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React.js Conf 2015 - Beyond the DOM: How Netflix plans to enhance your television experience
Jafar Husain of Netflix explains at React.js Conf 2015 how Netflix runs React-style rendering without the DOM on smart TVs and game consoles. It uses a canvas-like API for performance.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited as the primary source on React with a custom rendering backend and on Netflix's Gibbon engine.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Meta Developers
- Topic
- react outside the dom
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2017
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From the original HN conversations
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mikeryan on Hacker News · 2015-06
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