Name: Frontier Alicante 2027
Start: 2027-09-30
End: 2027-10-02
Location: Palacio de Congresos de Alicante

Speakers: 32
Workshops: 10
Attendees: 600
Countries: 50+

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Speakers on stage during a panel at React Alicante 2026

Attendees laughing during a talk at React Alicante 2019

Attendees chatting at the coffee stand at React Alicante 2022

Community

We optimize for the best atmosphere

@aileenvl

Speaking here was a highlight of my year. Huge thank you to Victoria and the organizers for running one of the kindest, best organized and curated events I've been to.

@TejasKumar_

Sitting in the airplane on the way out from @ReactAlicante, I am so thankful and fulfilled by the incredible work of the team that put this together… This is such a special, community-driven conference.

@matteocollina

Thanks again to the organizers of @ReactAlicante!!! The conference was a blast… I’ll try to come back if they’ll have me!

@thekitze

super pumped for opening @ReactAlicante tomorrow, this venue is 🔥

@aurorascharff

Wow! What a day. This was so much fun, thank for having me @ReactAlicante 😊 Lots of excited attendees learning here.

@ythecombinator

The @ReactAlicante vibes are so unique! 💃🕺

@erikras

I’ve had it with @ReactAlicante. This will be my last year at React Alicante! RIP. 🪦 See you next year at @FrontierAlicant!!!

@gethackteam

Woke up to the most amazing view, excited for todays GraphQL workshop @ReactAlicante

Line-up 2026

Speakers

Mattia Manzati

Mattia is a frontend developer passionate about frontend software architectures. A lover of TypeScript and React. His favourite hobby is to try out new and weird things in tech.

Marcel Kalveram

Marcel has been working with React since 2016, when he built his first prototype in React—and later React Native. While he has spent most of his career as an engineer at heart, over the years he has developed a strong product-minded approach, blending this across roles ranging from individual contributor to product owner and now back to IC. Originally from Germany, he has been living in sunny Valencia for the past 17 years—long enough to call both Bratwurst and Paella home.

Aurora Scharff

Vercel

Aurora Scharff is a DX Engineer at Vercel and the React Certification Lead at certificates.dev. She specializes in education and community engagement around React and Next.js, developing high-quality learning resources, creating demo applications, and speaking at conferences worldwide to support and advance modern web development practices.

César Alberca

Freelance Frontend Architect | Helping You Build Scalable, AI-Ready, Frontend Architecture. Digital nomad from Spain. As a Freelance Frontend Architect, I design and build robust, maintainable applications using React, Angular and Vue—with a strong focus on architecture, testing, and software craftsmanship. I specialize in DDD, Hexagonal Architecture, and Modular Design Systems. International speaker and Codemotion committee member and ambassador, and a published book author, I’m passionate about empowering teams and sharing knowledge through talks, workshops, and open-source contributions. For me, code is not just a tool—it’s a craft.

Aileen Villanueva Lecuona

I’m a Software Engineer, Google Developer Expert (GDE), and community builder based in Mexico. My work centers around JavaScript, web development, and emerging AI tooling. I use AI as a tool in my engineering workflow, helping me prototype rapidly and take my ideas further. I'm highly interested in the future of interaction design and building interfaces where users and agents work side-by-side. Outside of work, I actively organize tech communities in Mexico. Whether I'm running a meetup, hosting a workshop, or speaking at a conference, my goal is to create approachable spaces for anybody to learn and share knowledge

Aris Markogiannakis

CityJS

Senior Frontend Developer, a Lecturer and a community Leader in London (and the world), JavaScript Community organiser and the creator of CityJS Conference.

Violina Popova

ClipMyHorse.TV

Violina is a software developer with over a decade of experience in the tech industry, specialising in building scalable cross-platform applications. She is currently a developer at ClipMyHorse.TV, the world’s leading video streaming platform for equestrian sports, where she works on delivering high-quality digital experiences to a global audience. She is also the co-founder of Frontend Queens, a global community created with the belief that everyone, especially women, should have the opportunity to thrive in technology.

