Glen Maddern

2019

React Day Berlin

Frontend Application Bundles

Glen gives a fascinating talk on container technology and how that translates to the frontend.

Frontend apps are on the cusp of a revolution—React is about to launch a streaming server renderer that massively improves performance on both low-end and high-end devices. 

It's a new dawn for performance & accessibility, but raises another question. How should we host the server component? Can we do that without vendor lock-in?

Enter FABs, a portable, compact, immutable, server-side JS format that lets you deploy anything from static sites or Next.js to full custom server-rendered React apps anywhere that can run JS, like Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Now, etc. Come check it out!

React Rally

Frontend Application Bundles: The Docker of Frontend

Building user interfaces on the web is hard, because the web, and thus CSS, was inherently made for documents. Because interactive UIs fundamentally differ from flat documents, we’ve seen a mindset shift towards building component-based systems.

That progression has lead to a rise in options for including your CSS in your JavaScript code, much the same way that libraries like React have done for your HTML. But what can we learn from the progress of the past, and what do we choose to include in a new library?

This talk will cover how the design goals of styled-components have helped it become the most popular alternative for CSS-in-JS. But more broadly than that, it will look at the progression from documents, through components, to an exciting new possibility of an inclusive, unified workflow for UI on the web and elsewhere.