React
Amsterdam

Talks

• 08:00

  Registation
• 08:30

  Welcome Breakfast

  by Kega
• 09:30

  Conference opening
• 09:50

  Max Stoiber

  KeystoneJS

  Styling React/ReactNative Applications

  React popularized a new way of building user interfaces – components. By splitting our app into small, digestible parts the system as a whole becomes a lot easier to understand.
  CSS was made in an era where documents were the height of the web. It doesn't fit easily into component-based systems, making styling one of the pain points of building React applications.
  What if we took the best of JavaScript and the best of CSS, and combined them together to create the ultimate solution? Glen Maddern (CSS Modules co-creator) and I sat down and starting thinking about styling in this new paradigm. Let's talk about what we thought about and why we arrived where we did – 💅 styled-components.
  

• 10.20

  Jessica Chan

  Pinterest

  How Pinterest switched their template rendering engine to React

  A deep dive into how Pinterest migrated their web infrastructure to serve React pages, which required moving a huge amount of code without breaking the site. Details on the legacy stack (Django web server and Nunjucks/Jinja template rendering) moving to Node and migrating our templates to React.

• 11:00

  Coffee Break
• 11:30

  Stefano Masini

  Balsamiq

  A Real-World GraphQL Application in Production

  At Balsamiq we are rolling out our new web-app to production. A real-world application with real-time collaboration, built using Relay, Redux, node.js, Redis, etc., running on AWS using Convox. Even at small/medium scale, if you're serious about building a good product you will eventually have to build a complex stack. I will share a few lessons learned in the process: how to structure the code, implement reactivity, writing tests.

• 12:00

  Lightning Talks

  Advanced SSR Caching with React

  Make Linting Great Again

  Generating Your Client Validation Rules

  Building Applications for the Studio in the Cloud at Netflix

• 12:30

  Lunch & Networking
• 14:00

  Ken Wheeler

  Formidable

  Fun With Fiber Custom Renderers

  In this talk I will be detailing how to create custom renderers using the new Fiber architecture, and showing examples exploring some fun things you can do with them.

• 14:30

  Alex Castillo

  Netflix

  Pushing Bugs to Prod Responsibly with React and Redux

  The question is not how to avoid bugs when building software. There will always be bugs. The question is how quickly can you recover from them. Let's go through some ways you can give your app the ability to notify you of these bugs before your users do using React and Redux. Start pushing bugs to prod responsibly.

• 15:00

  Coffee Break
• 15:30

  Michele Bertoli

  Facebook

  Test Like It's 2017

  Testing UIs has always been a hard job. In the components era, there are new tools and solutions available that transform completely the way we approach testing. From snapshots, through end-to-end frameworks, to style guide testing. In this talk, we'll see some modern (and creative) testing solutions.

• 16:00

  Nik Graf

  Serverless

  Introduction to ReactVR

  Many web developers haven’t explored WebVR yet. Building 3D Worlds was an intimidating endeavour. Especially with ReactVR there is no reason for that anymore. The talk kicks off with the basics of WebVR, shows how to build and navigate rooms using panos in ReactVR. Next it shows how to create a couple 3D meshes and how put together a small world using them.

• 16:30

  Coffee Break
• 17:00

  Michel Weststrate

  Mendix

  Complexity: Divide and Conquer!

  "Reactive programming" still sounds scary to many developers. As if it is an elevated way of thinking, only accessible to the chosen few. Nothing is less true! It is the most natural way to look at programming problems. You just might not realize it yet! In this talk, Michel will demonstrate that many complex UI problems, such as form validation and routing, can all be seen as '*actions* that change *facts* which leads to *reactions*'. And as soon as we start distinguishing those concepts in our applications; our code will become more declarative, more concise and less imperative.

• 17:30

  Forbes Lindesay

  Facebook

  Flow Typing a React Codebase

  Adding type checking to your code can be a frustrating experience at first. In this talk, Forbes will help you through that initial stage by identifying some of the problems you're likely to experience and giving you the tools to work through them. We'll cover adding types to code that initially looks too dynamic to type, adding runtime type checking (and whether that's a good idea) and finally, how you publish your type checked modules to npm.

• 18:10

  Vincent Riemer & Bruce Lane

  Closing & Surprise Talk

• 18:40

  Afterparty till 21:00

  by Lab Rooms

React Native Track

• 09:50

  Gant Laborde

  Infinite Red

  Coding Mobile with the Pros

  React Native mobile just got easier. Learn how to tap into rapid development by using what the pros are ready to give you!

• 10:20

  Parashuram N

  Microsoft

  Web Like Release Agility for React Native Apps

  Code Push for React Native brings web like release agility to mobile apps by enabling developers to update apps instantly. This talk will cover the next iteration of Code Push and how it fits into a complete suite of DevOps services built for called Mobile Center, built for React Native.

