How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2023
- React is easily one of the single most popular libraries in use today. Given that it was made within a juggernaut like Facebook, you might have assumed it was always destined for success.
But what if we told you that React’s first brush with the public sphere was anything but glamorous? React.js: The Documentary brings you the full story behind the early days of React, focusing on the dedicated group of developers who helped bring it to the world stage. This story is told by an all-star cast of developers like Tom Occhino, Christopher Chedeau, Pete Hunt, Sebastian Markbåge, Dan Abramov, and many more.
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Tony Casparro: / iamtonyc
Many people contributed to React throughout the years and this documentary is just a little slice of that history. You can find full acknowledgements here: reactjs.org/acknowledgements....
Thanks to these amazing people for translating subtitles:
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The live Q&A following the release of this documentary is now out: ruclips.net/video/WzRSysq7F4k/видео.html (featuring most of the cast). 🤩
Not really interested in this documentary, but commenting here and giving you a full watch in support against idiotic react content(unrelated to the documentary despite the name), and the case with Theo in particular. Hopefully this helps the algo. Some people's understanding of fair use is just unbelievable.
@@anteshell you are a good person.
Wife: Are you tearing up, what movie is that?
Me: It's... story about library that I'm using at work.
Wife: the what
😂
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Iconic 😂🤣.. An emotional movie for software developers😂. People ask me for my top 10 movies this year. It is React Documentary, topping the charts😂🤣🤣. I just love Software development. It's a different & interesting world.
Excellent
I was definitely wrong about React and that JSConf tweet. Thanks for the career, React 🥰
Hi Wes! 🤩
That's definitely interesting, 'cause when I think in React a think in Wes Bos.
Wes barracuda bos!!!!!
React + Wes = 😍
Personally I find React grating and difficult to work with, there are better ways to solve the problem of web applications.
React allowed me to leave the service industry after a decade and a half and become a developer that works remotely from anywhere in the world. When I saw this documentary I knew I had to watch it to know more about the history of something that so drastically changed my life. Without React I wouldn't be here, so thanks to everyone that made it happen. This journey is not over yet, there's much more to come, and I'm very excited to be a part of it.
Same! I went from a lumberjack with an 8th grade education to mako to 6 figures in just a few years!
@@okjosh wow crazy stuff. Super happy you made it too, may it last long 🙏
@@shreyansh4171 I started learning early 2020 and got my first job early 2022
I m final year student, can I know how to get a remote job . I have 1 year of experience in learning react and done project too.
@@okjosh so u have a job as a developer without a college or university degree ?
coming here from dark viper au
you did an amazing job to create react documentary. keep up the good work to create another amazing documentaries. 👍
The engineers who worked on React must be proud of their work.
may?
@@iudoh February
@@aurelianspodarec2629 March
@@techlydaily No! Don't tell me what to do! I'm going to stand still.
What's to be proud of?
Hooks which behave differently each time you use them together?
Little nuances you have to constantly remember just not to introduce a silly error?
There have long been alternatives that are 10x faster and easier to work with, that require less than a week to learn entirely and even perform twice as fast in the browser.
React is a relic and should be treated as such.
I was kinda hoping Jordan will show up at the end 🥲
Does anyone know why he declined to be interviewed? I feel like a major part of the drama has been missed.
@@TerenceKearns same thing I was thinking
Matto brought me here. Nice that Matto is reminding my Reactjs web development PTSD and all the pain I had to endure with JavaScript in general.
same haha
I remember I used to work in Technical support department and was very unhappy with what I was doing. Always wanted to go for frontend but scared to death with coding. One day, I decided to start learning front end development from scratch and came across this React Library. The minute I started looking into it, I fell in love with the library. Its been 4 years now , I am senior React developer. Not gonna look back. Thank you so much React for changing my life ....
Is it react still good for develop nowadays?
@@SharrmanHatrash yes.
The documentary was amazing at JSWorld conference! I would encourage anyone to watch it. Great story throughout the movie! Really well done Honeypot :) QA after with Dan & Shane was great as well!
Thank you, Kevin, it was such a cool night!
To everyone involved: Thank you.
There are many amazing things to like about this documentary, but one that strikes me most, is how different people and personalities are fundamental for every step of a success story.
There's no React without the lone wolf, but neither without the first internal promoter, internal champion, internal articulator, leadership that allows it to bloom, external customer, on and on...
