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Senior Frontend Watchlist

Talks for moving from senior frontend towards staff and architect work: how the web renders, why React moved to the server, how to structure large frontends, and how to build with AI agents without losing control. Watch them in order — each section builds on the one before.

Rendering and performance​

Web Rendering Patterns​

Dmitriy Zhiganov. SSR, CSR, hydration, static generation and resumability, compared side by side. It covers the vocabulary everything else on this list assumes.

The 2025 Web Performance Roadmap​

Dmitriy Zhiganov. A frontend system-design view of performance: what to measure and which optimisations matter, in what order.

React Server Components​

And Now You Understand React Server Components​

Kent C. Dodds, React Conf 2024. Builds RSC up from scratch, step by step, from plain API data fetching to streaming server components.

React for Two Computers​

Dan Abramov, React Conf 2024. The conceptual case for RSC: one program whose execution is split between a server and a client. Best watched once the mechanics above are familiar.

Architecture​

Frontend Architecture Patterns You Need to Know in 2025​

Dmitriy Zhiganov. A tour of the patterns used to structure large frontend codebases, and when each one fits.

AI-assisted development​

Beyond Vibe Coding​

Addy Osmani with Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer. How experienced engineers can use AI tools without giving up quality, including the "70% problem".

Engineering practices that make coding agents work​

Simon Willison, The Pragmatic Summit. Trust in agent output comes from automated proof: tests, runtime checks, conformance suites and sandboxes.