React Summit 2026
2026-06-12..2026-06-16
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[React Summit Remote Edition 2020, React Summit 2020, React Summit Remote Edition 2021, React Summit 2022, React Summit 2023, React Summit 2024, React Summit 2025, React Summit 2026]
who it's for
React developers, frontend engineers, fullstack engineers, frontend architects, engineering managers, technical educators
topics
React Server Components; local-first P2P state; compiler-driven optimizations; AI agent integrations; advanced accessibility and ARIA; TanStack tools and patterns; Claude Code production workflows; Cursor fullstack app patterns; Peer-to-peer Pear applications; contract-first React with OpenAPI; advanced React Query usage
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| Unconference: Rethinking Engineering Careers in the AI Era | Violina Popova, Kevin Ball | |
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| Building Bridges to a Post-SPA Future | Alex Russell | link |
SPAs were always based on contingent logic. For the benefits to materialise, users must spend a great deal of time in the same interface, updating state… | ||
| The UI That Builds Itself: Exploring the Generative Front-End | Kiril Peyanski | link |
Every modern app starts from the same truth: your website is built on data. Traditionally, developers define how that data turns into UI - the f in UI =… | ||
| We Need More Than Prompts | Alex Garrett-Smith | link |
Coding with an agent tends to settle into the same loop: prompt, check, re-prompt and repeat, burning time and tokens each pass. There's a better way, and it… | ||
| Ashes to Ashes, Spec to Spec: The Rebirth of Modern Testing | Younes Jaaidi | link |
While tools like Jest, Jasmine, Karma, and Testing Library were always there when we needed them for testing our web apps, it's time to move on. In this talk… | ||
| AI Unconference | Johannes Goslar, Tobbe Lundberg, Konstantin Klimashevich, Kitze Ristovski, Adrian Hajdin, Alem Tuzlak | |
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| P2P React: Local-First State, Shared Truth | Mikkel Malmberg | link |
Most apps treat the server as truth. Peer-to-peer flips that: state starts local, users carry the data, and shared truth emerges without routing every… | ||
| The Evolution of App Development | Kadi Kraman | link |
William, a portrait painter in the 1800s, dedicated to achieving the truest likeness through anatomy and light. The evolution of building apps with Expo, a… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Fullstack is Eating Frontend — Should FE Engineers Adapt? | Kathryn Grayson Nanz, Kevin Ball, Scott Tolinski, Sam Selikoff, Alem Tuzlak, Ryan Skinner | link |
Full stack vs. frontend specialization debate. Importance of understanding the full system for developers. Analogy of developers being like doctors knowing the… | ||
| Ripple: the Good Parts of React, Svelte, and Solid | Erik Rasmussen | link |
Throughout history, empires rise and fall. Throughtout web development, frameworks rise and fall. In 2026, we are firmly in "late stage React", where young… | ||
| Fullstack is Eating Frontend - Should FE Engineers Adapt? | Konstantin Klimashevich, Violina Popova | |
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| Speed, Quality, and AI: You Can't Have It All (Or Can You?) | Gaauwe Rombouts | link |
Every team building with AI faces the same tension: move fast and ship, or slow down and get it right. At Zed, we build an IDE obsessed with performance and… | ||
| Giving AI Agents Hands: Mobile Feedback Loops with Agent Device | Mike Grabowski | link |
AI coding agents can generate React Native code quickly, but they still need a reliable way to see, touch, debug, and verify the app they are changing. This… | ||
| From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering | Kitze Ristovski | link |
Web development has always moved in cycles of hype, from frameworks to tooling. With the rise of large language models, we're entering a new era of 'vibe… | ||
| Building RSCs Framework on Rust: Architecture Decisions That Delivered 45x Performance | Ryan Skinner | link |
After 25 years building for the web, I built rari: a React Server Components framework on Rust that delivers 45x higher throughput than Next.js. This talk is… | ||
| What RSCs Can Do in Next.js Today | Aurora Walberg Scharff | link |
Building app-like UX on the web has historically meant reaching for an SPA. You ship the data layer to the browser, manage a client cache, juggle loading… | ||
| What the First Rule of ARIA Really Means | Abbey Perini | link |
ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite, is a huge topic and full of hard concepts. Learning it becomes even more intimidating when you hear "the… | ||
| This Component Could Have Been A Class | Scott Tolinski | link |
The web platform is not the same as it was in 2013, but many of us are still living in a world where every UI element is constructed from scratch in React. In… | ||
| Tanstack Start and How It Supports React Server Components | Manuel Schiller | link |
React Server Components are powerful, but most implementations make them feel like a fixed, server-owned tree. TanStack Start takes a different approach: it… | ||
| A Guide to React Compiler Rendering | Mark Erikson | link |
React is a library for "rendering" UI from components, but many users find themselves confused about how React rendering actually works. The new React Compiler… | ||
