# Rebuilding the Soul of the ZurichJS Platform: Media-First Frontends with ImageKit

> Conference talk by Faris Aziz. Topic: Engineering in production · Length: 15 min · Level: Intermediate · Delivered: 1× · Status: no longer booked. Current catalogue: https://faziz-dev.com/talks.md

## The premise

A joint session with Hugo Sousa about rebuilding ZurichJS’s media experience with ImageKit. It covers the limits of the previous static asset setup, the move to responsive media in Next.js, and lessons from the implementation.

## Who it's for

React and Next.js developers building media-heavy interfaces

## You leave with

- Recognize the limits of serving a growing media library as static assets
- Apply responsive media delivery in a Next.js interface
- Learn from the ZurichJS ImageKit implementation

## Where it's been delivered

- 24th Jul 2025: [ZurichJS Meetup #7: Sizzling Hot JavaScript](https://faziz-dev.com/events/zurich-js-2025-07-24.md), Zurich, Switzerland

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Faris Aziz: software engineer, speaker, ZurichJS co-founder. Geneva, Switzerland.
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