The React Episode
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Wes and Scott do a deep dive into React - what it is, best practices and all the ins and outs of how the framework works.
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Show Notes
5:23
- Components
12:30
- JSX
25:13
- Data and Props
44:48
- Fetching
49:22
- Event Handlers
54:00
- Instance classes + properties
55:02
- Lifecycle Methods
59:55
- Context
1:01:35
- Routing
Links
Preact
Inferno
How to Comment in JSX (article)
Apollo
Redux
LevelUpTutorials.com Level II React Course
React Informed (forms)
Meteor
Axios
Firebase
Gatsby
Here’s how React’s new Context API works
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.0 | Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello everybody and welcome to the Syntax Podcast where we talk about the tastiest web development treats out there with me as always as Scott Tolinsky how you doing today Scott. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey I'm doing super good doing really good how about you? I'm doing pretty good doing really good. How about you? I'm doing pretty good just back at it after a couple of weeks of vacation |
| 0:27.4 | which I'm had an awesome time on vacation and now I'm back into it's it's funny how hard it is actually to get back into coding. |
| 0:35.2 | Like I just like was sat down at my desk and I was like, what do I do again? |
| 0:39.4 | Like what am I working on? |
| 0:40.6 | Like I feel for people who don't write like JavaScript every day because you get I feel like you get pretty rusty I found after just two weeks of being away I don't know how to code anymore. |
| 0:51.0 | I think it's hard to get back in the groove of like anything like that where you're just like |
| 0:55.5 | you're out of your normal flow you're not you know in your all the sudden you gotta just jump |
| 1:00.5 | back into it yeah Yeah, yeah totally. |
| 1:02.8 | I like project to project, you know? |
| 1:05.4 | That's true actually. |
| 1:06.3 | Being able to jump into an old project and think about like, oh, |
| 1:09.3 | what was I working on and how was I working on it? |
| 1:11.5 | Like I thrive in consistency and and doing the same thing day in day out and stuff like that when it gets messed up it's it's really funky but excited to be back today's episode is sponsored by two awesome company, Devlifts, who sponsored the show many times in the past. They're back and they will get you fit. If you're a developer, which you probably are, because you're listening listening to this they are going to get you fit and M-Lab which is going to host your a mongo d b database we'll talk about both of those companies part way through |
| 1:41.1 | but today we're talking about react. I was just |
| 1:44.0 | kind of sitting around looking at a list of topics and I messaged Scott and I was |
| 1:48.0 | like, do you know what we've never done? We've never done a show on react. We've done our first ever show over a year ago was on react tools. |
| 1:56.4 | We've talked about react probably in every single episode, |
| 1:59.7 | but we've never actually done like, this is what React is. |
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