Replay 2024

Building user interfaces on top of Temporal presents a unique set of challenges, primarily due to the asynchronous nature of workflows that Temporal excels in managing. While this can make UI development seem daunting, the reality is that these challenges can be easily solved and even turned into advantages with the right architectural approaches.

In this talk, we’ll dissect the hurdles of integrating asynchronous workflows into user interfaces, such as managing user expectations for long-running tasks, updating UI elements in real-time, and ensuring data consistency across the application. We’ll then pivot to the solutions, outlining architectural patterns that help bridge the gap between Temporal’s backend workflows and the frontend user experience. These include utilizing Temporal’s signals for real-time updates, leveraging queries for dynamic state management, and architecting your application to handle the indeterminacies of asynchronous processing.