React Conf 2019
2019-10-24..2019-10-25
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]
who it's for
React developers, frontend engineers, mobile app engineers, GraphQL and Relay engineers, developer tooling authors, design system engineers
topics
Concurrent Mode scheduling; Suspense data and image loading; Relay streamable queries; React Native production practices; custom React renderer implementation; GraphQL code generation; TypeScript-driven UI hooks; codemods for bundle shrinking; design system architecture and rebuilds; accessibility engineering practices; progressive web animations; frontend developer tooling
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 Keynote – Tom Occhino | Tom Occhino | 18m |
React's stated goal is to make it easier to build great user experiences that reach more people; concrete moves include concurrent mode and Suspense for… | ||
| Day 1 Keynote – Yuzhi Zheng | Yuzhi Zheng | 17m |
Release notes claim hooks reach ~9,000 GitHub repos and simplify Relay code; server rendering adds streaming and lazy-loading to cut bytes; Selective Hydration… | ||
| Building the New Facebook with React and Relay | Frank Yan | 14m |
Rebuilds facebook.com as a single-page app using React and Relay, co-locating GraphQL queries and components and adding a custom CSS-in-JS system that emits… | ||
| Building The New Facebook With React and Relay | Ashley Watkins | 17m |
Claims concrete engineering wins: FB5 is a single-page app built on React, GraphQL and Relay and it reduces time to meaningful paint by streaming critical data… | ||
| How Our Team is Using React Native to Save the World | Tania Papazafeiropoulou | 21m |
OLIO built a production mobile app in React Native in three months with six developers, ships to Play Store and App Store, and reaches 1.3M users with 2.2M… | ||
| Using Hooks and Codegen | Tejas Kumar | 30m |
A concrete pipeline emerges: embed the Monaco editor in docs, feed it TypeScript declarations, and get in-browser autocompletion; use TypeScript generics and… | ||
| Building a Custom React Renderer | Sophie Alpert | 28m |
Builds a tiny custom renderer using react-reconciler, implements host methods like createInstance and createTextInstance, append/insert/remove child, event… | ||
| Codemod-ing away 4MB of JavaScript | Spencer Miskoviak | 07m |
A custom codemod converts hundreds of implicit font references into explicit imports and removes a single import-star that drags in 4.5k icons pulled in by… | ||
| Git is Hard but Time Traveling in Git Isn't | Monica Powell | 07m |
A discovery that GitHub honors local commit timestamps leads to commit into the future reproducing date-specific bugs, not a platform bug. Language detection… | ||
| Automagic TypeScript Codegen for GraphQL | Salvatore Aiello | 06m |
Claim: define only a GraphQL schema and scaffold a fully type-safe API layer for server and client. Uses GraphQL Code Generator plus Apollo server and client… | ||
| Why React is Eating the World | Adam Wolff | 07m |
Claims that React’s unidirectional dataflow pattern scales into backend systems, arguing event sourcing fixes racey unread indicators by turning every change… | ||
| Is React Translated Yet? | Nat Alison | 25m |
Official docs are now live in 40 languages, achieved by rejecting Crowdin in favor of a GitHub repo per language workflow, automated repo creation via the… | ||
| Building (And Re-Building) the Airbnb Design System | Maja Wichrowska, Tae Kim | 34m |
Concrete story of building Airbnb’s design system, the trade-offs and fixes: adoption of CSS-in-JS with lazy loading and tree shaking to stop global stylesheet… | ||
| Accessibility Is a Marathon, not a Sprint | Brittany Feenstra | 26m |
Argues accessibility is incremental not instant and gives concrete wins: semantic HTML fixes (headings, nav, fieldset and legend) eliminate custom key… | ||
| The State of React State in 2019 | Becca Bailey | 28m |
Compares concrete choices by building a tic-tac-toe demo and showing what breaks: prop drilling, duplicated modal state, and wrapper hell. Claims Redux is… | ||
| Let's Program Like It's 1999 | Lee Byron | 37m |
Chronicle of concrete moves: claims that PHP/LAMP mental models return via modern tools, code-level walk through of xhp to JSX lineage, a clear description of… | ||
| React Developer tooling | Brian Vaughn | 26m |
A concrete inventory of changes and results: Fast Refresh computes a component signature (including custom hook names and variable names) so function… | ||
| Data Fetching With Suspense In Relay | Joe Savona | 29m |
Claims that render-as-you-fetch plus explicit preload APIs give measurably faster and less janky loads, demonstrated by Relay running data and code in parallel… | ||
| Automatic Visualizations of the Frontend | Cameron Yick | 30m |
Automatic maps of frontend code that highlight concrete mismatches between plan and code and point to risky hotspots. Uses the reflection model (C/Java work… | ||
| React is Fiction | Jenn Creighton | 23m |
Argues React components improve when treated like fiction and proves it by building a navbar: starts with an isLoggedIn prop and a single reusable nav, shows… | ||
| Progressive Web Animations | Alexandra Holachek | 25m |
Claim: React web apps can match native mobile UI fluidity if animations use direct-manipulation patterns, interruptible springs, and browser-friendly gesture… | ||
| React and the Music Industry | Jameyel "J. Dash" Johnson | Jameyel "J. Dash" Johnson | 07m |
Claims include over ten years of software experience, millions of records sold and a double platinum single plus a film score for "83 days" that hits 15 award… | ||
| Comonads on your everyday UI | Juan Paucar | 07m |
Claims that UI state and environmental requirements like the Virtual DOM map to comonads and shows concrete code: a store object with extract and extend… | ||
| Creating Games, Animations and Interactions with the Wick Editor: A UX Talk | Luca Damasco | 30m |
Wick Editor is a free, open-source, Mozilla supported browser tool built with React.js; a two-person team turns a student project into a product used by over… | ||
| Building React-Select | Jed Watson | 31m |
A account of building react select that gives concrete takeaways: it reaches 30% of react-dom downloads so scale matters, the core is refactored into four… | ||
| Promoting Transparency in Government Spending with React | Lizzie Salita | 22m |
Front end for USAspending.gov uses React (chosen in 2015) plus d3 for SVG treemaps, Redux, and a public API; code and API are open-source and accept PRs. The… | ||
| Wonder-driven Development: Using React to make a Spaceship | Alex Anderson | 34m |
Thorium is a working open source starship bridge simulator built with React, Apollo and GraphQL subscriptions to push real time state to browser clients. It… | ||
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