React Boston 2019
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Foundations of Design Systems | Emma Wedekind | 27m |
Argues that design systems reduce duplicated work by turning UI into a design language + UI kit + component library and by separating CSS from JS so legacy… | ||
| A Guided Tour of React Hooks | Dave Ceddia | 35m |
Covers concrete mechanics: how Hooks store state in indexed slots, four bread‑and‑butter APIs (useState, useEffect, useReducer, useContext), and building… | ||
| Accessibility in the Age of Components | Ayesha Mazumdar | 25m |
Component work focuses on concrete fixes: making button icons distinguishable by adding a box-shadow focus state, restricting SVG fills to a vetted palette via… | ||
| Using React Testing Library to Write Stronger Tests | Matt Crowder | 24m |
Argues that switching from enzyme to react-testing-library stops brittle, white‑box tests and forces tests to exercise only the render output and DOM… | ||
| I've Fallen Into a Large Codebase and I Can't Get Up! | Cameron Yick | 28m |
Describes a concrete workflow that links a human-drawn concept model to real files, then overlays automatically extracted dependencies (using tools like madge… | ||
| Realtime App Development by Integrating Web Frameworks (⚡️) | Varsha Thirumakil | 08m |
Varsha Thirumakil: Realtime App Development by Integrating Web Frameworks (⚡️)
Presented by: Varsha Thirumakil – Vistaprint
Have you ever wondered how real… | ||
| Ditch the Backlog – Stop Sprinting and Start Shaping (⚡️) | Kiley Dorton | 16m |
Kiley Dorton: Ditch the Backlog – Making The Case to Stop Sprinting and Start Shaping (⚡️)
Presented by: Kiley Dorton – DentalPost
At this point, most of us… | ||
| Jest in Strict Mode – Finding and Preventing Flaky Tests (⚡️) | Arthur Buldauskas | 15m |
Wayfair runs a test suite of over 13,000 Jest tests and discovers a surprising rate of hidden failures. The team builds a Jest plugin that enforces… | ||
| Hooks, HOCS, and Tradeoffs (⚡️) | Mark Erikson | 24m |
React-Redux ships a hooks API in version 7.1 with useSelector for state and useDispatch instead of bound action creators, which makes components smaller but… | ||
| Developer First – A New Leadership Mindset | Kate Wardin | 30m |
Claim: shift leadership so leaders work for their team not the reverse, with measurable tactics and surprising scale. Cites a 2017 Gallup stat that ~50% leave… | ||
| From React to Native | Laura González | 31m |
Built a working Guardian daily‑edition app as an MVP in six months with a team of three, using React Native and Expo and TypeScript. Performance hits 60fps but… | ||
| Why You Should Make All of Your React Apps PWAs and How | Milecia McGregor | 21m |
Claim: most apps are already about 50% of the way to being PWAs and a checklist of 8 necessary attributes makes the rest incremental. create-react-app ships… | ||
| Deconstructing React and The Web Platform Delta | Amal Hussein | 45m |
Breaks down what React actually does: how JSX compiles, where attribute and casing differences diverge from the DOM, how virtual DOM batching compares to… | ||
| Your Guide to Making Scalable Design Systems | Neha Sharma | 32m |
A React design system for 30+ enterprise products that separates styling, HTML and framework glue, ships a modular SASS library, an icon set and a portal, and… | ||
| React with gRPC | Disha Sule | 15m |
React front end connects to a gRPC backend using gRPC-Web + Envoy gateway so browser clients call generated stubs over HTTP/2; the build runs protoc with a… | ||
| Saving the Web 16 Milliseconds at a Time | JOSH W COMEAU | 33m |
Claims concrete fixes: aim for 16.66ms per frame to hit 60fps, measure input latency (an ambulance tablet with 250ms device input delay ruins adoption), and… | ||
| Full-stack Type Safety with React, GraphQL, and TypeScript | Robert Zhu | 35m |
A working todo app wired with React, Apollo, GraphQL and TypeScript demonstrates full‑stack safety: backend schema comes from TypeGraphQL resolvers annotated… | ||
| React and Elm Join Forces (⚡️) | Jade Dickinson | 11m |
Claims that Redux is inspired by the Elm architecture and demonstrates how similar reducers and Elm update functions are by showing a counter side-by-side in… | ||
| Enforcing Your Design System with ESLint (⚡️) | Rafael Mendiola | 18m |
Demo shows actual ESLint rules and a published plugin that flag violations in real code and editors, not just theory. Uses ESLint + AST Explorer to implement… | ||
| Visual UI Testing – Testing the Last Mile | Craig Cavalier | 27m |
Claims that image-based visual regression testing catches real UI breaks missed by DOM snapshots, using Jest, Cypress, Puppeteer and services like BrowserStack… | ||
| Sacré Bleu! The Trials of Internationalising Your ẨṔṔŁîÇåŤḯṏÑ� | Robin Dykema | 27m |
Moved from static JSON files to react-i18next and now supports 18 locales with language detection, lazy loading and hook-based t() usage; fixed problems where… | ||
| Say Hello to Box, Flex and Stack: Layouts in the Component Era | Artem Sapegin | 22m |
Claim: full page layouts come from three primitives not custom CSS files. Uses React plus styled-system and styled-components, design tokens for… | ||
| Building the Dark Mode of Your Dreams with Color Science | Ryan Struhl | 28m |
Practical takeaways: use LCHuv (called here LCHuv) or HSLuv to generate perceptually uniform ramps so each hue yields usable light and dark stops; stops ≤50… | ||
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