Jani Eväkallio

Inspiring talk about the web as a platform, React and its community, their future, and inclusivity.

According to npm, 63% of JavaScript developers use React. This is for a good reason: of all the ways we’ve tried building applications on the web, React seems to have chosen the right tradeoffs to make developers and teams happy and productive. 

React is eating the web.According to its website, React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It’s also an ecosystem of open source tools and development practices. But most importantly, React is a community of people with a firm grip on the steering wheel of web development and where it’s going. Do we know where we are going? When do we know whether we’ve gone too far? Siri, how can we build the best products for our users, while ensuring the continued health of the open web? Siri?

Jani is part of the React industrial complex. At his job at Formidable he helps companies and teams build software with JavaScript and React. He advocates the use of React in his conference talks, open source projects, workshops and writing. In this talk full of industry insights, real-world anecdata and many unpopular opinions, he’ll offer his industry insider point of view on where we as a community of developers may have lost the plot, and how we can do better.This is a wake-up call, and the call is coming from inside the house.

2019

React India

React, Collaborate and Listen

React Native has helped teams ship some wonderful apps -- but also many really, really terrible ones. We know it can be done, but what makes the successful ones tick? As React Native scales the hype curve towards a mainstream plateau, we need to have a talk about its strengths and weaknesses, and our responsibility as developers to make our products, and React Native as a technology, successful. 

This talk bridges engineering and art, spans topics from psychology to economics, and whatever you think it's going to be like, it probably isn't.

2018

Chain React

Good Enough Still Isn't Good Enough

When React was first introduced, it was ridiculed for going against established web development best practices as we knew them. Five years later, React is the gold standard for how we create user interfaces.

Along the way, we’ve discovered a new set of tools, design patterns and programming techniques. In this talk, we’ll explore how we can apply the React philosophy to software engineering problems far beyond the React ecosystem.

React Finland

The New Best Practices

The history of UI programming is littered with frameworks that failed because they compromised user experience in favour of rapid development. As a technology, React Native has what it takes to avoid this fate, but it’s up to us to prove it by building delightful experiences that feel native to the platform. 

The question “does it feel native?” encompasses a breadth of topics: predictability, performance, gestures, motion, sensors, sound, and more. For those of us coming from web development, there’s a lot to learn. 

This talk explains what users really expect from our apps, and how we can use React Native to not only meet, but exceed their expectations.

2017

React Native EU

When “Good Enough” - Just Isn’t Good Enough

This year, half of world’s population will be connected to the internet; most of them in the developing world, on mobile, over poor network. For them offline support is not a luxury: it is basic accessibility. Jani will walk us through how to architect React Native and progressive React web apps for the offline era.