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Deep Dive: Growing to Tech Lead

Growing to Tech Lead

Learn directly from other Senior+ and Lead engineers on how to progress your engineering career, strengthen your foundational skills and become and irreplaceable engineer.

  • Talk: Why Engineers Must Become Multipliers in the AI-Era
  • Talk: Current Trends in AI for Technical Hiring
  • Talk: Walking the Netflix Paved Road (Bumps Included): Web Framework, Hawkins Design System
  • Talk: Why Software Engineering Is Becoming: Plan and Review
  • Talk: Pocket Guide to Seniority
... and 16 more talks and workshops
Deep Dive: AI Assisted Coding

AI Assisted Coding

Remove the noise, master agentic coding patterns actually tested in production directly from Senior practitioners. 

  • Talk: Templates and Components for Claude Code: The Future of AI Coding Workflows
  • Talk: Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
  • Talk: Building Blocks of an Agentic Engineering Platform: What SRE Taught Us About Running Agents
  • Workshop: AI-Powered Code Review
  • Workshop: Operating Agent-Based Systems - Overview, Configure, Run, Orchestrate, Monitor
... and 22 more talks and workshops
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Mastering Full-stack

Master full-stack and fundamental engineering skills for AI-enabled future. 

  • Talk: Building a JavaScript Engine in Rust: Lessons From Boa
  • Talk: Building a JavaScript Engine in Rust: Lessons From Boa
  • Talk: Beyond Benchmarks: node.js, Deno, and Bun in Real Production
  • Workshop: DevOps for Front-end Developers: From Local Code to Production by Docker Captain
  • Workshop: Building Fullstack Apps With Cursor
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AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Agent Orchestration
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
10 min
AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Agent Orchestration
Welcome to AgentCraft with Iddo Salomon, AI lead. Scale up agents for efficient work but consider cognitive overload. Agent orchestrators are crucial for task management and real-time reactions. AgentCraft is a tool inspired by real-time strategy games to manage agents effectively, with features like heroes and buildings. It visualizes repository files through terrain projection, simplifies code inspection, and enhances task management with cloud code support. Task delivery is streamlined with code merging, quests, and hero summoning for project improvement.
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
31 min
How I Build Web Applications in 2026
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Kent C. Dodds discusses building web applications in 2026, highlighting the importance of user experience and challenges in offline video downloads. Recent AI advancements in the Epic Workshop app enable offline video downloads with features like bulk downloads and quality control. Efficient AI agent management using agents like Cursor transforms workflow. Leveraging Laravel and Ruby on Rails, Ask Mode enhances project understanding by communicating with AI agents. Emphasizing clear task scoping, iterative planning, and agent feedback improves project development. Utilizing MCP tools and agent workflow, including BugBot for code review, optimizes app development. Closing the agent loop and emphasizing architecture's role in utilizing agent input context are crucial. The talk invites developers to become experienced AI agent managers and join the mailing list for updates.
Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
29 min
Agentic by Default: Rethinking Developer Workflows with Claude Code
The Talk delves into agent decoding in Cloud Code, emphasizing the importance of planning, acting, and verifying changes systematically. It explores maximizing efficiency through Cloud Code acting as an agent, reasoning, reading, writing code, and using tools for successful outcomes. The discussion covers enhancing task planning, utilizing subagents for specialized assistance, and optimizing tool use with MCP integration. It introduces Cloud Skills, plugins for team collaboration, and efficient tool utilization with parallel workflows. The concept of non-interactive agents, guided autonomy, and steps for experiencing agent decoding are also highlighted.
The Dark Side of Open Source
Node Congress 2024Node Congress 2024
37 min
The Dark Side of Open Source
The talk explores the dark side of open source, focusing on supply chain attacks and the need for improved security measures. It highlights the dangers of loading external code and the importance of mitigating supply chain risks. The talk also discusses the use of AI and LLMs in code analysis to enhance security. It emphasizes the challenges of sustaining IC maintained open source projects and the future of supply chain security. Lastly, it touches on the variations in open source definitions and the empowerment of the open source community.
The Oxc Project, and the Effect of Performance Engineering
JSNation 2024JSNation 2024
18 min
The Oxc Project, and the Effect of Performance Engineering
The Talk discusses the JavaScript oxidation compiler (OXC) project and the impact of performance engineering. The OXC project consists of JavaScript tools written in Rust, including a parser, linter, and resolver, that are significantly faster than existing alternatives. Testimonials highlight the progress of the OXC project and the speed and effectiveness of the OXLint tool. The emphasis on performance in OXLint is demonstrated through cross-file linting and parallel processing. Performance improvements in the OXC project are achieved through benchmarking and can drive innovation in JavaScript infrastructure. The talk also discusses the need for faster website loading and the goal of creating a new minifier for better compression and performance in OXC.
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...
Svelte 5: North Star
JSNation US 2024JSNation US 2024
29 min
Svelte 5: North Star
