Dev Health 5K + Yoga
Start your morning with a 5K run or yoga session at Bayfront Park before the talks begin. All fitness levels welcome.
10x React Development with TanStack Query, HeyAPI, and AI Copilots
Last year, I deployed a large-scale React application where I personally wrote less than 1% of the codebase—yet delivered a product that impressed users, managers, and engineers alike. In this session, I'll reveal the workflow: TanStack Query for robust data synchronization, TanStack Router for type-safe routing, HeyAPI for automated API client generation, and AI copilots for the heavy lifting.
A Guide to React Compiler Rendering
The new React Compiler promises to "automatically optimize your React app"... but what is it actually doing to your component? We'll clear up the confusion and provide a solid foundation for understanding when, why, and how React renders. We'll demystify the Compiler's output, break down exactly what that code does, and see how the Compiler rewrites our mindset of using React itself.
The Last Website You'll Ever Visit (in the Browser)
We are moving from a navigation-based web, where you go to a site, to an intent-based web, where the result comes to you. If the user won't go to your URL, your app has to go to them. Learn about MCP-UI and MCP Apps, an open standard that allows developers to render fully interactive interfaces directly inside AI agents. Your React skills position you to build the mini apps of the agentic era.
React From Another Universe
React introduced a generation of developers to functional programming. For me, it was the start of an obsession that sent me down the rabbit hole of learning a new paradigm, working with different languages, shipping a few compilers, implementing a type system, and eventually reimplementing React. I'll share insights that transformed me from someone who uses React to someone who understands why it works.
Solving Your TypeScript Performance Problems
TypeScript performance problems are one of the most common and least understood sources of pain in large React codebases. These issues quietly slow you down, showing up as sluggish editors, long CI times, and confusing "type too complex" errors. You'll learn how to diagnose what's actually happening and fix it with tools like --generateTrace, Attest, and TypeSlayer.
Agentic AI Without the Magic
Agentic AI promises program autonomy and "intelligent" workflows. But integrating agentic systems into React introduces real challenges: indefinite loops, stalled responses, unpredictable state updates, UI desynchronization, and missing guardrails. I'll share lessons from building agentic workflows and practical patterns for making agents observable, controllable, and user-safe in a React UI.
The Anti-Shiny Object Syndrome
A long-term, real-world case study of how a React monorepo actually evolves in production — beyond blog-post architectures and conference demos. Rather than celebrating every new framework or pattern, this talk focuses on what stayed, what broke, and what quietly paid off. Topics include dependency discipline, state management migrations, and how to evaluate "new" React ideas without destabilizing your system.
Isograph: a compiler for your UI
Isograph is an opinionated, compiler-driven framework for building stable and performant data-driven apps. The compiler scans your codebase and generates files containing queries for all the data needed by a given screen. Want to dynamically load part of your page? One annotation. Want to load JavaScript only for rendered components? Also one annotation. Come find out more!
Robots Can't Taste
We spent years abstracting away the hardest parts of building software. Now, LLMs use tools like Payload to do the heavy lifting. But when anyone can spin up functioning software, implementation is no longer a superpower. AI is great at producing code, but it has no taste. No point of view. No opinion about what should exist. That part is still on you.
Shipping quality full stack TypeScript apps in the age of AI
How I fully rewrote my application over the course of 2 weeks to a new architecture using AI that unlocked being able to ship quality software faster. Covering setting up development environments for AI, EffectTS, best practices for debugging production, and a starter template you can use for your own applications.
React-ing a backend framework
This talk covers building a backend framework at the intersection of MCP, DX & UI. A major turning point was integrating React and introducing native support for rendering components inside tools, rethinking this backend-first framework. This takes tools to the next level and redefines how users interact with interfaces. We'll cover practical examples, implementation details, and lessons learned.
Afterparty at Wynwood
Celebrate the end of React Miami 2026! DJ, drinks, and good vibes in Wynwood.