DevReach 2022
as the organisers put it
DevReach is a premier developer conference with .NET and JavaScript sessions delivered by world-renowned speakers. Online and near you.
who it's for
.NET developers, mobile developers, Blazor developers, frontend developers, Angular developers, React developers, accessibility engineers, devops engineers
topics
.NET MAUI migration paths; Blazor Hybrid apps; C# 11 language features; Blazor C# source generators; EF Core 6 usage; gRPC in .NET; MongoDB Realm with Xamarin; Angular Ivy and standalone components; Resumable JavaScript and PWAs; React performance patterns; accessibility testing and ARIA; CI/CD and database workflows with Docker and GitHub
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Neurodiversity in Tech | Grayson Nance, Katie kulakoski | 45m |
Panelists describe lived diagnoses (ADHD, Asperger’s, dyspraxia, severe health and harm anxiety), concrete coping tools (medication trials, talk therapy… | ||
| How I Made a Mobile App for Tracking Blood Pressure Using MongoDB Realm and Xamarin | Luce Carter | 44m |
A cross‑platform blood‑pressure tracker is built with Xamarin.Forms (migrated toward .NET MAUI) using MongoDB Atlas + Realm for local device storage and… | ||
| The Future of Cross Platform Blazor | Ed Charbeneau | 46m |
Comparison of concrete targets and demos: a responsive PWA (manifest + service worker, installable, limited Apple support) runs as WebAssembly in the browser… | ||
| Migration and Modernization with .NET MAUI | Sam Basu | 42m |
Claim: .NET MAUI replaces multi-project Xamarin setups with a single project experience that shares icons, fonts and UI (the talk cites about 95% UI reuse)… | ||
| Blazorators: C# Source Generators for Blazor | David Pine | 34m |
An open-source tool claims to source-generate JS interop for Blazor by parsing TypeScript declarations and emitting C# partial interfaces, implementations and… | ||
| Blazor Hybrid: Use Your Blazor Skills to Build Desktop and Mobile Apps | Maddy Montaquila | 35m |
Claim: Blazor UI runs 100% natively inside .NET MAUI as one process with no browser or network required; the demo uses Visual Studio, .NET MAUI, the Blazor… | ||
| C# Goes to 11 | Bill Wagner | 46m |
Overview of concrete C# 11 changes coming with .NET 7 in November 2022: adds list patterns and raw string literals (triple-quote) for easier parsing and… | ||
| Common Accessibility Pitfalls | Chris DeMars | 52m |
Argues that accessibility is practical not theoretical: stop using nonsemantic divs, prefer use semantic HTML, add meaningful alt attributes and aria only… | ||
| What do I do with my old .NET Framework Apps? | Isaac Levine | 46m |
A practical migration checklist: run an assessment to inventory projects and incompatible APIs, convert projects to SDK-style and netstandard 2.0 where needed… | ||
| Making Technology More Accessible with .NET and AI | Alex Dunn | 36m |
Project Enabled Play proves a concrete accessibility pipeline: a .NET/Maui app plus Azure back end and SignalR, hardware HID emulation via Arduino Leonardo… | ||
| What's New with Angular | Emma Twersky | 45m |
Ivy rewrites Angular’s compiler and runtime and yields a 90% reduction in compute for large apps and about 50 minutes faster build for Google’s biggest… | ||
| Stop Writing Framework-Specific Code | Mike Brocchi | 42m |
Argument: stop baking framework into business logic and write portable JavaScript/TypeScript instead. Shows a concrete refactor: extract map from an Angular… | ||
| Migration Paths and Tooling from Xamarin to .NET MAUI | Sweekriti Satpathy | 52m |
Shows concrete migration steps from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI: runs the Upgrade Assistant CLI to convert csproj, update namespaces and swap NuGet packages… | ||
| The Women of .NET Present: Optimizing Your Life, Inside and Out of Development | Alyssa Nicoll, Layla Porter, Sweekriti Satpathy, Maddy Montaquila, Rachel Kang, Poornima Nayar, Lebogang Madise | 28m |
Panelists report concrete routes into tech: learn through local meetups and one-year contract apprenticeships (example: App Factory hiring for Windows Phone… | ||
| The Journey to Accessible Apps with .NET MAUI | Rachel Kang | 34m |
Demo shows a fresh File → New .NET MAUI app already exposing semantic properties (Description, Hint, HeadingLevel) and the semantic screen reader.announce API… | ||
| What Playing Wordle Can Teach Us About Web Testing | Gleb Bahmutov | 44m |
Shows a complete, working Cypress end-to-end test that actually solves Wordle by reading the solution from localStorage, injecting the bundled word list via… | ||
| Machine Learning for .NET Developers | Veronika Kolesnikova | 46m |
Walks through using ML.NET and the Visual Studio ml.net model builder to create a sentiment classifier from a 250-line Wikipedia CSV, exporting a .zip model… | ||
| Rock Solid React for People in a Hurry | Ryan Chenkie | 46m |
Shows how RedwoodJS wires React + Node + GraphQL + Prisma into a team-ready stack and demos exact commands: run yarn create redwood-app --typescript, yarn rw… | ||
| Productivity ++ - Things I have Learned from Managing My ADHD | Luce Carter | 39m |
Practical methods: adopt the PARA/power system (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives) and build a searchable Notion life dashboard (uses a paid "Ultimate… | ||
| Make the Web Faster | Robert Boedigheimer | 47m |
