“It’s so rare that something actually comes along that really changes how we think about building stuff” - Michael JacksonEpisode InfoShow Notes and TimelineMichael Jackson and Ryan Florence React.js trainingLinks and ResourcesOnline Training CoursesTrainingMentioned in the episodeFollowRelated contentVideoEpisode InfoEpisode: CW 015Published: April 8th, 2015Tags: javascript, reactjs,nodejs,isomorphicDuration: Updated: 2015-04-11Show Notes and Timeline“For me personally, it changed the way that I code as much as jQuery did back in 2008.” - Michael Jackson“OMG, This is really going to change the way that I work and how much I enjoy my job on a day to day basis.” - Michael Jackson“What excites me about React.js is… it doesn’t care about your data model, you just use plain JavaScript objects… For my models I use: array, Object, Number, …” - Ryan Florence“The new paradigm with React.js is we aren’t observing, we aren’t having a bunch of events, we are just throwing data at functions and then they return descriptions of UI” - Ryan Florence“It’s hard to explain until you start doing it how big of a shift this makes in your user interface development, to not worry about your app over time; you’re not mutating the state of objects over time in your UI components” - Ryan Florence“We get to use the solutions that JavaScript already provides like modules and scope… we don’t have to wait for the framework’s template language to implement a solution for that” - Ryan FlorenceFor me, one of the most awkward parts about #Emberjs is switching back and forth between Handlebars templates and component code. Any ideas?— Michael Jackson (@mjackson) May 13, 2014“At Instructure, we bet on Ember… we were messing with it for almost a year and kind of weren’t shipping anything…” - Ryan Florence“After an hour of using React.js, I had my face in my hands and said… I want to use this everywhere” - Ryan Florence“After two hours I actually had something working, and that probably impressed me the most about React.js” - Ryan Florence“I was never able to just pick up something as quickly as I was able to pick up React.js and build a router” - Michael Jackson“Two guys who had no idea what they were doing (with React.js) were able to make something (ReactRouter) that worked and was useful for other people” - Michael Jackson“Then I just threw all of my toughest problems that I had ever run into as a frontend developer at React.js” - Ryan Florence“At Instructure we had this hack week, I encouraged a couple of my coworkers to use React.js for their projects… every single one of them came back and asked: When are putting this into our stack?” - Ryan Florence“This is something that I really feel that the React.js authors have seriously nailed on the head, they’ll say they care about the community, and then they will show it by listening, participating, and working with us” - Michael Jackson@ebryn @ryanflorence @mjackson At Stampsy, JSX enabled our designer to author, refactor and tweak components at crazy speed.— Dan Abramov (@dan_abramov) September 28, 2014“I am just so impressed by the React.js community… everybody is helping and sharing, all trying to move our industry forward” - Jeff Barczewski“The people I have found in the React.js community have been genuine. Their desire to help you understand is genuine. Their desire to learn is genuine. It’s been inspiring for me as well.” - Michael JacksonMichael Jackson and Ryan Florence React.js trainingMichael and Ryan have launched some React.js training starting this April. CodeWinds listeners can get a $300 discount to their San Francisco training this April 16-17, 2015. Use the link: http://codewinds.com/reactsfLinks and ResourcesOnline Training CoursesCodeWinds React.js Fundamentals The premier online course and community where you learn React.js by pragmatically building a real web app while applying TDD/BDD principlesTraininghttp://codewinds.com/reactsf - $300 discount for Michael Jackson & Ryan Florence React.js training in San Francisco - April 16-17, 2015https://reactjs-training.com/ - Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence training events - Seattle, San Francisco, Boulder, Boston, New York, Parishttp://codewinds.com/topics - Provide your input on topics, projects, difficulties, technology that you would like covered in future CodeWinds content (tutorials, podcasts, video training courses and classes).Subscribe to the CodeWinds Leading Edge member list to be the first to hear about the upcoming CodeWinds React.js video training course and be invited to become charter members.Mentioned in the episodeReact Rally - A community React conference August 24 - 25, 2015 in Salt Lake City, UtahRemoving User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome - James LongTwitter on the importance of server renderingFlipboard renders to canvasThe tweet that started it all for MichaelReactRouter - Michael and Ryan’s isomorphic client and server routing solution for React.jsFacebook’s React.js Conf talk about Relay/GraphQL - video from React.js Conference 2015Dan Abramov’s tweet about designers + ReactPete Hunt’s post about “Thinking in React”Former UIKit dev on React NativeBuilding the Facebook Newsfeed with RelayMach HTTP client, server, and proxy which runs on Node.js and in the browserFollowMichael Jackson - twitter, githubRyan Florence - twitter, githubJeff Barczewski - twitter, githubCodeWinds - twitter, githubRelated contentThe React.js Conference experience - Jeff’s article on his experience at the first React.js Conference (2015)CodeWinds podcast episode 4 - React.js with Pete HuntVideoKeynote on React.js and React Native from React.js Conf 2015