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Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook

Meta Developers · talk · Watch on YouTube

Web developmentSoftware architecture & designFunctional programming

What it is

Facebook engineers explain why they abandoned the traditional MVC paradigm for a more functional architecture, introducing Flux and React. They use the unread-message-count bug as a case study of the problems of bidirectional data flow at scale.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as the original talk that explains the motivation behind React, Flux and Redux, and that sold some commenters on React.

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

What HN commenters said

  1. “Finally if you haven't before these talks, they are the ones that sold me on React”

    Talk that convinced commenter to adopt React

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

  2. “Jing does a terrific job explaining in my opinion.”

    Explains Flux concepts clearly, starting around the 10 minute mark

    rattray, 2014-05 · Recommendation · in “Flux Application Architecture”

  3. “the original Facebook engineering announcement videos helped me understand React and Flux tremendously”

    Facebook announcement videos that explain React and Flux

    danesparza, 2017-07 · Recommendation · in “How to optimize React applications that use Redux”

  4. “something highly recommended to learn the philosophy behind Redux”

    Flux talk explains philosophy behind Redux

    franciscop, 2023-05 · Recommendation · in “React is 10 years old”

  5. “Facebook gave a great talk on Flux architecture vs MVC ten years ago that you should check out here”

    Flux architecture versus MVC explanation

    phailhaus, 2024-12 · Recommendation · in “React 19”

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

Topics: react, flux, mvc, redux, facebook, state management

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