React Loop 2019
2019-06-21
Chicago, United States
as the organisers put it
React Loop brings together a diverse, inclusive group of ReactJS enthusiasts for a one day conference to learn, network, and grow. The event takes place in Chicago, IL.
who it's for
React developers, frontend engineers, mobile developers, platform engineers, QA engineers, engineering managers
topics
React Hooks composition; React Testing Library; React Native cross-platform (react-native-web); Create React App performance; TypeScript with React; React 360 WebVR; Web Workers offloading; Service workers with Workbox; Progressive hydration and code-splitting; State management with Hooks; Apollo GraphQL migration; Production debugging tactics
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Jackson - Composing Behavior in React or Why React Hooks are Awesome | Michael J. I. Jackson | 32m |
Builds a small workout app and proves hooks are just functions that compose real behaviors instead of abstract ideas The repo shows implemented hooks like… | ||
| Elizabeth Funk - An Introduction to React Testing Library | Elizabeth Funk | 22m |
Compares React Testing Library to Enzyme and shows concrete wins: a small Create React App “hang person” is tested with getByText and fireEvent to type "bird"… | ||
| Jesse Weigel - One Codebase to Rule Them All - Using React Native Everywhere | Jesse Weigel | 30m |
Argues one JavaScript codebase runs Android, iOS, web, desktop and Windows platforms by compiling React Native to DOM and native targets using… | ||
| Houssein Djirdeh - Progressive React | Houssein Djirdeh | 24m |
Create React App bootstraps a “hello world” at about 36 KB minified and compressed, but WebPageTest on a Moto G shows full load from ~2s to 4+ s; HTTP Archive… | ||
| Matthew Gerstman - TypeScript: Seeing Past the Hype | Matthew Gerstman | 27m |
Argues TypeScript is a practical tool not a silver bullet, showing concrete wins at Dropbox: propagating backend types (Stone) into Redux and components… | ||
| Adrianna Valdivia - A React Developer’s Guide to Tech Interviews | Adrianna Valdivia | 16m |
Covers concrete interview formats and failures: common screens are take-home repos, pair programming and live assessments with no whiteboarding. Explains… | ||
| Saimon Sharif - We'll do it live: Underhanded Debugging Tactics | Saimon Sharif | 27m |
Practical checklist of reproducible tactics for debugging bugs that only appear in production: rule out CDN and caching by bypassing CDN and flushing caches… | ||
| Taelur Alexis - React 360: Creating 3D User Experiences with React | Taelur Alexis | 14m |
React 360 turns React-style components into interactive WebVR scenes, with a runtime that maps View/Image/Text to 3D elements and relies on WebGL/three.js… | ||
| Eric Bishard - State Management with React Hooks | Eric Bishard | 27m |
Argues that React Hooks replace class verbosity and simplify state by showing concrete code: useState/useEffect for a counter and title updates, useReducer… | ||
| Cassidy Williams - Moving to React at CodePen | Cassidy Williams | 23m |
CodePen runs a mixed stack: originally Rails + jQuery (2012), then Redux introduced in 2016, and since mid‑2018 is migrating to Apollo + GraphQL with local… | ||
| Tyler Clark - React to Web Workers | Tyler Clark | 29m |
Shows concrete results and code: Google search case study cuts served JavaScript by 50% less JavaScript downloaded when using service workers, Workbox is the… | ||
| Tyler McGinnis - Why React Hooks? | Tyler McGinnis | 18m |
Explains why Hooks replace classes by naming the actual primitives: useState returns [value, setValue] to add local state in functions, useEffect centralizes… | ||
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