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Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices -- JSConf EU

Pete Hunt of Facebook and Instagram introduces React at JSConf EU 2013 and explains its design principles. He argues that separating templates from logic only separates technologies, not concerns, and makes the case for components.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN calls it the famous talk for understanding why React rejected separation of concerns by technology and for newcomers puzzled by JSX.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
JSConf
Topic
react design philosophy
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
9
HN mentions in dataset
20
Recommendation years in dataset
2014–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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  • If you’re not sure of the “why” of react, I’ve found that Pete Hunt’s talk “Rethinking Best Practices” gives a great overview of the reasoning behind react. Especially from about 15:15. [VIDEO]

    EdwardMSmith on Hacker News · 2018-02
    In How and why we moved to Vue.js

  • How far back can we go? insin/DOMBuilder was initially based on a 2006 library of the same - but differently-cased - name by Dan Webb ( [LINK] ) and the earliest variant I can recall was Mochikit.DOM ( [LINK] ) By the end of DOMBuilder's …

    insin on Hacker News · 2020-05
    In What if we'd had better HTML-in-JS syntax all along?

  • Totally agree and also recommend to look at React. While Angular is just way too much of everything React is pretty much thought-out: Here a quick comparison of both: [LINK] Here a pretty good video of React's founder pointing on some weakness of Angular: [VIDEO]

    versusdotcom on Hacker News · 2014-03
    In Angular 2.0

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