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Pete Hunt: React - Rethinking Best Practices (updated) - JSConf.Asia 2013

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What it is

Pete Hunt of Facebook and Instagram presents React at JSConf.Asia 2013, explaining its design principles and why they seemed shocking at first. He argues that React separates concerns rather than technologies, and the talk also announces the React Chrome developer tools.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters credit it with persuading them to adopt React, and cite it for the argument that HTML and JS cannot truly be separated.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “watch 'React - Rethinking Best Practices' by Pete Hunt”

    Talk that persuades web developers to switch to React

    jasim, 2015-02 · Strong recommendation · in “React Hot Loader: Tweak React Components in Real Time”

  2. “they are the ones that sold me on React”

    One of the talks that sold the commenter on React

    yazaddaruvala, 2023-06 · Strong recommendation · in “React is 10 years old”

  3. “Pete Hunt addresses this specifically in this React talk starting at 3 minutes”

    Pete Hunt argues React separates concerns, not technologies, unlike templating

    baddox, 2014-07 · Recommendation · in “Compiling JSX with Sweet.js using Readtables”

  4. “React is about separating concerns, not technologies.”

    Pete Hunt explains why React separates concerns rather than technologies

    bsimpson, 2014-08 · Recommendation · in “Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework”

  5. “Pete Hunt did a great job then, explaining how the false separation of concerns between HTML and JS really is unavoidable.”

    Pete Hunt explains why separating HTML and JS is a false separation

    chrisco255, 2017-08 · Recommendation · in “Vue.js vs. React”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: react, pete hunt, jsx, separation of concerns, javascript

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