Backbone & React Together Forever
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The document discusses issues with Backbone views and the benefits of using React instead. It touches on problems with Backbone views like double rendering, the difficulty of testing and managing state, and how big rewrite projects are terrible. It then highlights advantages of React like performance, enforced prop types, internal component state, and how Facebook helped solve problems in this area. React is presented as a better alternative to Backbone for building component-based user interfaces.
Backbone & React Together Forever
- 4. Do not leave apps Unattended!
- 5. “It was fine when we first wrote it”
- 7. Views: Subviews Templates Event handlers Data binding Testing
- 10. Patterns Emerge
- 12. Frame budget trickery Fixing memory leaks Async rendering Native DOM methods jQuery plugin hell
- 15. Naive View
- 17. Parent View
- 19. Why Backbone In the first place?
- 20. Why React Even?
- 22. Towards SDKs Models / Collections Routers / Controllers Views. Lots and lots of Views.
- 25. Mixins!
- 26. Internal State!
- 28. JSX is pretty ok, actually