| How I use AI as a Technical Educator | Adrian Hajdin | link |
Over the past year, the way I build applications has changed dramatically. Projects that once took weeks now take days with the help of AI. But the biggest… | ||
| Designing for Failure: The Senior React Dev's Production Toolkit | Faris Aziz | link |
It’s entirely possible to be a strong frontend engineer while remaining mostly oblivious to availability, SLAs, SLOs, and delivery metrics. Many teams are… | ||
| Modernizing Your React App: Compiler, useEffectEvent, Activity & Friends | Vitor Alencar | link |
React has changed a lot in the last year: React 19, 19.1 and now 19.2 brought a stable React Compiler, new hooks like useEffectEvent, the <Activity /> API, and… | ||
| Pocket Guide to Seniority | Krasimir Tsonev | link |
Many developers believe seniority is something that happens automatically with time. In practice, some engineers repeat the same year of experience for a… | ||
| Skills in Claude Code Desktop: Architecture and Execution Runtime | Daniel Ávila | link |
A technical breakdown of how the Claude Code Desktop runtime discovers, loads, and executes Skills. We'll cover the SKILL.md spec beyond the basics… | ||
| Your React App Doesn't Need All That JavaScript | Jemima Abu | link |
Should we be using a state management library to toggle dark mode? Do we really need a custom hook for opening an accordion? And how many event listeners is… | ||
| React Bits: The Art of Standout UI | David Haz | link |
David, creator of React Bits, shares insights on designing standout UI components, emphasizing the importance of distinct interfaces without being noisy… | ||
| Effective Strategies for Managing Remote Frontend Teams | Martin Asenov Mladenov | link |
We’ll dive into proven methods for building and sustaining high-performing remote teams. You’ll gain insights into maintaining seamless communication… | ||
| From Figma to TV & Beyond: Scaling React UI with Design Tokens & MCP | Seungho Park | link |
How do you scale a React UI system from Smart TVs to refrigerators, washing machines, and more while keeping everything consistent? This talk shares our… | ||
| FWD: Urgent Opportunity to Claim Your React + MDX Newsletter Inheritance | César Alberca | link |
Hello, dear friend, I trust this message reaches you in excellent spirits. I write to you not only as a humble developer, but as the sole surviving heir of an… | ||
| Conquering React Concurrency | Ariel Shulman | link |
When React 18 was released with the first concurrent features, the documentation clearly stated, “The most important addition in React 18 is something we hope… | ||
| Scaling React: What Actually Matters | Tathagat Thapliyal | link |
React often gets blamed when applications feel sluggish. "We need to migrate." "We need a new framework." "React can’t handle scale." But what if React isn’t… | ||
| Growing to Senior & TechLead | Krasimir Tsonev, Mohamad Shiralizadeh, Ariel Shulman, Martin Asenov Mladenov, Rachel Kaufman, Artemis Leonardou | |
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| Real-World Hydration and Rendering Patterns in Modern React Apps | Raju Dandigam | link |
One of the exciting things about web development is that the underlying technology that we use is constantly evolving. It’s hard to believe, but Server… | ||
| Mess to Modern: Refactoring a React Nightmare | Kaleb Garner | link |
Have you ever been handed a React project that felt like navigating barbed wire? 900-line components, endless useEffects, and zero modularity. Join me as we… | ||
| Gotta Go Fast: React at 60 FPS | Rachel Kaufman | link |
How can you create performant animations, backed by fast-updating data, on the web, using React? Come learn how to make silky-smooth data-powered animations… | ||
| The Web is Your A11y — Building Accessible Web Apps By Using the Platform | Julian Burr | link |
The web comes accessible out of the box, we just need to know how to use it. With modern advancements in HTML, CSS, and even JS, the tools to build an… | ||
| Operating at the Edge: What Extreme Environments Teach Us About AI Systems | Michal Ziso | link |
AI has made building software faster, but it has also quietly changed the environment engineers are operating in. Responsibility hasn’t disappeared; it has… | ||
| Replacing Form Libraries With Native Web APIs | Trust Jamin | link |
In 2026, shipping a heavy library like Formik or React Hook Form is often an unnecessary performance tax. This "delete code" session showcases how to use the… | ||
| React's Role in the Web Ecosystem | Krasimir Tsonev, Martin Asenov Mladenov, Vishnudhasan Govindarajan, Rachel Kaufman, Artemis Leonardou | |
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| React vs. Real-Time: Build Real-Time Features Without Fighting the Framework | Shubham Gautam | link |
Most React applications treat state as the single source of truth. But what happens when time itself lives outside React? While building a production… | ||
| The Fourth Platform: How Vega Got Us Surprisingly Close to “Write Once, Run Everywhere” | Bogdan Plieshka | link |
“Write once, run everywhere” is a promising goal in software development, but one that often breaks down under real-world compatibility problems. At Zattoo… | ||
| Stop Guessing Your API: Contract-First React with OpenAPI | Violina Popova | link |
By 2025, our React and React Native apps were struggling with inconsistent APIs, causing bugs, duplicated work, and slow onboarding. We adopted a schema-driven… | ||
