React Alicante 2018
2018-09-13..2018-09-15
Alicante, Spain
[React Alicante 2017, React Alicante 2018, React Alicante 2019, React Alicante 2022, React Alicante 2023, React Alicante 2024, React Alicante 2025]
as the organisers put it
Do you want to learn about React and React Native? Then you shouldn't miss React Alicante next September! You will have the opportunity to improve your developer skills and meet people from around the world, while enjoying the food and warm weather from the southeast coast of Spain.
who it's for
React developers, frontend engineers, mobile app developers, UI engineers, library authors, engineering managers, QA engineers
topics
lit-element web components; styled-components and CSS modules; React Final Form; Jest and Storybook snapshots; Cypress end-to-end testing; React Native background tasks; native UI components for RN; React 360 and ARJS; zero-config bundlers Parcel and microbundle; GraphQL boilerplates; Context and render props; React Profiler and virtualization
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 - The Year of Web Components | Dominik Kundel | 49m |
Claim: 2018 is the year when web components are practical rather than theoretical. Evidence: browsers implement custom elements, templates and shadow DOM, and… | ||
| The Lonely and Dark Road to Styling in React | Sara Vieira | 31m |
Compares plain CSS, Sass preprocessors, CSS modules plus PostCSS (postcss‑preset‑env) and styled-components with concrete tooling: webpack loader chains… | ||
| Next Generation Forms with React Final Form | Erik Rasmussen | 45m |
Library claim: a tiny, framework-agnostic form engine (the core is 4.3K gzip engine) with small React bindings (3.1K react bindings) that actually ships. It… | ||
| The ABC of Coded Style Guides | Henning Muszynski | 37m |
Argues that a living component directory (a coded style guide) increases reuse and stabilizes UI by shipping a concrete setup: Storybook hosted in-repo… | ||
| Testing, Testing, 1, 2, NaN | Gant Laborde | 39m |
Argues that testing myths are false and shows concrete tooling and tradeoffs: unit tests with Jest and fetch-mock, snapshot tests via Storybook, property… | ||
| Lambdas, lambdas everywhere... | Flavio Corpa | 17m |
Refactors an Airbnb-style date picker from a stateful React class into stateless functions using recompose withState, showing a working prototype that… | ||
| Building a Chrome extension with React | Olena Sovyn | 09m |
A small Chrome extension surfaces random Urban Dictionary idioms in a new tab built with Create React App and plain React components, wiring permissions in… | ||
| Modeling errors in Now CLI | Javi Velasco | 19m |
Argues for modeling errors end-to-end in Now CLI by turning API error payloads into typed local errors, wrapping fetch to throw an API error object, and… | ||
| Journey through VR and AR with React | Tomasz Łakomy | 29m |
Marker‑based AR using React web AR wraps ARJS and shows a blue box on a printed marker and custom trained markers, plus a working demo from a single slide… | ||
| The new era of zero-config tools | Alex Jover | 32m |
History moves from manual webpack configs to real zero-config wins: Parcel: install and run actually builds an asset graph and auto-detects loaders, webpack 4… | ||
| Help! My React app is slowwwww! | Ben Ilegbodu | 53m |
Checklist of concrete fixes and tools: avoid touching the DOM by using use unique IDs as keys instead of indices; stop recreating components by move HOCs out… | ||
| Pushing React Native outside the comfort zone | Raúl Gómez | 40m |
Builds a cross‑platform music player that streams and mixes five simultaneous audio tracks, renders remote SVG scores in a WebView via a serverless lambda, and… | ||
| Components, patterns and sh.t it’s hard to deal with | Marco Cedaro | 30m |
The claim is concrete: reuse succeeds when boundaries and responsibilities are explicit. Examples come from production code (mustache, BEM, tiny lifecycle JS)… | ||
| GraphQL Boilerplates | Manjula Dube | 31m |
Claims a usable starter kit is live and open source, with a server built on NestJS + Prisma + Apollo and client examples using React Apollo (and Vue). Shows… | ||
| Taming Forms in React | Jared Palmer | 54m |
Claims that Formik removes boilerplate by keeping form state local and exposing simple helpers, demonstrates live coding to build an "invite friends" form with… | ||
| Mobile navigation | Brent Vatne | 45m |
Compares two concrete approaches: one that wraps platform nav APIs (example React Native Navigation) and one that implements navigation in JS on primitives… | ||
| Motion in React | Kaylie Alexa Kwon | 23m |
Compares concrete implementations: use CSS transitions/keyframes for simple cases and keep to opacity/transform for performance; use requestAnimationFrame when… | ||
| Better ReasonML Integration in Flow & TypeScript Codebases | Patrick Stapfer | |
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| Testing a Redux store | Anna Gruber | 15m |
An assertion library extension is built that creates a real store with a test middleware so dispatched actions and state transitions are observed end to end… | ||
| Powering Code Reuse with Context and Render Props | Forbes Lindesay | 24m |
Explains concrete patterns and tradeoffs: a reusable Now component that starts/clears a timer and updates every 100 milliseconds, swapping boolean flags for a… | ||
| React Native: The dark side of Background tasks | Ferran Negre | 34m |
Concrete examples and code decisions matter: demos include a working music player built with a native media player (Android service / ExoPlayer option) that… | ||
| An unknown land of creating libraries | Kamlesh Chandnani | 31m |
My day job is to design and architect projects at my workplace and soon I realized that there were many common modules required across projects and I always… | ||
| Navigating the hype-driven frontend development world without going insane | Kitze Ristovski | 34m |
Argues that FOMO comes from impulse-driven upgrades and social media noise and shows concrete decisions: a 14‑page remove node modules RFC as comic evidence… | ||
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