[JSConfUS 2013] Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke: JS Apps at Facebook

[@sebastianhewelt2197]

Honeypot documentary anyone??? 🙌🙌🙌😂

[@imsaurab8495]

Me😂

[@papacktrue]

Me too :)

[@niteshsetin]

Yep 👍🏻

[@musicwithsam]

right here 🙋‍♂

[@kitti.crafts]

Me too😂

[@andradedeguilherme]

Watched it right after I finished React's documentary, couldn't wait!

[@hadiyakhni4282]

I couldn't wait to finisih the documentary lol!

[@BouncingBelly]

The rest is history

[@abdu5822]

I'm still mad why Jordan was not in the React's documentary;

[@prauthu]

This looks great... It can become one of the most popular frontend library!

[@RayDaly]

Appreciate this intro to Reactjs much more now than when I saw it live. The intro and the example are both excellent. So now on to the next tutorial.

[@swyxTV]

man i wish i could hear the discussions right after this talk. people mustve flipped their shit

[@chromakode]

I was in this room. It wasn't obvious how revolutionary React would be. The JS world of 2010-13 was crowded with component libraries. Isomorphic JS was a hot topic due to the rise of Node, and everyone was searching for the right abstraction to share more templating logic with the server. This was a common genre of talk at the time, where a big company would explain how their page rendering worked. Everyone had their own implementation that was 80% similar to the others, and corporate sponsors would present their own (e.g. Flight by Twitter). The initial reaction from many was skeptical. React came across superficially as solving familiar problems with extra overhead of diffing and a weird templating language. JSX felt clunky and unfamiliar. It came off as an overcomplicated "not invented here" from Facebook. Most folks in 2013 weren't building JS apps as big as Facebook was. It took a while for the benefits to sink in. The React team received a *lot* of negativity at first. They toughed it out and continued to iterate rapidly. The ideas won in the end.

[@azzam_dev]

Who would’ve thought this will eat the world, a great and inspiring conference video

[@rumble1925]

React looked so strange at the time, but after trying it out I was completely blown away. The conceptual model was so simple. It really can't be understated how brilliant their insights were.

[@isomorphicdev5168]

this was visionary.

[@MinusTechTips]

Jordan is the Reason for React ;)

[@randycreasi]

And the reason for Reason.

[@SoeaOu]

Historical day.

[@JoshuaMusau]

History was made on this day!

[@SyncMaster730a]

2007 - iPhone 2013 - React

[@aysi143]

I have been a fan of react since 2016. I wish I have heard this earlier. 😇

[@PonnaiyaSwami]

I knew uhm most of us were denied the statement of Jordan at that time, How da fu*** re-renders... and it's like magic... But where we are now? It's all about REACT... :) Hats off the Jordan and the team.

[@jorgebjimenez3752]

React is just the natural thing where the observation and intelligent bring to.

[@piyushaggarwal5207]

Where is jordan walke? What is he doing nowadays?

[@drew7537]

"low tooling is the key here" lol... lmao

[@mj2068]

for jordan.

[@adamthedev]

Historic

[@shubhamshinde3720]

he created something big and then hidden himself in the shadow

[@butterfly7562]

react is great

[@asankasiriwardena3383]

Hmm, Syntax is bit of different since ES6 is not out there yet. React with CommonJS, who would have thought 😊

[@kimjisena]

damn...that's how it happened

[@Fosterushka]

that where history start

[@auntiecarol]

I wanted to see David Heinemeier Hansson and Jordan Walke in a cage fight back in the day.

[@piyushmahapatra7806]

ah, here is react

[@lasaventurasdesiulppe9326]

Jordan era un distinto para esa época, fue muy criticado con el proyecto de React en ese entonces pero el tiempo le dio la razón.

[@aashishkumarjha5738]

Jordan was way ahead of his time

[@tomaszkleszczewski8492]

Jordan's ways remind me of Sheldon Lee Cooper from big bang theory.

[@bephrem]

here

[@vulkanosaure]

Is that the very first conf after which they got a lot of hate ?

[@sudonick2161]

I find React very fascinating...

[@navoditbharat]

Jordan🤌

[@kentmorado9342]

EAT YOUR MODULES

[@mykeapo]

Great ideas are enemy of excelentes ideas, Svelte can do everything React does, but simpler.

[@Klivdx]

Lol this looks bad, nobody will use this library!

[@DoubleGauss]

Commend him for his great invention.. but he needs to alter his speech pattern. It's annoying.