JS Party – Episode #267

The future of React

with Dan Abramov & Joe Savona

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Dan Abramov & Joe Savona from the React Team join Jerod & Nick for a wide-ranging discussion about React’s place in the frontend ecosystem. We cover everything from React competing with React, their responses to SPA fatigue and recent criticisms, to Server Components and the future of the framework.

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Chapters

1 00:00 It's party time, y'all
2 01:03 Welcoming Joe & Dan
3 03:01 To what do we bestow this honor?
4 08:02 React competing with React
5 12:13 Reacting to recent criticisms
6 19:49 There's no silver bullet
7 21:28 Sponsor: Changelog++
8 22:22 React Server Components (RSC)
9 29:56 The scope of RSC
10 35:02 How to get started with RSC
11 37:30 Grappling with RSC terminology
12 41:01 RSC in production at Meta
13 47:43 Sponsor: KBall Growth
14 48:25 RSC as the skeleton
15 53:18 The easiest way to think about it
16 55:34 Resources for learning RSC
17 1:00:21 Why Dan doesn't like TypeScript
18 1:01:56 Wrapping up
19 1:02:40 Next up on the pod

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