Prime Reacts: The Story of React

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I have been having so much fun with these reactions, because it's about the information you provide. I have watched all this videos and as someone who does not have much experience in these sorts of details, I can't critique the videos and so to me I believe the videos but with you doing a counter argument with reference to the videos argument gives me a much better overall understanding of the history and direction of programming. I hope you would continue this prime.

Please never stop

My favourite part about debugging on IE is when just opening the dev tools caused the js to behave differently

I remember when I first heard about React, and it just made so much sense to me. I come from a gaming background. There, we need to render the entire screen every frame. UI included. So that mental model transferred seamlessly to React. The virtual DOM was such a hot topic back then, too. Yet, its an implementation detail required for good performance, but there’s nothing too amazing about the idea (the implementation might have some amazing code, idk). All in all, I’m pretty happy with React and today’s Function Components, which are even more alike developing UIs in videogames (as opposed to Class Components).

Chat: ries to look like developers and belonging "jQuery, ugh eew jQuery, jQuery lol (do I belong now? do I have the right opinions?)" Prime: "jQuery was a godsend!" Chat: "loved jQuery, jQuery was the best, jQuery rocked. omg jQuery was amazing!"

Don't know if they covered this in the video you're reacting to, but I believe a big reason React grew in popularity was because of the Angular 2.0 announcement. People were so pissed that it wouldn't be backwards compatible and essentially a new framework that the community scrambled to find an alternative. Ember and React were two major alternatives and React was way more flexible.

Programming JS in the dark ages was so bad, we put up with ActionScript and Flash just to escape it.

Damn this consistent content! I love it, thanks to u I am trying out svelte, learning to master my tools, learning how to type fast, and enjoying the way I learn. You are a true inspiration. Never stop posting content, you are changing lives!

As someone who has 0 idea about web, it’s amazing to me seeing the web being reinvented every 3 years with ideas from the 80s 😂

I think the real reason that it won is that Angular, called Angular 2 at the time really felt verbose enough that it felt like working in Java swing. JSX looked bonkers to me at first, but I really think it's the best feature to come out of the React "eco system".

I wrote a client side map app for nautical shipping charts with stuff like route planning, port navigation waypoints, piracy danger zone layer drawing, live-ish updates of known ship locations and port/commodity icons.... in 2011 with jQuery. Had to support IE because every enterprise customer was still mired in the IIS intranet hellscape of activex web applications. What a wild ride.

can't wait the story of solid js in 2-3 years later

Please never stop, never stopping

Back when I was forced to support IE6 until MS finally killed it, jQuery saved me hours of writing polyfills and crazy xhr request. It was truly awe inspiring in its time when you first learned how to use it.

Modern web devlopers "How do you show an image on a webpage without using react??? its not possible? what library did you use?"

That carpet slip legit had me dying

The initial idea of react was absolutely beautiful and for the "web world" revolutionary. A lot of that magic was lost over time and the way that we use it today leads most people to not even know what the original idea was and how brilliantly simple it was or that it was inspired by how video games work.

12:16 Your best selfies are the YouTube thumbnails!

Nextjs intro docs provide clear insights, and through its examples, grapple the practilities of 'why react' that the uidotdev video doesn't quite reach. Good video nonetheless from a historical perspective.