Elian works as a Lead Developer Relations at React Bricks, focussing on Developer Experience, documentation and education. Before that, he worked as Software Engineer and core member at Astro. He is also a co-organizer of BeJS, React Paris, React Brussels, and React Africa.

He is known for his passion, puns, and innovative approach to delivering exceptional user experiences. Elian brings a unique blend of technical expertise and creativity to his talks. Guaranteed fun on stage.

Going Full-Stack with Astro

In this talk, we'll explore building full-stack web applications powered by Astro and Astro DB.

We'll start by discovering the basics of Astro, why and where it's useful, and how to build a simple web application with it. We'll discover how to use Astro's hybrid rendering mode to add API routes and dynamic server-side rendering to the application. Then we'll dive into Astro DB, a simple, yet powerful ORM used to communicate between the database and your Astro application.

Also, recently Astro 5.0 was announced. We'll round up the talk by taking a look into the new features and what's to come