: Training Your First Neural Network
WorkshopFree
Legare Kerrison
Sawyer Bowerman
2 authors
Join us for an interactive workshop where you'll train your first neural network using the classic MNIST handwritten digit dataset. In this hands-on session, participants will use OpenShift AI 3.x Workbenches to build and train a PyTorch model that recognizes handwritten digits from images.
How to Help Agents Remember
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
20 min
How to Help Agents Remember
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.
Making AI Coding Work for Enterprise-Grade Browser Extensions
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
10 min
Making AI Coding Work for Enterprise-Grade Browser Extensions
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.
Panel Discussion: Write Once, Render Anywhere
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
33 min
Panel Discussion: Write Once, Render Anywhere
Taz Singh
Nicola Corti
Xuan Huang
Jorge Cohen
4 authors
Taz Singh, experienced JavaScript developer, recalls early struggles with JavaScript for video games. Transitioned to React development after initial skepticism. Explored React Native for mobile app development and React Native web. Introducing Nicola Corti, Jorge, and Swan from React teams. Swan questioned on moving from React to Linx. Discussion on React, Linx, and shared experiences. Discussing the challenges and importance of open source advocacy and aligning internal priorities with external ecosystem growth at big tech companies like Meta and ByteDance. Discussing the alignment of internal priorities with external ecosystem growth and the challenges faced in open-sourcing technologies at ByteDance and Meta. React Native's focus on React, combined with efforts to make web technologies work effectively, showcases diverse perspectives in enhancing technology solutions and fostering collaborative learning. Amazon's groundbreaking shipping of React Native, coupled with a democratic approach to React's evolution, signals the next chapter for the ecosystem and community. AI's impact on cross-platform development, the use of agents for React and React Native, and challenges in maintaining app parity between platforms. AI's role in UI frameworks evolution and the importance of human-centric design for AI integration, gratitude for open-source contributions.
Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
21 min
Spec Driven Development: The End of Vibe Coding
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.
Advanced Claude Code Techniques for 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
127 min
Advanced Claude Code Techniques for 2026
Top Content
Workshop
Cole Medin
Cole Medin
Cole will walk through his agentic coding workflow that allows him to delegate all coding to the agent while still keeping him in the driver's seat (no vibe coding!). The key is to create a structured approach for both the up front planning and the validation - and he'll demonstrate what that loo...
Fast-Tracking Quality for Hundreds of React Applications With Automated Testing Layers
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
29 min
Fast-Tracking Quality for Hundreds of React Applications With Automated Testing Layers
Discussion on improving release cycles and testing efficiency, transitioning to React Native, quality assurance challenges addressed through redefined responsibilities and test automation, shift-left approach for early testing and diversification of automated tests, efficient test execution with caching strategies, impact of caching on CI performance, efficiency with change recognition and caching, project-specific approaches for testing, test optimization with AI and Pyramid test structure, QA team transitioning to engineering, handling unautomated tests and test association, maintaining test stability with Git revert strategy.
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
31 min
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
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.
Building AI Co-Worker with Codex SDK
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
72 min
Building AI Co-Worker with Codex SDK
Workshop
Rudrank Riyam
Rudrank Riyam
Join this interactive 2-hour workshop to learn how to create your own AI co-worker using the Codex SDK, inspired by Rudrank’s work on a GitHub/Slack bot he created to automate code reviews, bug fixes, and feature additions to overcome the opposite timezone differences at work.

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Metrics That Actually Matter: Evaluating AI Agents Beyond Success Rate
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
16 min
Metrics That Actually Matter: Evaluating AI Agents Beyond Success Rate
John Robert, Lead Data and AI Platform Engineer, discusses evaluating AI agents beyond success rate. Talks about failures of AI projects, the uniqueness of AI agents, and the evaluation process. Creating a Framework for AI Agent Evaluation: Four Evaluation Categories - performance, business, safety, and cost. Metrics creation to enhance AI projects. Includes task completion rates, reasoning quality, accuracy evaluation, tool execution, response time, and recovery time checks. Examining KPIs, Safety, Security, and Cost in AI Agent Projects: Consider ROI, user satisfaction, time-saving, code review, adoption, engagement, risk, regulations, unauthorized actions, and cost efficiency. Checking Infrastructure and Security Metrics: Evaluate project reliability, online presence, errors, resources, prompt injection, data leakages, authorized actions, tool usage.
