Jan 31, 2015

After live tweeting the whole conference this past week, I feel obligated to write up on it. I’ll be covering the main stuff announced, at any point feel free to leave a comment or a reply on Twitter @ReactJSNews with any questions. I try my best to respond to everyone.

Jan 25, 2015

Welcome back! Last time we left off with a nice little Container component that allowed dragging and dropping items both internally and between components. However, despite having the ability with our setup, we did not write a single test. The time has come to fix that shortcoming, with lots and lots of examples.

Jan 2, 2015

I would like to thank everybody that entered the giveaway. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be to choose a winner. I know that everyone who entered tried very hard. Before going into who won, here’s a little recap of what was submitted.

Jan 1, 2015

Shared JavaScript that runs on both the client & server.

Dec 29, 2014

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Dec 29, 2014

Note: All of the code can be found on GitHub.

Dec 27, 2014

The idea of “idiomatic” React hasn’t been explicitly written on, so I thought I’d offer some conventions that my team at Tune has been using during the past few months of adoption. For the sake of this article, scope will be limited to coding style in React components - not styling, componentization, or Flux strategies. Also, this is meant to be a living document - and I am sure there are better ideas out there - so any comments and feedback are more than welcome.

Dec 16, 2014

React is Awesome! Rails is Awesome! Jest is awesome! Using Jest with React in Rails should be Awesome Cubed… and yet it seems so difficult.

Dec 8, 2014

I’m primarily a Rails developer but everyday I seem to be writing more and more front end JavaScript. While writing Ruby, tests are a given part of the process. This is not the case with JavaScript. I’ve always found that odd and I’ve also written enough JavaScript to intimately know how frustrating it can be.

Nov 28, 2014

The first ever React conference is happening in January at Facebook’s headquarters. The sad part is that the demand is so high, not everyone who wants to go will be able to. This is part of the reason I’ll be giving away a ticket. The other reason is to create more tutorials and guides for the community. You’re probably wondering what that has to do with a giveaway, but you’re about to find out!