Yes, React is taking over front-end development. The question is why.

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Yes, React is taking over front-end development. The question is why.

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"Easy is boring. That's why I love the web and browsers." - Remy Sharp

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Yes, React is taking over front-end development. The question is why.

Working with the DOM API is hard. React basically gives developers the ability to work with a virtual browser that is faster and more friendly than the real browser. React’s virtual browser acts like an agent between the developer and the real browser.

In the news

PhantomJS maintainer stepping down

The main PhantomJS maintainer is stepping down, believing everyone will eventually switch to the Chrome headless mode coming in the following weeks.

Introducing ReactXP

The Skype team at Microsoft are happy to announce that they are open sourcing ReactXP, a library that we developed for cross-platform development. It builds upon React JS and React Native, allowing you to create apps that span both web and native with a single code base.

Tools & libraries

Prettier 1.0

Prettier is an opinionated JavaScript formatter

Tutorials & guides

TypeScript at Slack

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Trust the Compiler

So what’s this GraphQL thing I keep hearing about?

In a nutshell, GraphQL is a syntax that describes how to ask for data, and is generally used to load data from a server to a client.

For beginners

Debugging Tips and Tricks

Writing code is only one small piece of being a developer. In order to be efficient and capable at our jobs, we must also excel at debugging.

Blogs

Think you know the top web browsers?

Our traditional idea of the top five browsers may be over-simplified, outdated and skewed.

Electron is flash for the desktop

When you download slack you're actually downloading a complete copy of Google Chrome. Chrome, at the time of writing is 15 million non-comment lines. When you download slack, 99% of the code is 'below the water'.

Demo

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Animated Poster

Trying to use SVG filters to replicate an effect similar to Hearthstone's golden animations, where a piece of an image is waving in the wind, alongside some jQuery parallax and CSS animation.