• 11:00

  Coffee Break
• 11:30

  Woody Rousseau

  Theodo UK

  Asynchronous & Offline Magic Tricks on React Native

  Javascript has provided us with amazing ways to handle asynchronous logic to provide the best user experience possible.
  React Native is today the best tool to build mobile apps fast, but require extra care when managing asynchronous & offline logic: most people are often going to use your app with weak to no network.
  Get ready to get your app to the next level when you learn how to handle these edge cases

• 12:00

  Lightning Talks

  Large Scale In-Store Promotions with React

  Practical Performance Tips Building Mobile Web Using React

  React and Redux Love Web APIs

  Creating a Pixel-Art Editor Using React and Redux

• 12:30

  Lunch & Networking
• 14:00

  Mike Grabowski

  Callstack.io

  Universal React

  React Native opens up the world of mobile development for many of us, front-end engineers. It not only allows us to use technologies we know already, like React, to provide first-class native experience to our users, but also to support many platforms, like Android and iOS at once, from within the same codebase.
  This talk will explore various patterns that turned to be useful over the course of few projects I did. It will also demonstrate techniques that can be used to write truly universal apps, ie. ones that share core across web, native and more.

• 14:30

  Tal Kol

  Wix

  Performance Limitations of React Native and How to Overcome Them

  React Native holds great promise in terms of excellent developer experience with JavaScript and code reuse between platforms. The big question is  - do these benefits come at the price of performance? How well can React Native hold its own against purely native implementations?

• 15:00

  Coffee Break
• 15:30

  Krzysztof Magiera

  Software Mansion

  React Native Touch & Gesture

  React Native allows for building great native apps by utilising native mobile components. Apparently handling touch and gestures is quite tricky as it often needs to interact with the application code which runs asynchronously in the javascript VM. This talk is going to be about how the gesture system has been designed and implemented in React Native and how to use it to stay out of trouble.

• 16:00

  Kurtis Kemple

  Major League Soccer

  Navigating React Native Navigation

  When you start out on React Native project, there is a certain sense of awe as the package manager delivers the first bundle to the simulator. You quickly add some hello world text and maybe even a Pokemon image. Things are really starting to look up…
  And then you need to add another view and you realize that you need to navigate somewhere. So you check out the React Native Docs and are quickly greeted by IOSTabBar, Navigation, and NavigationExperimental modules. With so many different options in the core codebase you realize that it’s still a bit of an unsolved problem. Now you’re looking at 3rd party integrations… and you start to wonder, just how should you implement navigation?
  This talk will outline the different approaches to navigation available in React Native and in the RN eco-system, and the pro’s and con’s of each solution.

• 16:30

  Coffee Break
• 17.00

  Aaron Greenwald

  Wix

  Testing & React Native: Lessons from the Battlefield

  Wix has been about cutting edge web development for a while, and we're all about TDD. When we started mobile with RN, we struggled to replicate our test-heavy workflow that we'd grown to love. We lacked tooling, best practices, and general know-how.
  In this talk, you'll hear about what works and what doesn't. You'll find out what methods we tried and rejected so you won't have to make the same mistakes, and you'll get pointers toward approaches that we've found work so you can get started on the right foot.

• 17:30

  Chris Biscardi

  Dropbox

  Demystifying GraphQL Clients

  Find out how choosing a GraphQL client can impact development. From Relay to template strings, we will explore topics such as modularity, schema checking, and static analysis.

Lightning Talks

• Narendra Shetty

  Booking.com

  Practical Performance Tips Building Mobile Web Using React

  I will be talking about my learning on performance techniques used to make Uber mobile web using React as fast as possible.
  In mobile web it’s always very important to render the initial screen as soon as possible. I will talk about how I achieved this by various webpack techniques.
  This is for all the devs who care about performance and who think twice before adding any external library.

• Andrey Okonetchnikov

  Feedly

  Make Linting Great Again

  No other topic in software development probably has so much controversy as linting. With a wrong workflow linting can be really a pain and will slow you and your team down. With a proper setup though, it can save you hours of manual work reformatting the code and reducing the code-review overhead.

• Feather Knee

  Netflix

  Building Applications for the Studio in the Cloud at Netflix

  Using React to write a decision-making tool for the production studio at Netflix. Our application interacts with a large number of data models. We have to take very complex information and distill it so it can be more easily understood. Design challenges and solutions. How we developed the various components of our UX toolbox. Development process that includes writing unit tests in parallel with application development. How automated testing alongside application development informs our development process.

• John van de Water

  Awkward

  Creating a Pixel-Art Editor Using React and Redux

  As a side project I'm working on a pixel art editor which uses some interesting concepts from both React and Redux which I'd like to share with you.

• Tim Koopman

  Onior

  Large scale in-store promotions with React

• Robert Haritonov

  Zoover

  Advanced SSR Caching with React

• Ronald van der Kooy

  Evision

  Generating your client validation rules

• Ricardo Torres

  mycujoo.tv

  React and Redux Love Web APIs