React Rally 2020
2020-08-14
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[React Rally 2015, React Rally 2016, React Rally 2017, React Rally 2018, React Rally 2019, React Rally 2020]
who it's for
react developers, frontend engineers, engineering managers, qa engineers, developer experience engineers, community managers, technical recruiters
topics
react community culture; single-file component format (.react); react hydration fixes; static site rendering with Gatsby; visual testing with Cypress and ML; image art direction with gatsby-image; react query for server cache; co-locating UI state and providers; state management patterns (Recoil vs context); hiring and interview design for engineers; building crowdsourced directories and APIs; virtual workshop monetization
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Cultural Anthropology of React | Maggie Appleton | 37m |
Claim: React is a cultural ecosystem not just a library, visible in language, rituals, swag and outreach. Evidence: 4 million GitHub repos, 2.3M YouTube views… | ||
| Growing a Meta-Language | Shawn Swyx Wang | 32m |
Argues React is a language whose success depends on its meta‑language split into dialects, distros, devtools and shows concrete work: an MVP single‑file… | ||
| Keeping Static Site Rendering Cool with React Hydration | Monica Powell | 23m |
Server-rendered React claims faster initial content and better SEO but hydration often breaks when browser-only data or JS-delivered CSS appear. Demonstrated… | ||
| Your Tests Lack Vision: Adding Eyes to Your Automation Framework | Angie Jones | 38m |
Demonstrates adding visual testing to a Cypress suite so screenshots become assertions, using a machine‑learning visual service to compare baseline vs… | ||
| Managing State Management | Kent C. Dodds | 30m |
Argues that UI state and server cache are different problems and separating them simplifies everything, using react query for server cache and plain React… | ||
| Why Interviewing is Terrible | Jem Young | 25m |
Claim: interviews feel arbitrary because engineering splinters into tribes — scientists hackers makers — and front‑end splits into JavaScript CSS Node HTML, so… | ||
| Rebuild Black Business - Why we can’t wait | Justin Samuels | 30m |
Documentary claims a crowdsourced directory built with 500 volunteer engineers that lists 14,000 businesses and exposes an API at api.rebuildblackbusiness.com… | ||
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