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10 Years of Best of JS
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
28 min
10 Years of Best of JS
Michael discusses the evolution of JavaScript from its early days to modern server-side capabilities, the impact of jQuery, Node.js, and single-page applications with popular libraries like Backbone and AngularJS. The emergence of UI libraries like React, Vue.js, and Angular, alongside meta frameworks like Next.js, Remix, Veltkit, and Solid with server components. The Best of JS project tracks JavaScript project trends, filters out deprecated projects, and monitors GitHub stars for maintenance. The importance of maintaining project relevance, adding new projects continuously, and classifying projects under meaningful tags. The evolution of TypeScript, tool releases like Deno and Burn, styling evolution from CSS to headless components, and the impact of Tailwind CSS. Analysis of CSS optimization, CLI ecosystem, tooling trends, emerging tools, and JavaScript development trends over the past decade.
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
25 min
Temporal: The Curious Incident of the Wrong Nighttime
Speaker's involvement in Temporal proposal and TC39 meetings for JavaScript standardization. Date conversion challenges faced in development. Addressing time zone discrepancies with Temporal to prevent bugs. Exploration of Temporal types and design philosophy. Usage of Java's time zone serialization in JavaScript Temporal. Challenges in implementing Temporal proposal and its transformative potential in ECMAScript.
React
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
26 min
Our Own React Global State Manager in Less Than 50 Lines of Code
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Speaker delves into global state management in React, mentioning Redux and alternatives like React context. Creating a global state manager in under 50 lines of code with React context, highlighting challenges with performance and React specificity. Building a custom hook named user store for state management, implementing state and API for store, handling partial state updates efficiently. Managing listeners for state changes, setting up custom hooks and selectors, and subscribing to external stores. Demonstrating optimization in state management and preventing unnecessary button re-renders. Discussion on Redux, Signals, debugging, and various global state management choices like Zestand and Redux toolkit.
The State of React and the Community in 2025
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
29 min
The State of React and the Community in 2025
Mark Erickson discusses the state of React in 2025, React community debates on React's direction and misconceptions, React's shift towards client-side frameworks and SSR emphasis, React's feature development process at Meta and Vercel, controversy around Vercel's server components involvement, tight relationship between React and Next, React team's emphasis on frameworks for app performance, critique of React's heavy-handed framework recommendation, React team's delay in adding VEET as a recommended tool, challenges with server components' origins and communication, no official signals support planned for React 19, social media impact on React development decisions, React community diversity and server components usage insights, React's evolving black box concept and tradeoffs discussed.
React Beyond the DOM
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
27 min
React Beyond the DOM
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.
TDD in Frontend
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
121 min
TDD in Frontend
Workshop
Aleksandr Shinkarev
Aleksandr Shinkarev
Tests first, code last!How to develop your frontend that the code isn't falling apart? How to make it scary free to deliver your work results? How to battle bugs that are chasing you at every step you make?I am going to answer these questions during the workshop and show how to foll...
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
29 min
Plug and Play Design: Building Extendable React Applications
Mateusz Jagodziński, principal developer at Synergy Codes, shares insights on Plug and Play Design Building Extendable React Applications, discussing feature flags, modularity, and real-world use cases. Challenges of feature flags, the concept of alternative modular design for feature management, and the importance of modularity in code organization and development. Configurability and limitations in feature management, showcasing a plugin-based design for flexible tool versions and code manipulation. Explanation of plug and play design for code manipulation and version control with full type safety in TypeScript projects. Exposing functions to register new plugins, organizing plugins' logic within individual folders, and implementing a build setup with a replacement mechanism for plugin files. Replacing missing plugins with a fallback code, enforcing restriction on direct plugin imports, and visualizing the relationship between plugins, adapters, and application components. Exploring pros and cons of self-contained plugins, addressing implementation overhead, and discussing the value of enforced modularity for AI coding tools. Discussing plugin management decisions based on client needs and the scalability of the approach with changing requirements and minor tweaks. Handling plugin version tracking, automated testing challenges, and feature control based on environments. Adapters and maintaining plugin compatibility through iterations and cosmetic changes, leveraging existing solutions for simplicity. Discussing the implications of not shipping separate builds for multiple customers and considering the benefits of smaller bundle size. Exploring the ease of trying out new features with separate plugins to assess overhead and developer experience.
