React: a new era of frontend development
summary
React (JavaScript) is presented as a modern UI-component library from Facebook that became widely popular in 2015–2016. The talk explains why React gained traction despite focusing only on the View layer, attributing its success to the surrounding ecosystem and showing how that ecosystem enables new approaches to building applications for web and native platforms (iOS, Android, Windows 10, macOS).
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:51Speaker introduction
- 3:37About React Amsterdam
- 5:03What is React
- 8:17Why React is popular
- 11:57Facebook and React
- 14:55Code reuse in React
- 16:42Simple UI development
- 17:47React vs other libraries
- 20:26Try React
- 22:19React benefits
- 24:46React myths vs facts
- 25:52Getting started with React
- 27:38First React code
- 31:19React evolution over 3 years
- 33:06Component ecosystem
- 34:52Material UI and cross-platform
- 37:25Isomorphic rendering
- 41:12Flux and state management
- 44:04Redux as standard
- 46:10Development tools
- 47:41React Native for mobile
- 50:12React Native vs native apps
- 51:40React Native performance
- 52:49App updates without App Store
- 53:32React Native benefits
- 54:39React's industry impact
- 55:46React dev tools
- 57:16How to learn React
