Lin Clark - A Cartoon Intro to Fiber - React Conf 2017

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as the clearest explanation of how Fiber and React 16 work.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Meta Developers

Topic

react fiber

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2018

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From the original HN conversations

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• For those who are interested in some of the details of the work that's going on, Lin Clark's recent talk on "A Cartoon Intro to Fiber" at ReactConf 2017 is excellent [0]. There's a number of other existing writeups and resources on how Fiber works …

• I'll repeat the comment I made in the "React 15.5" thread a couple weeks ago ( [LINK] ): For those who are interested in some of the details of the work that's going on, Lin Clark's recent talk on "A Cartoon Intro to Fiber" at …

• Yeah, the React team takes backwards compatibility very seriously. They did finally drop some deprecated methods from the main package in React 16, but made them available as separate packages, and even wrote codemods to automatically replace usages. I can recommend several resources for understanding …