React Through the Ages

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A concise origin story and roadmap: React starts at Facebook from XHP and experiments in SML and Hack before moving to JavaScript, built into an interactive Ads app and rolled into News Feed, then open sourced despite early skepticism. Core claims are reusable components, explicit data flow and ownership and the incidental virtual DOM. Tooling moves toward ES6 classes, web workers, and CSS-in-JS; Facebook runs nearly 10,000 components internally and progresses toward a stable 1.0 while resolving performance, API and ecosystem gaps.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:51MVC
3. 1:06Where did React come from?
4. 1:49Really?
5. 4:08What about JavaScript?
6. 7:48Where is React today?
7. 9:25Where is React going?
8. 10:16API Stabilization & Reduction
9. 12:24ES6 Classes
10. 15:36Web Workers
11. 16:22Layout & Animations

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