Delivering reliable, high-performance web experiences at Facebook's scale has required us to challenge some long-held assumptions about software development. Watch this Facebook F8 2014 talk to learn how we abandoned the traditional MVC paradigm in favor of a more functional application architecture.
[Pete Hunt](http://www.petehunt.net/) at Mountain West JavaScript 2014 discusses why a virtual DOM was built for React, how it compares to other systems, and its relevance to the future of browser technologies.
[Pete Hunt](http://www.petehunt.net/)'s talk at JSConf EU 2013 covers three topics: throwing out the notion of templates and building views with JavaScript, “re-rendering” your entire application when your data changes, and a lightweight implementation of the DOM and events.
### React and Flux: Building Applications with a Unidirectional Data Flow
Facebook engineers [Bill Fisher](https://twitter.com/fisherwebdev) and [Jing Chen](https://twitter.com/jingc) talk about Flux and React at Forward JS 2014, and how using an application architecture with a unidirectional data flow cleans up a lot of their code.
> [Slides and sample code](https://github.com/zertosh/ssr-demo-kit)
### CodeWinds Podcast
[Pete Hunt](http://www.petehunt.net/) talked with [Jeff Barczewski](http://jeff.barczewski.com/) about React in [CodeWinds Episode 4](http://codewinds.com/podcast/004.html).
<th>02:08</th><td>What is React and why use it?</td>
<th>27:17</th><td>Rendering HTML on the server with Node.js. Rendering backends</td>
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<th>03:08</th><td>The symbiotic relationship of ClojureScript and React</td>
<th>29:20</th><td>React evolved through survival of the fittest at Facebook</td>
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<th>04:54</th><td>The history of React and why it was created</td>
<th>30:15</th><td>Ideas for having state on server and client, using web sockets.</td>
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<th>09:43</th><td>Updating web page with React without using data binding</td>
<th>32:05</th><td>React-multiuser - distributed shared mutable state using Firebase</td>
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<th>13:11</th><td>Using the virtual DOM to change the browser DOM</td>
<th>33:03</th><td>Better debugging with React using the state transitions, replaying events</td>
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<th>13:57</th><td>Programming with React, render targets HTML, canvas, other</td>
<th>34:08</th><td>Differences from Web Components</td>
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<th>16:45</th><td>Working with designers. Contrasted with Ember and AngularJS</td>
<th>34:25</th><td>Notable companies using React</td>
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<th>21:45</th><td>JSX Compiler bridging HTML and React javascript</td>
<th>35:16</th><td>Could a React backend plugin be created to target PDF?</td>
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<th>23:50</th><td>Autobuilding JSX and in browser tools for React</td>
<th>36:30</th><td>Future of React, what's next?</td>
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<th>24:50</th><td>Tips and tricks to working with React, getting started</td>
<th>39:38</th><td>Contributing and getting help</td>
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### JavaScript Jabber Podcast
[Pete Hunt](http://www.petehunt.net/) and [Jordan Walke](https://github.com/jordwalke) talked about React in [JavaScript Jabber 73](https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/073-jsj-react-with-pete-hunt-and-jordan-walke).
