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dateModified: '2017-10-30 10:00'
datePublished: '2017-10-30 10:00'
disqusIdentifier: '23'
excerpt: 'ReactiveConf 2017 review. A two days conference about functional and reactive programming that takes places in Bratislava.'
image: 'https://res.cloudinary.com/carloscuesta/image/upload/v1593531859/blog-featured-images/Reactive_Conf.png'
title: 'ReactiveConf 2017'
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**[ReactiveConf](https://reactiveconf.com)** is a two days conference about functional and reactive programming that takes place in Bratislava 🇸🇰, at the [_Old Market Hall_](https://www.visitbratislava.com/places/old-market-hall/). I attended the conference with three workmates from **[Ulabox](https://ulabox.com)**, [@sospedra_r](https://twitter.com/sospedra_r), [@juanmaorta](https://twitter.com/juanmaorta) and [@markcial](https://twitter.com/Markcial). The venue was organized in two stages: the **Main Stage** and the **Discovery Stage**.

### Getting started

The conference day started with the registration, a backpack with a cool t-shirt, socks and stickers was given to every attendee.

![ReactiveConf 2017 Main Stage](https://res.cloudinary.com/carloscuesta/image/upload/v1729420478/cmjvgmqgcjujfheipskc.jpg)

### Venue and talks

The **Old Market** was a **comfortable** and **big** place to watch the Main Stage talks. Upstairs there was a big space with TV's to follow the live-stream, a ton of bean bags and a few XBOX's to play with 🎮.

**Discovery Stage** was located in another place called [Ateliér Babylon](https://goo.gl/maps/26uvWrAnDhv), within a **5 minute walk** from the **Old Market Hall**. This stage was **too small**, at the second day we had to turn back to the Old Market, due to the lack of space, losing the opportunity to watch the _"Understanding Webpack from inside out"_ talk. 👎

The **food** was **very nice** 🍗. A few serving points were distributed along the Market Hall. Also, the schedule was very well planned the number of breaks helped to follow the presentations easily!

In terms of **talks** the **quality** and technical **level** was **good**. But with some speakers I thought that they were selling us their product instead of training us. Also I noticed that some talks, IMHO were offtopic according to the _Reactive_ paradigm.

Having said that, these are my favourite talks ⭐️:

- **The React Productivity Revolution** by [@fortelabs](https://twitter.com/fortelabs) – 🎥 [Slides](https://www.slideshare.net/tiagoforte/the-react-productivity-revolution-by-tiago-forte)
- **Lessons learned Migrating Complex Software** by [@jack_franklin](twitter.com/jack_franklin) – 🎥 [Slides](https://speakerdeck.com/jackfranklin/reactiveconf-lessons-migrating-complex-software)
- **Writing highly reusable React components** by [@javivelasco](https://twitter.com/javivelasco)
- **D3 and React, together** by [@sxywu](https://twitter.com/sxywu) – 🎥 [Slides](http://sxywu.com/react-d3/)
- **Jest as a Platform** by [@rogeliog](https://twitter.com/rogeliog/) – 🎥 [Slides](https://github.com/rogeliog/jest-as-a-platform-talk/blob/master/Jest%20as%20a%20Platform.pdf)
- **CSS in JS: The Good & Bad Parts** by [@rofrischmann](https://twitter.com/rofrischmann) – 🎥 [Slides](https://speakerdeck.com/rofrischmann/css-in-js-the-good-and-bad-parts)

All **talks were recorded** and **live streamed** through the [ReactiveConf youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBHdUnixTWymmXBIw12Y8Qg). Be sure to take a look into it! 👇

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### Final thoughts

I learnt a lot of things at the venue and I really enjoyed the great atmosphere of the conference. Actually I've met a ton of friendly people!

Huge thanks to **[Ulabox](https://ulabox.com)** 💖 for giving us the oportunity to attend **ReactiveConf**! 🇸🇰 ✈️
