New JS Runtimes Bun & Deno && Modernizing a legacy monolith [IRL @Yext]

We are partnering with the useReact NYC meetup & Yext for a spectacular return to in-person meetups! We’ll be featuring some incredible speakers & topics, along with open networking and facilitated discussion around moderated topic tables! JOIN US at Yext’s incredible office in Chelsea for a night of education, inspiration, & fun! More details below:

Schedule Overview

• 5:30pm: Food & drinks, open networking
• 6:35: Welcome & introduction
• 6:40: Talks
• 8:00: Topic tables & open networking
• 9:30: Doors close

Talk 1
Nawaz Khan: Revamping a monolithic front-end app with GraphQL, NextJS, and Cloudflare workers
Revamping a legacy monolithic codebase is scary. Why? It is time-consuming and building an entire app from scratch is usually not a viable option. In this talk, we will discuss how we can break apart the front-end from a monolith using Cloudflare workers, NextJS, and a GraphQL server. The best part is we can do this incrementally and produce a performant app with a purpose-driven architecture.

About Nawaz
Nawaz has a background in building e-commerce web applications. He has re-architected legacy front-end codebases with modern tech stacks at companies like StubHub, JUUL, and Everlane. Outside of work, Nawaz is a Dosa chef and standup comedian.

TALK 2
Shawn Swyx Wang: Bun and Deno - the new JS Runtimes
People are tearing up the foundations of JavaScript with new assumptions and a need for speed. Let’s look at the new kids on the block - Bun and Deno and explore how they might someday replace Node in your tech stack.

About Swyx
Swyx has worked on React and serverless JavaScript at Two Sigma, Netlify AWS, and Temporal. He has started and run communities for hundreds of thousands of developers, like Svelte Society, /r/reactjs, and the React TypeScript Cheatsheet. His nontechnical writing was recently published in the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior

TALK 3
Houssein Djirdeh: Next.js & Chrome
Next.js has become one of the most widely used React frameworks in the world and a small team of Google Chrome engineers are working to make it better. But why is Google trying to improve a React framework in the first place? In this talk, we’ll cover how the Chrome Aurora team is working to advance the web framework ecosystem beginning with Next.js. From improving core loading performance to providing an extensive number of utilities, the optimizations the Aurora team have landed have already improved the developer and end-user experience of hundreds of thousands of Next.js applications. By the end of this talk, you’ll learn about how the team have designed and shipped numerous image, script, and font optimizations as well as get a glimpse of a number of exciting new features planned for the near future.

About Houssein
After writing his first line of JavaScript, it only took Houssein three short years to become an accomplished developer, author, speaker, and advocate. He is an engineer on the Chrome and Web team at Google working on improving the open-source framework ecosystem. Houssein has given talks on progressive enhancement and building for the mobile user at dozens of conferences and events worldwide.

TOPIC TABLES & OPEN NETWORKING
Immediately following the talks, we will feature an hour of facilitated discussion, featuring topics managed by experts. In addition to the topics presented by the speakers, we will have a number of other experts and core-contributors participating as topic managers. Stay tuned for those announcements!

SAFETY
All attendees are required to show proof of full vaccination to gain admission. Booster(s) not required.
If you can’t make it in-person, the event will also be livestreamed on the Real World React YouTube Channel. We’ll update this description with the livestream URL shorlty!