React Amsterdam 2016
as the organisers put it
React Amsterdam is a celebration of good things coming together: React.JS that rocks and spring in Amsterdam that blossoms. Event will take place in the neighbourhood of abandoned shipbuilding factory in 10 minutes by ferry from Amsterdam Central station in the venue named Pllek (The Place in Dutch).
who it's for
React developers, React Native developers, frontend engineers, mobile app developers, engineering managers, QA engineers
topics
React Native bridge and threads; server-side rendering with streaming; GraphQL client cache and reactivity; Redux-driven state architectures; unit and integration testing with Enzyme; JavaScript-to-CSS (JSS) styling systems; React for game development and RAF loops; native module linking and rnpm tooling; packager hot-reload and dev workflows; living style guides with Storybook; MobX observable state derivation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| React Native Architecture Overview | Tadeu Zagallo | 28m |
Explains concrete internals: the bridge and three threads (main, JS, shadow queue), how the packager bundles a single JS file and the VM parses/generates… | ||
| Migrating Safely to React | Jamis Charles | 27m |
PayPal’s send flow migrates incrementally: a weekend rewrite of the notes field lands and reduces files from two to one, the routing layer moves to React… | ||
| Building Reactive GraphQL Apps With Apollo | Martijn Walraven | 24m |
Claims a working stack that provides an automatic re-run of GraphQL queries when underlying data changes and shows a client built on Redux with a normalized… | ||
| Mastering Server-rendered Apps | Sven Anders Robbestad | 23m |
Uses Node and Express with shared routes and Redux state to build HTML on the server, inlines initial state into the page and hydrates the client; initially… | ||
| Testing React Applications | Jack Franklin | 30m |
Shows a small Todo app and proves tests actually catch behaviour: adding, toggling and deleting items work and regressions get prevented. Uses tape as the test… | ||
| React For Game Development | Johannes Stein | 25m |
Argues that React runs fine for games by showing concrete builds: a text‑adventure VN and a sandbox with moving villagers, a ship demo that fires cannonballs… | ||
| Javascript Style Sheets | Oleg Slobodskoi | 26m |
Claims a JavaScript-to-CSS system (first released Oct 2014) that compiles styles to regular CSS with lazy compilation and ref counting, generates conflict‑free… | ||
| Introducing and Implementing React at Coolblue | Paul van Dam | 26m |
Coolblue adopts React to rebuild filter-heavy category UIs, hiring ~10 developers a month and needing fast iteration and refactorability; the stack locks on… | ||
| Building Loveable UIs | Henrique Alves | 25m |
Argues that lovable UIs come from concrete choices: build encapsulated presentational components, compose them into container + pure layers, and document with… | ||
| State Management is Easy | Michel Weststrate | 21m |
Claims that MobX prevents inconsistent state by deriving all effects automatically from a minimal mutable state tree. Demonstrates a Mendix SDK and large SVG… | ||
| The React Native Playground | Joshua Sierles | 21m |
A browser IDE loads JavaScript from a URL using the React Native packager loads JS from a URL so code edited in the page hot reloads into a real native app… | ||
| Solving a Tooling Problem For React Native | Alexey Kureev, Mike Grabowski | 31m |
Demonstrates a concrete fixer: rnpm automates linking of native React Native modules so fonts, cameras and other assets stop causing a red screen after npm… | ||
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