Panel:
Special Guests: Samuel Mendenhall In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses best practices with React and Redux with Samuel Mendenhall. Samuel has been working in web development for the past five years and was recently working for
Red Hat. They talk about what has led him to
React, as well as some of the most common mistakes that people make in React. They also talk about the amazing power of
TypeScript and when you may not want to use
Redux. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
- Sam intro
- jQuery, Backbone, and Angular
- React and React Native
- New role at Microsoft in commercial software engineering group
- Working a lot with React and tooling
- What have you learned since working with React?
- Shallow learning curve
- The concept of React is very simple
- What work did you do at Red Hat?
- Internal tooling
- What are some common mistakes people have made in React?
- Defensive programming
- Making sure functions are bound correctly
- He’s an advocate for using TypeScript
- The pros of using TypeScript
- Connect in React
- Connect will do shallow comparisons
- Redux
- When you shouldn’t use Redux
- When should Redux be used in a project?
- MobX
- And much, much more!
Links:
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Nader
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Special Guest: Samuel Mendenhall.
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