This is a talk I gave for Santa Cruz JS on May 14th, 2020. It was titled this way because it was 5 years after I delivered my first talk on React at the same meetup.
and radically different from other frameworks of the time. I tried to convince you that React is a game changer.. "it will not just change the way you build user interfaces, but change the way you think about UI."
development and has impacted the career of almost every JavaScript developer. Even the people in this room who are not using React today are likely using a framework that has been influenced by React in fundamental ways.
and trainer. I help companies build cool stuff with React. I worked at Facebook, I’ve been at Google/YouTube, I’ve hired and trained engineers and founded a consultancy and I’ve built a whole lot of React stuff. /sstur_
exist yet • The first Macbook with USB-C just announced • Windows 10 not yet released • IE is the #2 browser w/ 10-20% market share; Edge does not exist yet • Barack Obama is president • InstaStories doesn’t exist yet (you have to use Snapchat) • Periscope and Meerkat just started the live-streaming trend • California is totally in a drought • Human contact is still a thing
and Browserify (Webpack is just getting popular) • AngularJS is the most popular web framework by huge margin • CSS in JS is not really a thing • The Node.js community is split in two: io.js / original Node • GraphQL just announced • React is starting to gain popularity • React Native has just been open sourced (iOS only) • Flux is hot! Redux doesn’t exist • Rust 1.0 just got announced
to date. • Any web developer can jump into being a mobile dev • Fully immersive native experiences • Incredible ecosystem of packages • World-class companies are pushing this forward