| Debugging What React DevTools Can’t See | Vishnudhasan Govindarajan | link |
React and your browser DevTools are excellent, but they stop where your business logic begins. This talk shows how I built a custom, team-specific DevTools… | ||
| Architecting Reliable React Systems in Unreliable Environments | Rajni Gediya | link |
React applications often assume predictable environments — stable networks, ordered responses, and linear state transitions. But real-world systems don’t… | ||
| Global-Scale React: Architecting for Localization, Multi-Tenancy, and Dynamic Markets | Ayodele Aransiola | link |
Building a global product using React is not just about translating UI to code; it’s about architecting for localization, multi-tenancy, compliance, and… | ||
| University is My Side Hustle: How Gen Z Builders Ship to Production | Artemis Leonardou | link |
I am 19 years old with a 9.4/10 GPA in CS, but university is not my priority. It is my side hustle. My real job is operating as a Founding Engineer. In this… | ||
| Protecting Your Cookies from Hackers and Hungry Developers! | Mohamad Shiralizadeh | link |
We will explore how attackers steal browser cookies and session data, even with modern protections in place. The session showcases real-world techniques used… | ||
| React Performance Patterns That Break Down in Long-Running Production Apps | Himanshu Srivastava | link |
Modern React tooling keeps improving, yet many teams still struggle with performance regressions that appear months after launch. This talk explores common… | ||
| React on the Edge | Ameer Sami | link |
We all know React as the community favorite library for developing web and mobile but what about devices on the edge? Edge/Embedded devices have significant… | ||
| React Query - Beyond the Basics | Dominik Dorfmeister | |
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| Pragmatic Testing Recipes: Crafting Tests That Survive the Heat | Younes Jaaidi | link |
Yunus, a software cook passionate about extreme programming and testing, emphasizes practical solutions, collective ownership, and test-driven development. The… | ||
| How to Build Reliable AI Agents with Agent Skills (in React) | Ohans Emmanuel | link |
Workshop covers basics of Agent Skills Driven Design, building production-grade agents, and understanding abstractions. Discussion on agent refactoring… | ||
| From Async Chaos to Deterministic React: Hands-On State Machine Architecture for Real-Time Systems | Rajni Gediya | link |
Workshop on deterministic React app architecture exploring async calls, state machines, X state actors, and managing device-web server data flow. Focus on UI… | ||
| Building Fullstack Apps with Cursor | Maurice de Beijer | link |
The workshop on building full-stack applications with Cursor focuses on creating a task management app called Cursorist, utilizing SQLite and Prisma ORM… | ||
| From Zero to Streaming: Implementing React Server Components Yourself | Krasimir Tsonev | link |
The workshop explores implementing components without a framework, delves into app architectures and server-side rendering, and covers client-side interactions… | ||
| Building AI-Powered Apps with TanStack AI - From Setup to Chat Tools | Alem Tuzlak | |
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| DevOps for Front-end Developers: From Local Code to Production by Docker Captain | Kristiyan Velkov | |
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| Advanced Claude Code — Production Workflows, Subagents, and Autonomous Execution | Aleksei Petrov | link |
This workshop emphasizes workflow over tools, covering building applications, production workflows, sub-agents, and autonomous execution efficiently using… | ||
| Build ChatGPT Apps with Skybridge | Frédéric Barthelet | link |
The workshop focused on building JDPT and MCP apps using SkyBridge, highlighting ALPIC as a tool for MCP development. Chad GPT Store saw significant growth… | ||
| No Servers, No Cloud, No Masters: Make P2P Apps with Pear | David Mark Clements, Mikkel Malmberg | link |
Mikhail introduces a workshop on peer-to-peer applications with a focus on real-time functionality and discusses the impact of communication and technology on… | ||
| CLI, GUI, or Just Blind Trust? A Tour of Code Review Styles | Santosh Yadav | link |
Introduction to traditional code review methods and challenges faced by developers. Challenges with code review process and the shift towards AI era and… | ||
| Personalisation Without the Price Tag - Local LLMs for JavaScript Developers | Jo Franchetti | link |
Jo guides participants in building an AI-powered role-playing game using JavaScript with LM Studio, focusing on AI optimization and local model running. The… | ||
| I Did Everything Wrong So You Don't Have To | Angel Pichardo | link |
Angel from ImageKit demonstrates the use of MCPs to improve image and video performance on React websites. The Chrome Developer Tools MCP helps identify and… | ||
| Framework Native Rendering Without Code Duplication? | Stephen Cooper | link |
Talking about an experiment in Agigrid to render to multiple frameworks without duplicating code. Exploring MVC approach for structuring code base and handling… | ||
| Taming the Flicker: Firebase Patterns for React Server Components | Rosário Pereira Fernandes | link |
Rosario from Firebase highlights challenges of client-side development and Firebase solutions like server app for authentication. Firestore's offline cache and… | ||
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