"At Facebook and Instagram, we’re trying to push the limits of what’s possible on the web with React. My talk will start with a brief introduction to the framework, and then dive into three controversial topics: Throwing out the notion of templates and building views with JavaScript, “re-rendering” your entire application when your data changes, and a lightweight implementation of the DOM and events." -- Pete Hunt
A tagtree.tv video conveying the principles of Thinking in React while building a simple app
"In this talk I’ll be discussing why we built a virtual DOM, how it compares to other systems, and its relevance to the future of browser technologies." -- Pete Hunt
"On paper, all those JS frameworks look promising: clean implementations, quick code design, flawless execution. But what happens when you stress test Javascript? What happens when you throw 6 megabytes of code at it? In this talk, we'll investigate how React performs in a high stress situation, and how it has helped our team build safe code on a massive scale."
Pete Hunt talked with Jeff Barczewski about React in CodeWinds Episode 4.
02:08 - What is React and why use it? 03:08 - The symbiotic relationship of ClojureScript and React 04:54 - The history of React and why it was created 09:43 - Updating web page with React without using data binding 13:11 - Using the virtual DOM to change the browser DOM 13:57 - Programming with React, render targets HTML, canvas, other 16:45 - Working with designers. Contrasted with Ember and AngularJS 21:45 - JSX Compiler bridging HTML and React javascript 23:50 - Autobuilding JSX and in browser tools for React 24:50 - Tips and tricks to working with React, getting started |
27:17 - Rendering HTML on the server with Node.js. Rendering backends 29:20 - React evolved through survival of the fittest at Facebook 30:15 - Ideas for having state on server and client, using web sockets. 32:05 - React-multiuser - distributed shared mutable state using Firebase 33:03 - Better debugging with React using the state transitions, replaying events 34:08 - Differences from Web Components 34:25 - Notable companies using React 35:16 - Could a React backend plugin be created to target PDF? 36:30 - Future of React, what's next? 39:38 - Contributing and getting help |
Pete Hunt and Jordan Walke talked about React in JavaScript Jabber 73.
01:34 – Pete Hunt Introduction 02:45 – Jordan Walke Introduction 04:15 – React 06:38 – 60 Frames Per Second 09:34 – Data Binding 12:31 – Performance 17:39 – Diffing Algorithm 19:36 – DOM Manipulation |
23:06 – Supporting node.js 24:03 – rendr 26:02 – JSX 30:31 – requestAnimationFrame 34:15 – React and Applications 38:12 – React Users Khan Academy 39:53 – Making it work |
By Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke
Backbone is a great way in interface a REST API with React. This screencast shows how to integate the two using Backbone-React-Component. Middleman is the framework used in this example but could easily be replaced with other frameworks. A supported template of this can be found here. -- Open Minded Innovations
In Russian by Alexander Solovyov
Facebook engineers Bill Fisher and Jing Chen talk about Flux and React, and how using an application architecture with a unidirectional data flow cleans up a lot of their code.
Walk-through by Andres Suarez on how SoundCloud is using React and Flux for server-side rendering.