React, React Native, Flux, Relay, GraphQL (Interview)

Christopher “vjeux” Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens joined the show to talk about React, React Native, Flux, Relay, and GraphQL. They also announce on this show that React Native is now open source on GitHub.

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Show Notes:

Christopher Chedeau and Spencer Ahrens are software engineers on the React team at Facebook.

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“Now there’s one unified development experience… You learn Javascript, you learn React, and you learn some of these stylesheet concepts, and that travels with you to whatever platform you’re working on.” - Spencer Ahrens @ 24:33

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• Christopher Chedeau
• Spencer Ahrens
• facebook/react
• React - a JavaScript library for building user interfaces
• React Tutorial
• facebook/react-native
• Flux - Application Architecture for Building User Interfaces
• React blog - Introducing Relay and GraphQL
• React.js Conf 2015 - YouTube
• Building The Facebook News Feed With Relay
• React Native (Site and Newsletter)
• JSX Specification
• Flexbox
• AsyncDisplayKit
• F8 2015

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