The State of React
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
26 min
The State of React
Introduction to the State of React survey and the history of developer surveys. Detailed analysis of survey results, user demographics, and job titles. Examination of React API trends, user sentiment towards APIs, and new API challenges. Analysis of React library satisfaction, particularly with Next.js. Discussion on React state management and data loading, including pain points. Insights on React library usage patterns and application trends. Key takeaways include staying calm, appreciating foundational React elements, and relying on data for a balanced view.
Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
125 min
Hands-on React Server Components, Server Functions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router
Workshop
Aurora Scharff
Aurora Scharff
In this workshop, we will explore React's latest features: Server Components, Server Functions, and forms. Discover how to optimize server-side rendering, build smooth user experiences with React Suspense and Transitions, and enhance application interactivity with Server Functions and new React 1...
Panel Discussion: The State of React
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
35 min
Panel Discussion: The State of React
Tanner Linsley
Naman Goel
Evan Bacon
Shruti Kapoor
Mark Erikson
Jarred Sumner
Sacha Greif
7 authors
Panelists introduced themselves and discussed React Server Components (RSCs), exploring usage in production and alternative frameworks. Challenges of adopting RSCs and benefits of universal data fetching were highlighted. The complexities of implementing RSCs were discussed, emphasizing the need for better integration. The potential of server components for composability and evolving architecture was explored. The React compiler's impact on performance optimization and component re-rendering was examined. Discussions included enhancing React with compiler features, evolving feature sets, and reimagining state management. Improvements in communication, community engagement, and dependency management within the React ecosystem were emphasized. Recommendations for managing dependencies, component performance, and audience appreciation were shared.
Suspenseful Component Composition
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
12 min
Suspenseful Component Composition
Simeon Griggs discusses Suspenseful Component Composition, the use of fallback props, and the basics of suspense in React applications with a demo showcasing data fetching and layout shifting. Exploring issues with data fetching and suspense boundaries. Addressing the challenges of using suspense boundaries and data fetching for individual rows in React applications. Creating consistent fallback elements for smooth loading experiences in tables by aligning sizes and optimizing data fetching placement. Optimizing data fetching placement for smoother loading experiences. Consider exporting suspense boundary to enhance code cleanliness and be defensive against data fetching errors. Use error boundaries to handle errors in suspenseful data fetching components for a smoother user experience.
From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
27 min
From Segments to Suspense: The Future of Next.js Caching
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AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
34 min
Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Antigravity, and Google DeepMind's Latest Models
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AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
52 min
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AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
49 min
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Build Your Dream Extensions with AI
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
87 min
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AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
76 min
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Craig Dennis
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React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
141 min
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How To Enhance an Existing React App With AI, Without Rewriting It From Scratch
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
109 min
How To Enhance an Existing React App With AI, Without Rewriting It From Scratch
WorkshopFree
 Greg Brimble
Greg Brimble
In this workshop, we will incrementally augment an existing React application with AI. I'm sure most of you probably already maintain a React app, so rather than starting from the ground-up, let's take something that already works, and develop some patterns for adding practical, real-world AI fea...
On-Premise Open-Source LLMs with Ollama & FastAPI
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58 min
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Brendon Co
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Data is Beautiful: Creating Compelling Data Visualisations with AG Charts
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
83 min
Data is Beautiful: Creating Compelling Data Visualisations with AG Charts
WorkshopFree
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React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
55 min
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