Thomas Roch

Ask Me Anything session, moderated by Gerard Sans.

2018

ReactiveConf

AMA with Thomas Roch

Components with a unidirectional data flow have become the most popular way to build UIs. With such architecture, there is still one outstanding question: what do we do with side-effects? And they are everywhere: logging, error reporting, network requests, websockets, analytics, storage persistence, etc. In this talk, we will explore how observability is key to side-effects, and how reactive programming can unleash a slew of possibilities. I'll demonstrate how a new library called Refract can help you be more Functional and Reactive in React.

Be More Functional and Reactive in React

MVC frameworks made single page applications a lot more accessible to front end developers. Routing is a key feature of MVC frameworks, enabling view and URL changes without a full page reload. It has shaped a vision of routing which is specific to MVC frameworks. Nowadays, with functional and reactive programming influences, dedicated view libraries, and more runtime environments available (server-side rendering and native apps), routing is starting to look a lot different. This talk will give an overview of how routing used to look, and how it is likely to look like going ahead.