I came here from Darkviper's video to support yet another honest creator that's being attacked for their good work. Coincidentally I'm into programming, so this video will definitely stay open as my 100th chrome tab until I find the time to watch it. Anyways, keep up the good work and I hope the reactors don't demolish your motivation and stop you from uploading.
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Same around here. Was also thinking about learning programming to get a job but procrastinating to actually start learning, so I'll watch this video
@@illbebeck8655 react is trash, learn vue
@@illbebeck8655 Try following a structured path like Odin Project or Freecodecamp. It's all laid out for you to get going from 0 to job level, and you can do it in your own pace.
and it's free
DarkViper gang lets go!
i am watching this only because i saw a random dude on twitter being angry that he couldn't reupload your work, video is good, im happy, you should be to!
The story surrounding React and its birth really hits different I think. I got a similar feeling watching the GraphQL documentary. It seems like Facebook was (and probably still is) a great place to bring great minds together and push new ideas forward. Everyone really seems so united to create something amazing together. React definitely changed my career and for that I will be forever grateful! Great documentary. ❤
cringe
projections@@flunik666
Waiting for this one to be released since the day of the trailer 🔥✌🏻
Same
As a (open source) software engineer myself, the experience the React team had is what every developers hopes to achieve. Most open source projects are developed in the hope to ease the development of other applications, to improve them, to build a community around it and to build something together with people who have (developed) a passion for it. This project and team efforts shows that thinking outside of the box is the way to be different, gain attention eventually and get the well-deserved credit for it. I genuinely am happy for the team and their accomplishments that they've achieved over the past years. React has became a top-tier framework that offers everything we developers need in our daily life of development.
The DX on React is horrible after getting used to Svelte and Solid
only works if you have supportive management, can only happen at specific companies, so like most extraordinary things in life, the opportunities to shine worldwide are only available to as select few
I am a react developer. Can you suggest few open-source projects that i can work with
I watched the entire documentary when I have exams tomorrow lol
I don't regret watching it though
A great and inspiring story
Ah man good luck with your exam!
Incredible story and shows how hard it is to pull off something like this and the amount of mind blowing talent these people have.
Outside facebook, Dan's talks and articles were a key contributor in people trying out React. His talks were like how a friend would teach you the night before the exam. I think it should have been highlighted more.
Heard about the React video shenanigans from DarkViperAU and came to watch the documentary.
This is awesome work, and looking at your channel this is not just a one off great video!
I'm happy to have found you guys and look forward to the new content you'll make!
Could you tell me what darkviper said about react
Wtf I thought this guy was just a GTA speedrunner 😂
I remember being at the first react conf EU, seeing Dan talk about redux and Lee release graphql. I remember cracking jokes with Sunil outside in 40C weather. In the evenings people formed circles around members from the team to pick their brains. I remember speaking to Lee about the FB friends counter and how it affected young kids and bullying. The sense of community was so strong and i won’t forget it. Here’s to another 10 years of React!
I feel really inspired by the React story. Seeing how the initial reaction by the public to a technology built by bright minds from Facebook, was rejection.
This is wayyyy better than any movie. I really love these documentaries. This to me is the best thing that as a programmer, I should be watching.
I am humbled by the things the engineers have gone through to change the web for us to date.
Amazing documentary. My whole career started with React (Native) in an unpaid internship in my freshman year in college, and now I am working for Facebook, the company that invented it. I would not be where I am at right now without React, and I am immensely grateful.
Absolutely awesome job on this documentary! And of course, huge thanks to all the people who had a hand in making React the best JS UI library that it is today. React was pivotal in my career as a software engineer and made me love this career so much more. Again, thank you!
Loved this! I was in the second semester of my freshman year in 2020 Feb when one of my dorm mate suggested me to try learning React js. Covid happened and we came back home. I dedicated my entire days learning HTML CSS and then JS and finally React. One at a time, building small projects. Did a volunteering internship at a community to understand React better and finally landed on my first real internship at a startup that year in October.
Today I am the Tech Lead of that startup (small team of 7) which is a bootstraped profitable one. Being in my freshman year, I didnt see this coming. I owe my career head-start to React! Huge thanks to the team for building such an awesome library. And thank you Honeypot for sharing the React experience with us. ❤️
stallar production, captivating story telling, worthy of the love and effort the awesome contributors put into it to make react what it is today. Thank you Honeypot for bringing these stories to us and showcasing the cool side of opensource.🥰
Thanks for watching!
