Weekly Roundup: React
May 27, 2015 | Mike Craig

Our hybrid native/web application’s frontend layer is built with Javascript, React, and Flux. In 2014, our friends at Facebook advised us to try React and it has since been a core part of our stack.

The React community is bustling and there are some great posts to help people start, organize, and scale frontend applications. These articles have helped us:

1. Alex Lopatin details Sift Science’s migration from Backbone to React in Best practices for building large React applications.
2. Alexander Early from Fluid maintains an in-depth set of Tips and Best Practices. The discussion in the comments is good too.
3. Facebook’s Christopher Chedeau has many talks on React architectures but this review of how to scale CSS in a React stack guided our development of Wagon’s custom UI. Merci!
4. Alex Schepanovski describes React from a jQuery perspective in Boiling React Down to a Few Lines in jQuery.
5. Ryan Clark has a technical but still approachable Getting Started With React walkthrough. If you like that, read the sibling article Getting Started with Flux too.

We’ll be doing a deeper dive into Wagon’s React architecture, tooling, and how we see it changing in our next engineering blog post. If you like to hack on React, Flux, Javascript, and Electron, we’re hiring a frontend engineer in San Francisco. Say hi!