I think I'm going to go through this this coming weekend, even if I am comfortable with React. Tyler is a great teacher and I could use help with the router and webpack.
Thanks for making this free!
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#12Honest noob question, what's with all the hype about React?
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#13Honest noob question, what's with all the hype about React? Edit: Awesome replies, thank you!
It's like if you've been programming in C all your life and suddenly discover python
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#14Honest noob question, what's with all the hype about React? Edit: Awesome replies, thank you!
It fundamentally changes the way we think about frontend web development in a very positive way. It makes things more testable, reliable, fast, and easier to write. Combined with things like Redux we also get crazy features like time travel.
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#15Honest noob question, what's with all the hype about React? Edit: Awesome replies, thank you!
- Great way to build component based UIs
- Combined with immutable state manager like Redux, it can dramatically simplify front end development.
I used to hate working on website frontends. Tangled webs of event handlers and dom mutation. React got rid of the mess and I once again enjoy working on the front end.
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#16Thanks Tyler! It might be helpful to also add redux + async to it.
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#17Tyler's course on egghead.io was amazing, can't recommend his content enough.
Link for those interested:
https://egghead.io/series/build-your-first-react-js-applicat...
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#18I don't know what to say. I'm deeply humbled by all the kind comments in here. Thank you all so much, truly.
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#19Honest noob question, what's with all the hype about React? Edit: Awesome replies, thank you!
From my point of view, React brings two important ideas to web app development:
1. The virtual DOM. When I'm writing jQuery-based code, I have to write both a component template and code that updates the DOM in response to input; when I'm writing code for a virtual DOM, the component template is sufficient to update the DOM and I don't have to write that extra code, so there are fewer chances for bugs to creep in.
2. HTML-like syntax embedded in Javascript (JSX). I didn't like this at first until I configured Sublime Text to highlight embedded HTML correctly. Embedded HTML has pros and cons, but I think it's a net positive.
React projects also typically include new tech like ES2015, webpack, hot code reloading, and Redux with its time-traveling debugger. You can build your own stack that uses a virtual DOM library, embedded HTML, ES2015, and so on, but it's helpful to start with a common stack that many people understand. That's why React is interesting.
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#20This is awesome! Thank you!