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As a child, the speaker was fascinated with space and finding direction. Svelte is an HTML-first approach to web development that simplifies tasks and offers efficient reactivity. The speaker reflects on Svelte's growth, goals, and design philosophy. Svelte aims to fix broken software and prioritize user focus. The future direction includes error boundaries, better debugging, and AI's role. Building open source software is challenging, and Rust's impact is discussed. The speaker values framework diversity and highlights the advancements and challenges faced by web development.
Observability with diagnostics_channel and AsyncLocalStorage
Node Congress 2023Node Congress 2023
21 min
Observability with diagnostics_channel and AsyncLocalStorage
Top Content
Observability with Diagnostics Channel and async local storage allows for high-performance event tracking and propagation of values through calls, callbacks, and promise continuations. Tracing involves five events and separate channels for each event, capturing errors and return values. The span object in async local storage stores data about the current execution and is reported to the tracer when the end is triggered.
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...
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Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
7 min
Auth: Build vs Open Source vs Buy
Authentication is crucial for system security, with options including building, buying, or using open source. Modern security complexities are addressed by purchasing systems with enterprise-level security features. Cost considerations in authentication highlight maintenance and scaling costs, with buying solutions providing peace of mind and predictable costs.
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.
Delivering High-Quality Videos on Your ReactJS Website
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
7 min
Delivering High-Quality Videos on Your ReactJS Website
Raul from ImageKit discusses optimizing and streaming videos, highlighting challenges like resolutions and codecs. Developers can use ImageKit Video API for seamless integration and quick optimization. ImageKit offers streamlined video hosting with real-time optimization and adaptive streaming. It enables easy access to cloud storage and transformation of videos for better user experience.
MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
7 min
MCPs: How to Avoid Security Pitfalls
Gil Friedman from Backslash Security discussed MCP security, focusing on the Model Context Protocol and AI assistant security risks like GitHub token exposure in auto run mode. Security measures for MCP usage include setting autorun to ask every time, postmarking MCP incidents, handling malicious servers, safeguarding sensitive information, reviewing and disabling unused tools, requiring permission before triggering actions, removing MCP from environments, and revoking API keys when necessary.
A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
6 min
A JS Dev's Guide to Not Dismissing Blockchain
Thanking Git Nation and Algorand team. Exploring blockchain's journey to enlightenment. Algorand's role in blockchain solutions like disintermediation, data integrity, and market access. Highlighting businesses on Algorand mainnet like TravelX, Lofty, and LabTrace. Algorand TypeScript simplifies blockchain development with real TypeScript, avoiding complex assembly language. Examples like asset transfers and key-value storage demonstrate accessibility.
No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
6 min
No Dependencies, No Problem: Streaming AI Over the Phone
Marius from Twilio demonstrates building AI agents for phone calls, addressing latency issues by leveraging Twilio's infrastructure and third-party providers like 11 Labs and Google Cloud. Configuration includes WebSocket integration for message handling, static responses, and text-to-speech with 11 Labs. AI integration involves GPT4 or mini model for conversation history storage. A live demo showcases an AI voice assistant with instant responses and latency improvements.
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.
Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
5 min
Divide and Conquer? - Exploring the 'JS0' and 'JSSugar' Proposal for JavaScript Evolution
JS 0 and JS Sugar proposal for JavaScript evolution. Complexity abstraction to engines. Splitting language into JS0 and JSugar. Lessons learned from developers' concerns and users' preferences. Involvement in shaping JavaScript ecosystem.
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.
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.
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How AI is Impacting Engineering Leadership
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
34 min
How AI is Impacting Engineering Leadership
The speaker discusses the impact of AI on engineering leadership and shares personal journey and goals. Sensationalistic AI predictions induce fear of missing out among engineering leaders, leading to negative perceptions. Unrealistic AI expectations affect motivation and industry sentiment. Strategies for effective AI adoption include starting small, prioritizing culture over tools, and staying informed. Engineering roles are evolving towards a convergence, focusing on human-related skills and problem-solving in the AI era. Balancing code writing and reviewing, supporting junior colleagues, and navigating career progression are crucial for engineering leadership development.
Rust Meets React: Diving Into the Next Generation Build Pipeline for React Apps
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
32 min
Rust Meets React: Diving Into the Next Generation Build Pipeline for React Apps
Choosing the right tools and frameworks is crucial for React projects. VEET enhances developer experience and project adaptability. Optimizing tool stacks with Rolldown can improve production builds. Understanding build steps and code optimization is essential for efficient development. Bundlers play a key role in code optimization and Rolldown offers a unique approach. Rolldown accelerates React development by boosting build speed and optimizing bundle sizes. Xcalibur and Outline show significant improvements in build times. Developing bundler components with OXC and exploring its capabilities. Enhancing Oxlint and Oxformat functionality for improved toolchain. Rolldown's evolution and future plans for Vite integration.
