News
The State Of JavaScript: Front-End Frameworks
Sacha Greif has created an interesting survey to get a look at how JavaScript Frameworks are viewed by the people using them. Here are some preliminary results. If you haven't filled out the survey you should!
medium.com
React Rally Live Stream
React Rally is going on right now in Utah. If you couldn't make it, check the live stream.
reactrally.com
Articles
New horizons with Horizon, RethinkDB and React
Imagine if you didn't need to write your backend because you got it for free. If all you needed to do was write your front-end app and connect it to a ready-to-use and very flexible backend. While there are a few options that come to mind, one of them might not necessarily be Horizon + RethinkDB, but maybe it should be.
Julian Ćwirko dives into the great development experience of using these tools.
julian.io
Beta Testing React Native with Buddybuild
If you're coming from web development, and want to try your hand at making native apps with React Native, you might find some things to be a bit different. One of the hardest things about native development is getting your app onto devices to be tested. Often you need to test things on a device before submitting them to the Play and App stores. Josh Habdas tells us how he used BuddyBuild to solve this problem.
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Resources
React Patterns
Michael Chan brings us a great condensed explanation and demonstration of different patterns commonly used in React.
reactpatterns.com
Projects
React Fiber
React Fiber is an ongoing reimplementation of React's core algorithm. It is the culmination of over two years of research by the React team.
github.com
Tree-shaking with Babel and Webpack
This repository shows how to configure Babel and Webpack to enable tree-shaking for development and production builds.
github.com
Audio Player powered by React / Electron
Whenever I am attempted to dive into a new technology, I love to see how others have used it via examples. If you're looking to dive into using React with Electron this project is naive implementation of the VOX music player done with those two technologies.
github.com
Job Posting
Product developer - Florin
Florin is looking for someone to help us create great user experiences. As a Product Developer you will help build our Android, iOS and web apps using the React Javascript framework. You are someone who takes responsibility, in- and outside of defined roles. You value simple solutions, clean code and shipping a product that makes people happy.
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