96: Pete Hunt on Seven Years of Reconsidering Best Practices

To celebrate 7 years of React, we have a very special guest: Pete Hunt.

He’s the one who asked us to give React just 5 minutes, to reconsider our established frontend practices, and see if separation of technologies was serving us as well as we thought.

Pete tells us about the early days of React — it’s rocky community reception, Facebook’s struggle to create meaningful open source, and betting big on CommonJS and a little-known bundler named Webpack.

Featuring

• Pete Hunt — Twitter, GitHub
• chantastic — Twitter, GitHub

Links

• Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke: JS Apps at Facebook — React.js announcement at JSConf 2013
• Vjeux
• Tom Occhino
• Jordan Walke
• Angular
• emberjs
• SproutCore
• Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices — Pete’s landmark talk at JSConf EU 2013
• Facebook Open Source
• James Pearce
• Paul O`Shannessy
• webpack
• Backbone.js
• page.js
• TypeScript
• Closure Compiler
• TypeScript Compiler API
• ts-morph
• webassembly
• Twitter acquires anti-abuse technology provider Smyte

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