Refracting React
summary
Om rethinks React as a platform by pairing React with ClojureScript and Om and insisting on immutable App State as the single source of truth, rendering at 60fps via requestAnimationFrame, and offering reference cursors — observable slices of state that auto-update dependent components. The system supports snapshot/restore of full app state (demo restores transient inputs), scales to real apps (CircleCI example ~10–15k lines), and proves the approach practical though not magically simpler.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:40About me
- 3:40The Unfamiliar
- 6:04React as Platform
- 15:38Not everything is awesome
- 18:49Reference Cursor
- 20:00Observation
- 20:40Observing
- 21:21Demo
- 23:32Conclusion
- 28:02DOM
- 28:21Questions
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