ReactiveConf 2016
2016-10-27..2016-10-28
Bratislava, Slovakia
[ReactiveConf 2016, ReactiveConf 2017, ReactiveConf 2018, ReactiveConf 2019]
as the organisers put it
World-class mobile and web innovators get together for three days in one town.Join them from October 26th to 28th in Bratislava, Slovakia!
who it's for
React developers, frontend engineers, mobile app developers, UI engineers, toolchain maintainers, engineering managers
topics
React Native async bridge; server rendering with Next; Cypress JavaScript testing; Redux boilerplate reduction; styled-components best practices; Elm in production; BuckleScript and Reason toolchain; optimistic UI updates with transactions; GraphQL for mobile apps; component browsers and living styleguides
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How the web ecosystem shaped Angular 2 | Igor Minar | 33m |
Angular 2 claims concrete wins: ES6 classes and a decorators proposal enable metadata and static analysis; a zones polyfill controls async for automatic change… | ||
| Testing the way it should be | Brian Mann | 37m |
Claims that Cypress replaces Selenium for modern web testing with a JavaScript-first desktop app and headless Electron CI, demonstrates time travel snapshots… | ||
| The Age of Reason(ML) | Sean Grove | 30m |
Reason claims a concrete toolchain: BuckleScript produces readable JavaScript, a native compiler targets ARM64 for iOS and Raspberry Pi, and the runtime builds… | ||
| Living in an async world of React Native | Krzysztof Magiera | 30m |
React Native’s async JS↔native bridge causes one-frame delays that break complex touches, animations and storage access; demos show orientation flips… | ||
| What's Next? Exploring the future of React | Guillermo Rauch | 34m |
A new framework called Next is unveiled with a working demo: local filesystem routes, hot reload, server rendering that resumes on the client, and a static… | ||
| Speed up app development with prefabricated, extensible, open-source backends | Michael Glukhovsky | 29m |
Claim is that using prefabricated open source backends cuts boilerplate and gets apps running from browser to DB with no server code by default Horizon built… | ||
| Paradigms for dealing with asynchrony | Jared Forsyth | 30m |
Compares concrete tradeoffs between callbacks vs promises vs observables vs CSP, shows code from a Khan Academy app where an exercise task flow is implemented… | ||
| Optimistic updates in a pessimistic world | Daniel Woelfel | 28m |
Concrete claim: implement optimistic updates by keeping optimistic state separate, logging transactions, and reconciling with a server-side state so rollbacks… | ||
| Past and future of client-side routing | Thomas Roch | 28m |
Those change! World-renowned mobile and web innovators got together for three days in one town.Thomas Roch: Past and future of client-side routing MVC… | ||
| Elm and React in production | Richard Feldman | 33m |
Company uses Elm and React side-by-side in production, starting small and expanding; results include 50,000 lines of Elm after ~1.5 years and zero runtime… | ||
| Reducing Redux Boilerplate | Peter Perešíni | 05m |
Argues that Redux boilerplate falls by collocating behavior: actions carry the reducer function and an optional path so updates run deep in state, letting… | ||
| An API search engine in Elm for Elm | Jonas Coch | 05m |
Elm-search is an Elm-built search engine that indexes the documentation JSON of every latest published package, creating a single searchable index of 15,000… | ||
| React is the new Lego - how we deal with a lot of components | Ondřej Bartas | 05m |
Claim: Blueberry builds an automated component browser called BlueKit that scans a codebase and generates a living library of components. It discovers props… | ||
| Rich text editing with DraftJS Plugins | Nik Graf | 05m |
Facebook open-sources Draft.js and it powers status updates, comments and notes, with editable state that serializes to JSON and restores perfectly. A concrete… | ||
| A Life on a Commandline | Patrick Stapfer | 05m |
Claims that a full JS/React workflow fits in one terminal get a concrete demo: a tmux session, vim editing with recorded vim macros, curl and Python to fetch… | ||
| Reconceptualize your entire app as a function | Adam Terlson | 06m |
Argues an entire React app is a pure function UI whose output is produced by composing small presentation components with vertical higher‑order components… | ||
| Thinking metrics on React applications | Jean Carlo Emer | 05m |
GloboPlay uses React Router 2.0 with server rendering and Google Analytics; a small page view component calls GA on componentDidMount and records pageviews. A… | ||
| Styling in React | Javi Velasco | 05m |
A small package called react-css-themr separates styles from components and injects themes via a higher-order component + provider so raw components pick up… | ||
| Markdown + React = 💙 | Kristjian Ristovski | 05m |
A live React markdown editor that actually outputs React components and accepts a tiny custom syntax for component props is built and demonstrated working… | ||
| Road from UndefinedLand | Gregory Shehet | 04m |
Grammarly uses React and sees bugs creep into production so testing becomes mandatory; Selenium and Jest prove too heavy so a shift to tape plus Airbnb’s… | ||
| With good naming convention, CSS works pretty well | Aleksey Kulikov | 03m |
Claims that a three‑developer React.js app ships 6561 lines of CSS with just 5 !important and records zero CSS issues over a year: no refactoring typos, no… | ||
| Styled-components: Styled-components Enforcing best practices | Max Stoiber | 30m |
Claims that styling moves into JavaScript to enforce component-focused rules by generating actual CSS in JS per component, removing class-name mapping, and… | ||
| Building validated forms with great UX in React | Marcela Hrda | 28m |
A small client-side library exists on npm/github that decouples validation from Redux, implements synchronous-first checks then async lookups, and reduces… | ||
| The Universality of Static Sites | Mark Dalgleish | 32m |
Claims that React components can be pre-rendered at build time into real HTML using a React-to-HTML Webpack plugin and later generalized as a static site… | ||
| Visualizing the data flow with Cycle.js | André Staltz | 35m |
Built DevTools visualize live reactive streams so events literally zap between nodes, showing recursive component trees, DOM and HTTP worlds, and a counter… | ||
| Writing Sound Asynchronous Code with Coroutines | Tomaš Kulich | 36m |
Shows why dangling promises silently lose errors and how a generator-based coroutine library gives concrete fixes: explicit parent-child coroutines where… | ||
| Immer-mutable state management | Michel Weststrate | 34m |
Argues for observable mutable models that produce cheap structural-sharing snapshots by using computed values so snapshots reuse unchanged subtrees, enabling… | ||
| Building Universal Windows Apps with React Native | Ryan J. Salva | 29m |
Demonstrates that code push already moves JS bundles out of the JSC into Chrome or node for debugging and that the next version will upload source maps… | ||
| Building better mobile apps with GraphQL | Martijn Walraven | 29m |
Explains why GraphQL began at Facebook in 2012 to power native mobile apps and shows concrete tooling and results: GraphiQL autocompletion and live examples… | ||
| Bridging the Gap: How to use React Native in existing large native code bases | Leland Richardson | 35m |
Claims concrete tradeoffs: initial approach uses a separate JS repo with a multi-repo CI shim that clones iOS and Android, builds bundles, and pushes artifacts… | ||
| No Xcode, Android Studio, Java, Swift, Objective C - how far can JavaScript get you? | Brent Vatne | 29m |
Exponent runs a native JavaScript runtime on top of React Native so apps ship without Java, Swift, Objective‑C or IDEs; a CLI publishes bundles to S3 and an… | ||
| Through the Looking Glass | David Nolen | 35m |
Claims concrete enough to pick: ClojureScript plus persistent immutable data structures yields 3× speedup over plain React in a benchmark, and adding 13 lines… | ||
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