Presentations

Surati Tech Talks 2022 / Build reliable Svelte applications using Cypress

Published: 1/8/2022

Tired of having users email you that your Svelte application is broken? Turns out that building reliable applications is hard and requires a lot of testing. You can write unit tests but quite often these all pass and the application is still broken. Why? Because they test parts of the application in isolation. But for a reliable application we need more. We need to make sure that all parts, including the backend API’s, work together as intended. Cypress is a great tool to achieve this. It will test you complete web application in the browser and use it like a real world user would. In this session Maurice will show you how to use Cypress during development and on the CI server with Svelte. He will share tips and tricks to make your tests more resilient and more like how an actual end user would behave.

Build reliable Svelte applications using Cypress

Published: 12/19/2021

Tired of having users email you that your web application is broken? Turns out that building reliable web applications is hard and requires a lot of testing. You can write unit tests but quite often these all pass and the application is still broken. Why? Because they test parts of the application in isolation. But for a reliable application we need more. We need to make sure that all parts work together as intended. Cypress is a great tool to achieve this. It will test you complete web application in the browser and use it like a real user would. In this session Maurice will show you how to use Cypress during development and on the CI server. He will share tips and tricks to make your tests more resilient and more like how an actual end user would behave.

Building Reliable Applications Using React, .NET & Azure

Published: 10/29/2021

Building a small to medium size business application with React isn't terribly hard. It has been done lots of times and there is plenty of information about what works and what doesn't. However building a large, complex and mission critical application with React is another matter. How to configure reliable hosting on Azure for the front and back-end? How to track runtime errors that happen in the browser. And how to create an efficient workflow between front and back-end teams. In this session Maurice de Beijer will share his experiences in building a globally deployed application that is used by thousands of people who depend on the availability and proper functioning of the application for a safe work environment. https://azconf.dev/

Concurrent Rendering Adventures in React 18

Published: 10/28/2021

With the release of React 18 we finally get the long awaited concurrent rendering. But how is that going to affect your application? What are the benefits of concurrent rendering in React? What do you need to do to switch to concurrent rendering when you upgrade to React 18? And what if you don’t want or can’t use concurrent rendering yet? There are some behavior changes you need to be aware of! In this workshop we will cover all of those subjects and more. Join me with your laptop in this interactive workshop. You will see how easy it is to switch to concurrent rendering in your React application. You will learn all about concurrent rendering, SuspenseList, the startTransition API and more. https://reactadvanced.com/workshops-3h

Building reliable applications with React, C#, and Azure

Published: 6/11/2021

Building a small to medium size business application with React isn't terribly hard. It has been done lots of times and there is plenty of information about what works and what doesn't. However building a large, complex, distributed and mission critical application with React is another matter. Add occasional poor mobile connectivity and things become really challenging. That doesn't mean that it is impossible, it is just harder to architect and develop. In this session Maurice de Beijer will share his experiences in building a globally deployed application that is used by thousands of people who depend on the availability and proper functioning of the application for a safe work environment. https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/events/react-virtual-conference2

Building large and scalable mission critical applications with React

Published: 6/1/2021

Building a small to medium size business application with React isn't terribly hard. It has been done lots of times and there is plenty of information about what works and what doesn't. However building a large, complex, distributed and mission critical application with React is another matter. Add occasional poor mobile connectivity and things become really challenging. That doesn't mean that it is impossible, it is just harder to architect and develop. In this session Maurice de Beijer will share his experiences in building a globally deployed application that is used by thousands of people who depend on the availability and proper functioning of the application for a safe work environment. https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/tilburg-tech-tuesdays/events/277150883/

Building Reliable Applications Using React, .NET & Azure

Published: 5/27/2021

Een kleine React applicatie bouwen met een backend is niet moeilijk. Maar wat als de applicatie groter en complexer wordt? Dan wordt het een ander verhaal. En al helemaal als het een publiek toegankelijke applicatie is. Plotseling blijkt dat allerlei vaak gedane aannames niet meer kloppen. Je krijgt te maken met netwerkstoringen en schaalbaarheid. Verschillende teams die onafhankelijk van elkaar aan de front- en backend werken. Runtime fouten die optreden omdat sommige browsers toch net even anders blijken te werken dan je verwacht. In deze sessie gaat Maurice de Beijer zijn ervaringen delen over hoe je dit aan kan pakken.

