Back in the late 90s, I worked as a radio newscaster and used computers as a hobby. First writing pretty pointless programs, then playing games, being bad at them and analysing the games how to give myself endless lives. Then I got access to the web and everything changed. I knew, this was the me...

Waku is an ongoing project aimed at developing a React framework with first-class support for React Server Components. In this talk, I will provide an overview of Waku and walk you through how you can start developing a new project using Waku.

We often assume that everyone has a good internet connection and hardware with high specifications. While this might be true in some regions, it is not the case worldwide. I want to draw attention to Africa, where many countries struggle with poor 3G connections that are costly, depending on the...

How do you create a scalable application with lots of different layouts, screens, giving enough flexibility to each team to customise without adding orders of magnitude in complexity to your app? Companies like Airbnb, Meta, and Lyft approach this with server-driven UI. We’ll explore how this can...

This session explores the art of interviewing beyond traditional assessments, focusing on cultivating soft skills, mentorship, and recognizing senior talent. Covering strategies to build rapport, assess soft skills effectively, and shift the interview dynamic towards mentorship, the talk emphasiz...

SolidStart is the full stack Meta-Framework from the SolidJS ecosystem. It brings multiple tools and libraries together in a composable fashion to offer highly performant, understandable, and scalable foundations for web applications. Let's explore how SolidStart solves common UX and DX for build...

The design-development gap hurts your React projects: slower timelines, compromised quality, and repetitive handoffs. This talk explores the origins of this problem, the differences in language and environment, and offers solutions through processes, tools, and collaboration. Discover how includi...

In this talk we will take a look at an idiosyncratic javascript library, htmx, which is designed to make HTML more powerful as a hypermedia. It does this by generalizing the idea of hypermedia controls such as anchor tags and forms. Web developers who use htmx typically do not write nearly as muc...

Animations are the heartbeat of captivating web experiences but wield them carelessly, and the enchantment fades into frustration. Join Nikhil on an exhilarating journey as he reveals the secrets to crafting mesmerizing, high-performance animations in your React apps.In this dynamic talk,...