Complete Full-Stack React: 3/13 Meeting

meeting-3.13.md

• Webpack is cool
• Learning React from the ground-up is neat, no JSX or anything
• createElement / createClass is something "new" since people are using JSX which is so much easier to read/code
• comparing React to Angular was neat. React is so much easier to understand
• Yarn is pretty interesting -- a few people haven't used it before.
• npm takes so much longer! Speeding this up with yarn is great :)
• Starting from the very beginning without all the libraries is very helpful
• When all the libraries are there, it's easy to get lost in what is "react" and what isn't -- ES6? JSX? Redux? Etc.
• Standard is great -- consistency is king. Semicolons aren't as big a deal when you have a "standard"
• consistency really pays off, good house-keeping
• Webpack is fun, easy to build with it.
• Will be neat to learn about other frameworks eventually. Interesting that Vue2 came up in conversation
• The clocks changed?! :)
• Comparing Yarn to NPM Shrinkwrap was cool
• Putting HTML in the react component felt "kind of messy"
• the way he explained it as "putting all the parts of a component in one place", however, makes a lot of sense
• Some of us have watched ahed! Part 3 is where stuff starts to get really interesting!
• I wonder if we'll learn about GraphQL?! What about Relay? How do we integrate everything?
• PostgraphQL might hook in later in the course! If there's interest from others :)