Why I am hooked on the future of React

Published: 2/27/2021

The React team rewrote the book on developing components. Before we had a choice between classes and functional components. Yet many components needed to be classes. A functional component was often too limited. Now, using hooks, we can extend functional components to be as powerful as we want. Suspense and asynchronous rendering is in the future of React. It will make large applications much more responsive and easier to deal with. Getting started with suspense and asynchronous rendering isn't hard as you will discover. Come to this session to learn what React hooks are and how to get started using hooks. But be warned, once seen React hooks can’t be unseen and your React components will never be the same again.

Building reliable web applications using Cypress

Published: 2/13/2021

Tired of having users email you that your web application is broken? Turns out that building reliable web applications is hard and requires a lot of testing. You can write unit tests but quite often these all pass and the application is still broken. Why? Because they test parts of the application in isolation. But for a reliable application we need more. We need to make sure that all parts work together as intended. Cypress is a great tool to achieve this. It will test you complete web application in the browser and use it like a real user would. In this session Maurice will show you how to use Cypress during development and on the CI server. He will share tips and tricks to make your tests more resilient and more like how an actual end user would behave.

Getting started with React Suspense and concurrent rendering

Published: 10/14/2020

React keeps on evolving and making hard things easier for the average developer. One case, where React was not particularly hard but very repetitive, is working with AJAX request. There is always the trinity of loading, success and possible error states that had to be handled each time. But no more as the component makes life much easier. Another case is performance of larger and complex applications. Usually React is fast enough but with a large application rendering components can conflict with user interactions. Concurrent rendering will, mostly automatically, take care of this. You will learn all about using , showing loading indicators and handling errors. You will see how easy it is to get started with concurrent rendering. You will make suspense even more capable by combining it with concurrent rendering, the useTransition() hook and the component.

Keep your application close, and your react components closer

Published: 8/13/2020

Storybook is a very popular development tool for React components. Developing components separately from your application will make you much more productive. Storybook will help you write and showcase your components in an isolated playground. Once done Storybook allows you to deploy your storybooks as a style guide for coworkers to use. This session by Maurice de Beijer is about developing React components with Storybook. But Storybook also works with Angular, Vue, Svelte and many others.

Why I am hooked on the future of react

Published: 3/3/2020

The React team rewrote the book on developing components. Before we had a choice between classes and functional components. Yet many components needed to be classes. A functional component was often too limited. Now, using hooks, we can extend functional components to be as powerful as we want. Suspense and asynchronous rendering is the future of React. It will make large applications much more responsive and easier to deal with. Getting started with suspense and asynchronous rendering isn't hard as you will discover. Come to this session to learn what React hooks are and how to get started using hooks. But be warned, once seen React hooks can’t be unseen and your React components will never be the same again. https://www.meetup.com/tilburg-tech-tuesdays/events/265871896/

React suspense, not just for Alfred Hitchcock

Published: 1/29/2020

The React team has rewritten the book on developing components several times. This time they have introduced Suspense. Amongst other thing this makes splitting your application into multiple bundles easier. But that is only the start as the real innovation comes when loading data. Gone are the side effect hooks with the typical loading, loaded and error states. Instead we can suspend components when loading data. Need to do multiple request? No problem you can suspend multiple components at the same time if you want. Need to trap errors? No problem just use a standard React error boundary. Come to this session to learn what React Suspense can do for you.

Why I am hooked on the future of React

Published: 10/2/2019

The React team rewrote the book on developing components. Before we had a choice between classes and functional components. Yet many components needed to be classes. A functional component was often too limited. Now, using hooks, we can extend functional components to be as powerful as we want. Suspense and asynchronous rendering is in the future of React. It will make large applications much more responsive and easier to deal with. Getting started with suspense and asynchronous rendering isn't hard as you will discover. Come to this session to learn what React hooks are and how to get started using hooks. But be warned, once seen React hooks can’t be unseen and your React components will never be the same again.

From zero to hero with the Reactive extensions for JavaScript

Published: 6/27/2019

Reactive and functional programming, you have probably heard the term mentioned before. It’s supposed to be really cool and a good practice. But what is reactive programming exactly and how to get started with it in JavaScript? And why does Angular start using the reactive extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) instead of standard promises? In this presentation, Maurice is going to show you how to get started with RxJS, the JavaScript implementation of the ReactiveX library. You will learn why using RxJS is a great way of dealing with streams of events in an asynchronous and functional way.