So much joy watching this. One of the most important thinks didn’t get the attention it deserves. React was the first JS library I used and was wow it has been really fun using it! That’s the reason I never wanted to even look at something different. ❤
Here thanks to @DarkViperAU
Learning React right now so yk, not a bad video for me to watch
Found your channel thanks to DarkViper, and decided to watch it as I've just started looking into react myself.
Amazing documentary, and well presented as well. Thanks for the subtitles, they really helped watching this at 1.5x :D
Here from DarkViperAU's recent vid. Good job on the documentary and glad to see your channel growing!
It just melts my heart that how these brilliant developers worked so hard to make React what it is today! super proud of them and their contributions ♥♥
This is truly amazing! I was thinking that I'm so lucky to use this technology for my projects, and hearing the story and effort of the Engineers made me realize that I can do much better in work using react. Thank you @Honeypot and all the Team behind this for making this awesome documentary for all those who are in the tech community.
I'm in the process of learning to react and have watched this four times now. Thank you for producing such an excellent documentary.
I can't understate how React changed my life. Things that once looked unattainable to me became the things I now take for granted. All thanks to these folks.
This documentary literally brought tears in my eye. I owe my whole career to React. Was a C++ developer, but then somehow got into Production Support. I was stuck their for 5+ years including a Job loss during recession. Decided to become a developer again, as was trying a lot of thing like Windows app in HTML, CSS and JS. iPhone app with Swift. But one day in the big Tech company where i was working, someone saw React in my resume and never had to look back. Most people at the company were Java developer. Started doing small projects from 2016 onwards and quite good in React. At around 2017, the demand of React was huge, as it's today. But very few people knew it and so i got completed into React projects for the companies. After working in React from sort of starting, now i don't do development anymore. But teaching the next generation about thi awesome library of React, which changed the trajectory of my career. 😀
Thanks to React i became an Associate Architect, RUclipsr(TWD- Nabendu Biswas), Author(5 books - GatsbyJS , React Firebase and MERN) and now a full time ReactJS teacher
Wow, I absolutely loved it. Sorry to not see Jordan being interviewed (I imagined you tried) but otherwise so nostalgic and amazing to see something so professional being made about something nobody of my friends and family even know exists. I've worked with React since 2015 and being a contractor haven't had any assignments without it since. Really shaped my career
Glad you enjoyed it! 🤗
I don’t know the details, but why Jordan wasn’t there really? Any insights?
They mentioned it. He is very private
Okay. I had no idea documentaries about programming were a thing now and I’m fully in love with them. The level of production behind this one was particularly immaculate. I fell in love with the ending transitioning react animation! I know I’m asking for the world but I hope to see a documentary about all the programming languages on here at some point in my life 😂.
I was very excited for this documentary to come out, I felt so emotional by the end of it. This is by far the most valuable documentary for the entire Dev Community.
React allowed me to leave my country and secure one of the best jobs in one of the largest companies in the world immediately after collage. To say that it was instrumental in changing my life is an understatement 🙏
I’ve never been a big fan of documentaries about tech, but this was really really interesting, you guys did a fantastic job with this really well done.
Glad to hear it! 🤗
i never liked documentaries about tech, but this story about react is really cool and exciting. When you see all the work involved in react, you understand that this project involves much more than just line of code. This is tech!
I remember being the first person advocating React in my former company as a working student. This resulted in so many great opportunities in my career and made me a better engineer. Thanks to the whole React team for their passion and dedication!
Came here to support this channel after seeing DarkViperAU's video. I'm not a programmer but i will finish this video from start to end. :) Keep up the good work :)
Prior to React, I was primarily a PHP/jQuery dev. Started hearing about React in 2016 and ever since then it's pretty much all I ever use. Such a great doc, so well put together it's inspiring me to make a doc of my own.
Vue or Angular is better..Svelte too
Thank you for this beautiful documentary, interesting to see all the highs and lows and its good for newer devs to get context of how we got where we are, personally I didn't think about how Facebook has its own culture from the open source community which affects things.
