122: Matt Biilmann - Architecting the Netlify Dashboard with React and Redux

Topics include:

• Walking through how a single screen in the app is rendered in step-by-step detail
• How they separate container components and presentational components to make things easier to reason about
• How the Redux store is organized
• How they handle caching data on the client and deciding when to bust the cache
• How the API is designed
• Why they are sticking with REST instead of Graphql
• How they handle authentication in their app

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Links:

• Netlify
• React
• React Router
• "Presentational and Container Components" by Dan Abramov
• Netlify's Storybook
• Immutable
• Immer
• redux-funk
• Netlify Analytics
• JAMstack Conf

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