77: Lee Byron — From PHP to React and GraphQL

We're kicking off a new decade by going back in time time to 1999, just 10 years after the birth of the internet.

Our guest today is Lee Byron.

He takes us on a tour of the early web and personal home pages.

And connects the dots between PHP and technologies like React and GraphQL.

His work — inside Facebook during a critical pivot to mobile — provides a unique vantage point on the progress of web technologies over the past 20 years.

Lee Byron — Twitter, Website, GitHub
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Let's Program Like It's 1999 | Lee Byron — from React Conf 2019
Links (web browser) on Wikipedia
PHP on Wikipedia
LAMP stack on Wikipedia
Tim Berners-Lee on w3.org
30 years on, what’s next #ForTheWeb? on webfoundatios.org
myspace
Internet: A First Discovery Book Hoodie
Vaporwave on Wikipedia
Hack/XHP
JSX
Source-to-source compiler on Wikipedia
Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke: JS Apps at Facebook — React and JSX's public announcement at JSConf US 2013
Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices — defending JSX at JSConf EU
GraphQL: The Documentary — by Honeypot on YouTube
honeypot.originals on YouTube
graphql.org
relay.dev
graphql/graphql-js
graphql-ruby.org
reactjs/react-rails
64: Chris Toomey on TypeScript, GraphQL, and Product Thinking — on React Podcast
Robinhood — commission-free investing
Robinhood careers
GraphQL Foundation
The Linux Foundation — Supporting Open Source Ecosystems
GraphQL org on Github