Using the Visual editor on a REACT site
Instructor: Mike Chu, Senior Lead Onboarding Solutions Architect
Join Mike to learn how to build Visual Editor experiments for Optimizely Web Experimentation on React and other single-page application sites. This session will equip teams to create experiments that survive hydration, client-side routing, and dynamic content, so visual changes ship without flicker or breakage and teams can continue using the speed of the Visual Editor instead of falling back to code.
Agenda:
- Why the Visual Editor and React disagree (static-DOM assumptions vs the virtual DOM, hydration timing)
- Activation done right (When the URL changes, Element is present, the ready-signal pattern)
- Building changes that survive re-renders (targeting, rearrange pitfalls, polling vs waitForElement)
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Using the Visual editor on a REACT site
Thursday, Sep 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT