Mingle with other attendees & chat with the sponsors over breakfast & coffee! Quiche, frittatas, & fresh fruit will be served.

What the heck is the Edge? Why did the creator of Node.js make Deno? Heard of Bun? Why can't you use some Node.js APIs in Cloudflare workers? There are more serverside JavaScript runtimes than browser engines! This talk will dive into each of them, and how we can use them to render, stream, intercept and distribute our applications. More importantly, we review web standards and joint efforts that will help us write applications that can deployed multiple platforms. Ideally, you'll come out of this talk excited about new possibilities and not muttering something about IE6 all over again.

Your users will not care what tech you used but how fast your app loads. Have you used a hot new stack that everyone loves but still don’t know how to make it performant? Well, it’s because we think about performance as a after-thought after it becomes a bottleneck and when our infra gets costly, ouch! But there is a way to solve this, introducing Core React. We won’t be introducing new tools but going back to how we need to tell React what the DOM should look like. In this talk, we will finally understand why useCallback and useMemo are used, why Lighthouse doesn’t represent performance, how we can minimize component re-render, why it re-renders? and lastly how to profile it with React devtools.

Do you currently feel stuck working on a React SPA? Is the performance declining? Then it's time to sit down with the decision-makers at your company and convince them to unlock the full potential of the web platform. It is 2023, and the JavaScript ecosystem has never been stronger. In this talk, I want to make 7 points to convince your boss to go full stack. Only with access to the full stack of the web platform will you be able to tackle the performance requirements of tomorrow. You might have already fallen in love with the idea of owning the backend of the web platform, but you will need a business case with solid business incentives to make your boss pay attention. Let’s build one together!

Discuss the morning's topics with your fellow attendees, speakers, and visit the sponsor booths!

So you've added TypeScript to your codebase, tweaked your tsconfig file and you're flying high with the confidence of no more runtime exceptions and the joy of being able to confidently refactor your code, right? I've been there, it's a great feeling. But as you soon discover, adding TS to your code is only the first step of true end-to-end type safety. In fact, it's likely the easiest step. What about API calls, databases, parsed JSON, query string parameters, request and response bodies, session storage and all those third party libraries and SDKs? These are the I/O boundaries of your application and they can destroy your otherwise flawless type safety. In this talk I'll walk you through the long tail of type safety, approaches to implementing type-safety in the overlooked areas of your stack, and tools to help you do so. You'll come away from this talk well equipped to make your codebase more robust and resilient to runtime exceptions. And best of all you'll get that sweet TypeScript confidence back again!

UI’s are composed of fast parts, and slow parts in terms of how responsive they are to user interaction. React's concurrent renderer decouples the fast parts from the slow parts by allowing us to render the slow parts in the background without blocking the fast parts, so that each part can respond to user interaction at its own pace. In this talk, we'll explore Concurrent React, understand what problems it solves, how it works and how to leverage it through the use of concurrent features.

Do easy solutions come at the expense of high performance? In this talk, we'll explore this question as I build a video game from the ground up with JavaScript & React. Along this journey, you'll gain valuable insights into rapid prototyping, test infrastructure, and a range of CSS tricks that can be applied to both game development and your day-to-day work. And perhaps it may even rekindle a love for creating something meaningful & fulfilling, as it did for me!

Enjoy an extended lunch to discuss the morning's topics and connect with your fellow attendees! Take your prepaid credit card out to one of the many restaurants within walking distance and keep the productive discussion going! Find the custom map in the Slack #announcements channel to see all the recommended restaurants (and beautiful walks) within walking distance!

Together we will add a new feature to our Next.JS application. Using Xata, we will add likes to our Posts, submit a PR, view our changes in the Deploy Preview and feel the power of git-like data branches that safely move your production data into a new preview branch!

There have been a lot of advancements in CSS over the past few years that can make our web apps more capable, interesting, and performant. Not to mention the improved developer experience! So let's talk about that! And who better to chat with than Nicole Sullivan -- CSS legend and PM for Chrome?

Managing state is complicated. Humans are even more complicated. As developers, it's our job to deliver seamless and intuitive user experiences, but the sheer complexity of human behavior and the real world can make this a daunting task. In this talk, we'll explore a radical new approach to app development where language models (LLMs) and reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to handle app logic in a more intelligent and human-centric way. We're bringing artificial intelligence to state management in ways that go much, much further than calling the ChatGPT API. You will learn how you can leverage AI in your existing code to create the best UX possible, and peer into the future of AI and the path to AGI.

Artificial intelligence has made heretofore unfathomable gains in capability, utility, and popularity since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. The impressive capabilities are usurped only by the speed at which they are evolving and improving. So what does this mean for frontend development -- or for engineering itself? These are fascinating questions to explore -- with a potential for a paradigmatic shift the likes of which we haven't seen since the Industrial Revolution or the dawn of the World Wide Web. Join us as we discuss these ideas and more with Sean Grove -- who will help us to contextualize these changes with insight and even some demonstrations of the technologies & concepts discussed.

10-minute walk to the OpenSauced afterparty at Hotel Kabuki!

Join us at Hotel Kabuki's bar, lounge, and zen garden for the official afterparty! Thanks to OpenSauced for sponsonring -- OpenSauced provides enterprise insights into your open-source contributions.

Just two blocks from Hotel Kabuki, join us to enjoy live music, cocktails and mocktails, and a live recording of the Latent Space Podcast with Swyx & Alessio Fanelli! Free admission for badged attendees. ​The Latent Space Podcast is a high-signal podcast discussing AI/ML, Software 3.0, and other notes from the Latent Space. Learn more at latent.space/podcast