A demo site that looks identical goes from 3MB to 143KB and from about 4s to <1s load time by applying real changes: enable gzip/brotli compression, set long… | ||
| Leverage Network Debugging to Elevate Your Apps' Performance Quality | Eve Turzillo | 37m |
Demonstrates using Fiddler Everywhere as a man‑in‑the‑middle proxy to capture HTTP/HTTPS (root cert from getfiddler:8866), run the rule Builder to return… | ||
| "Standalone" APIs: A Component-focused Angular | Pawel Kozwolski | 36m |
Angular v14 introduces Standalone: true components that remove the need to create NgModules by putting dependencies into an explicit imports array, and lets… | ||
| Fast Backends for Faster Frontends | Chance Strickland | 43m |
Shows a Remix demo that moves data work to the server: route loader/action functions run on the server, nested loaders run concurrently to avoid request… | ||
| Learn Enough Design to Be Dangerous | Kathryn Grayson Nanz | 36m |
Covers practical, repeatable rules for making UIs look good: color theory with four usable schemes (monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic), Gestalt… | ||
| EF Core 6: Working on the Bucket List | Julie Lerman | 47m |
EF Core 6 focuses on concrete wins: non-tracking query throughput improves significantly — benchmarks show 31% faster for non-tracking queries vs EF Core 5… | ||
| Resumable JavaScript from Scratch | Jeff Whelpley | 33m |
Builds resumability with plain JavaScript: server-rendered HTML contains inline on:click attributes that name tiny handler modules, a document-level delegated… | ||
| gRPC in .NET: Basics & More | Poornima Nayar | 43m |
gRPC is a first-class RPC option in .NET since Core 3.0 with .NET 6 recommending it for new RPCs; the session shows actual code generation from .proto files… | ||
| Freelance Freedom without the Grind: Start & Grow Your Dev/Design Biz | Tim Noetzel | 36m |
Claims specific metrics and steps: cold outreach averages under 1% response, Upwork gigs get 50+ proposals and often pay <$20/hr, and freelancing could… | ||
| Democratizing JavaScript, Jamstack, and Beyond for More Than Just Developers | Preston So | 44m |
Argues that headless must be democratized for editors and marketers, proposing continuous proofing as the editorial equivalent of CI/CD; demonstrates a Gatsby… | ||
| Debugging the Mind: Understanding Fear in Technology | Elahn Danee | 27m |
Claims that disciplined positive affirmations plus deliberate practice remove fear of tech and rewire career direction, supported by a concrete routine: daily… | ||
| Engaging Ecommerce with the Visual Web | Colby Fayock | 31m |
Demo shows a static Astro site deployed to Netlify, then a Netlify plugin that pipes assets to Cloudinary and switches images to AVIF/WebP or best-fit formats… | ||
| Dev and Test Agility for Your Database with Docker | Julie Lerman | 50m |
Shows a runnable setup: a containerized SQL Server for Linux image (2017/2019 from mcr.microsoft.com), a Flyway migration container that runs EF Core–generated… | ||
| How to (Re)build Community in 10 Easy Steps—Post Pandemic | Jen Looper | 47m |
NATO script community grows a Slack channel to 10,000 members and Front-End Foxes maintains ~1,500 on Slack while running free bootcamps (now in a fourth… | ||
| Effective User Interviewing | Elaina Natario | 41m |
Shows concrete outcomes: a discovery that trainers needed a rescheduling flow (not full chat) after talking to 6–7 trainers, and that migration specialists… | ||
| Angular Component Test Harnesses FTW | Alisa Duncan | 28m |
Shows that replacing DOM queries and manual change detection with Angular Material component harnesses and the TestbedHarnessEnvironment.loader cuts test code… | ||
| Machine Learning Model Fairness and Interpretability with AWS | Adewale Akinfaderin | 41m |
Defines concrete sources of bias (sampling, measurement, missing features, human selection), shows a 2,000-example fraud dataset with only five fraud cases to… | ||
| ASP. NET Basics For Experts | Layla Porter | 47m |
Live-coding builds a .NET 6 WebApplication that uses minimal APIs and top-level statements, moves common usings to a global file and namespaces to file-scoped… | ||
| Bouncing Back, But Not Back to Normal | Becca Bailey | 37m |
Argues that resilience is a group property, not an individual fix, and that wellness apps or training miss systemic causes; cites a 71% increase in searches… | ||
| Bridging the Gap | Alyssa Nicoll, Layla Porter | 44m |
Two engineers map six concrete gaps — personality, communication, knowledge, leadership, childcare/remote work and geo/culture — and test practical fixes: use… | ||
| Code, Creativity, and Community at Figma | Jake Albaugh | 42m |
Career arc shows how design and engineering sync using Figma plus real code: concrete tools and results include a component workflow tying Figma, React… | ||
| Build Cross-platform Apps with .NET MAUI | David Ortinau | 58m |
Claims a single codebase via single project targeting Android/iOS/macOS/Windows, shows concrete tooling: Visual Studio 2022, XAML/XAML-less C# UI, XAML hot… | ||
| Continuous Integration and Deployment using GitHub | Lebogang Madise | 34m |
Step-by-step lab shows a Blazor WebApp (.NET 6, Windows) pushed from GitHub and deployed to a free Azure App Service, with GitHub Actions building and… | ||
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