Forbes Lindesay

Forbes is a full stack developer working primarily with node.js and React. He maintains many open source projects, including [funtypes](https://funtypes.dev), [@databases](https://www.atdatabases.org) and [Pug](https://pugjs.org)

Sara Vieira

Matheus Albuquerque

Medallia

Matheus is a Staff Front-End Engineer at Medallia, building their surveys platform and helping them shape the customer experience market with React. He is also a Google Developer Expert in Web Performance. His areas of interest include React and its ecosystem, JS and compile-to-JS languages, DX, and perceived performance optimization. In addition to public speaking on these topics, he volunteers at TechLabs, where he teaches front-end development.

Daniel Afonso

PagerDuty

Daniel Afonso is a Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty, SolidJS DX team member, Instructor at Egghead.io, and Author of State Management with React Query. Daniel has a full-stack background, having worked with different languages and frameworks on various projects from IoT to Fraud Detection. He is passionate about learning and teaching and has spoken at multiple conferences around the world about topics he loves. In his free time, when he's not learning new technologies or writing about them, he's probably reading comics or watching superhero movies and shows.

Krzysztof Kowalczyk

Elastic

Self-taught software engineer, UX enthusiast, problem solver. Currently a software engineer at Elastic, working on global UX solutions for Kibana.

Three days by the sea

Schedule

Here's what we enjoyed at the last edition. The full programme for 2027 will be announced in April.

Talk
Lightning talks
Break

Friday

08:00 – 08:50

Badge collection

Friday

08:55 – 09:00

Conference opening & welcome

Friday

09:00 – 09:30

React-Driven Development: Career Lessons from the Framework Wars

Daniel Afonso

"No one uses what I built!" "Why can't I get support to do this?" "I don't even know why we're using that?" "Why am I always the one doing everything?" Sound familiar? The truth is, friction is ever-present in our careers — in our influence, processes, relationships, and even the code we ship. But we're rarely taught how to handle it. Here's the fun fact: React's history is full of lessons in dealing with friction. From the early skepticism around JSX and the Virtual DOM to the chaos of Server Components, the React team has navigated many friction points you'll face: skeptical stakeholders, unclear messaging, delayed initiatives, and the challenge of getting buy-in. So let's recap the highlights since its birth to the latest release, understand what React got right (and wrong), and extract practical takeaways you can apply to your career, team, and developer experience initiatives. Whether you're leading a team, building internal tools, or advocating for a technical decision, you'll leave with concrete strategies for driving change, building trust, and shipping initiatives that actually get adopted.

Friday

09:30 – 10:00

The New Node.js: Built-in Batteries and the Road Ahead

Matteo Collina

Not long ago, starting a Node.js project meant installing lots of packages just to handle environment variables, run tests, or use TypeScript. Now, those days are behind us, and 2026 is the time to make the switch. Node.js is stronger than ever, but there’s still a big issue: many people keep using outdated versions with known security problems. We need to discuss the current LTS schedule and why you should switch to Node 26. This session will cover both the roadmap and hands-on examples. You’ll see how much you can do with just Node.js and your chosen framework, often with far fewer extra packages. We’ll look at built-in TypeScript support that works right away, so you can write and run TypeScript without a build step. We’ll also cover testing with node:test and node:assert, built-in .env configuration, and native fetch powered by Undici for HTTP. Other topics include watch mode for development, node:sqlite for embedded databases, and the stable Permission System for better security.

Friday

10:00 – 10:30

Making your codebase AI-ready

Kateryna Porshnieva

For decades, we've optimized code to be read by humans — naming conventions, file structure, abstractions, documentation. All of it shaped by what helps a person understand the code and make changes safely. Now more and more code is written, reviewed, and navigated by AI, which doesn't have the same strengths or weaknesses we do. This talk asks what good architecture looks like in the AI era, in a way that sets AI up to succeed. I'll share what we've learned leading this shift at Buffer — which traditional principles still hold, which need rethinking, and how to approach this transformation in an existing codebase.

Friday

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

Friday

11:00 – 11:30

Native o’clock: time to use the platform

Joel Arvidsson

Following years of converging, the native platforms look drastically different again – it’s time to leverage the biggest strength of React Native and make our users happier at the same time. Instead of limiting ourselves to the lowest common denominator, this talk explains why and how to leverage the underlying platforms’ native components and APIs to build a better, faster and more accessible app. It explores the differences between the iOS and Android platform SDKs, how the more recent SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose frameworks are a great but underutilized fit for React Native due to shared paradigm, and finally how to tap into them using either Nitro or Expo Modules.

