Yahoo Mail moving to React

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Post by rfc791 » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:15 PM UTC

Yahoo Mail moving to React
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Re: Yahoo Mail moving to React

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Post by callahad » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:40 PM UTC

Slide 11: Even Yahoo's Engineering Manager for Mail crops the ads out their own product screenshots. :(

Re: Yahoo Mail moving to React

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Post by dyeje » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:44 PM UTC

It's funny that this showed up on the front page, because yesterday I logged into an old Yahoo email account for the first time in a few years and was absolutely astounded at how awful the UI was.

Re: Yahoo Mail moving to React

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Post by remon » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:52 PM UTC

What an odd trend. First Netflix moves part of their infrastructure to Node (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8631022) and now Yahoo is doing something similar. Node.js is great but I don't think huge enterprise systems for some of the largest brands in the world are necessarily the best fit. I wish they'd provide some insights on why they're making that particular move.

Re: Yahoo Mail moving to React

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Post by mhd » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:53 PM UTC

But it's still going to be fake desktop app, right? It seems Google is the only one to buck this trend.

Re: Yahoo Mail moving to React

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Post by vamur » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:54 PM UTC

I wonder if the move is the reason Yahoo Mail has become even slower than before.

Re: Yahoo Mail moving to React

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Post by __mrwhite__ » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:55 PM UTC

Would be interesting to see some performance benchmarks in comparison to previous iterations.

Re: Yahoo Mail moving to React

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Post by colinramsay » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:57 PM UTC

Yahoo seems to be championing React more than Facebook! With the flux-router-component they are trying to solve something that FB hasn't really addressed and it shows that they're actively trying to share the solutions to practical problems people come across when working with Flux.

Re: Yahoo Mail moving to React

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Post by mygreetings » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:57 PM UTC

Little bit off topic but is there anyone like me in community having a problem with liking javascript?

I have worked with javascript for years but it was always for DOM manipulation. When it comes to building an app with javascript, i feel like it is too fragile to depend on.

Anyone can help me to get rid of this feeling?

Re: Yahoo Mail moving to React

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Post by indeyets » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:57 PM UTC

callahad wrote: post #2

Slide 11: Even Yahoo's Engineering Manager for Mail crops the ads out their own product screenshots. :(

well… the advertisers didn't pay to be included in presentation ;)