The future is collaborative – via MCP and editors like Moment

Two weeks ago, Reboot ventured to Seattle for the annual CascadiaJS conference. We spent the first half of the week working with our friends at Moment and the second half connecting with developers at CascadiaJS – a gathering of web, mobile, and AI developers from across the Pacific Northwest.

The conversations at our booth reminded us why we love this community! Engineers, students, and builders from diverse backgrounds stopped by to share their projects and perspectives. The University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University students brought particularly thoughtful questions and an eagerness to learn new things. Emily Kang, Ryan Deng, and Marvin Wocheslander stood out for their insights and curiosity.

Between conversations at our booth, we caught several compelling talks. Kent C. Dodds presented a vision for the future of user interaction through MCP servers. His argument – that MCP clients will supersede traditional web interfaces – would have seemed far-fetched just months ago. But after seeing libraries like MCP-UI in action, his prediction may come to fruition sooner than we think!

We believe we have something important to add to the conversation regarding the future of MCP. Stay tuned for our post on why MCP servers need to be durable!

Brittany Ellich delivered another standout presentation on using AI to modernize legacy codebases without the risks of complete rewrites. Her pragmatic approach to incremental modernization will resonate with anyone who’s lived through a painful migration.

The highlight was watching our collaborator Alex Clemmer present “Lies I was told about collaborative editing.” If you’re considering offline-first architectures, read his blog post of the same name first! Even the ZeroSync team has referenced his insights in their documentation. Alex, thank you for the recognition – working with your team has been a blast.

Before all of the fun and excitement of CascadiaJS, we got important face-time with our partners at Moment in their beautiful One Union Square offices. They’re building what you might call “programmable Notion for developers” – though that description barely scratches the surface. They’ve chosen to build much of their backend on Reboot and they’ve been ideal collaborators over the months we’ve worked together.

Their demo left us genuinely impressed. Watching JavaScript execute directly within documents, with values updating in real-time, was magic. They've completely reimagined how developers can collaborate and share information. Do yourself a favor and check them out.

CascadiaJS proved why they are the essential meeting for PNW developers. Tickets for next year’s event are already on sale. See y'all next year!