2016 ReactFacebooksFunctionalTurnonW

• (Staff, 2016) ⇒ CACM Staff. (2016). “React: Facebook's Functional Turn on Writing Javascript.” In: Communications of the ACM Journal, 59(12). doi:10.1145/2980991

Subject Headings: React.js

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Abstract

A discussion with Pete Hunt, Paul O'Shannessy, Dave Smith, and Terry Coatta

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One of the long-standing ironies of user-friendly JavaScript frontends is that building them typically involved trudging through the DOM (Document Object Model), hardly known for its friendliness to developers. But now developers have a way to avoid directly interacting with the DOM, thanks to Facebook's decision to open source its React library for the construction of user interface components.

React essentially manages to abstract away the DOM, thus simplifying the programming model while also — in a somewhat surprising turn — improving performance. The key to both advances is that components built from standard JavaScript objects serve as the fundamental building blocks for React's internal framework, thus allowing for greatly simplified composability. Once developers manage to get comfortable with building front ends in this way, they typically find they can more readily see what is going on while also enjoying greater flexibility in terms of how they structure and display data.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2016 ReactFacebooksFunctionalTurnonW	CACM Staff			React: Facebook's Functional Turn on Writing Javascript				10.1145/2980991		2016