Was React Alicante 2022 worth visiting?

04 Nov, 2022 | 4 minutes read

React Alicante 2022 is an international conference held in one of the sunniest cities in Europe. The conference allowed visitors to hear from 33 international speakers and be part of 10 workshops for skills boosting covering various topics and around 600 visitors from all over the world.

⋮IWConnect is on the verge of the latest technology trends and never misses an opportunity to be part of interesting conferences. In that manner, part of our Microsoft team visited React Alicante 2022. In addition, read what they have to say and find out if the conference was worth visiting:

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1.How satisfied were you with the event and how useful was the event?

Aleksandar Stojanoski

I attended this event because I want to be up to date with the latest technologies and updates in the IT world, and especially in the Javascript world since I work mostly using Javascript. This was my first time attending this specific event, and all I can say is that the event itself was great and useful. Some really interesting topics were covered, and we got to learn a lot of new things. We also met a lot of colleagues from around the world, shared some experiences, exchanged knowledge and hung out. 

Eli Risteska

My desire to be part of this event was big because I wanted to meet colleagues that are facing the same challenges I am, share some experiences, learn new things and see things from a different perspective.

I have never been to an event like this before and I can say this one was very interesting and useful for me. All the presentations were interesting and the presenters were also great. One of them was Macedonian, which made me feel proud and proved to me that we are the best?

Kristijan Momiroski

It was a great event covering some good topics and focusing on new technologies from the JavaScript world. The event and the content covered makes it easier for us to develop the applications themselves. All in all, it was useful in several aspects, such as meeting new friends (I met one of the speakers – Kitze) as well as learning new tools and technologies. I haven’t attended this event before and the main goal of going was to expand my knowledge and to see how other developers work and the technologies they use combined with React/GraphQL/Next.js.

2. What was your favorite experience or moment of the event?

Aleksandar Stojanoski

My favorite experience was communicating with other colleagues from everywhere around the world, and, of course, the 25 hours of traveling by taking 2 flights and a bus, and we still had the energy to continue with the workshop and go around the city with only 1 hour of sleep. Forget coffee, the adrenaline from conferences is amazing 🙂 

Eli Risteska

We traveled to Alicante for about 25 hours ☹ We changed two airplanes and one bus and after 25 hours we were finally there. We got some rest for an hour and went to the workshop. After only one hour of sleep, I was surprised at how much energy and concentration I had on the workshop (maybe because it was about DAPPS ?). After the workshop, we went for a walk because the town is amazing, and taking just one breath of fresh air made up for the lack of sleep.

Kristijan Momiroski

It was the workshop. Even though my initial wish was to attend another one, it turned out to be amazing. In around 4 hours we learned new things and tried to make a workable POC. Even though we had to travel 25 hours taking only 1-hour rest (if we could call it a rest) before the workshop ?. 

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3.What was your biggest takeaway from the event and what did you learn at the event?

Aleksandar Stojanoski

A lot of interesting topics were covered and the experience, friendships, and new interesting approaches that I saw remained in my head. I have also learned a lot of interesting things. Let’s say, for example, one of them was “Finite State Machines” with “XState” JavaScript library in React.js (I have heard of it before, but I have never seen how they are implemented).

Eli Risteska

We were able to hear quality content from quality presenters, but I also saw that we are on the verge of technology and up to date with the latest trends. My biggest takeaway from the event is the experience, contacts that we have made, way of presenting, new friendships.

I have learned a lot. It was a great experience, some of the presentations presented new things and I came up with a lot of new ideas I can implement in my daily job. One of the presentations covered exactly the area I am working on and that helped me a lot!

Kristijan Momiroski

The event covered a lot of good topics and it was very well organized. The biggest takeaway of the event was meeting new people with the same daily routines as mine, sharing contacts, and experiences, learning new things, etc. There were many quality topics, great speakers, there were quite good and interesting things in the Front-end world discussed that I’ll deep dive in to get more information and I’ll try to make a small POC for the smart goals. Also, some of the things that I learned will help me a lot with the projects that I am currently working on.

4.Would you want to attend this event again in the future?

Aleksandar Stojanoski

Yes, changes in the IT world are happening daily and we got to hear a lot of new things, so it was worth it!

Eli Risteska

Yes, definitely!

Kristijan Momiroski

Yes, it was great and if there is a chance, I would like to attend it again and maybe on the other side as a speaker ? 

Aleksandar, Eli, and Kristijan thank you for sharing your experience with us and giving us an overview of what React Alicante 2022 looked like.

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