I'm now looking forward to a documentary about Angular, maybe next year since a lot of changes are planned this year. It will be a hectic one because Angular has been through a lot.
This documentary was well worth the wait. I can see why you took so long to post it on RUclips. You just can’t rush a great story.
This documentaries are so amazingly produced, really pleasant to watch.
Amazing to see how react was born. Great work.
This was very inspiring, so nice to see get to know those super good developers on the process of creating React
This makes me think about all the technologies that could have happened but have been pushed down to whatever reason. Pretty scary to think about and important to reflect on, especially for leaders in the industry. I have seen big leaders have a very close minded approach to tech, and it's everyone's responsiblity to detect those people and make a push against their rudimentary ideas. Rock on React!
Cool documentary! Thank you 😊
I’m just now entering tech industry via internship at a startup, switching careers from an unrelated field of aviation and excited to continue to use React. Thank you for this great technology.
It's actually a very impressive documentary.
I want to thank all the people who participated in REACT to get here.
When REACT was first announced there was some criticism that we thought was due to the way in which RACT JS was released.
I love these documentaries they always get me fired up to learn and build more
Forget what that stupid person did to this video for a little bit of fame and money. This is an awesome and well made documentary with a lot of interesting facts. I appreciate your hard work.
I came here from DarkViperAU's video, this is really helpful as I'm currently studying React
We appreciate you coming to our little corner of the internet! 🙏
Great to see David Nolen and hear the contribution he made to bringing attention to React.
I was in the cljs community at the time and heard of it through David. It was very idiomatic with how ClojureScript’s persistent data structures manage state. The performance impact on rendering they bring to React, all it has to do is compare pointers/refs to know if anything changed. Chef’s kiss.
Really enjoyed it. Love React. As an Android dev with Java / Kotlin background, React took me only a month to learn enough to publish my first prod app on Heroku, a fairly complex one. Kudos to the team.
The documentary was amazing bring me back to the best memories from 2010 at that point in time everybody in the world was working to solve problems in web and mobile, the energy and vibe in the conference was like rock start incredible time thanks guys good job!
darkviper legion bri ging in the vieuws
you all have such great personality & love to see familiar faces again after many years, i've been so lucky to meet these smart folks in conferences back at the beginning of React age. I've been a early adopter, contributor and still daily user of this awesome stack which changed my way of thinking UI. Crazy to think it was 10 years ago!
Dvau gang. Keep doing what you are doing honeypot
Subbing, watching, liking and commenting - DarkViperAu mention you guys in his Rambles and how Theo (who is such a tool) backstabbed you by stealing your content and and claiming "fair use" by "reacting" to it. I despise people like that and your content is professional as was your demeanour toward Theo and his actions. Bravo!
Learning React is one of the best things that happened in my life. A game-changing UI library. I waited to see this documentary for so severely. Awesome work 🔥❤
now you sleep with men?
Thankyou for all of you who work hard behind the react core team. ❤My life changed when i learn react and now i had great career with react.
Ok that was actually pretty good. Really interesting story on how it went from a framework no one understood at first (and heckled) to one the most popular frameworks in use today. So many people that have added their own contributions making it what it is today. Innovation + team work + community. Great doco. Thanks for sharing :)
This was amazing and extremely inspiring! It truly shows the power of perseverance and a great team with brilliant innovators. Thank you
Met Dan when I was working at Facebook. I loved the documentary! So relatable ❤
here after the controversy over the guy who re-uploaded this vid. I think the guy (despites his crappy attitude afterwards) did more good than harm. Anyway, great documentary. Blessings
Ahhh, it's amazing to see how to React evolved over the years. This thing pays my bills guys. Thanks to the creators
Excellent documentary, I must say ❤️❤️. It was like watching a superheroes movie (like avengers). Everyone of them is special (specially Dan 😍 my personal fav). Was also waiting for Jordan to show up all the time😊
Just came here from DarkViperAU. Keep it up guys the quality of this video is crazy good
That's so awesome! React really helps to change my career trajectory and became a developer. Thank you so much to all the people involved in the project and for Honeypot to put this great documentary out for the world!
I remember David’s excitement when this happened, all this time later it’s the no-brainer choice everywhere. Great story, cheers
This was just incredible. Thank you HoneyPot for this one.
Would love to see a documentary on Python side of things like Anaconda, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Numpy or Pandas or something like that.
