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Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook

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Facebook engineers explain why they abandoned the traditional MVC paradigm for a more functional architecture, introducing Flux and React. They use the unread-message-count bug as a case study of the problems of bidirectional data flow at scale.

Why HN recommends it: HN points to it as the original talk that explains the motivation behind React, Flux and Redux, and that sold some commenters on React.

“these talks, they are the ones that sold me on React” Read on HN ↗