React.js: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER]
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almost 3 years ago•December 1, 2022
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Tom Occhino
These days, React is everywhere – even the Honeypot team uses it! But were you paying attention a decade ago when React was first open-sourced? The JavaScript community didn’t just have a bad reaction, they couldn’t believe this project had any future. And boy howdy did the conversation get snarky. If it wasn't for a small group of passionate developers at (what was then) Facebook, React might not have seen the light of day. In this documentary, we’ll take you back to the origins, right to the moment when 'Rethinking Best Practices' got real. We'll show you how React went from 'indie-rebel alliance project' to the most popular UI framework in the world. Hear the story from the star engineers who were there to see all the twists and turns. A thrill-filled roller coaster or an atmospheric slow burn? Only our documentary will tell. React.js: The Documentary will premiere on this channel in February 2023. Sign up here if you want to be notified: https://hello.honeypot.io/react-coming-soon/ ⚛ Check out the home for untold developer stories around open source, careers and all the other cool stuff developers are doing at cult.honeypot.io. Honeypot is a developer-focused job platform, on a mission to get developers great jobs. Wanna see what we're all about? Visit honeypot.io to find a job you love. To learn more about Honeypot: http://www.honeypot.io/?utm_source=youtube Follow the amazing cast: Adam Wolff: https://twitter.com/dmwlff Andrew Clark: https://twitter.com/acdlite Christopher Chedeau: https://twitter.com/Vjeux Dan Abramov: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov David Nolen: https://twitter.com/swannodette Lee Byron: https://twitter.com/leeb Michael Chan: https://twitter.com/chantastic Pete Hunt: https://twitter.com/floydophone Sebastian Markbåge: https://twitter.com/sebmarkbage Shane O'Sullivan: https://twitter.com/Chofter and https://chofter.com/ Sophie Alpert: https://twitter.com/sophiebits and https://sophiebits.com/ Tom Occhino: https://twitter.com/tomocchino Tony Casparro: https://twitter.com/IamTonyC Follow us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/honeypotio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Honeypotio/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/honeypotio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honeypot.cult/
Joe Lonsdale
Interviewed: Guillermo Rauch
Testing, one two, testing. [Music] Facebook was one of the first big products that was really an experience more than anything else. And as such the user interface itself needs to be really pleasing. The product itself got more complex, and as we added more engineers to the team, we didn't hit a wall but it started to get really, really hard to make changes. That was around the time that Jordan was on the ads team and he's like, there's got to be a better way. "Hey wouldn't it be easier if anytime, anything happened
API state changes, user types something, we just blow away the entire UI and we re-render all of it". It was so far outside of everybody's idea of how things should work and do work... Yeah it took a lot of convincing. Honestly I thought it was completely crazy. There was no way that was gonna work. I still remember this wow moment when I actually tried it and it actually worked. It's this great example of this underdog technology within a big company where there could have been these forces that really pushed back on it
so it felt like this very Indie Rebel Alliance type of project. If you want to spread an idea you need to really convince a few people and have those people share your message. You can't just be shouting it yourself. "We started working on a JavaScript library that helps us do that and we call it React". It turned into a bit of a troll fest for no good reason. I don't think that it was clear that it was going to become a popular project. To be honest, I think that it very easily might not have been.
[Music] I like React's story though because it's like... It was a slow burn, yeah, it was a real slow burn.