Building Interactive Async UI with React 19 and Ariakit
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
28 min
Building Interactive Async UI with React 19 and Ariakit
Speaker shared challenges in building UI components with custom design, addressing accessibility standards, and handling async operations in React. Tools like Tailwind CSS, ARIAKit, and React 19 were highlighted for enhanced UI development. Focus on improving accessibility, UI structure, and interactive components with ARIA kit and React 19. Optimizing UI styling with ARIA attributes, enhancing keyboard accessibility, and readability. Coordinating UI updates with 'use transition' and 'use optimistic' hooks for seamless transitions. Streamlining error handling, implementing advanced logout functionality, and showcasing ARIA kit benefits. Discussing notification practices, component selection, and contrasting ARIA Kit vs. React ARIA capabilities.
Why Software Engineering Is Becoming: Plan and Review
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
18 min
Why Software Engineering Is Becoming: Plan and Review
Louis from Vibe Kanban discusses optimizing workflows for software engineers with coding agents, focusing on planning and review. Leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT can enhance productivity by reallocating time effectively. Reflecting on time saved by AI, the focus is on optimizing planning and reviewing to boost productivity. Emphasizing detailed planning processes and effective use of AI coding agents to ensure successful outcomes. Simplifying reviewing processes to save time and enhance productivity through efficient code review. Leveraging Codex and Claude coding agents for efficient code review to optimize time and workflow. Minimizing time spent on code review by providing feedback to coding agents within the editor, working on multiple tasks in parallel, and automating tasks requested by AI for enhanced productivity.
Automated Accessibility Testing in React: Beyond the Basics
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
9 min
Automated Accessibility Testing in React: Beyond the Basics
Introduction to Accessibility Testing in React applications, emphasizing early automation and challenges in scaling. Importance of instant feedback, Unity test, and entry testing for code accessibility. Utilizing end-to-end testing tools like Jest-Axi and Cypress to ensure accessibility compliance. Emphasis on manual testing alongside automated tools. Encouragement for discussions on LinkedIn to enhance accessibility knowledge.
Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
8 min
Shipping AI Under Constraints: Build, Buy, or Kill
Dave, Engineering Manager at Capital Untap, shares a story of AI failure and lessons learned from moving too fast in AI development within the company. The AI team focused on developing a chatbot for customer service, which became a flagship initiative under engineering governance. Issues with accuracy and complexity led to pausing the chatbot project and exploring third-party vendors. Capital OnTap reset AI processes by integrating AI engineers into product teams, emphasizing standard engineering over specialized AI teams.
Your AI Code Reviews Are Missing the Point (And How to Fix It)
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
25 min
Your AI Code Reviews Are Missing the Point (And How to Fix It)
Ishai, CTO at LearnrB, discusses the evolution and impact of AI code reviews in software development. The transition from experimentation to maturity with autonomous AI agents in code reviews is highlighted. Challenges in AI-driven code creation and review processes, as well as the benefits of AI code reviews for productivity and efficiency, are discussed. Common mistakes and challenges in AI code review adoption, along with the importance of adapting processes for AI advancements, are emphasized. The importance of enhancing AI code review processes, measuring their impact, and leveraging AI for productivity metrics is also explored.
Type-Safe URL State Management in React With nuqs
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
30 min
Type-Safe URL State Management in React With nuqs
François Best introduces nuqs, a URL state manager for React, offering teleportation and time travel abilities. Nuqs addresses browser rate limits on URL updates and creates entry points into the app by putting state in the URL. Nuqs allows for server-side rendering and shareable UI creation with a declarative approach. URL source is used as a truth for state handling and debouncing URL updates is finalized in nuqs. Type-safe URL parameter handling and compression parsing are supported, ensuring security and routing safety with TanStack integration.
Transforming Your Tech Interviews in the AI Agent Age
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
11 min
Transforming Your Tech Interviews in the AI Agent Age
Anna McDougal, director of engineering operations at Blinkist, presents the McDougal method for technical interviews aiming to improve their effectiveness by leveraging emerging technologies. The challenges in technical interviews involve the inadequacy of measuring the right skills through traditional methods like DSA problems and take-home tests. The speaker questions the necessity of perfection in engineering hires and emphasizes problem-solving skills over perfection, especially with AI tools. Hiring criteria are evolving with a focus on attitude alignment and cultural addition rather than just fit. Maximizing value in hiring involves seeking candidates with aligned goals and the necessary toolkit for the job. Ensuring technical interviews reflect actual job conditions and tool usage is crucial, and encouraging experimentation and feedback on proposed methods is essential for improvement.
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.
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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
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
23 min
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler
