Q&A Schedule

We host one or two Q&A’s per month with Facebook Engineers and other interesting developers in the React community. These Q&A’s usually take place on Thursdays from 1pm - 2pm PT.

If you want to hear from someone specific in the community, let us know by contacting us via X or ping an admin or moderator in the #reactiflux-moderation channel on discord.


Past Q&A’s & Meetups

October 2024

This Month in React, October 2024: React DevTools update, React Native 0.76 (new architecture dropped), Web Components are(n't) the future

  • Carl, Mark, and Mo

  • Join Carl, Mark, and Mo as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

September 2024

This Month in React, September 2024: Async Components??, a React 19 cheatsheet, static Hermes, and trademarks drama

  • Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Mo Khazali

  • Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Mo Khazali as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

August 2024

This Month in React, August 2024: Matt Pocock taught us to make modules, RN is faster, iterator helpers are cool, JSR/Deno going sour

  • Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Mo Khazali

  • Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Mo Khazali as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Tuesday, August 27th, 2024
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

July 2024

This Month in React, July 2024: State of React, State of JS, React, HTML

  • Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Mo Khazali

  • Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Mo Khazali as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

June 2024

This Month in React, June 2024: React 19 delayed (drama-ish), why no JS Laravel, TS 5.5 and more

  • Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Mo Khazali

  • Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Mo Khazali as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

May 2024

This Month in React, May 2024: Updates from React Conf

  • Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Mo Khazali

  • Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Mo Khazali as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Thursday, May 30th, 2024
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

April 2024

This Month in React, April 2024: So many new releases, React 19 featureset

  • Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson

  • Join Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

March 2024

This Month in React, March 2024: React canary is 19, New ShadCN bits, Astro looks like Wordpress. Wiz??

  • Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson

  • Join Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

February 2024

This Month in React, February 2024: React 19 (but more details), Apple tries to kill PWAs

  • Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson

  • Join Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

January 2024

This Month in React (January 2024)

  • Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson

  • Join Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

December 2023

This Month in React (December 2023)

  • Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson

  • Join Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

November 2023

This Month in React (November 2023)

  • Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson

  • Join Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

October 2023

This Month in React (October 2023)

  • Carl Vitullo and Mark Erikson

  • Join Carl Vitullo, and Mark Erikson as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation about React Forget, Canary Releases, Barrel Files, TanStack v5, Yarn v4, and a preview of RTK Query v2.

  • Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

September 2023

This Month in React (September 2023)

  • Carl Vitullo, Jacob Paris, and Sebastien Lorber

  • Join Carl Vitullo, Jacob Paris, and Sebastien Lorber as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, September 27th, 2023
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

August 2023

This Month in React (August 2023)

  • Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Sebastien Lorber

  • Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Sebastien Lorber as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, August 30th, 2023
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

June 2023

This Month in React (June 2023)

  • Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Sebastien Lorber

  • Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Sebastien Lorber as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

Jenny Truong

  • Carl Vitullo and Jenny Truong

  • Drawing on Jenny’s experience working at a highly-productive startup, join us as Carl Vitullo talks with her about how burnout can manifest, how it can impact our lives in unexpected ways, and how we can manage the energy we give work to thrive without burning out.

  • Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

This Month in React (May 2023)

  • Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Sebastien Lorber

  • Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Sebastien Lorber as we break down This Month in React. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Monday, June 5th, 2023
  • Main Stage on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

May 2023

Communication with Elizabeth Woolf

  • Carl Vitullo, Elizabeth Woolf

  • Developing software requires a lot of communication with other developers, with other teams and divisions, with managers or less experienced developers. Carl Vitullo is joined by Elizabeth Woolf to talk communication and feedback.

  • Thursday, May 18th, 2023
  • Reactiflux main stage

  • Transcript

April 2023

React Miami with Michelle Bakels

  • Carl Vitullo, Michelle Bakels

  • Michelle Bakels is co-organizer of React Miami and Program Director of Developer Health at G2i, a hiring platform for Javascript and React developers with deep ties to Reactiflux! We talked about the upcoming conference, how speakers are selected, and how developer health was core to the conference. Learn more at https://www.reactmiami.com/, and if you buy a ticket, use our discount code REACTIFLUX10.

