Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Lucas Reis
Nader Dabit

Special Guests: Alex Moldovan

In this episode of React Round Up, the panel discusses the article Evolving Patterns in React with its author, Alex Moldovan. Alex is from Romania and works at Fortech as an engineering manager where he works mostly with the front-end development. He also is one of the co-founders of JSHeroes, which is the biggest JavaScript conference in Romania that also has a growing international community behind it. They answer some of Charles questions about React, talk about his article, their thoughts on the new changes, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Lucas was on React Round Up Episode 11
Lucas intro – works for Zocdoc as a senior front-end developer
Alex intro
At Fortech as an engineering manager
Co-founder of JSHeroes
His article Evolving Patterns in React
React.createClass rather than ES6 class
Started working with React in 2015
React and Redux
Nobody knew how to actually build an application in React in the beginning
Mixins
What has replaced the idea of mixins?
Higher Order Components
Render Props article by Michael Jackson
Implicit with mixins to explicit with render props
What about Context?
Do you think these new changes are addressing how we build React apps?
Thoughts on the new APIs and changes from 16 to 17
Error boundaries
Suspense
Server-side rendering
Using the Constructor
Evolving patterns
And much, much more!

Links:

React Round Up Episode 11
Zocdoc
Fortech
JSHeroes
JavaScript
Evolving Patterns in React
React
Redux
Render Props article by Michael Jackson
React Context
React Constructor
Alex’s Medium
Alex’s GitHub
@alexnmoldovan

Sponsors

Kendo UI
Loot Crate
FreshBooks

Picks:

Charles

Star Realms
Hogwarts Battles

Lucas

SpeedCurve

Nader

AWS AppSync GitHub Repo
Building AI Enabled GraphQL Applications by Nader
appsync-lambda-ai

Alex

Graphcool
Prisma
TensorFlow.js