ReactNext 2026
2026-06-23
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
[ReactNext 2016, ReactNext 2017, ReactNext 2018, ReactNext 2019, ReactNext 2023, ReactNext 2024, ReactNext 2025, ReactNext 2026]
who it's for
react developers, frontend engineers, product designers, quality engineers, platform engineers, machine learning engineers
topics
self-healing UI with local AI; autonomous testing agents with LLMs; React Cache API mastery; React Activity component prep; typesafe styling toolchain with CSS; production API monitoring in React; context-first design-to-code (MCP); orchestrating AI agents for refactoring; server-side apps alternative to SSR; WebMCP web data access; component testing in the browser; accessibility implications of AI
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Highlights | 02m | |
Short montage of ReactNext 2026 floor activity showing booths, people handing resumes, recruiters using a chat bot and attendees praising the community and… | ||
| Opening Words by Premium Sponsor - Frame Security's Co Founder | Sharon Shmueli | 05m |
Founded a year ago, Frame Security tackles the black box of cyber risk by turning AI output into human-actionable guidance. The claim is that AI both finds and… | ||
| Frontend After the AI Shift | Amit Sheen | 26m |
AI accelerates frontend change but does not remove responsibility: developers shift from code-writer to technical judge, validating AI outputs against… | ||
| Design to Code in 2026: Context-First Development with Figma MCP | Liron Bregman | 31m |
Shows a concrete setup: installs Figma MCP Desktop/Remote, connects it to VSCode Copilot and Code Connect, and runs a custom agent that takes a Figma card… | ||
| Server-Side Apps, Not Server-Side Rendering: A Real Alternative to React | Gil Tayar | 28m |
Claims a full-featured app ships with ~10–14 MB bundle using React while a server-driven approach uses ~HTMX plus ~1 KB client JS, the HTMX runtime ~50–70 KB… | ||
| What Makes Good UI Work: Lessons from Cognitive Psychology | Keren Kenzi | 27m |
Covers four cognitive processes—perception, attention, memory, decision‑making—and how specific UX rules map to real UI fixes: Gestalt laws (Prägnanz… | ||
| Self-Healing UI: Building Resilient React Apps with Local AI | Oren Efraim | 31m |
Builds a Resilient Error Boundary that detects runtime crashes and runs local inference via Chrome’s built‑in LLM (Prompt API, Translate API) to patch props… | ||
| Your UI Has Left the Building: Interfaces That Write Themselves | Sara Rakovsky | 12m |
Claim: LLMs generate interactive interfaces at runtime, not static screens, and three concrete protocols—AG-UI, A2UI, MCP Apps—cover different needs. Evidence… | ||
| Building Typesafe Styling Toolchain with Panda CSS | Didi Medina | 19m |
Claims a 500-property CSS surface is thinned to 40 properties via a small API called Saucy, implemented as a build-time TypeScript transform that emits… | ||
| Beyond useEffect: Production API Monitoring in React | Segev Shoval | 13m |
Builds a runtime system that intercepts browser fetch calls and learns response shapes then validates them in production, including a fetch interceptor hook… | ||
| Autonomous Testing Agents with LLMs in React | Omri Rajuan | 14m |
Built an autonomous pipeline around Playwright’s three agents that explores the app, writes E2E tests, and attempts fixes. The flow installs into the repo, the… | ||
| This Is Not a Story About AI Replacing Libraries | Amit Brickman | 12m |
AI is used to replace a popular React chart Gantt component by reading its repo, issues and code and then generating a custom component that initially looks… | ||
| Mastering the React Cache API | Gil Fink | 10m |
React cache API provides a request-scoped singleton that turns repeated database queries into one cached result — demo shows getHunterProfile called by three… | ||
| Preparing UI Ahead of Time with React’s Activity Component | Adir Kandel | 17m |
React’s Activity component pre-renders UI offscreen by keeping components in the DOM (usually hidden via display:none) so their state and assets load before… | ||
| Orchestrating AI Agents for Large-Scale Refactoring | Amit Hanoch, Alon Segal | 26m |
Built an AST-based deterministic analyzer that walks 40,000 files, emits a dependency tree of extractable leaves, and drives a migration pipeline of… | ||
| The Web is Forking | Nir Parisian | 27m |
The web is splitting into a human DOM world and an agentic web that finds sites via lmstxt/g.org and WebMCP, reads Markdown-for-Agents or converted HTML, and… | ||
| You Don’t Need to Worry About Accessibility with AI (Or Do You?) | Maya Shavin | 28m |
A demo generates code fixes, accessibility tests and CSS tweaks using Playwright MCP and AI copilots and pushes the page to a Lighthouse score 100, but… | ||
| Did AI Kill Frontend? | Shahar Polak, Michal Hershkovitz, Nir Kaufman, Gil Tayar, Ariel Shulman | 53m |
Panel argues AI does not kill frontend but changes the craft: teams use GitHub Copilot and agent workflows, some measure developer output by tokens and see… | ||
| Component Testing in 2026: The Return of the Browser | Guy Nesher | 15m |
Project moves from Jest + jsdom back to real browsers because many DOM interactions and visuals fail silently in jsdom. The migration uses vtest browser mode… | ||
| Beyond Scraping: The Future of Web Data Access with WebMCP | Yanai Edri | 23m |
Claims that websites can expose structured, machine-readable capabilities via the WebMCP protocol instead of fragile DOM scraping; demo shows an MCP server… | ||
| Um, Actually: Gameshow About Being (Confidently) Wrong | Dean Langsam, Tal N. Mizrachi | 33m |
Live gameshow that hunts tiny technical lies: expect rounds where contestants correct claims like JSX is transpiled to plain JavaScript before the browser runs… | ||
| React Runs Your Terminal: Let’s Build One Live | Tal Moskovich | 32m |
Live-codes a working terminal React app from an empty index.tsx using Ink renderer and Yoga flexbox, wiring useState/useEffect/useInput to fetch six AI models… | ||
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