Looking for a great React Conference?

CONNECT.TECH 2019 is the largest multiframework frontend conference in the USA. It’s a premium Web, Mobile and Design conference at a community conference price!

A dedicated TWO day track (and workshops!) on React, 6 excellent keynotes, and these other 9 tracks as a bonus:

React · Angular · Vue · Node/Serverside · Core JS/JS Frameworks · Advanced JS · Design/UI/UX · Web/HTML/CSS · Mobile · Practices

React sessions and Keynotes listed below:

Writing Performant React

Niya

Writing Performant React

The lecture will provide an in-depth look into how to write React with performance in mind. A step-by-step walkthrough of some of the different methods and tools that can help to optimize your React for better performance.

The How and Why of Flexible React Components

Jenn Creighton

The How and Why of Flexible React Components

React is a well-loved framework. It gives front end engineers the tools to create component-based views. But we’re still discovering the best practices for component architecture. Follow me as I refactor real components from a real codebase that are real complex into simple, flexible code.

Beyond Spaghetti: Cooking up better applications w...

Ryan Lanciaux

Beyond Spaghetti: Cooking up better applications with inspiration from the culinary world

Software development is a relatively young field. What is considered “beautiful code” one day can be an anti-pattern the next. What if there was a way to write software that is easier to maintain, quicker to write, and more consistent by taking some timeless inspiration from the more established, culinary world?

Jazz Up Your React Site With ✨Animations✨

Anastasiya Flynn

Jazz Up Your React Site With ✨Animations✨

So you’ve learned React and you are able to map static designs to functional webpages - cool! The next part of your journey is learning how to add animations to your page, because through animations you’ll be able to sprinkle micro-interactions on your elements, which enhances UX by making your pages more enjoyable to interact with. In this session I will introduce you to a few of my go-to libraries for animations. You will learn how to use these libraries to add animations to your pages. Also, you will learn what’s a good candidate for animation, and how to avoid animation overkill.

Component-Driven Development using Storybook

Steve Pietrek

Component-Driven Development using Storybook

ReactJS has quickly become a front-end developer favorite for creating web applications. One of the key features is its component-focused approach for building applications. As developers, we are always on the lookout for the best ways to improve development workflow. In this session, we’ll start by discussing component-based development. We will move to discussing Storybook and benefits it provides when building component-based applications. Storybook is a development environment which allows you to develop components in isolation, view the component library, and interact with the different states of a component. Finally, we will cover Storybook add-ons and discuss how they can improve the development experience. This talk will enable attendees to start using Storybook in their own ReactJS applications.

Real World React: Lessons from 5 Years in the Tren...

Cory House

Real World React: Lessons from 5 Years in the Trenches

Since 2013, I’ve successfully shipped dozens of React apps. In this session, I’ll share hard-earned lessons learned including automated workflows, folder structures, testing tricks, Storybook configuration, custom doc generation, prop and state management, performance tips, plugins, centralized API calls, error handling, mock APIs, styling approaches, creating a company framework, and more. Attendees will leave with a variety of actionable tips for improving their UI development practices.

Advanced React Design Patterns

Stephen Sorensen

Advanced React Design Patterns

Writing simple react components easy but as your application or library grows in complexity, it becomes increasingly important that your components are designed in a way that makes them easy to use and easy to maintain. That's hard. In this talk, we'll discuss emerging design patterns for writing awesome React components. Using these patterns in the right circumstances will make your components fast, readable, maintainable, usable, and testable.

React && Accessibility

Sean McPherson

React && Accessibility

React has developed a reputation for generating inaccessible web applications. We'll dive into the world of accessibility and dispel that myth while learning some practical examples and helpful tools for creating accessible React applications.

Why React Hooks

Kent C. Dodds

Why React Hooks

In October 2018, the React team announced a new feature which took the React community by storm. It's called "hooks" and after using it for a while I've come to love it. In this talk we'll go over what this feature is and focus on why this feature is necessary. We'll checkout an app built with traditional React class components and the same app built with React function components and hooks so we can compare the two approaches.

React + Gatsby: Smooth as butter, fast as greased ...

J.C. Hiatt

React + Gatsby: Smooth as butter, fast as greased lightning!

<p>Come learn all about React and one of its closest friends, the blazing fast static site generator Gatsby! In this talk, you'll learn how to get started building React components, and you'll also learn how to build a super fast blog powered by Gatsby, Markdown, and GraphQL.</p>

Keynote: The Future of Frameworks

Minko Gechev

Keynote: The Future of Frameworks

The Future of Frameworks Minko from the core Angular team will discuss what's coming in the world of Web frameworks!

Information Overload and Personal Productivity

Scott Hanselman

Information Overload and Personal Productivity

Machine Learning for All

Erica Stanley

Machine Learning for All

As we hear more and more about Machine Learning, few web developers have actually had the opportunity to use it in production. It seems like you have to have years of Data Science, Statistics or AI education to even understand how to start. While some prerequisite education is needed to get you started, it's not as much as you might think and there are collections of libraries to help along the way. This session will give a brief introduction to Machine Learning, delve into the libraries that make it possible and discuss our lessons learned from evolving our machine learning efforts from prototype to production at SalesLoft.

The Death of the Full-Stack Developer (and what to...

Cory House

The Death of the Full-Stack Developer (and what to do about it)

Our industry is vast. It moves too quickly for anyone to keep up. My suggestion? Pay attention to less stuff. In this story-driven talk, I’ll share the power of focus. Focus isn’t easy. It requires saying no to the “full stack” mindset. It requires clarity about what you *don’t* do. Specializing improved both my career, and my personal life. I’ll share a simple recipe for finding your specialty. Earn more. Stress less. How? Focus.

The Art of Simplicity

Venkat Subramaniam

The Art of Simplicity

We've been told to keep things simple. It turns out, that's easily said than done. Creating something simple is, well, not really that simple. If simple was sitting next to us, would we even recognize it? Is my design simple, is yours simple? How can we tell? That's a simple question, but the answer to it is... well come to this talk to find out.

AHA Programming

Kent C. Dodds

AHA Programming

Are you the kind of programmer who prefers to never see the same code in two places, or do you make liberal use of copy/paste? Many developers swear by the Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) philosophy while others prefer to Write Everything Twice (WET). But which of these produces more maintainable codebases? I've seen both of these approaches lay waste to codebases and I have a new ideology I would like to propose to you: Avoid Hasty Abstractions (AHA). In this keynote, we'll talk about abstraction and how you can improve a codebase by applying and creating abstractions more thoughtfully as well as how to get yourself out of a mess of over or under-abstraction.

Teamworking like a professional

Chris Fritz

Teamworking like a professional

In this keynote, we'll discuss how to make it easy to negotiate and maintain best practices on a team.

Tracks: 10

10 tracks over 2 days with experts from our global front-end community

Sessions: 100+

100+ in-depth sessions and 3 awesome keynotes

Workshops: 10

Get hands-on learning with workshops from professional trainers