Panel

Pete Hunt (twitter github blog)
Jordan Walke (twitter github)
Joe Eames (twitter github blog)
AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog)
Jamison Dance (twitter github blog)
Merrick Christensen (twitter github)
Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up)

Discussion
01:34 - Pete Hunt Introduction

Instagram
Facebook

02:45 - Jordan Walke Introduction
04:15 - React

React - GitHub

06:38 - 60 Frames Per Second
09:34 - Data Binding
12:31 - Performance
17:39 - Diffing Algorithm
19:36 - DOM Manipulation
23:06 - Supporting node.js
24:03 - rendr
26:02 - JSX
30:31 - requestAnimationFrame
34:15 - React and Applications
38:12 - React Users

Khan Academy

39:53 - Making it work

Picks

Ben Mabey: Clojure Plain & Simple (Jamison)
JSConf 2013 Videos (Jamison)
Kittens (Jamison)
PBS Idea Channel (AJ)
Free Trial SSL (AJ)
OSX Wifi Volume Remote Control (AJ)
js-git (Merrick)
vim-airline (Merrick)
MLS LIVE (Joe)
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (Joe)
ng-conf (Joe)
Hire Chuck (Chuck)
GoToMeeting (Chuck)
ScreenFlow (Chuck)
syriandeveloper (Pete)
jsFiddle (Pete)
Hotel Tonight (Pete)
Green Flash Brewery Beer: Palate Wrecker (Jordan)
All Things Vim (Jordan)

Next Week
Grunt.js with Ben Alman
Transcript
JAMISON: Joe is Merrick’s personal assistant.

CHUCK: [Laughter]

MERRICK: No, we’re just in this little room and he had, he was like, “Yeah”

JOE: Want me to freshen up your coffee, sir?

[Chuckles]

JAMISON: Feed me some tacos, Joe.

[Laughter]

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CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to episode 73 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames.

JOE: Hey there.

CHUCK: AJ O’Neal.

AJ: Live again from Provo.

CHUCK: Jamison Dance.

JAMISON: Hey friends.

CHUCK: Merrick Christensen.

MERRICK: Hey guys.

CHUCK: I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV and we have two special guests this week. Pete Hunt.

PETE: Hey guys.

CHUCK: And Jordan Walke.

JORDAN: Hi.

CHUCK: Since you guys haven’t been on the show before, do you want to introduce yourselves? We’ll have Pete go first.

PETE: Sure. So my name’s Pete. I work on general React stuff these days. But my day job is building the Instagram web experience. If you go to Instagram.com, we have a bunch of frontend stuff you can play with and a bunch of backend infrastructure that supports all that. That’s what I mostly work on. We’re big users of React at Instagram so I ended up contributing a lot to the React core as well.

JAMISON: So did you come from Instagram or from Facebook and then to work on Instagram?

PETE: Well it was actually a pretty good story just in terms of the integration of the two companies. I was originally at Facebook for a couple of years and we acquired Instagram and they came in and they wanted to build a web presence. Facebook’s core competency is definitely web tech... Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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