React Day by Frontend Nation 2025
2025-04-29
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who it's for
React developers, frontend engineers, ui engineers, accessibility engineers, full stack developers, engineering managers, developer advocates
topics
accessibility in React; shadCN component patterns; ARIA roles and semantics; roving tabindex navigation; WCAG AA compliance; useMemo and useCallback costs; state setter function pattern; TanStack data fetching; Inertia.js with Laravel; Inertia deferred props and useForm; streaming LLM outputs as NDJSON; React Server Components and Suspense
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building Accessible Web Apps in React | Shruti Kapoor | 34m |
Argues that accessibility belongs in the first lines of a React app and proves it with a three‑stage demo that converts a broken list into a usable experience… | ||
| We are React-ing Wrongly | May Shavin | 38m |
Argues that useMemo and useCallback are widely overused and shows benchmarks: list render demos at 100 and 1,000 items where per-render time difference is only… | ||
| Using React with Inertia.js | Leah Thompson | 29m |
Rebuilt a multiplayer math-quiz app (original took ~200 hours) using React + Inertia.js + Laravel + Tailwind and cuts boilerplate by sending backend data as… | ||
| UI Engineering for the AI Age | Tejas Kumar | 38m |
Live-stream LLM outputs to avoid 15+ second waits and show content as it arrives, using Express + OpenAI then upgrading to the Vercel AI SDK stream_object… | ||
| React AMA | Kent C. Dodds | 54m |
Argues the web browser will evolve into an AI assistant client and websites become MCP servers, launches EpicAI Pro to teach that vision, and bets heavily on… | ||
| How React Has Evolved Since Leah Started Using It in 2022 | Leah Thompson | 01m |
React documentation shifts from 2022 move from class-based examples to hooks-first guidance and the ecosystem now treats class-based components as legacy, with… | ||
| Leah's #1 React Tip For Developers | Leah Thompson | 01m |
Claim: breaking an app into small, reusable pieces makes React apps easier to reason about and faster to change. Concrete workflow: write the component first… | ||
| What Excited Leah Thompson The Most About React's Future | Leah Thompson | 01m |
React’s mainstream adoption, anchored by Next.js and broad enterprise adoption, means funding and prioritization for real features and longterm support rather… | ||
| Q&A | Leah Thompson | 07m |
Rapid-fire Q&A about using React with InertiaJS that claims InertiaJS adapters for Laravel Rails Django let teams write a monolith frontend while reusing… | ||
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