Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Aimee Knight
Joe Eames
Cory House
AJ O'Neal

Special Guests: None

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panelists talk about React: The Big Picture, Cory’s course on Pluralsight and what React is all about. They discuss both the pros and cons when it comes to using React and when it would be the best to use this library. They also encourage programmers to use React in a more consistent way so that people can share components.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

What is React: The Big Picture course?
React
The frameworks work with each other
Reason and Elm
How to decide when using React is the best option?
React tradeoffs
JavaScript
React expects you to do a little more typing and work
React is very close to JavaScript
React pushes you towards a single file per component
React Round Up
Are the Code Mods as wonderful as they sound?
Angular
Create React App
What are Code Mods?
Lack of opinionated approach in React
Using React in a more consistent way
MobX and Redux
Start off using just plain React
When wouldn’t you want to use React?
And much, much more!

Links:

React: The Big Picture
Cory’s Pluralsight
Reason
Elm
React
JavaScript
React Round Up
Create React App
Angular
MobX
Redux
Framework Summit 2018
Angular: The Big Picture
React Dev Summit

Picks:

Charles

Hunting Hitler
The Greatest Showman: Sing-a-long

Aimee

“Why being a perfectionist is an obstacle (and how to beat it)” by Gui Fradin
“How to understand the large codebase of an open-source project?” blog post

Joe

Marital Bliss Card Game

AJ

Pplwink.com