Akash Hamilwasia presenting at React Summit 2025, shares React Compiler learnings and works on an AI audio platform. Memoization in React helps optimize UI performance by preventing unnecessary re-renders. React Compiler offers automatic memoization through static code analysis. React rules emphasize purity and immutability. The compiler analyzes and memoizes code changes for optimization. React Compiler package usage improves performance through code analysis. Understanding reactivity issues is crucial for handling React state. Compiler optimization requires correct dependency arrays and usage of external libraries. Measure React Compiler impact using React Profiler for optimization and real user impact analysis.
The State of React 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.
How to React Compiler
React Summit 2025React Summit 2025
20 min
How to React Compiler
Top Content
Introduction to React compiler, differences from React 19, installation of Babel plug-in React compiler, specifying target React versions, and how React compiler detects and processes component dependencies. Configuring React compiler settings, exploring default options and configurations, utilizing React compiler playground website for configurations, dealing with JSX markup re-computation. React compiler feature for extracting JSX from array map callbacks, limitations of enable function outlining, enabling JSX outlining for separate functions. Function memoization in React compiler, React compiler beta stage, potential errors with React compiler. React compiler error: memorization preservation, hidden messages, validation settings. React compiler: validation tools, hooks treatment, memorization challenges. Changing hooks to functions for React compiler optimization. React Compiler usage considerations and potential optimizations.
React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
29 min
React Strict Dom: Cross-Platform React Based on the Web
Talk on cross-platform React using ReactStrict DOM to unify web and native React, standardizing for consistent UI development. Fragmentation challenges in React due to lack of standardized styling systems, impacting development efficiency and product consistency. Exploring unsuccessful cross-platform React approaches and the importance of minimizing migration costs. Enabling web developers to build native apps with React Native while enhancing it with web APIs for seamless code migration. Benefits of code sharing for cross-platform apps, AI integration for React Strict DOM, and the future vision for React Native as a web renderer. Unified styling in React Native, Tailwind integration, and UI best practices. Flexibility and readiness in React DOM, potential inclusion in React Foundations, and considerations for reversibility of decisions in React DOM.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
73 min
Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for AI Agents with Cloudflare Workers
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Confidence Okoghenun
Confidence Okoghenun
In this hands on workshop participants will learn how to create a production‑ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on Cloudflare Workers. The session covers defining tool endpoints, integrating external APIs, persisting state with KV storage, and globally deploying the server so AI assistants...
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...
"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.
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...
Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
49 min
Ship a Production Voice Agent: A Hands-on Workshop
WorkshopFree
Shifra Williams
Shifra Williams
Ready to bring conversational AI to life? In this hands-on workshop, we'll walk through deploying a real-time voice agent using Render's cloud platform. You'll work directly with LiveKit's voice agent template to create an interactive AI assistant that can listen, think, and respond naturally thr...
Build Your Dream Extensions with AI
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
87 min
Build Your Dream Extensions with AI
WorkshopFree
Brittany Joiner
Brittany Joiner
In this interactive workshop, you’ll build a working internal browser extension you and your team can use to share context across apps you use daily. We’ll start with a practical, real-world example: a web clipper that you’ll customize to send content from GitHub to your team’s communication tool...
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
76 min
Using Sandboxes to Safely Execute Untrusted or Dynamic Code
WorkshopFree
Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
This workshop introduces Sandboxes as a general computing primitive and uses Cloudflare Sandboxes as the concrete implementation. Participants explore common, real-world use cases for sandboxed execution and learn how to reason about when and why sandboxes are the right tool.

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Building AI workflow editor UI in React with Workflow Builder SDK
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
141 min
Building AI workflow editor UI in React with Workflow Builder SDK
WorkshopFree
Łukasz Jaźwa
Łukasz Jaźwa
Join us to learn how to build your own Zapier-like interface in days, not months. Discover how to save 1,000+ hours of design and coding upfront, building a complex workflow editor UI from scratch. Customize it for AI orchestration, automations, business processes visualization and other real-wor...
The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
96 min
The React Developer's Guide to AI Engineering
Featured WorkshopFree
Niall Maher
Niall Maher
A comprehensive workshop designed specifically for React developers ready to become AI engineers. Learn how your existing React skills—component thinking, state management, effect handling, and performance optimization—directly translate to building sophisticated AI applications. We'll cover the...
How To Enhance an Existing React App With AI, Without Rewriting It From Scratch
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
109 min
How To Enhance an Existing React App With AI, Without Rewriting It From Scratch
WorkshopFree
 Greg Brimble
Greg Brimble
In this workshop, we will incrementally augment an existing React application with AI. I'm sure most of you probably already maintain a React app, so rather than starting from the ground-up, let's take something that already works, and develop some patterns for adding practical, real-world AI fea...