How I learned to love React
summary
Built a prototype in five days that handles ~300 realtime mobile connections and works on iPhone, iPad, Android and old BlackBerries, then scraps three quarters of the initial codebase and migrates to React over two weeks to scale the team. Uses Riot → React migration, adopts Redux central store for single-source state (undo/redo, easier tests), prefers stateless functional components and virtual DOM diffs, and warns that renderToString blocks Node for large server-side renders and that CSS/server build tooling still needs care.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:37Node Cookbook
- 3:12The Innovation Track
- 6:08Riot.js
- 10:05The Offers Site
- 11:52Offers Site: Riot
- 14:34Why I Disliked React
- 18:46Why I fell in love with React
- 20:10Virtual DOM
- 23:46Multidirectional Flow
- 24:10Unidirectional Flow
- 24:48Redux: Love at first site
- 28:09Stateless Components
- 30:02Isomorphism
- 34:20Terminal Devtools
