kilian – kilian schrenk

Key Takeaways from React Alicante 2024: Insights on GraphQL, Design Patterns, and Accessibility

On September 17th, 2024, I attended React Alicante, the international React.js conference held in Spain. It was a fantastic event filled with insightful talks, workshops, and lightning talks that covered a wide range of topics, from design patterns to accessibility and code review improvements. In this article, I’ll share my experience and key takeaways from the conference.

React Day Berlin 2023: Insights from TestJS Summit and React Conference

On December 7-8, 2023, I had the opportunity to attend React Day Berlin, which included the TestJS Summit on the first day and the React conference on the second. Both days were packed with insightful talks, highlighting the latest tools and techniques for building robust and performant web applications. Here are the highlights:

New Website with Next.js and Strapi

A friend of mine works as a local mattress retailer and asked me to help update his website. Specifically, he wanted to modify the opening hours. I found an old HTML file on his server, which provided a perfect opportunity to test some new tools. I redirected the domain bettenbauernfeind.de to one of my cloud servers and started working on it.

Redux Persist with Redux Toolkit

There is a very handy library called redux-persist that allows you to persist the global state of your application’s Redux store in local storage. This is particularly useful when your JavaScript application breaks on page reload, which often happens during development with hot module replacement.

This article explains how to integrate this library into your web application if you are using the Redux Toolkit. Redux Toolkit is an opinionated toolset for Redux development that provides excellent defaults, and it is my preferred way to set up the Redux store.

Boulderampel.de

In the beginning of the year 2022 I started a project called boulderampel. It`s a web application to overview the occupancy in climbing gyms and is based on the PHP Symfony Framework. Unfortunatelly, its not online anymore because of several reasons but nevertheless, I’m going to introduce it.