Netflix Likes React
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Netflix Likes React
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Re: Netflix Likes React
#2They mention several ambitious projects and, at the risk of beating a dead horse, I would presume that includes working with AngularJS.
I'd love to read about the shortcomings of the projects that were shelved after they settled on React.
Re: Netflix Likes React
#3They were using Ember at one point yea? I think I recall them contracting a pretty core Ember member, maybe ebryn, to work on a project.
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#4They were using Ember at one point yea? I think I recall them contracting a pretty core Ember member, maybe ebryn, to work on a project.
We did and still do use Ember and Angular for various internal projects. The Netflix UI has never been Ember-based.
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#5They mention several ambitious projects and, at the risk of beating a dead horse, I would presume that includes working with AngularJS. I'd love to read about the shortcomings of the projects that were shelved after they settled on React.
I don't read this as saying "a series of failed projects". I think it's more about orthogonal improvements. But I don't work on this team (I do work for Netflix) so my knowledge is only slightly less indirect than anyone else.
For what it's worth, we do use Angular on some internal tools.
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#6Looks like they're using it for the initial profile switcher on desktop, I wonder if it will be making it's way over to the main list soon
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#7Looks like they're using it for the initial profile switcher on desktop, I wonder if it will be making it's way over to the main list soon Pic: http://i.imgur.com/cj9tD1p.png
Interesting. Also, I appreciate the included "how to screenshot" tab :)
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#8This is very interesting to see since I value Netflix's opinion. What's been holding me back was the pervasive JSX design. I know the react guys say that JSX is optional, but react without JSX seems cumbersome compared to, say, ember with handlebars.
It'd be interesting to hear from Netflix on the topic of JSX if they are going to grow their react codebase.
That being said, isomorphic javascript and using the vdom are really attractive and if react starts to lead those fields, then it becomes much harder to ignore.
Re: Netflix Likes React
#9This is very interesting to see since I value Netflix's opinion. What's been holding me back was the pervasive JSX design. I know the react guys say that JSX is optional, but react without JSX seems cumbersome compared to, say, ember with handlebars. It'd be interesting to hear from Netflix on the topic of JSX if they are going to grow their react codebase. That being said, isomorphic javascript and using the vdom ar…
If you think React seems interesting but JSX is a turn-off (or in my team's case a total non-starter), you might want to check out Ractive, http://www.ractivejs.org/ .
It uses some of the same ideas like a virtual DOM. Here's a writeup by Ractive's developer where he compares it to React: http://blog.ractivejs.org/posts/whats-the-difference-between...
Re: Netflix Likes React
#10Looks like they're using it for the initial profile switcher on desktop, I wonder if it will be making it's way over to the main list soon Pic: http://i.imgur.com/cj9tD1p.png
You can also see React in use on the Your Account page: https://www.netflix.com/YourAccount