These days, React is everywhere – even the Honeypot team uses it! But what was happening about a decade ago when React was first open-sourced? The JavaScript community didn’t just have a bad reaction, they couldn’t believe this project had any future.
In the early days, before React.js was even open-sourced a bunch of passionate engineers like Jordan Walke, Shane O'Sullivan, Christopher Chedeau, Jing Chen, Tom Occhino, Pete Hunt, Sebastian Markbåge, Paul O’Shannessy, and Lee Byron took a crazy idea that would revolutionize the way interactive user interfaces are built.
If it wasn't for a small group of passionate developers at (what was then) Facebook, React might not have seen the light of day. In this documentary, Honeypot's filmmaker Ida Bechtle takes you back to the origins, right to the moment when 'Rethinking Best Practices' got real.
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