Feather Knee

Everyone is a power user of the web. We have no patience for a UX that doesn’t move as swiftly as our attention spans. We want maximum flexibility and instant feedback. We want to search without pressing a button, to be fickle, and to talk to our computers like the boss in IT Crowd (except there’s a response).

Observables FTW! First, an exploration of Observables at a high level, then a survey of use cases, followed by a dive into implementation details. Surprisingly, with libraries like RxJs we can implement Observable patterns in React with few lines of code.

2019

React Rally

Creating Awesome UX with Observables

There are often many ways to solve the same problem. This talk explores two different approaches, imperative and declarative. We will look at code samples and discuss the relative merits of each, starting with vanilla JS then moving to more concrete examples in JSX.

2018

Reactathon

From Imperative to Declarative

Using React to write a decision-making tool for the production studio at Netflix. 

Our application interacts with a large number of data models. We have to take very complex information and distill it so it can be more easily understood. 

Design challenges and solutions. How we developed the various components of our UX toolbox. 

Development process that includes writing unit tests in parallel with application development. How automated testing alongside application development informs our development process.