  • Saturday, April 29th, 2023
  • Q&A Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

March 2023

This Month in React (April 2023)

  • Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Matt Pocock

  • Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Matt Pocock as we break down This Month in React. A lot of news this month, with new library releases, TypeScript 5.1, and React server components. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
  • Q&A Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

This Month in React (March 2023)

  • Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Matt Pocock

  • Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Matt Pocock as we break down This Month in React. A lot of news this month, with a major progress update from the React core team, TypeScript 5.0, and TC39 meeting news. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation.

  • Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
  • Q&A Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

Sunil Pai and Mark Erikson

  • Mark Erikson and Sunil Pai

  • Rewrites! Everyone wants to do one, but the software industry is littered with examples of failed rewrites. Our host Carl Vitullo is joined by Mark Erikson and Sunil Pai to talk shop about what they’ve looked like in our careers, and how to help make sure they’ll be successful.

  • Thursday, March 16th, 2023
  • Q&A Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

Ankita Kulkarni

  • Ankita Kulkarni

  • When Ankita became a manager, she had to find mentors to help her learn the subtle intricacies of being a successful manager. Now, she’s taking what she learned and teaching developers about what that transition looks like, and how to decide if that’s how you’d like to further your career.

  • Thursday, March 9th, 2023
  • Q&A Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

February 2023

Behind the React Documentary

  • Christopher Chedeau & Ida Bechtle

  • A documentary about React, produced by Honeypot.io, was released on February 10th, and Carl Vitullo spoke with two of the people instrumental in making it happen: Ida Bechtle, staff filmmaker from Honeypot; and Christopher Chedeau, whose contributions to the React and JS ecosystem are nearly innumerable — React, React Native, Prettier, Docusaurus, Excalidraw, and more. We talked about the documentary itself, how it got made, and some other behind-the-scenes info — an unofficial “DVD commentary” for the documentary.

  • Thursday, February 16th, 2023
  • Stage Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

Josh W Comeau

  • Josh W Comeau

  • Josh Comeau is an indie hacker, educator, and long-time member of the React community. He has a brilliant way of intuitively explaining complex subjects, and we're excited to talk with him about content creation, his experiences being an independent educator, and his new course, Joy of React https://www.joyofreact.com/ Join us as we talk about his content creation process and journey through the tech industry!

  • Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
  • Stage Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

January 2023

Tejas Kumar

  • Tejas Kumar

  • Tejas has worked in developer relations for years at companies like Vercel, Spotify, Xata, and G2i, and is now an independent educator and content creator. He's a mentor, keynote speaker, and angel investor, and we're exited to talk tech! He's super interested in edge computing, Qwik, and React. He and Carl talked about why he's starting a company, not letting fear of failure stop you from trying, investing, and about keeping the focus in devrel on relationships.

  • Thursday, January 26th, 2023
  • Stage Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

Wix team

  • Tom Raviv, Omer Kenet, & Peter Shershov

  • Wix has been making web development more accessible since 2006, and they're currently celebrating the release of their new project Codux, a visual IDE for React. We're excited to talk about the history of our industry and what we can learn from the golden age of frontend development.

  • Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
  • Stage Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

Matt Pocock

  • Matt Pocock

  • Matt Pocock is an educator building content and workshops to help developers become TypeScript wizards.

  • Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
  • Stage Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

May 2022

Assaf and Yshay from Livecycle

  • Yshay Yaacobi and Assaf Krintza

  • Livecycle.io cofounder and CTO | cofounder and VP of R&D — discussing React, web development, and working as software developers

  • Thursday, May 12th, 2022
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

March 2022

David K Piano

  • @DavidKPiano

  • Founder @ stately.ai – Visual software modeling tools and services for making app logic more accessible and robust.

  • Thursday, March 10th, 2022
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

February 2022

Hasura Team

January 2022

Tabnine Team

  • @ShinanYotam

  • Tabnine is building a top-to-bottom AI-assisted development workflow that empowers all code creators, in all languages, from concept through to completion.

  • Thursday, January 27th, 2022
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

December 2021

November 2021

October 2021

September 2021

Netlify Team: Cassidy Williams & Jason Lengstorf

August 2021

July 2021

Guillermo Rauch

  • @rauchg

  • Founder and CEO of @vercel

  • Thursday, July 8th, 2021
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

April 2021

Sentry.io Team

  • Evan Purkhiser & William Mak & Katie Byers

  • The team from Sentry.io will be on to answer all your questions! Sentrys application monitoring platform helps every developer diagnose, fix, & optimize the performance of their code.

  • Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
  • Q&A Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

March 2021

February 2021

Yarn Team

January 2021

Wallaby Team

  • Artem Govorov and Simon McEnlly

  • The team that creates Wallaby.js and Quokka.js will be on to answer questions about their products, JavaScript/TypeScript testing, and how they create software development tools.

  • Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
  • LIVE on YouTube + Q&A Channel on Reactiflux

  • Transcript

December 2020

November 2020

October 2020

September 2020

August 2020

Tanner Linsley

  • @tannerlinsley

  • Open Source developer known recently for react-query and react-virtual, and many other open source libraries.

  • Thursday, August 6th, 2020
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

July 2020

Brandon Bayer

  • @flybayer

  • Creator of Blitz.js, a monolithic React framework built on top of Next.js

  • Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

June 2020

December 2019

October 2019

September 2019

Frank von Hoven & Gant Laborde

  • @infinite_frank & @GantLaborde

  • Frank is a Senior Software Engineer at Infinite Red, Organizer at Chain React Conference, and Editor-in-Chief of The React Native Newsletter. Gant is CTS of Infinite Red, Organizer @ChainReactConf, Open Sourcerer (Ignite, Reactotron, etc).

  • Thursday, September 5th, 2019
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

August 2019

React Rally

  • React Rally is a two day single track conference for developers of all backgrounds using Facebook's React.js, React Native, and related tools. Speakers will cover topics such as React Native, Flux, ES6, isomorphic universal JavaScript, and so much more. Whether you're a seasoned developer who has been using React since before it was cool, or a newcomer to the scene, React Rally has something for everyone!

  • Thursday, August 22nd, 2019
  • Salt Lake City, UT

Bob Scarano & Craig Blagg

  • @scarano & @iwillreply

  • Bob is the team lead of the Mobile Content-Editing team at Squarespace. Craig is the team lead of the Design Platform team.

  • Thursday, August 15th, 2019
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

July 2019

Clubhouse Team

  • @clubhouse - Eli Perkins, Jenel Myers, Nicolas Charpentier from the mobile team @ Clubhouse.io.

  • Clubhouse is a project management platform for software development that brings everyone together to build better products. Clubhouse is built using tools like React Native, React, Relay, GraphQL, Gatsby and more.

  • Thursday, July 25th, 2019
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

June 2019

Conrad Irwin

  • @conradirwin / @superhuman

  • Conrad is the co-founder & CTO @ Superhuman. Superhuman is an amazing email client built with React/Electron. It's basically VIM for email.

  • Thursday, June 6th, 2019
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

May 2019

April 2019

March 2019

Kent C Dodds

  • @kentcdodds

  • Engineer @ Paypal, Teaching via Egghead & Frontendmasters, and Author of react-testing-library, downshift, glamorous, & an all around good dude.

  • Thursday, March 28th, 2019
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

February 2019

Jamon Holmgren

  • @jamonholmgren

  • Co-Founder & CTO @ Infinite Red, React Native Core, Chain React: The React Native Conference Organizer

  • Thursday, February 7th, 2019
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

January 2019

December 2018

November 2018

Jeroen Ransijn

  • @Jeroen_Ransijn

  • Design Systems Lead @ Segment, spearheading the design, development and adoption of Segment's open-source design system, Evergreen

  • Thursday, November 15th, 2018
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

October 2018

September 2018

Orta Therox

  • @orta

  • Engineering Janitor at Artsy | Created Danger: which helps codify PR culture, co-runs an iOS dependency manager, Re-designer - Two Years of React Native by Orta Therox

  • Thursday, September 6th, 2018
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

August 2018

Benjie Gillam

  • @benjie

  • Maintainer of PostGraphile - fast and secure GraphQL API for your PostgreSQL database (formerly known as PostGraphQL)

  • Thursday, August 9th, 2018
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

July 2018

Vincent Riemer

  • @vincentriemer

  • Software Engineer @ Symantec | Author of React Native DOM, iO-808, and Amateur Music Producer

