Show notes
A documentary about React, produced by Honeypot.io, was released on February 10th, and Carl Vitullo spoke with two of the people instrumental in making it happen: Ida Bechtle, staff filmmaker from Honeypot; and Christopher Chedeau, whose contributions to the React and JS ecosystem are nearly innumerable — React, React Native, Prettier, Docusaurus, Excalidraw, and more.We talked about the documentary itself, how it got made, and some other behind-the-scenes info — an unofficial “DVD commentary” for the documentary. Ida on being a 1-person production team [ Christopher Chedeau as a driving force [ Why Honeypot makes these documentaries [ Getting trapped in a park while filming [ Jordan Walke's participation [ About the focus on the early days of React [ Deciding where to focus your attention [ Going in a submarine and ignoring your manager [ Making Prettier pretty through data [ Ida's documentary process [ Christopher's involvement in the early days of Reactiflux [ Christopher's largest human-centered accomplishment [

