My Reaction To React

David Pitt Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, React, Tutorial 3 Comments

We at Keyhole have been helping our clients adopt JavaScript-based single-page applications for over five years. We have been impressed with the adoption and advancement of the ever-changing JavaScript ecosystem.

Server side, headless JavaScript (Node.js) has led to good tooling and packaging options along with server side remaining available. Additionally, the new ECMA6 standard has turned JavaScript into a viable general purpose programming language, that is arguably, on the same plane as C# or Java. It certainly has a large number of available frameworks and tooling options.

React differs from the other frameworks Iโ€™ve worked with in a handful of ways. In this blog, I will show tangible examples of Reactโ€™s unique features and capabilities, particularly how it handles HTML-based Components.

Lessons From Facebook: React/Flux

Zach Gardner Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Opinion 5 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Note This blog post will cover Facebook’sย React JavaScript libraryย and Flux application architecture paradigm. It is a summary of the presentation I presentedย at DevCon 5 …