Jed Watson

Co-founder of Thinkmill and OSS developer. Creator of Keystatic, Keystone, react-select, and classnames.

Specialties

• Front-end Engineering,
• DevOps,
• API Platforms,
• Content Management Systems,
• React,
• GraphQL

Find Jed on

• GitHub

• Talk: Meet Keystatic

  • Thinkmill founder Jed Watson introduced React Sydney to Keystatic our new file-based content management system that makes Markdown, JSON and YAML content in your codebase editable by humans. April 2023

• Article: The Thinkmill Learning Loop

  • How the work we do in open source and client services drives our craft to new levels. February 2023 · 2 min read

• Talk: Single source of truth development

  • Jed demonstrates an end-to-end project using Prisma, Keystone, GraphQL, TypeScript and Next.js where everything is derived from a single source of truth for the schema and types. September 2022

• News: We’re really proud to see so much adoption of our OSS tools

  • Our ability to do great work is inseparable from the communities we’re a part of. Seeing our open-source projects used by so many people remains a constant source of inspiration. September 2022

• Screencast: The State of Headless CMS

  • Jed joined a panel of experts to discusses the current state of Headless CMS and what lies over the horizon. July 2022

• Talk: Introducing KeystoneJS, the CMS & API Platform for Prisma

  • Jed’s workshop on how to build a polling system into a blog with Keystone, NextJs, GraphQL & Prisma. July 2022

• Talk: Keystone, GraphQL & Prisma

  • Jed discusses the new Keystone 6 at Prisma’s Korea Meetup

• Talk: Next-gen CMS & GraphQL API with Keystone & Prisma

  • Jed shared our freshly minted Keystone 6 with the world at Prisma Day conference in July 2021. His talk is a great way to learn how Keystone's combination of features and flexibility set it apart from other backend frameworks and Content Management Systems. July 2021

• Article: ReactConf AU, one year later

  • We put on Australia’s first ever React Conf in February 2020. You won’t believe what happened next! February 2021 · 5 min read

• Talk: The Value of Open Source

  • Jed wraps up ReactConf AU by discussing the sustainability of open source, the value OSS creates for us all individually and as a collective, and then proposes some small steps we can all take to ensure the future of our vibrant community. March 2020

• Talk: Building React Select

  • Jed talks about how he accidentally built the most popular React component, experienced death by a hundred props, got buried under hundreds of PRs, invented a component extension API, learned that styles are also a function of state, influenced some major design systems and finally got some sleep. October 2019

• Talk: Rebuilding React-Select

  • Jed discusses the upcoming React Select 2 and his experiences working in open source. March 2018

• Talk: Content Management & Node.js

  • Jed Watson talks about Content Management Systems in Node.js. November 2015

• Talk: Going Mobile with React

  • Jed shares what we’ve learned approaching the unique challenges of building mobile web apps with React. June 2015

• Article: Making the case for Progressive Javascript

  • I’m crediting Mark Dalgleish for this one, but I want to make the case because it’s the best alternative I’ve heard to “Isomorphic Javascript”. February 2015 · 3 min read

• Article: My first year of Open Source Commitment and KeystoneJS

  • If you want to do something, do it every day. This is the story of my first year writing open-source software. September 2014