February 24-26, 2027
Montreal, Canada

How React Really Works Under the Hood

Most React developers use it daily without knowing what happens after they call setState. This talk explains how React works inside: the virtual DOM, Fiber and reconciliation, why components re-render, how concurrent rendering and Suspense schedule work, and what the React Compiler changes. Attendees leave able to reason about performance problems instead of guessing, based on my O'Reilly book Fluent React.

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Tejas Kumar

IBM

Tejas Kumar is an AI Engineer at IBM, based in Berlin, Germany. He is the best selling author of Fluent React (O'Reilly) and the host of the ConTejas Code podcast. He has been building on the web for over 25 years and has given 80 recorded talks at 64 events since 2012. He speaks on AI engineering, agent harnesses, React and the web platform.

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