Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as the original talk that explains the motivation behind React, Flux and Redux, and that sold some commenters on React.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Meta Developers

Topic

flux and react architecture

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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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 …

• Video seems to start discussion of Flux just after the 10 minute mark. Direct Link: [VIDEO] EDIT: So far, the video is much more helpful to me in terms of bringing the concepts of Flux to life. Jing does a terrific job explaining in my …

• Redux is an implementation of Flux. I don't use Redux, but the original Facebook engineering announcement videos helped me understand React and Flux tremendously: [VIDEO] If you're talking about Redux specifically -- I agree with you. I think it's ugly and confusing.