Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices -- JSConf EU

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.

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[samasama]

I'm here to see if this talk might convince me otherwise.

[pengwang]

On the React Docs, they told me : " this talk might convince you otherwise." so Im

[DioArsya]

10 years later and I still got a lot of new insights from here 🤯

[codenamegrant]

Almost 8 years later and this talk is just as relevant and informative about how React works and why we should be using it.
Did anyone else shocking whisper "Holy shit" when you saw what React code looked like on 2013? :D

[Felix-unyp]

A talk that made it into the history books of app development. From React to SwiftUI to Flutter, the reactive frameworks have transformed the whole industry .

[tomascarignano]

This is amazing to watch at this point in time!

[popopome]

Really interesting. I felt same emotion & motivation when I watched Clojure presentation from Rich Hickey. Thanks.

[jmrossy]

"Re-render don't mutate, " my biggest takeaway.

[jayyoung]

great talk. As a backend engineer, I wish people showed me this when I tried to understand the design patterns for Frontend.

[lightninginmyhands]

Best part of the talk, as a novice programmer, is diving into virtual DOM as 19:30

[Stevenchustudio]

17:40 - React components are just idempotent functions, that describe your UI at any point in time, just like a server-rendered app. **Again, because they're just functions that take some parameters, and output a description of the UI, they are very easy to unit test.**

[roolebo]

I like how React API was designed. It's almost the same as it was 4 years ago! That can be a sign of carefully chosen abstractions that as good today as they were a while back.

[ervinsabic]

I'm not convinced otherwise. Handlebars is just so clean.

[jamjam]

Who else is here from Reactjs docs. Lol. I'm here to be convinced!

[atulpatil]

I'm here from react docs...what a valuable video

[rishacha]

Watching this in 2018, came from the documentation and loving React !!

[ginger-bread_man]

The talk that kickstarted a new way of JS & GUI dev

[Sid]

Being a React developer coming from a Mechanical background the whole story of REACT give me goosebumps. I wished i was there in the infant stage of React back in 2013

[lazykid]

wow, at the end realised this is from 2013 !? wtf. great talk

[madhurgarg]

Pete hunt left no stone unturned to market React, but no doubt React is awesome. Thank you team facebook!!