Gateway to React: the react.dev story
summary
A pandemic-era rebuild of react.dev replaces class-first docs with a functional, visual-first curriculum and 600 interactive examples, plus in-page challenges and sandboxed editors via CodeSandbox and Expo. The project runs from May 27, 2020 to Beta (Dec 8, 2020) to full launch (March 16, 2023), adds a readable diagram system by Maggie Appleton, and shows users in testing are 3x more likely to recommend the new docs than the old.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:46Joining the React team
- 2:49React Native docs reboot
- 6:59Kicking off React docs reboot
- 9:25Designing the new docs
- 12:54Making knowledge stick
- 15:44Testing and launch
- 16:50New React docs unveiled
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