SF Scala: Shadaj Laddad, Slinky: a typesafe Scala interface to React

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- Slinky (https://slinky.shadaj.me) is a typesafe Scala interface to React. By combining the advanced language features offered by Scala with the powerful abstractions from React, Slinky makes it easy to develop large web applications as sets of composable components. In this talk, we will see how Slinky can be used in a variety of contexts and also take a look into how it works internally. Speaker: Shadaj Laddad Shadaj is currently a student at UC Berkeley studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has interned at Apollo, Khan Academy, Coursera, and Paya Labs working with technologies such as GraphQL, React.js, and Scala.js to develop open-source frameworks and education platforms. Shadaj hosts many open-source libraries and projects on GitHub, and has presented at OSCON 2014, Scala Days (2012 - 2018), Scala By the Bay, and the Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts.