Pre-West Prep: Luke Vanderhart

April 09, 2015

This summary was graciously written by Nola Stowe. She's a programmer, the co-founder of DevChix, and a prolific teacher. She recently ran ClojureBridge Austin. Please shout out to her and say thanks!

Talk: The ReactJS Landscape

Luke Vanderhart's talk at Clojure/West is about the ReactJS Landscape.

Background

ReactJS appeared from Facebook last year in silence and without fanfare (from my view anyways!) but recent months has had an explosion on the web frameworks space, in particular in Clojure because of the common thread of immutablility running through the core concepts.

Since Facebook announced it in June, we have seen several incarnations of React in Clojure: Om, Quiescent, and Reagent.

Why it matters

ReactJS is the View in MVC apps and is a declarative library for describing a user interface, it can figure out what parts of the application to redraw on an update. With the popularity of single page applciations this is key to making a fast and responsive user interface.

About Luke Vanderhart

Github - Twitter

Luke is the co-author of two books: Clojure Cookbook and ClojureScript Up And Running.