Vilnius.js Meetup September 2025

Autumn has arrived, and what better way to welcome it than with fresh ideas and community at VilniusJS September meetup 🍂. We'll hear how Ovoko built a growing frontend guild culture, with stories and takeaways from real experience 🧬. Then, we'll dive into React Router's evolution into a framework and how it compares with NextJS 🪴. Join for learning, sharing and connecting together 🤩.

📌 Schedule
18:00 Gathering, mingling, drinks and snacks
18:30 "Growing Guild Culture" by Artur Ingelevič
18:45 "React Router as a Framework: Evolution and Comparison with NextJS" by Žygimantas Vanagas
19:15 Hangout at Ovoko office (Žirmūnų g. 70, Vilnius)

⚔️ Growing Guild Culture
How can a small frontend group shape practices that scale with a growing company? This talk shares developers experience of building a guild at Ovoko. Expect real stories, challenges, and actionable takeaways for making guilds a foundation of company culture.

👨‍💻 Bio: Artur Ingelevič
With over 16 years in tech, Artur started out as a backend developer before pursuing a long-time dream to specialize in frontend. Along the way, there’s been the privilege of contributing to some of the most successful companies in the region — including Vinted, Oberlo, and Shopify. Today, at Ovoko, Artur leads the frontend guild, helping shape practices, culture, and collaboration for a fast-growing engineering team.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arturas-ingelevic-213a1795/

🛠️ React Router as a Framework: Evolution and Comparison with NextJS
React Router has long been the go-to library for navigation in React apps, but with the introduction of Data APIs, loaders, actions, and streaming in v6.4+, it has grown into something much closer to a framework. In this talk, we’ll explore the evolution of React Router — from its origins as a client-side router, to its Remix-inspired transformation into a full-stack-ready framework. We’ll compare its approach to NextJS, highlighting their different philosophies, technical trade-offs, and use cases. Finally, we’ll look ahead at what the future holds for React Router in a React ecosystem increasingly shaped by server components, streaming, and full-stack frameworks.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zygimantas-vanagas

👨‍💻 Bio: Žygimantas Vanagas
Former sales manager turned frontend developer, with experience ranging from building dating platforms to developing complex internal tools in a span of around 9 years. Now a Senior Frontend Developer @ Ovoko.

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