React London 2017
as the organisers put it
React London 2017 is the 1st React conference in London.It will be a day packed with talks from the most talented people from our passionate community. They will explore the possibilities that the newest advances in React bring to the industry.React London 2017 is a single track full day conference including 6 talks from industry experts, 4 lightning talks and a panel discussion with engineers from the Facebook team.
who it's for
React developers, frontend engineers, full-stack engineers, platform engineers, mobile app developers, build and release engineers
topics
JavaScript code formatting; synchronized action log; ReasonML module system; snapshot component testing; on-demand webpack bundling; offline-first Redux persistence; Next.js server rendering; styled-components CSS-in-JS; custom React Fiber renderers; dynamic compiler service
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Javascript code formatting | Christopher Chedeau | 50m |
Covers building Prettier: an actual JavaScript code formatter that rewrites whole files using an AST and the group/indent/if-break primitives, plus pragmatic… | ||
| Logux, a new approach to client-server communication | Andrey Sitnik | 34m |
Logux claims to replace AJAX with a synchronized action log combining Redux and CRDT ideas, delivering real-time updates and offline editing by syncing client… | ||
| What's in a language? | Cheng Lou | 36m |
Claim: modules in Reason/OCaml push meta concerns (file layout, mixins, docs, API surfaces) into the language so less ad‑hoc codegen is needed. Evidence… | ||
| Snapshot testing | Anna Doubkova | 14m |
Snapshot testing claims to serialize component output and flag any DOM changes so regressions and tiny ordering mistakes surface immediately; Jest introduced… | ||
| Realtime Webpack - Pushing on-demand bundling to the limits | Oliver Woodings | 16m |
Pipeline replaces Webpack input with MemoryFS, caches modules in Redis, and runs a dynamic compiler service as a pool of worker instances behind an autoscaler… | ||
| Offline for the greater good | Jani Eväkallio | 18m |
Half of world’s population will be connected this year and many arrive on poor mobile networks so offline support is essential; the claim is that a… | ||
| Next.js in production | Jasdeep Lalli | 16m |
Next.js replaces Deliveroo’s Rails-served frontend as a standalone React app aimed at server rendering with file-system routing, page-level code-splitting… | ||
| The road to <💅> styled-components" CSS in component-based systems" | Max Stoiber | 31m |
Claims a new model where the mapping from class names to components disappears and demonstrates a working library: styled-components returns real React… | ||
| A tiny Fiber renderer | Dustan Kasten | 42m |
Claim: the Fiber reconciler makes custom renderers practical — a full hostConfig of ~21 methods plus the reconciler factory is enough to get a renderer… | ||
| Panel Discussion | Christopher Chedeau, Dan Abramov, Lee Byron, Sophie Alpert | 01h 06m |
Panelists give concrete takeaways: Relay 1 will ship soon; Relay 2 is far off, webpack‑style server streaming (BigPipe) chunks HTML to prioritize top UI, and… | ||
| Weapons grade React | Ken Wheeler | 32m |
A remotely controlled robotic crossbow gets built and mostly works: an Arduino‑based rig with 50 lb draw weight, a linear actuator pulling the trigger through… | ||
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