Friday

11:30 – 12:00

What RSCs can do in Next.js today

Aurora Scharff

Friday

12:00 – 12:30

Your simple frontend shares backend challenges

Mattia Manzati

Frontend and backend are often treated as opposite worlds. But are they really? Modern frontend apps face many of the same challenges as backend systems: multiple tabs drifting out of sync, shared cache invalidation, coordinating a single source of truth, retries, optimistic updates, and stale data. In this talk, we’ll look at how everyday UI code increasingly becomes a coordination problem, and what we can learn from backend thinking to handle it better.

Friday

12:30 – 13:00

Breakout Session: Building 3D Games in React

Sara Vieira

Video games! Now that I have your attention: yes, you can build real 3D games with the same React you use to render dropdowns and settings pages. To prove it, we'll build Arkanoid, the brick-breaking arcade classic, using React Three Fiber. Along the way we'll cover meshes, lights, and cameras, physics with Rapier and the postprocessing that makes everything glow. React can really do everything!

Friday

13:00 – 14:25

Lunch

Friday

14:25 – 16:10

Lightning talks

Łukasz Nowak – D[JS]
Milica Drača – Building Schema-Driven Forms in React
Krzysztof Kowalczyk – Improving frontend developer productivity in large React codebases
Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes – From Isolation to Acceleration: Building the fastest payment platform on an iFrame
Sujit Pradhan – React Compiler: Goodbye useMemo? Rethinking React Performance
Marcel Kalveram – Monoliths Work — Until They Don’t
Oana Gabriela Stroe – Redrawing the line between engineering and design
Jakub Tkacz – How Expo Observe can help you improve your app

Friday

16:10 – 16:40

Coffee break

Friday

16:40 – 17:10

Fun with streams

Forbes Lindesay

Streams are an excellent abstraction for handling real time events, and streaming data such as audio and LLM responses. This talk takes you through the key APIs of web streams, and provides some examples for how you can use them in your applications.

Friday

17:10 – 17:40

Ripple: the Good Parts of React, Svelte, and Solid

Erik Rasmussen

Throughout history, empires rise and fall. Throughout web development, frameworks rise and fall. In 2026, we are firmly in "late stage React", where young devs can't remember the world any other way, and older devs are keeping their eye on the horizon for what's next. What if I told you there was a TypeScript-first UI framework created by a member of both the React _and_ Svelte core teams focused on fine-grained reactivity and rendering speed that will look instantly familiar to you? I'd like to introduce you to Ripple, show you around its syntax and philosophy and stimulate your mind out of the Present and into the Future.

Friday

17:40 – 18:10

Beyond Client-Side State: React Meets Durable Execution

Kevin Maes

From UI state to data-loading, React developers have plenty of solutions for managing client-side state. But what happens when a user action kicks off a process that takes hours or days to complete? Where does that state live, and how does your UI stay connected to it? A new wave of durable execution solutions is addressing exactly this: backend processes that persist long-running state, retry on failures, and survive continuous deployments without interruption. Built on lessons from Navion, an AI-native logistics company, this talk shows how React and Temporal work together in production to coordinate the automation and human oversight of thousands of delivery orders. I'll demonstrate how React 19's server features wire directly to workflows by querying their state, sending data and commands to running processes, and surfacing errors to users. The benefits of durable execution will become clear and you'll take away a practical understanding of when to use its power and how to wire it into your React application.

Friday

18:15 – 19:15

Refreshments & networking

Where

Alicante, Spain

The venue

The conference will take place at Palacio de Congresos de Alicante, a modern conference hall that both the speakers and audience will love. Here we have gathered information about some accommodation possibilities.

Airports

Alicante's airport is one of the busiest in Spain, with flights from 119 different destinations. Alternatively, you could also fly to Valencia, taking a direct train from there to Alicante (90 min.), or Madrid, taking the high-speed train to Alicante (2.5 hours).

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