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31:48 · 216K views · Mar 16, 2017
Lin Clark gives an illustrated, cartoon-style walkthrough of React Fiber, the rewrite of React's reconciler, explaining its incremental rendering and scheduling at React Conf 2017.
HN commenters recommend it as the clearest explanation of how Fiber and React 16 work.
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I'll repeat the comment I made in the "React 15.5" thread a couple weeks ago ( [LINK] ): For those who are interested in some of the details of the work that's going on, Lin Clark's recent talk on "A Cartoon Intro to Fiber" at ReactConf 2017 is excellent [0]. There's a number of other existing writeups and resources on how Fiber works [1] as well. The roadmap for 15.5 and 16.0 migration is at [2], and the follow-up issue discussing the plan for the "addons" packages is at [3]. I'll also toss out my usual reminder that I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at [LINK] . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics. Finally, the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord are a great place to hang out, ask questions, and learn. The invite link is at [LINK] . [0] this video [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]
For those who are interested in some of the details of the work that's going on, Lin Clark's recent talk on "A Cartoon Intro to Fiber" at ReactConf 2017 is excellent [0]. There's a number of other existing writeups and resources on how Fiber works [1] as well. The roadmap for 15.5 and 16.0 migration is at [2], and the follow-up issue discussing the plan for the "addons" packages is at [3]. I'll also toss out my usual reminder that I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at [LINK] . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics. Finally, the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord are a great place to hang out, ask questions, and learn. The invite link is at [LINK] . [0] this video [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]
Yeah, the React team takes backwards compatibility very seriously. They did finally drop some deprecated methods from the main package in React 16, but made them available as separate packages, and even wrote codemods to automatically replace usages. I can recommend several resources for understanding the changes in React 16: - Lin Clark's fantastic ReactConf presentation on "A Cartoon Intro to Fiber": this video - The official announcements for React 16: [LINK] and [LINK] - A good summary of the major changes: [LINK] - Two articles looking at the user-facing features and changes: [LINK] and [LINK]
I believe she just has a talent for it, she's an engineer as far as I know and has other related cartoon descriptions: [LINK] Her talk on react fiber this year is quite good as well: this video
React Fiber was beautifully described by Lin on the last reactconf. this video Congratulations to the release.