Attended · Amsterdam
React Summit 2026.
The biggest React conference worldwide.
- Date
- Jun 12, 2026
- City
- Amsterdam
- Official site
- reactsummit.com
01 — Badge & Certificate
My badge and certificate.
02 — Sessions
Talks I attended.
Full schedule on reactsummit.com.
- 09:30
The State of AI for Web Development — Sacha Greif
- 10:10
This Component Could Have Been A Class
- 10:45
TanStack Start and How It Supports React Server Components
- 11:45
A Guide to React Compiler Rendering
- 12:20
How I Use AI as a Technical Educator
- 12:25
How I Taught LLMs How to Svelte
- 12:55
Designing for Failure: The Senior React Dev's Production Toolkit
- 14:25
The UI That Builds Itself: Exploring the Generative Front-End
- 14:30
How We Used AI to Build TanStack AI — Alem Tuzlak
- 15:00
We Need More Than Prompts
- 15:35
Lightning Talks
- 16:25
Panel: Fullstack is Eating Frontend — Should FE Engineers Adapt?
- 17:05
Speed, Quality, and AI: You Can't Have It All (Or Can You?) — Gaauwe Rombouts
Zed
- 17:40
From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering
Closing keynote
03 — Photos
React Summit, in pictures.
This Component Could Have Been A Class
How I Use AI as a Technical Educator — Adrian Hajdin
Panel · Fullstack is Eating Frontend
Speed, Quality, and AI — Gaauwe Rombouts (Zed)
From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering
Grand Final · closing ceremony
04 — Before the trip
From ticket to badge.
How to go from a GitNation ticket to a printed badge on day one.
01
Buy the conference ticket
Tickets are sold per event on reactsummit.com and jsnation.com. The invoice and ticket PDF arrive by email from the GitNation team.
02
Create a GitNation profile
Sign up on gitnation.com with the same email used for the purchase. The profile becomes the public identity used across every GitNation event.
03
Link the ticket and generate the badge
Associate the ticket with the profile. Each event generates a public attendee badge — a shareable URL that doubles as the on-site QR pass.
04
Read the attendee guide
GitNation publishes a single attendee guide covering venue, schedule, meetups, after-parties, workshops, and badge pickup hours.
05 — Takeaways
What I brought back.
The Interface Shift
Content consumption is moving from traditional websites to agentic, chat-based interfaces. Sessions on Model Context Protocol (MCP) outlined a near-headless web where autonomous assistants orchestrate tasks directly, reducing browsers to edge-case fallbacks.
Vibe Engineering Over Syntax
The creator workflow is evolving. The focus has shifted from writing code to orchestrating environments, reasoning about architecture, and managing agent execution loops.
Spec-Driven Development
The standard prompt-and-check loop wastes time and tokens. High-quality LLM generation depends on front-loading context—using detailed specs, clear rules, and structured instructions rather than vague, iterative prompts.
Agent-Native Tooling
IDEs are adapting to the agentic workflow. Companies like Zed are building editors that natively balance AI-driven development speed with strict performance and code quality standards.
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