React Advanced 2022
as the organisers put it
React Advanced is a London-based community running an annual conference for advanced React.js engineers. We are going to meet again this year, both in-person and remotely, to address the most complex and trickiest to solve topics related to our favorite JavaScript framework.
who it's for
React developers, frontend engineers, frontend architects, engineering managers, UX designers, tech leads
topics
using useEffect effectively; ES modules micro-frontends; React server components (Hydrogen); AG Grid React rendering engine; deep dive on Concurrent React; headless CMS architectures; feature flags for safer releases; understanding large codebases; design and developer overlap; career development and mentoring
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| React Advanced Conference 2022 | 02m | |
Title gives only conference themes and social details and no technical specifics so decision hinges on absence not topic. Look for an actual claim like… | ||
| How to Get a Mentor Without Telling Them | Erin Fox | 21m |
Argues that mentors can be acquired by stealth: use a side-step approach (ask for an hour to learn a skill), start a joint email signup validation project at… | ||
| A Career As Software Engineer | Michel Weststrate | 19m |
Argues that code is inevitably imperfect and that testing is an engineering judgement not a management checkbox, citing work on TypeScript, MobX and Immer and… | ||
| Using useEffect Effectively | David Khourshid | 24m |
Argues that useEffect is for ongoing activity effects (subscriptions, listeners) not for one‑off action effects, shows React 18’s double‑exec on mount (strict… | ||
| Using ES Modules Based Micro-Frontends to Enable Distributed Development | Steve King | 21m |
Claim: using native ES module imports lets a single portal load independently built UIs with smaller bundles, faster builds, and shared stateful deps. Tools… | ||
| UX and the Design/Dev Overlap | Maggie, Anjana Vakil, Siddharth Kshetrapal, Steve Ruiz | 20m |
Claim: hybrid designer‑developers are critical during early product definition because they spot technical constraints and iterate UI details in the codebase… | ||
| Hydrogen:An Early Look at Server Components in the Wild | Daniel Rios Pavia | 07m |
Hydrogen ships React 18 server components and powers production storefronts (Allbirds, others), claiming a real build that cuts typical project time from… | ||
| AG Grid's New React Rendering Engine | Sean Landsman | 06m |
AG Grid replaces its previous portal approach with a 100% React code rendering engine that maps cells into a true React hierarchy, claiming native React… | ||
| Blurring the Lines Between the Web Developer Roles | Chris Nwamba | 07m |
Claim: AWS Amplify turns a Figma file into usable React components in about 5–10 seconds, binds them to a generated data model, and deploys a full stack app… | ||
| Deep diving on Concurrent React | Matheus Albuquerque | 27m |
Claims concrete scheduling cuts perceived jank by making renders interruptible and prioritised rather than parallel, using 5ms preemption and an internal 31… | ||
| Understand Your Codebase to Innovate Faster | Simon Waterer | 18m |
Explains that Sourcegraph indexes 2 million repos so teams can search and do symbol navigation across front‑end and back‑end code, shows a time‑series tracking… | ||
| Headless - The Future of CMS Is Here | Samuel Snopko | 08m |
Claims that headless CMS lets teams keep a single backend and ship any frontend while still giving marketers editing tools, and demonstrates Storyblok’s visual… | ||
| Keep Calm and Deploy On: Creating Safer Releases with Feature Flags | Jessica Cregg | 07m |
Argues that feature flags go beyond booleans to JSON flags and numeric/string controls, and that long‑lived “safety valve” flags let systems degrade… | ||
| Interview with Erin Fox | Erin Fox | 03m |
Argues that mentoring works best as a sequence of tiny, specific asks rather than a formal request, with concrete examples like ask for a tiny task and start… | ||
| Interview with Gant Laborde | Gant Laborde | 04m |
Claims that Ignite Maverick v8 adds recipe sharing to help migrate to the new React Native architecture and shows concrete community adoption with 14,000 stars… | ||
| Interview with Maggie Appleton | Maggie Appleton | 03m |
Argues that embedding a designer-developer hybrid early measurably raises both design quality and engineering outcomes, reports surprise that the conference… | ||
| Interview with Michael Chan | Michael Chan | 04m |
Argues that visual testing is actually an integration test between a component and the browser, and that using Storybook + Chromatic lets components be… | ||
| Interview with Shruti Kapoor | Shruti Kapoor | 03m |
A concise claim: build accessible Slack-style web apps from the start and test accessibility early rather than refactoring later. The talk gives the five-item… | ||
| Interview with Sunil Pai | Sunil Pai | 03m |
Runs a company called cool Computer Club and claims to be building a concrete multiplayer real-time sync solution that will make realtime apps easier to… | ||
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