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Director of Open Source at Formidable and the author of libraries like Slick Carousel, McFly, react-music, webpack-dashboard, Spectacle.

React's context API has always been labelled as experimental, but from the advent of Redux it has been used in all the most exciting react libraries. It's about to become a stabilised feature so now is the perfect time to learn the new context API. Combining the context API and render props lets gives you unprecedented power to cleanly reuse code across comp…

Large applications cannot be structured the same way as small applications. Many good decisions you make for a small application suddenly become bad once it grows in code and organization size. Let me walk you through a number of challenges and good decisions for scalable applications.Oleg Isonen,Oleg is an author of JSS and an architect with a focus on scal…

Inconsistent UI is the enemy of developers and designers alike. And while design systems are a modern and scalable way to solve this challenge, implementing one is not as straightforward as it might seem: from getting buy-in from management to picking your tech stack, rolling it out, and releasing changes to multiple apps — there are a lot of things that can…

In this talk we'll dive into the approaches and strategies needed to create a great unit test environment for your JavaScript and React applications. We'll examine what makes the perfect test, what to avoid, and how to use more complex features like mocks and spies to enable you to write tests more easily. We'll also look at some of the common pitfalls and m…

The obsession to always move on to the latest and greatest, and the fear of missing out while working with something that's older than a few months is currently dominating the dev world. Do you have enough time to learn the latest version of your favourite library or framework? Will this leave enough time if you need to learn something new? Should you stick …

Talk about reconciler, life cycles, and custom-renderer. The idea is to introduce how to create a custom renderer and how the reconciler handles elements, components, and instances.Raphael Amorim,Software Developer Engineer at GoDaddy. Working on React-Ape and React-TV. Loves Japanese culture, 70s/80s songs and a lot of 8bit art.

As apps begin to scale, many developers find themselves asking the question - but where does all the hard stuff go? The complicated data manipulation, the validation, the process flow of our apps. In other words, the business logic. If React is designed for the view layer, and we’re using Redux or something similar for the state, then where does the business…

One of the crucial elements of performance is to ship relevant content to your users as soon as possible. But in modern web applications, figuring out what to ship and what to prioritize can be hard. Framework driven applications have the big disadvantage of being pretty heavy for the initial load. We will start from understanding how the browser works, then…

CSS is hard! I made a living out of it being hard but when React was introduced we had a whole new level of fighting over CSS. There are so many ways to approach it and so many tradeoffs one can do when choosing the better approach that a talk that will go over these options is more than necessary. Let's walk this road thogheter and I promise it will all be …

In order to achieve mainstream adoption, blockchain technology must rapidly accelerate its user-facing tools. At Lisk, we’re dedicated to advancing the evolution of UI/UX design to empower developers and entrepreneurs to unlock the technologies vast potential.Max Kordek,Max Kordek is the Co-Founder of Lisk and CEO of Lightcurve, blockchain product developmen…

Jamie will highlight some of the common barriers we face as underrepresented people in the tech sector and how we - as a collective - can push for positive change that benefits everyone.Jamie Szymkowiak,Jamie is a disability rights and LGBT+ activist, writer and Talent Advisor at Signavio, a Berlin tech company.

In this talk Bård shares strategies and tactics for going milliseconds hunting. Pointers to launching a React App with global latency and scalability as a priority.Bård Farstad,Founder & CEO of Crystallize, a headless e-commerce service. Serial and parallel entrepreneur with strong software background. Founder and also running the only bicycle factory compan…

Changing market demands cause some native mobile developers to jump into developing React (Native) apps, but the fundamentally different mindset and workflow in the JS/React ecosystem can easily make them feel like on another planet. In this talk, Futurice share their learnings on how React developers can effectively help their mobile colleagues get acclimat…

Denys Periel,Denys makes 3D photorealistic games which run in web browsers. He cares about performance, reusable and high-quality code. In his spare time Denys reads books, learns different programming languages, raises a child and fills up his Instagram with pictures of places he has visited with his family.