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Pete Hunt: React - Rethinking Best Practices (updated) - JSConf.Asia 2013

Pete Hunt of Facebook and Instagram presents React at JSConf.Asia 2013, explaining its design principles and why they seemed shocking at first. He argues that React separates concerns rather than technologies, and the talk also announces the React Chrome developer tools.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters credit it with persuading them to adopt React, and cite it for the argument that HTML and JS cannot truly be separated.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
JSConf
Topic
react design philosophy
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
5
HN mentions in dataset
7
Recommendation years in dataset
2014–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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  • This is amazing stuff, thanks Dan! Hopefully it is the beginning of the end of refresh-driven-development. If you are a web developer (front-end/back-end), and you haven't switched to React yet, take this for a spin, and read "Facebook just taught us all how to build …

    jasim on Hacker News · 2015-02
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  • I'll try one last time: > Sorry none of this makes any sense to me. If you're not familiar with the MVC variants (MVVM, MVP, MVI, MOVE)[0][1] we should start there. Next you should read through some common mistakes of Backbone.js like applications [LINK] and …

    yazaddaruvala on Hacker News · 2023-06
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  • Pete Hunt addresses this specifically in this React talk starting at 3 minutes: [VIDEO] Basically, the idea is that most JS templating solutions separate technologies (HTML , JS, templating languages), but don't actually separate concerns, because the concern is simply generating and updating DOM regardless …

    baddox on Hacker News · 2014-07
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