Aurora Scharff
DX Engineer, React Cert Lead
Vercel, Certificates.dev
[About]
Aurora Scharff is a DX Engineer at Vercel and the React Certification Lead at Certificates.dev. She specializes in React and Next.js, focused on technical content, developer education, and community. She creates demo applications, writes deep-dive blog posts, and delivers workshops and talks at conferences worldwide.
Designing the In-Between States with Async React
Much of the user experience happens in the moments between actions and the final UI. Page loads, navigations, filtering, and form submissions involve multiple steps where data and code arrive at different times, and handling these intermediate states is essential to keeping interfaces smooth and predictable.
This session demonstrates how Async React makes these in-between states manageable. In the context of Next.js, we’ll explore patterns like Suspense, optimistic updates, and streaming, and show how caching, prerendering, and animations can smooth or remove intermediate states, making page updates, navigation, and interactions feel fast, reliable, and polished.