Gateway to React: the react.dev story
summary
A behind-the-scenes account of building documentation that actually reduces friction: a ground-up rewrite yields react.dev and a redesigned react-native.dev with over 600 interactive examples, challenges powered by CodeSandbox and Expo sandboxes, context switchers for 41% mobile-background users, and a 70% lift in thumbs-up for react native and a threefold increase in willingness to recommend during beta testing. Timelines, exact tooling, authoring process, and measured impact are all spelled out so the claim is verifiable.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Joining the React team
- 3:36React Native docs overhaul
- 6:45React Native.dev launch
- 7:07React docs overhaul start
- 8:55Building React docs
- 10:41Testing and launching React.dev
- 11:23Legacy docs and final launch
- 12:26Impact and closing
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