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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
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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
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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
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Svelte 5: North Star
JSNation US 2024JSNation US 2024
29 min
Svelte 5: North Star
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As a child, the speaker was fascinated with space and finding direction. Svelte is an HTML-first approach to web development that simplifies tasks and offers efficient reactivity. The speaker reflects on Svelte's growth, goals, and design philosophy. Svelte aims to fix broken software and prioritize user focus. The future direction includes error boundaries, better debugging, and AI's role. Building open source software is challenging, and Rust's impact is discussed. The speaker values framework diversity and highlights the advancements and challenges faced by web development.
Domain Driven Design with Vue Applications
Vue.js London 2023Vue.js London 2023
14 min
Domain Driven Design with Vue Applications
Top Content
Welcome to this talk on domain-driven design in Vue.js application. Today we are going to look into domain-driven design, its benefits and how it works with Vue.js domain-driven design versus the MVVM model. Vue.js thrives in domain-driven design, a design approach that models software to match a domain. DDD emphasizes understanding business logic and creating a domain that reflects the language and concepts. Integrating DDD in Vue.js offers benefits such as effective modeling of complex business domains, structured code reflecting domain logic, and easier onboarding and ownership.
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.
Brace Your React, New Core Web Vitals are Coming
React Day Berlin 2023React Day Berlin 2023
30 min
Brace Your React, New Core Web Vitals are Coming
Watch video: Brace Your React, New Core Web Vitals are Coming
The Talk discusses the NextPaint metric, a new performance metric introduced by Google that measures the speed of clicks or keyboard input on a page. It explores how React rendering can impact the NextPaint metric and offers optimization techniques such as using the useTransition hook in React 18. The Talk also covers the changes introduced in React 18's rendering process, the impact of wrapping with suspense, and the replacement of the First Input Delay metric with the interaction to the next page. The limitations of useTransition and general React performance optimization strategies are also discussed.
From Prompt Spaghetti to Bounded Contexts: DDD for Agentic Codebases
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
16 min
From Prompt Spaghetti to Bounded Contexts: DDD for Agentic Codebases
Nikita, AI Architect at Siemens, discusses challenges in JNTX system development, emphasizing domain-driven design for scalability and stability. Clear responsibilities, bounded contexts, and structured schemas are crucial for reducing complexity. The anti-corruption layer and context maps play vital roles in integration architecture. Key takeaways include the importance of contracts, firewalls, and CI gates for system development.
Nested Interactive Elements: An Nightmare in Accessibility
React Advanced 2023React Advanced 2023
23 min
Nested Interactive Elements: An Nightmare in Accessibility
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Watch video: Nested Interactive Elements: An Nightmare in Accessibility
Nested interactive elements can cause accessibility issues on websites, and the speaker shares a personal experience with an accessibility bug involving a list component. Mitigating nested interactive structures involves limiting these patterns during development and restructuring existing elements. The speaker provides recommendations for improving accessibility, such as adjusting role properties and gathering user feedback. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of accessible solutions and encourages sharing resources to build more inclusive experiences.
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.
Lessons From 7 Years of .IO Games: What Works, What Doesn’t Work, Where to Go From Here
JS GameDev Summit 2023JS GameDev Summit 2023
14 min
Lessons From 7 Years of .IO Games: What Works, What Doesn’t Work, Where to Go From Here
Watch video: Lessons From 7 Years of .IO Games: What Works, What Doesn’t Work, Where to Go From Here
I-O games are multiplayer web games that are easy to pick up but can be played for hours. Developers have added deeper game mechanics and adapted I-O games for mobile, generating high revenue. Acquiring users for I-O games is done by sharing the games to play together at school. Monetization of I-O games is primarily through ads, as it is difficult to generate in-app purchases from the web. Web standards and user-generated content are opening up new possibilities for better web games.
Let’s Build K.I.T.T. With JavaScript
JSNation 2025JSNation 2025
24 min
Let’s Build K.I.T.T. With JavaScript
Speaker introduces a side project involving JavaScript and iconic car recreation at JS Nation. Nico, a frontend developer, explains the concept of KIT from Knight Rider and its human-like features, emphasizing the use of machine learning in building it. Using Transformers.js involves defining tasks and models, with options like Whisper for transcribing speech to text and Kokoro.js for text to audio conversion. Adding intelligence through LLMs enhances the capabilities of the pipeline. Models small enough to run on device, allowing browser usage using LLM library. Creating engines and new conversations, streaming replies with added tokens for efficiency. Implementing Kit reasoning process for problem-solving and fun in learning and building using LLMs.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Beyond Chat Bubbles: Building React Apps Where AI Generates Your UI
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
20 min
Beyond Chat Bubbles: Building React Apps Where AI Generates Your UI
Introducing different AI interaction styles like chat interface vs. generating interactive interfaces for learning. Evolution of AI interfaces from text-based apps to tailored UIs based on user needs. Generative UI applications creating visual interfaces with AI. AI-driven UI component selection ensuring safety and flexibility. Challenges of true code generation for React or HTML. Balancing AI development approaches for innovation and reliability. Foundational aspects of AI SDK and generative UI with React components. Enhancing learning with voice-enabled interaction and expanding AI applications with voice UI. Voice-enabled workflow automation for various tasks. Utilizing production-ready AI technology for adaptive interfaces.
