Zurich JS Conf 2026 Warm-Up Meetup & Early Badge Pickup

Ah yes, let's use Electron to make, literally, the most sensitive part of your desktop. This idea has flown inside of my head for while, and I'm not the only one to have had this idea, but I'm part of the few that have attempted themselves in this feat. In this talk, I'll cover just about everything about this cursed creation.

Most of us heavily rely on open source projects in our day-to-day job. Some of us interact interact with open source projects by also reaching out to report bugs and suggest features. A few of us then start contributing code. But how does it work when you are on the other side, maintaining a project that so many people rely on?

In this talk I will share my journey maintaining one of the most widely used JavaScript tools, and what I learned over the years. We will lean about how *you* can start contributing to your favorite open source projects and become part of their communities, as well as what you can do within your company to make sure that you can rely on the open source dependencies you have.

At the Swiss Federal Railways we have used and developed a few UI libraries, some open and some closed source.
With Lyne we have now built a unified open source Design System with Web Components for (almost) all use cases, with ~75 modules and ~180 custom elements, which had its debut in October 2023 for the new SBB homepage.
During the last four years we have continuously extended the feature catalogue, migrated 80k LOC from Stencil.js to Lit, learned a lot about accessibility, the web standards process and how to provide both (semi-automated) React and Angular wrappers for web components.

Upgrading a core piece of your development stack is rarely as simple as changing a version number in package.json. As Storybook moves toward its next major release, the platform is introducing significant architectural changes designed to improve performance and developer experience.But these improvements often come with the challenge of breaking changes.