31: Hooks are Mixins with Ryan Florence

Ryan Florence is the co-creator of React Router and creator of accessibility-first React libraries Reach Router and Reach UI. Chantastic sits with him to talk about Hooks on the night before they're announced. They talk about React's API growth, if Suspense has taken React to framework-land, what caches and resources mean for developers, and the rebirth of mixins as Hooks.

Featuring

• Ryan Florence — Twitter, Github, Website
• Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

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Links

• Ryan's Tweet response to how React is changing
• React lazy and memo announcement
• Hooks announcement
• Dan's and Sophie's talk "React Today and Tomorrow"
• react-cache
• Component Lifecycle Changes
• Hooks docs
• "Mixins are the future of React" — @dan_abromov
• Ryan's talk "90% Cleaner React with Hooks"

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