When Less Is More: A Technical Overview of LLMs and the Strength of Smaller Models
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
11 min
When Less Is More: A Technical Overview of LLMs and the Strength of Smaller Models
Lugari Karasen from Red Hat AI discusses the technical aspects of large language models, including data collection, tokenization, and neural network internals. Model training involves converting human language to mathematical representations and adjusting parameters iteratively in a complex environment. Inference engines like VLLM aid in deploying models for rapid data processing. Optimizing model size for efficiency without sacrificing accuracy is crucial, with quantization reducing model size while maintaining precision. Local deployment offers privacy and control, and smaller purpose-driven models can enhance workflows and experimentation.
The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained
AI Coding Summit 2026AI Coding Summit 2026
10 min
The Ralph Wiggum Method Explained
Today, exploring Ralph Wiggum AI method's simplicity and persistence. Ralph loops ensure eventual consistency in problem-solving. Challenges in AI chats revolve around context management, emphasizing the importance of effective loop iterations. Basic example of loop iteration and backpressure in Ralph. Using skip permissions can be risky. Running Cloud in a sandbox mode for safety measures. Ralph Wiggum AI Method: Autonomous coding with thorough spec creation. Careful planning needed. Upsides include autonomous operation and clear task handling.
Unlocking the Power of the Dependency Graph
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
19 min
Unlocking the Power of the Dependency Graph
Rui Adorno emphasizes the power of dependency graphs in JavaScript projects, highlighting the underutilized graph structure and the importance of understanding metadata. The discussion delves into advanced dependency selector syntax, integrating query language with VLT client for updates and additions, running tests, and updating versions. The exploration of VLT client features includes secure package installs, phased installation processes, and DSS capabilities. Multi-project package filtering is expanded through DSS query language with a host local selector for benefits like script inspection and AI agents.
AI-accelerated Legacy Modernisation
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
23 min
AI-accelerated Legacy Modernisation
Discussing the importance of adopting AI in legacy modernizations and the risks associated with outdated systems, challenges in legacy ecology, reliability rupture, and migration mutiny. Exploring Lean Tech at Theodos for maintaining agility and customer value, improving system architecture through visualizing endpoints and high-quality coding. Optimizing accuracy with agent coders, industrializing migration with LeanTech principles for 10x acceleration. Leveraging AI for product building, AI model evaluation, and the preference for Claude over GPT in migration.
Build a MCP (Model Context Protocol) in Node.js
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
97 min
Build a MCP (Model Context Protocol) in Node.js
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Julián Duque
Julián Duque
Model Context Protocol (MCP) introduces a structured approach to LLM context management that addresses limitations in traditional prompting methods. In this workshop, you'll learn about the Model Context Protocol, its architecture, and how to build and use and MCP with Node.jsTable of Cont...
React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
20 min
React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine
Talk on React Native as a Gaming UI System in Unreal Engine, covering the integration journey, importance in mobile app development, and current methods of game UI creation. Innovative approach of rendering UI in games using a browser headlessly onto a texture. Challenges and benefits of using React Native for game UIs, including handling JavaScript overrides and showcasing a demo. Exploration of applying shaders to React Native UI in a gaming context and invitation to engage with React Native on Unreal Engine for future game development.
Production-like Testing in CI/CD with Testcontainers and Node.js
Node Congress 2026Node Congress 2026
17 min
Production-like Testing in CI/CD with Testcontainers and Node.js
Welcome to a talk on testing Node.js apps in production using Test Container. Developing features, passing unit tests, and deploying can be smooth. Issues post-deployment due to integration gaps are common. Test Container library facilitates real-world integration testing by encapsulating services in Docker containers. Enhancing Docker Compose with Test Containers streamlines container management. Running tests with Redis Docker image and testing with Walkie Container demonstrate easy service swapping. Dynamic port allocation and image loading considerations for isolated infrastructure.
React Beyond the DOM
React Advanced 2025React Advanced 2025
27 min
React Beyond the DOM
Speaker discussed React's capabilities beyond the DOM, including installation of key packages, UI component building, state management, and reconciliation. React's platform-agnostic nature, compatibility with various renders, use of virtual DOM and diffing algorithm. Diverse rendering capabilities of React, such as React DOM, React Native, React 3 Fiber, React Native Web, React PDF, and Ink. Exploration of rendering to IoT devices using XState, state transitions in traffic lights, and building a secure developer ecosystem with React at Atio. Encouragement for developers to explore innovative UI rendering, custom render options, and favorite custom renders like 3-Fiber. Insights on React implementation, DevTools interaction, and discussion on Vim shortcuts in VS Code.
"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.
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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
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.
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
Top Content
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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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
WorkshopFree
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...
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...
On-Premise Open-Source LLMs with Ollama & FastAPI
TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs EditionTechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition
58 min
On-Premise Open-Source LLMs with Ollama & FastAPI
WorkshopFree
Brendon Co
Brendon Co
This workshop introduces how to use open-source LLMs on-premise for enhanced data control, privacy, and cost efficiency. It highlights Ollama for simplified LLM management (downloading, running models offline) and FastAPI for efficient local hosting, enabling fast API development and seamless int...