Community Round-up #14

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+title: "Community Round-up #14"
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+author: Vjeux
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+The theme of this first round-up of 2014 is integration. I've tried to assemble a list of articles and projects that use React in various environments.
+
+## React Baseline
+
+React is only one-piece of your web application stack. [Mark Lussier](https://github.com/intabulas) shared his baseline stack that uses React along with Grunt, Browserify, Bower, Zepto, Director and Sass. This should help you get started using React for a new project.
+
+> As I do more projects with ReactJS I started to extract a baseline to use when starting new projects. This is very opinionated and I change my opinion from time to time. This is by no ways perfect and in your opinion most likely wrong :).. which is why I love github
+>
+> I encourage you to fork, and make it right and submit a pull request!
+>
+> My current opinion is using tools like Grunt, Browserify, Bower and mutiple grunt plugins to get the job done. I also opted for Zepto over jQuery and the Flatiron Project's Director when I need a router. Oh and for the last little bit of tech that makes you mad, I am in the SASS camp when it comes to stylesheets
+>
+> [Check it out on GitHub...](https://github.com/intabulas/reactjs-baseline)
+
+
+## Animal Sounds
+
+[Josh Duck](http://joshduck.com/) used React in order to build a Windows 8 tablet app. This is a good example of a touch app written in React.
+<figure>[![](/react/img/blog/animal-sounds.jpg)](http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/baby-play-animal-sounds/9280825c-2ed9-41c0-ba38-aa9a5b890bb9)</figure>
+
+[Download the app...](http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/baby-play-animal-sounds/9280825c-2ed9-41c0-ba38-aa9a5b890bb9)
+
+
+## React Rails Tutorial
+
+[Selem Delul](http://selem.im) bundled the [React Tutorial](http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html) into a rails app. This is a good example on how to get started with a rails project.
+
+> ```
+git clone https://github.com/necrodome/react-rails-tutorial
+cd react-rails-tutorial
+bundle install
+rake db:migrate
+rails s
+```
+> Then visit http://localhost:3000/app to see the React application that is explained in the React Tutorial. Try opening multiple tabs!
+>
+> [View on GitHub...](https://github.com/necrodome/react-rails-tutorial)
+
+## Mixing with Backbone
+
+[Eldar Djafarov](http://eldar.djafarov.com/) implemented a mixin to link Backbone models to React state and a small abstraction to write two-way binding on-top.
+
+<iframe width="100%" height="300" src="http://jsfiddle.net/djkojb/qZf48/13/embedded/" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0"></iframe>
+
+[Check out the blog post...](http://eldar.djafarov.com/2013/11/reactjs-mixing-with-backbone/)
+
+
+## React Infinite Scroll
+
+[Guillaume Rivals](https://twitter.com/guillaumervls) implemented an InfiniteScroll component. This is a good example of a React component that has a simple yet powerful API.
+
+```javascript
+<InfiniteScroll
+  pageStart={0}
+  loadMore={loadFunc}
+  hasMore={true || false}
+  loader={<div className="loader">Loading ...</div>}>
+  {items} // <-- This is the "stuff" you want to load
+</InfiniteScroll>
+```
+
+[Try it out on GitHub!](https://github.com/guillaumervls/react-infinite-scroll)
+
+
+## Web Components Style
+
+[Thomas Aylott](http://subtlegradient.com/) implemented an API that looks like Web Components but using React underneath.
+
+<iframe width="100%" height="300" src="http://jsfiddle.net/SubtleGradient/ue2Aa/embedded/html,js,result" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0"></iframe>
+
+
+## React vs Angular
+
+React is often compared with Angular. [Pete Hunt](http://skulbuny.com/2013/10/31/react-vs-angular/) wrote an opinionated post on the subject.
+
+> First of all I think it’s important to evaluate technologies on objective rather than subjective features. “It feels nicer” or “it’s cleaner” aren’t valid reasons: performance, modularity, community size and ease of testing / integration with other tools are.
+>
+> I’ve done a lot of work benchmarking, building apps, and reading the code of Angular to try to come up with a reasonable comparison between their ways of doing things.
+>
+> [Read the full post...](http://skulbuny.com/2013/10/31/react-vs-angular/)
+
+
+
+## Random Tweet
+
+<figure><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Really intrigued by React.js. I&#39;ve looked at all JS frameworks, and excepting <a href="https://twitter.com/serenadejs">@serenadejs</a> this is the first one which makes sense to me.</p>&mdash; Jonas Nicklas (@jonicklas) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonicklas/statuses/412640708755869696">December 16, 2013</a></blockquote></figure>