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3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2016
27:45 · 50K views · Feb 24, 2016
Ben Alpert of the React team talks at React.js Conf 2016 about where React is heading. He covers performance and stability work, challenges at Facebook, and opportunities such as bringing React Native ideas to the web.
HN points to it as a primary source for what the React team was actually working on, such as React Native for the web.
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I tried submitting a reddit thread ( [LINK] ), but it didn't get much traction... I think because the videos got pulled. I hope you guys don't mind if I ask this question here, and I apologize if I'm being naive in some way: Aditya Punjani's later Flipkart talk ( [LINK] ) mentioned the importance of mobile web apps and 60 FPS. Ben Alpert's talk mentioned ( this video ) "React Native for the web" would be awesome. There was even a lightning talk on react-native-web which attempts to do this using the traditional DOM ( [LINK] ) Whatever happened to Flipboard's React Canvas ( [LINK] and [LINK] ) being a solution to these problems? There's pretty good browser availability and although there's currently no perfect solutions for things like accessibility, SEO, or server-side rendering... I failed to se a real "nail in the coffin". Did it just never gather enough momentum?
There's a touch more than views to consider, e.g. do you have to build or want a native mobile app? Angular 2.0 will be under heavy development whereas I think React has matured to the point where a lot of effort is going into ease of use and performance [1]. I also found the React tool chain (using webpack/babel5) very slightly more sane than grunt/gulp once my project grew beyond "Hello TODO". But the JS tooling is absolutely crazy no matter what platform is decided. I'm using redux for API calls - I like the "single store" approach despite drawbacks vs. flux (or multiple stores). [1] this video
They are specifically working on it according to this React.js Conf talk [0]. There's also rwb from Pete Hunt [1]. EDIT: Removed comment about 'standard'. Ain't so bad anymore apparently. [0] this video [1] [LINK]