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Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices -- JSConf EU
JSConf · Oct 30, 2013 · 29m 32s
What this video covers
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.
Why it surfaced in Hacker News
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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Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.
“gives a great overview of the reasoning behind react”
“I was totally floored; they'd solved everything I had been trying to do with UI as code and much more”
“Here a pretty good video of React's founder pointing on some weakness of Angular”