Web Developer Meetup

Welcome to 2026! 🎉

We're kicking off the new year with a React.js themed month featuring two world-class engineers sharing phenomenal insights on how to optimise your applications (better than your LLMs can).

Talk 1: Reactive State in React with Preact Signals — Bruno Kiafuka
Signals give you fine-grained reactivity: values update, and only the code that actually depends on them reacts. Bruno will introduce Preact Signals, show how they plug into React, and walk through a small example contrasting useState/derived state with signals—plus do's and don'ts for effects, computed values, and incremental adoption.

Talk 2: Optimising Large-Scale Rendering Performance — Evan Burbidge
Evan will deep dive into the methods he implemented to debug and improve the rendering performance of HubSpot forms at scale.

The agenda:

• 18:00 — Doors open: free beer, pizza, and networking
• 18:30 — Introduction with Niall Maher
• 18:40 — Reactive State in React with Preact Signals
• 19:00 — Optimising Large-Scale Rendering Performance
• 19:30 — Q&A

What's included? 🍕
Free pizza 🍻 Drinks on us 🤝 Friendly developers to chat and share ideas with 🦄 Stickers and swag (if you're quick!)

Come hungry for knowledge (and pizza). It's the perfect way to level up your skills while having fun with Ireland's biggest web dev community.

Can't wait to see you there! 🚀

Thanks to our sponsors:
Ninedots — Looking for your next role? Give them a shout!
Marsh — Providing our awesome venue and pizza.