Concurrent Rendering in React
Andrew Clark and Brian Vaughn unveil React.lazy, Suspense, and Concurrent Mode — and the scheduler that makes interruptible rendering possible.
Building a Custom React Renderer
Sophie Alpert·2019·React ConfSophie Alpert builds a tiny React renderer live on stage, demystifying reconciliation by writing it from scratch.
React Today and Tomorrow
Sophie Alpert, Dan Abramov·2018·React ConfThe React Conf 2018 keynote where Sophie Alpert and Dan Abramov introduce Hooks and explain why class components had become a dead end.
Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge
Rich Harris·2023·Svelte Society NYCHarris revisits the SPA-vs-MPA argument through the lens of edge runtimes — and pushes back on the idea that SSR-everywhere is a victory for users.
Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?
Rich Harris·2021·Jamstack ConfRich Harris pushes back on the SPA-vs-MPA dichotomy and sketches transitional apps — server-rendered, JS-enhanced, and progressively interactive.
Rethinking Reactivity
Rich Harris·2019·You Gotta Love FrontendRich Harris introduces Svelte 3 and argues that reactivity belongs in the compiler, not the runtime — the talk that crystallised the case for disappearing frameworks.
The Main Thread is Overworked & Underpaid
Surma·2019·Chrome Dev SummitSurma makes the case that the web is the only platform that still pretends threads do not exist — and shows how to move work off the main thread with workers.