Agent Conf 2020
as the organisers put it
Learn agentic development, orchestration, and AI-driven workflows. Hosted by Callstack.
who it's for
React developers, React Native developers, frontend engineers, UI library authors, developer experience engineers, accessibility engineers, technical leads
topics
Muse headset EEG integration; react native LogBox debugging; offline-first GraphQL sync; delta sync and change journals; TypeScript generics for state; CSS-in-JS critical extraction; Forms platform with cloud backend; web Forms API proposal; react compound component patterns; accessibility in React Native; internationalisation with ICU and Intl; web-native SPA migration
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Controlling apps with your mind | Vladimir Novick | 46m |
Uses a Muse headset (4 electrodes) over Web Bluetooth, streaming with rxjs into band-pass filter + FFT epochs to extract alpha/theta/gamma power; feeds vectors… | ||
| Chrome Developer Tools | Simon Zünd | 27m |
Demonstrates using Chrome DevTools and the DevTools Protocol to instrument and profile a large website, including automated runtime probes, cross-iframe… | ||
| The new new React Native Redbox | Rick Hanlon II | 27m |
A replacement for RedBox/YellowBox called LogBox collapses react internals to the top three frames, shows a syntax‑highlighted code frame with an arrow to the… | ||
| To d3, or not | Princiya Sequeira | 34m |
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| The future of Real-time/offline/data | Nader Dabit | 47m |
Claims a cross‑platform, local persistent store that auto‑syncs with GraphQL backends (AppSync on AWS), using generated models from a schema and storage… | ||
| Hello generics, Goodbye boilerplate | Miroslav Jonaš | 36m |
Claim: applying TypeScript generics to state management cuts boilerplate dramatically. Uses Angular + NgRx + RxJS and replaces repetitive action classes with a… | ||
| The past, present and future of CSS-in-JS | Max Stoiber | 33m |
Covers concrete claims and demos: CSS-in-JS co-locates styles with components, removes dead CSS on deletion, and enables critical CSS extraction for SSR… | ||
| The web's missing Forms API | Jared Palmer | 42m |
Claims a concrete Forms platform: a logic-only React library called formic with a backing service formic cloud that provides a single-table submission store… | ||
| Drawing the line between 3rd party and handcrafted code | Glenn Reyes | 27m |
Argues for concrete decision rules: measure impact not hype, use a VS Code size plugin and Webpack Bundle Analyzer, check minified + gzipped size and… | ||
| React native and accessibility | Erin Fox | 32m |
States that 1 billion people (15%) have disabilities and 6.4 billion are temporarily able bodied then shows concrete steps using React Native and Expo with the… | ||
| What is the deal with internationalisation? | Eli Schütze Ramírez | 34m |
Argues that internationalisation is accessibility, shows standards and tools that make it practical and the costs when ignored: web content is ~52% English… | ||
| Rethinking SPAs: web-native apps | David Leitner | 43m |
Claim: big SPAs die when frameworks drift from the web platform, so the team migrates a 7,000‑component AngularJS app to React, later faces a 10,000‑component… | ||
| Mind-Reading with adaptive UIs | David Khourshid | 37m |
Claims that UIs can “mind‑read” by modeling user flows and feeding transition metrics back into the app, and shows concrete tools and results: XState… | ||
| Building reusable UI libraries with React | Cassidy Williams | 35m |
Builds a reusable UI pattern around compound components using React context and hooks, lifts state to a parent provider, and implements a live-coded accordion… | ||
| React: Lifting state up is killing your app | Andrey Goncharov | 26m |
Claim: lifting state to the parent causes React to re-traverse and compare props for every cell, producing a multi-hundred-millisecond cost even when one cell… | ||
| Introduction to building a universal app with React Native and Expo | Brent Vatne | 45m |
Builds a minimal “Image Share” app that picks a photo, displays it, and opens the platform share UI; uses Expo CLI / Snack, TypeScript, Metro bundler and Fast… | ||
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