React Amsterdam 2018
2018-04-12..2018-04-14
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[React Amsterdam 2016, React Amsterdam 2017, React Amsterdam 2018, React Amsterdam 2019]
as the organisers put it
A fullday, twotrack conference on all things React, gathering Front-end and Full-stack developers across the globe in the tech heart of Europe. Were coming back with a new gig on April 13, 2018. Mark your calendars for the biggest React community event.
who it's for
React developers, front-end engineers, full-stack developers, UI engineers maintaining legacy systems, accessibility engineers, platform engineers, data visualization engineers
topics
RxJS and Observable integration; XState statecharts; react automata pattern; GraphQL with Apollo client; AWS AppSync and DynamoDB; server-side rendering bottlenecks; mixed DOM canvas threejs integration; redux-saga with selectors; D3 computed scales with React SVG; accessibility audits with axe and WCAG; Ableton Link audio synchronization; embedding ExtJS legacy widgets
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Reactive Programming Demystified: Drink the Kool-Aid | Tracy Lee | 27m |
Claim: reactive programming lets one copy/paste 90% of code across frameworks and future‑proof inputs. Concrete tools: RxJS and the TC39 Observable proposal… | ||
| setState Machine | Michele Bertoli | 28m |
Statecharts replace brittle flag logic with a deterministic model, implemented here using X State and a thin layer called react automata that wires actions to… | ||
| There and Back Again: Grokking State and Data | Michel Weststrate | 32m |
Argues concrete tradeoffs between immutable values and mutable references, showing how treating UI data as entities vs values changes update surface and… | ||
| D3 and React, Together | Shirley Wu | 32m |
Argues that D3 does calculations, React renders and that D3 only needs DOM control for transitions axes brushes, with concrete demos: live‑coded line, bar and… | ||
| React State Management In a GraphQL Era | Kitze Ristovski | 24m |
Argues that GraphQL plus a client like Apollo removes most data-state pain — fetching, caching and invalidation — and that teams often drop 5,000 lines removed… | ||
| GraphQL at scale with AWS | Richard Threlkeld | 28m |
Claims a managed GraphQL service called AWS AppSync delivers offline caching, realtime subscriptions, and row‑level auth while wiring to DynamoDB… | ||
| Rethinking With React 16 | Manjula Dube | 30m |
React v16.0 comes with some major changes and an update to the core algorithm. With React v16.0 Facebook has completely revised the internals of React while… | ||
| Mixed Mode React | Ken Wheeler | 27m |
Shows concrete patterns: custom React renderers and registration pattern via context, translating imperative APIs to declarative components, and mixing DOM… | ||
| Music of React | Wowa Barsukov | 12m |
Shows a concrete build: a React UI driving a synthesizer and syncing tempo with Ableton Link, using Node + socket.io middleware to emit actions and synchronize… | ||
| Structure Your App's Story With Sagas and Selectors | Rebecca Hill | 10m |
Claims that selectors should contain data shaping (example: best‑selling authors filter), argues conditional checks belong in reducers not thunky action… | ||
| How to “Reactify” Your Existing UI Components | Olga Petrova | 08m |
A concrete method for reusing legacy widgets emerges: build a wrapper that creates an ExtJS component and maps React props to its constructor, wire React… | ||
| How We DDoS Ourselves with SSR | Radoslav Stankov | 07m |
Product Hunt admits that SSR setup repeatedly overwhelms its stack for about a year: Rails on Heroku spawns a Node process with pre-rendered true, those Node… | ||
| Inclusive React: A Survival Guide | Almero Steyn | 11m |
Concrete fixes and tools for making React apps usable appear fast practical and testable Examples include restoring focus outlines instead of removing them… | ||
| Public Speaking: How Bad Can It Be | Sara Vieira | 05m |
Claimed a React fast website with service workers and even a conference site rebuilt in Vue yet the decisive details are logistical and technical: a first talk… | ||
| The Tell-Tale Metric: Replatforming with Edgar Allan Poe | David Carter, Simon Dudley | 10m |
A year long replatform to a React SPA causes a 30% drop in the key revenue signal and exposes the importance of a metric called 95 ad views per second. The… | ||
| Wonky Game Physics in Reason and Lessons Learned | Phil Plückthun | 08m |
Attempts a 2D physics engine in an eight hour flight hackathon using Reprocessing (OpenGL/WebGL wrapper) and Reason for strong types; animation states and… | ||
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