React Rally 2018
2018-08-16..2018-08-17
Salt Lake City, UT, United States
[React Rally 2015, React Rally 2016, React Rally 2017, React Rally 2018, React Rally 2019, React Rally 2020]
as the organisers put it
React Rally is a two day single track conference for developers of all backgrounds using Facebook's React.js, React Native, and related tools. Speakers will cover topics such as React Native, Flux, ES6, isomorphic universal JavaScript, and so much more. Whether you're a seasoned developer who has been using React since before it was cool, or a newcomer to the scene, React Rally has something for everyone!
who it's for
React developers, frontend engineers, engineering managers, library maintainers, mobile developers, localization engineers
topics
React Fiber time-slicing; logged React lifecycle instrumentation; chaos engineering for front ends; explorable visualizations with react-spring; WebAssembly in web apps; ReasonML via BuckleScript; TypeScript and type systems; offline-first PWAs and service workers; GraphQL component integration; Babel and build tooling maintenance; disposable component architecture
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Why React is not Reactive | Shawn Swyx Wang | 27m |
Functional-reactive libraries like RxJS make it easy to understand how data changes, giving us tools to declaratively handle events and manage state. But while… | ||
| Reacting in a Crisis | Carrie Maxwell | 23m |
Grassroots teams pivot from hackathon prototypes to disaster response, shipping small usable features under pressure: React CRA Redux webpack for web front… | ||
| Algebraic effects, Fibers, Coroutines...Oh my! | Brandon Dail | 30m |
Explains why React rewrites as React Fiber let the library implement time slicing and suspense by replacing the native call stack with JS fiber objects and a… | ||
| The Life Cycle Methods and The Wolf A Musicological Romp | Ryan Moore | 29m |
A small service logs React lifecycle calls with timestamps to sessionStorage, throttles them, and publishes a WebSocket event stream to iPads where musicians… | ||
| Chaos Monkeys in Your Browser What Chaos Engineering Means for the Front End | Brian Holt | 27m |
Argues that intentionally injecting failures reveals real-world brittle spots, with Netflix’s Chaos Monkey and commercial Gremlin as operational tools and… | ||
| Explorable Explanations with React | JOSH W COMEAU | 25m |
Builds an interactive waveform explorable using SVG path via straight lines, a timekeeper that redraws frames, and a path-calculator that mixes two point-sets… | ||
| AI For Everybody | Feather Knee | 25m |
A web app that exposes GPU-backed machine learning via a React front end connects to a framework-agnostic backend and a shared GPU server and is already usable… | ||
| One Hundred Years of JavaScript | Justin Falcone | 24m |
Argues that code must survive decades and centuries, citing Mocha (1958) still running for Department of Defense contracts and the longevity of COBOL and… | ||
| ReasonML is Serious Business | Ken Wheeler | 30m |
ReasonML is presented as a practical toolchain: BuckleScript to JavaScript with readable output, a Hindley‑Milner type system giving exhaustive pattern‑match… | ||
| Swipe Left, Uncaught TypeError Learning to Love Type Systems | Lauren Tan | 30m |
Bold claim: Types reduce bugs. Uses TypeScript examples — generics like a reusable array and map, bounded generics to exclude null/undefined, and… | ||
| Help me WebAssembly, you're my only hope! | Jay Phelps | 21m |
WebAssembly (aka wasm) is a new, standardized compilation target for the web, shipping in all modern browsers. But since it's so low level it can be difficult… | ||
| Hot Garbage Clean Code is Dead | Michael Chan | 34m |
Argues that clean code is dead and proposes practical “hot garbage architecture”: build small React components, prefer pliable over speculative generality… | ||
| React Off the Grid | Sophia Shoemaker | 17m |
Rebuild of a case-management app for a Ghanaian child-reunification NGO that becomes usable on slow or offline connections by converting a Laravel… | ||
| Through the (Open Source) Looking Glass | Henry Zhu | 22m |
Explains why Babel 7 keeps slipping: an RC lands a week before the conference while the project still sits around beta 56, release decisions stall over… | ||
| Translating React | Jennifer Wong | 26m |
Walks through actual internals: inspects react.createElement and the object shape returned, traces JSX to the Babel plugin transform-react-jsx, and follows… | ||
| Simply React | Kent C. Dodds | 25m |
A concrete claim: a single 37-line component can support accordions, tabs and dozens of variants without bloated prop lists. Demonstrations use render props… | ||
| Everything You Need to Know About GraphQL in 3 Components | Eve Porcello | 26m |
Explains how to get live data into React using three concrete components and the exact tools used like react Apollo and Apollo Boost with gql queries, shows a… | ||
| Route Recalculating | Ryan Florence | 43m |
Claims that Suspense and time-slicing move data fetching into components using resources that throw promises, demonstrate preload to avoid waterfalls so… | ||
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