+1 Love to see Tensorflow!
Pytorch would be an interesting one for sure
I want to see a documentary on django
@@sauravsharma6170 I second this
I remember seeing some stuff about React early on, and I loved the idea. Never understood why everyone hated it so much. I have been using it for so many projects since then. Thanks a lot! 🔥
2:36 close your eyes. It's Luis Litt talking
What sticks out is React could have been killed at any point in the early days by a Boss who thought these devs were in above their heads, so facebook's internal culture seems to have been really effective at preventing this from happening.
Incredible documentary, production and storytelling is out of this world. Thank you!
Thank you! 💛
This level of quality can only be achieved by Honeypot, great work as always, looking forward yo the next one.
Thank you for sharing this story and making this documentary. Thank you to tall the devs that contributed and came together to make React a thing.
After working on Angular for many years, when React was introduced to me, I was one of those who thought it a crap. I admit it! But when I created my first component, I saw the difference in number of lines I had to write in React vs Angular for same thing! The performance of page on DOM was clearly visible! It blew my minds and cant think of any framework now. React is going to dominate JS world for quite a some time just like jQuery did and I am sure someone is cooking something better somewhere which will be better than React! Cheers to the creaters and and contributes of this amazing piece of technology. 🤟
Being backend developer all the time, React really changed my life. This is really an awesome documentary by @Honeypot!!
Huge shout out to all the real heros behind React and React Native. They really changed the life of million people on this lovely planet and become the reason of bread earning ❤
I'm really enjoy and appreciate this informative documentary,
having started working with react this 2023;
This gives me a spoon-fed knowledge of what I'm I diving into.
Picking React is the best decision I made in my software engineering journey.
Thanksgiving for this...!
Thank you for this documentary. It was amazing to follow the history of React and the people who contributed. We feel great emotions throughout the documentary. It's an incredible job. Thanks again.
The production quality of this documentary is incredible 😮 it’s also really fun to watch and learn more about the earlier period of React before I even thought about becoming a software developer.
Glad you enjoyed it! ✌️
The Vue documentary was amazing. Can't wait!
at first i didn't even understand Reactjs, but then by time i watched many tutorials an practiced it, it just became my favorite Frontend framework, i just love working with react no matter how hard it is, it was thanks to react that i gained much experience in javascript because he makes things very simple ! i pick react js and always will do for any project i work with
Honeypot we love your work, please make a documentary on Rails.
RAILS has done more for startup that the boatload of VC.
We love React and seeing our heroes, this is nothing less than a superhero movie!
Thanks Honeypot for this and thank you everyone who built this piece of technology which changed the life of millions!
Can't wait to watch the #ReactDocumentary! My love for this amazing technology only grows and I'm so excited to learn even more about it!
Wow - this is the best documentary I've seen...
It's such a great story of great leadership, innovation and community.
My commitment & love for React Js is strengthened. Thank you for taking out time & resources to help us understand the ecosystem around its' development. React Js is here to stay❤️
As a react dev, the graphql and vuejs documentary made me proud and I dont even use them.
well done IDA !!! this filmmaker has the most sophisticated humour on earth - you all should get to know her in person ! :D
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The story really from an underdog entrance into the behemoth it is today, happy that I transitioned from a backend dev to frontend around 2014 and encountered React along the journey, still much to learn though.
the effort to get back us into early days of react is incredible, im feeling like i was there when all this react thing was happening. !
Waiting for Angular Documentary please
I can't wait for the Svelte Documentary 😍
They have already made one
@@siyaram2855 huh? I cant find it. You sure you're not talking about Vue?
ruclips.net/video/kMlkCYL9qo0/видео.html
@@Zahista Thats another channel tho 😂
Lol looks like somebody has been trying to copy honeypot
Beyond the framework, I think the ideas behind react are infectious and drive a very particular kind of community among the people I work with. Aligned with the React values, we try to be open-minded to take in new best practices and at the same time, we are always creating new libraries that are more reusable, testable, and maintainable so that someone else down the line does not have to do it again. I'm grateful to say that the atmosphere in my team is similar to that of the people in this documentary even though we are just building upon the abstractions that these amazing people have created.
"If someone has a question, everyone can jump in and answer it instead of just Jordan" - really loved this and that he describes it as "a big shift". This is one of the indicators that you actually have a team.