  • Thursday, July 19th, 2018
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

Norbert de Langen

  • @norbertdelangen

  • Senior Frontend Consultant @ Xebia | Maintainer of Storybook

  • Thursday, July 5th, 2018
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

June 2018

Tanner Linsley

  • @tannerlinsley

  • VP of UI/UX @ Nozzle.io | Author of React-Static, React-Table, React-Charts, Chart.js, React-Form, Swimmer

  • Thursday, June 21st, 2018
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

Richard Threlkeld

  • @undef_obj

  • Senior Technical Product Manager @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Focusing on developer experience in AWS Mobile (JavaScript, React, React Native, Ionic, GraphQL, Offline and Realtime development). Working on AWS AppSync, a GraphQL BaaS. | GraphQL at scale with AWS @ React Amsterdam

  • Thursday, June 14th, 2018
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

May 2018

Peggy Rayzis & James Baxley

  • @jbaxleyiii & @peggyrayzis

  • Open Source Engineers @ Apollo | Building Apollo Client, Engine, Server, and other tools to help you incrementally adopt GraphQL.

  • Thursday, May 10th, 2018
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

April 2018

Tanmai Gopal & Vamshi Surabhi Rao

  • @tanmaigo

  • Founder & Tech Lead @ hasura.io - Postgres-backed GraphQL backend as a service | Topic: Building a high-performance GraphQL engine for Postgres

  • Thursday, April 19th, 2018
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

March 2018

Official Reactiflux.com Meetup @ Docker HQ

  • Meetup event

  • We have space for 200 people! This will be a networking/hangout event, no speakers.

  • Monday, March 19th, 2018
  • 144 Townsend St · San Francisco, CA - Ring the doorbell at our front entrance and we'll come let you in.

January 2018

Johannes Schickling & Soren Bramer Schmidt

December 2017

November 2017

Eli White

  • @Eli_White

  • React Native Core Team @ Facebook

  • Thursday, November 9th, 2017
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

October 2017

September 2017

July 2017

Henry Zhu

  • @left_pad

  • Engineer at Adobe (Behance Team) · Babel Maintainer

  • Thursday, July 27th, 2017
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

Christoph Nakazawa

  • @cpojer

  • Engineer at Facebook London · Jest · Yarn · RNP

  • Thursday, July 13th, 2017
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

June 2017

Leland Richardson

  • @intelligibabble

  • Engineer at Airbnb heavily involved in React Native (Enzyme, React-Native Maps, Lottie, Animated etc.)

  • Thursday, June 15th, 2017
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

May 2017

April 2017

Vincent Ning & Michael Paris

March 2017

React Conf

January 2017

Cheng Lou

  • @_chenglou

  • Facebook Engineer focused on Reason & Messenger.com

  • Thursday, January 12th, 2017
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

September 2016

Christopher Chedeau

  • @Vjeux

  • Facebook React Core Team

  • Thursday, September 8th, 2016
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

August 2016

Joseph Savona

  • @en_JS

  • Engineer @ Facebook, working on Relay & GraphQL

  • Thursday, August 18th, 2016
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

Relay Team

  • Thursday, August 18th, 2016
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

July 2016

Lee Byron

  • @leeb | Codementor AMA

  • Facebook Engineer - GraphQL Co-Creator

  • Thursday, July 28th, 2016
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

Jonathan Carter & Geoffrey Goh

  • @LostInTangent

  • Microsoft Visual Studio/CodePush Team | Topic is React Native continuous delivery with VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services), CodePush and HockeyApp.

  • Thursday, July 7th, 2016
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

June 2016

Mike Grabowski

  • @grabbou

  • React Native Core Contributor | RNPM Author | Topic is native modules, installing dependencies, tooling & native shipping

  • Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

Sophie Alpert (June 2016)

May 2016

Devin Abbott

  • @devinaabbott

  • Deco Software | Topic is Deco their awesome React Native IDE

  • Thursday, May 19th, 2016
  • Q&A Channel Reactiflux

  • Transcript

Tadeu Zagallo

  • @tadeuzagallo

  • Facebook React Native Core Team

  • Thursday, May 12th, 2016
  • #react-native Channel Reactiflux

April 2016

March 2016