Mark Erikson

React has come a long way since its release in 2013 - from skepticism and surprise, to the most widely used UI library with the largest ecosystem. Today, there's an uneasy mixture of excitement over React's latest features, and community confusion over the goals and future directions of the React team. Why has React pivoted from being ""just a view library"" to a full-stack system? What's driving the React team's emphasis on using ""frameworks"" for projects? How will these directions affect React's existing capabilities?

We'll look back at the history of React's development to understand the major influences that have shaped its design. From there, we'll dig into the specific reasons for React's recent features and tool recommendations. Finally, we'll address some frequently expressed concerns about where React is headed and how that will impact existing and future React apps.

Evyatar Alush

React is powerful, but filtering thousands of elements efficiently can be a performance bottleneck. Re-renders and complex JavaScript logic often seem unavoidable. We're going to throw out the rule book and achieve blazing-fast filtering with just CSS. Zero re-renders of the list, and without even needing a complex search algorithm.

Join me for a live coding demonstration where we build a high-performance search feature using only CSS. We'll employ some creative and unconventional techniques, using CSS in all the ways they always told us not to.

Prepare to have your assumptions about what's possible with CSS in React challenged, and to discover how a little outside-the-box thinking can lead to significant performance gains and simplified code.

Aileen Villanueva Lecuona

We all have those repetitive web tasks we wish would just handle themselves—sorting through data, extracting information from multiple pages, or customizing content for different audiences. What if your React application could do this autonomously, right in the browser?
This talk demonstrates how to create intelligent AI agents in React that eliminate tedious tasks without sending sensitive data to the cloud. We'll combine modern React with client-side AI techniques like RAG and function calling to build an app that understand content, make decisions, and take actions based on user goals.
For React developers and AI enthusiasts looking to extend their web applications with AI.

Mattia Manzati

JavaScript Generators are often underrated, but they offer a powerful API that can unlock a variety of useful and creative patterns. In this talk, we'll explore how Generators can be leveraged to build fully type-safe APIs for both backend and frontend applications, ensuring strong typing throughout. Along the way, we'll also dive into some fun and experimental uses to demonstrate their flexibility and power. By the end of this session, you'll walk away with at least one new use case for incorporating Generators into your own APIs, while enjoying the benefits of full type safety.

Bree Hall

At some point, we all think we know React—until we have to explain it to someone else.

I started creating React content to help other developers, but what I didn’t expect was how much it would change the way I approach building React apps. Breaking down concepts for others made me question my own assumptions, rethink patterns I had taken for granted, and spot issues in my own code that I had never noticed before.

In this talk, I’ll share:

1- The biggest React mistakes I only caught because I had to explain them

2- How content creation helped me write better, more maintainable React components

3- Why “learning in public” is the ultimate hack for improving your debugging skills

This isn’t just a talk about teaching—it’s about how explaining React forced me to build smarter, more scalable applications. Whether you're leading a team or optimizing complex React projects, this session will challenge the way you think about React development—and why sharing your knowledge might be the missing piece in your growth as a senior engineer.

Łukasz Chludziński

As React Native evolves and expands to new platforms, ensuring consistent behavior across diverse environments is critical. Existing cross-platform testing solutions often lack flexibility, typically supporting only popular platforms like iOS and Android.

This talk introduces a lightweight, Vitest-based testing architecture designed for React Native, enabling developers to run tests across multiple platforms efficiently.

We’ll explore its implementation, walk through writing tests, and demonstrate how easy it is to add support for any JavaScript-running platform with just a single file.

Kateryna Porshnieva

Small animations can make UIs more delightful and improve user experience. In this talk, we’ll explore how to add these animation to your React apps, using everything from simple CSS transitions to more complex spring-based motion.

We'll walk through practical examples to show how these animations can enhance user experience without getting in the way. Plus, we'll discuss how to keep them running smoothly and make sure they're accessible to everyone.

Shivay Lamba

Building cross-platform mobile and desktop apps in React Native is rising. We have seen that the current ecosystem is closing the gap towards Web-APIs. It is increasingly becoming feasible to build performant and truly universal apps and libraries. The latest advancements is the ability to execute WASM (WebAssembly) directly in a React Native app.

This talk covers some naive approach of implementing a native module for React Native, exposing WebAssembly runtime: Wasmer, which initially turns out to be really slow, mainly because of the restriction on iOS devices that apps are not allowed to perform just-in-time compilation on devices. This however is balanced with the React Native platform’s ability to run ahead-of-time compiled native code and the current solution, built and maintained by Callstack, uses wasm2c to build native modules for React Native.

This capability to run Wasm in React Native unlocks a lot of interesting use-cases to bring highly performant, secure applications usecases with low memory, size footprint of WebAssembly such as machine learning model inference, running C++ code directly in React native applications and unlocks businesses to leverage a powerful technology within their React native applications

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