Insight #1: React is here to stay
Insight #2: Angular is shifting to a new role --> enterprise apps
Insight #3: You can’t ignore Vue.js anymore
Insight #4: Knowledge of some libraries will help you earn more (but not for the reasons you might think)
Insight #5: 2018 will be the year of GraphQL
Insight #6: JavaScript != Front-end
Insight #7: Microsoft is striking back
Insight #8: JavaScript is different around the world
Insight #9: Typed JavaScript is on the rise
Insight #10: JavaScript is whatever you want it to be

All recorded sessions from Build (including other general announcements from Microsoft) can be found on Channel9 and Microsoft's YouTube channel. 

The .NET team has built a linker to reduce the size of .NET Core applications. It is built on top of the excellent and battle-tested mono linker. The Xamarin tools also use this linker so it makes sense to try it out and perhaps use it everywhere! 

Vertical Slice Architecture, not Layers! 

Why Vertical Slice Architecture? Nobody wants to deal with a system that is hard to change and easy to introduce bugs because it's a spaghetti code mess of various technical concerns. Clean Architecture is popular because it separates concerns into many different layers. But why are we organizing code by layers? Does adding a new feature require you to modify files across multiple projects in your UI, business, and data access layers? Vertical Slice Architecture is about how you organize code and focus on features instead of technical layers will make your system easier to change. 

.NET MAUI for Beginners
8 videos
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a framework for building modern, multi-platform, natively compiled iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows apps using C# and XAML in a single codebase. In this video series you will learn how to get started with .NET MAUI, C#, and Visual Studio to build your very first cross-platform desktop and mobile app. 

Creator of Python, Guido van Rossum, has joined Microsoft as a Distinguished Engineer in the Developer Division. His stated aim is to make Python better. We can't wait to find out what that results in.  

Writing Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core is easy, fast and fun. To really add to the productivity we want to have hot reload - a staple of Single Page Application frameworks like React or Vue. Let’s see it in action. 

Flux is an architecture for creating data layers in JavaScript applications. It was designed at Facebook along with the React view library. It places a focus on creating explicit and understandable update paths for your application's data, which makes tracing changes during development simpler and makes bugs easier to track down and fix. 

We’re excited to announce a new open source project on GitHub from the WCF team at Microsoft.  This new version of WCF targets .NET Core and has been donated to the family of .NET Foundation open source projects.