React Conf 2018
2018-10-24..2018-10-26
Henderson, NV, United States
[React.js Conf 2015, React.js Conf 2016, React Conf 2017, React Conf 2018, React Conf 2019, React Conf 2024, React Conf 2025]
as the organisers put it
React Conf 2018 is the official Facebook React event. This year's event will be held in Henderson, Nevada.
who it's for
React developers, frontend engineers, mobile app developers, library and framework authors, engineering managers, UX and interaction designers, community organisers
topics
function component hooks; concurrent rendering in React; Suspense for data fetching; Create React App v2 features; declarative animation libraries (Pose); migrating render props to hooks; service worker state synchronization; React Native new architecture; AR/VR with React Native (Viro); React and WebAssembly porting; GraphQL-inspired colocated queries; SVG illustrations as components
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| React Today and Tomorrow | Sophie Alpert, Dan Abramov | 58m |
React adds "hooks": functions like useState and useEffect (and useContext) that let function components hold state, perform side effects, and subscribe to… | ||
| 90% Cleaner React | Ryan Florence | 34m |
Claims code becomes 90% cleaner by replacing render props with hooks and demonstrates concrete tools: useState/useEffect/useReducer plus custom hooks like… | ||
| Building Todo The Game In A Cloud-Only Dev Environment | Christina Holland | 35m |
A to-do turned game is built and deployed entirely from a Chromebook browser using AWS Cloud9, create-react-app, Firebase Firestore + Auth, and now.sh the demo… | ||
| The Path To A Declaratively Animated Future | Matt Perry | 25m |
Claim: imperative animation is too brittle for most UI work so a declarative layer simplifies it. Built a CSS-like library called Pose on top of engines like… | ||
| What's New in Create React App | Joe Haddad | 04m |
Create React App v2 adds concrete features not promises: postCSS support (custom properties and the all property polyfilled), SASS and CSS Modules out of the… | ||
| Components as Units of Work | Bryce Kalow | 05m |
Claim: components serve as small units of work that encapsulate lifecycle logic instead of just UI. Uses React plus simple intervals and instance flags to… | ||
| 5 Animations You Should Know and Use | Marcos Martins | 05m |
Five concrete animations: hover animation, sticky elements, skeleton loading animations, sliding (X/Y) and opacity transitions for in-place reveals. Examples… | ||
| Render Props, PureComponent and Reactivity | Karl Dray | 06m |
A real bug appears when render props close over changing props but a middle layer uses PureComponent so shallow equality hides updates the concrete example at… | ||
| Better Living through Git Hooks | Leta Keane | 05m |
Walks through concrete hook scripts: use the repository's hooks directory, remove the .sample suffix and add a bash script so pre-commit runs tests and blocks… | ||
| GraphQL without GraphQL - Backend Agnostic GraphQL inspired Queries For Colocating Data Requests With Components | Conor Hastings | 28m |
Claims a GraphQL-style query layer that runs against any backend and parses real GraphQL queries using GraphQL.js. Implements client-side resolvers, caching… | ||
| Playing With Polyhedra: Creating Beauty from Obsession | Nat Alison | 28m |
An interactive web app that animates real polyhedron transformations is built and it works: React + x3dom drives a graph of roughly about 120 polyhedra… | ||
| Developing Immersive cross-platform AR and VR Apps using React-Native | Pulkit Kakkar | 26m |
Demo of cross‑platform AR/VR using react native, ARKit and ARCore with a Viro React renderer that claims one codebase for iOS and Android while delegating… | ||
| Beyond Web-Apps: React, JavaScript and WebAssembly To Port Legacy Native Apps | Florian Rival | 30m |
GDevelop’s C++ core compiles with Emscripten into a 3 MB WebAssembly bundle (currently using asmjs) and exposes game classes to JavaScript via WebIDL bindings… | ||
| React For Social Change | Rodrigo Quezada | 19m |
Two React Native mobile apps connect to a GPS stream from a 20 million–person city; a reinforcement‑learning agent simulates routes and optimizes bus spacing… | ||
| Concurrent Rendering in React | Andrew Clark, Brian Vaughn | 42m |
Concurrent React claims nonblocking, priority-driven rendering and demonstrates time-slicing and Suspense by lazily loading a Mary Poppins demo component… | ||
| Moving To Suspense | Jared Palmer | 31m |
Argument rejects a full rewrite and shows an incremental path over days not months using concrete APIs and a working demo app that removes spinners and caches… | ||
| SVG illustrations as React Components | Elizabet Oliveira | 21m |
Claims that inline SVGs let components be animated and highly customizable using import as a React component (create-react-app or SVG R) or by convert to JSX… | ||
| The Missing Abstraction of Charting | Chris Trevino | 28m |
Claim: there’s a missing mid-level abstraction between taxonomic chart components and raw SVG/canvas. Implementation: a small library called Chart Parts… | ||
| Elsa: AI Conversational Agent Aimed At Improving Mental Health For Women | Damini Satya Kammakomati | 30m |
Mental health among women is a crucial, yet ignored and their symptoms are highly misunderstood. The number of people actually taking professional help for… | ||
| Context in React | Sophia Shoemaker | 06m |
Claims that Context is for sharing state only inside a component tree not as global app state and that it removes prop drilling. Uses React… | ||
| Building a better Country through Tech | Manuela Castrillon | |
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| An Effective Code Review | Donavon West | 05m |
Concrete rules: use suggestive wording and give readable phrasing examples like it might be more readable if we change this to use a temporary variable, focus… | ||
| Syncing Component State Across Tabs with Service Workers | Tyler Clark | 05m |
A demo shows a concrete way to keep React component state identical across tabs without WebSockets by using a service worker message bus that receives state… | ||
| Block the Main Thread | James Long | 31m |
Asynchronous bridge messages cause frame stalls that make touch interactions feel like rubber bands; JavaScript speed isn’t the problem, the async bridge and… | ||
| React Native's New Architecture | Parashuram N | 30m |
Describes replacing the async JSON bridge with a JSI host objects model so JavaScript can call native functions without serialization, adds a new Fabric UI… | ||
| Let React speak your language | Tomáš Ehrlich | 28m |
Introduction to Lingui project which aims to fill the gaps in the internationalization workflow and provide the best developer experience. It started as a… | ||
| React for Designers with FramerX | Thomas Aylott | 17m |
Title promises React and FramerX but the content focuses on building inclusive events: concrete accessibility checklist items (venue layout, wheelchair access… | ||
| Building A Diverse And Inclusive Community. | Eyitayo Alimi | 29m |
Claims that Framer X runs real React components so designers can drag production NPM packages into prototypes, use Ant components, Lottie, maps and publish a… | ||
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