React Rally 2019
2019-08-22..2019-08-23
Salt Lake City, United States
[React Rally 2015, React Rally 2016, React Rally 2017, React Rally 2018, React Rally 2019, React Rally 2020]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Chrome ❤️ ⚛️ (no, really) | Nicole Sullivan | 24m |
Chrome adds a frameworks PM and prototypes an in-browser scheduler called the postTask API prototype to avoid long tasks blocking input and the uncanny valley… | ||
| Frontend Application Bundles: The Docker of Frontend | Glen Maddern | 29m |
Frontend Application Bundles (FAB) are a zip‑style container with a predictable layout: a single server.js entry and an immutable /_assets directory. Build… | ||
| Off Balance: Interactive Storytelling with React | Mihai Cernusca | 23m |
Builds the interactive project America Off Balance as a digital pop-up book and explains exactly how shapes are generated with SVG paths using circle and line… | ||
| Is React Translated Yet? | Nat Alison | 26m |
React docs are now officially translated using per-language GitHub repos, a bot that cherry-picks and opens PRs for conflicts, and an automated repo-creation… | ||
| Saving the Web, 16ms at a Time | JOSH W COMEAU | 27m |
Claim: perceived snappiness matters — target ~50–100ms for input and ~16.5ms per frame for 60fps. Evidence: Amazon study (1s = $1.6B), a medical form abandoned… | ||
| Helping Governments And Nonprofits With Our Coding Superpower | Joel Denning | 24m |
Built a production React CRM for Comunidades Unidas that eliminates 4–5 duplicate donor/client databases, logs interactions (launched Phase II Monday), and… | ||
| Battle for the DOM: D3 vs. React | Danielle Carrick | 23m |
Declares DOM control belongs to React while D3 provides data tools, shows concrete examples: bar charts, line charts and a hex map built for The New Yorker… | ||
| A11y And React, Why Is It Important? | Johnny Bell | 27m |
Shows concrete fixes: audits with Chrome Lighthouse, deeper checks with the Axe extension, and automated linting via ESLint plugin jsx-a11y. Demonstrates a… | ||
| Creating Awesome UX with Observables | Feather Knee | 21m |
Shows concrete demos and tradeoffs rather than theory: uses observables to implement a GitHub image type‑ahead with switchMap and debouncing and a live loading… | ||
| So You Think YOU'RE a Junior Dev? | Revel Carlberg West | 24m |
Revel Carlberg West (https://twitter.com/revelcw) at React Rally 2019 | ||
| Horrible Interfaces and How to Build Them | Anthony Frehner | 22m |
Five quick demo interfaces built in vanilla JavaScript and HTML with CodePen links show exactly what gets built and how it behaves not just the idea Control of… | ||
| The Universe in a Single Arrow: A Live Dive into the Lambda Calculus | Anjana Vakil | 30m |
Live coding uses constrained JavaScript arrow functions to model the lambda calculus and claims one tiny pure function yields full computation. The demo builds… | ||
| All The Memory Safety Of C Combined With All The Blazing Speed Of JavaScript | Sarah Lim | 32m |
Claim: WebAssembly gives C-like memory safety with JavaScript-level speed. Demo uses WasmExplorer, Rust and the wasm-trace repo to compile and instrument… | ||
| Debugging the Debugger | Princiya Sequeira | 26m |
A walkthrough of the Firefox DevTools debugger that reports concrete features and setup: it is a React + Redux app with source-map support, worker threads, and… | ||
| Write Fewer Tests! From Automation to Autogeneration | David Khourshid | 27m |
Argues that exhaustive tests are auto-generated from a state-machine model so tests are created and regenerated when the model changes, not handwritten… | ||
| Harnessing React to Build Consistently Designed Applications | Emily Plummer | 19m |
Claims a design system that actually reduces CSS churn by shipping a React component library tied to a central theme and Primer React components. Describes… | ||
| React Hook Pitfalls | Kent C. Dodds | 27m |
Covers five pitfalls with concrete fixes: follow the docs and FAQ; install the ESLint hooks plugin (rules of Hooks + exhaustive-deps) to avoid stale effects… | ||
| Code is a User Interface | Justin Falcone | 25m |
Argues that code should be treated as a user interface and demonstrates a concrete toolchain: Zebu language-for-languages that parses tagged templates and… | ||
| Follow The (Full)stack Trace: Understand Your App with Distributed Tracing | Will Klein | 25m |
A concrete claim: distributed traces make a user click visible across frontend and backend so bottlenecks are found and fixes validated. Example stack: the… | ||
| Weaving Tapestries of Code | Jen Luker | 41m |
Claim: textile tech directly becomes computing infrastructure: Jacquard-style punched media, Babbage’s partial engines and Lovelace’s algorithm lead to… | ||
| Human React | Brian Holt | 27m |
Argues that React’s value is human outcomes not clever APIs: accessibility, internationalisation and web performance are treated as concrete requirements (maps… | ||
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