How React changed everything
summary
Argues that the real claim is the component model not just the virtual DOM, showing components are the real takeaway and that JSX plus state/props form a portable app abstraction. Demonstrates work: React for music, games, and production mobile via React Native; Fiber enables custom fiber renderers, time‑slicing and async work. Highlights Suspense as “throw a promise” control flow, previews optimizations (bundle shrinkage, prepack) and experiments with Reason compiling to native — and that these things actually run.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 0:56Ken Wheeler
- 2:37Mcdonald's Website
- 3:35Flash Era
- 9:45Angularjs
- 11:13React
- 13:01React Html
- 16:03React Is the Perfect Abstraction
- 20:19The React Community
- 22:54The Future of React
- 23:15Custom Fiber Renderers
- 23:53Suspense
- 31:10Compile Targets
- 31:47Takeaways
