Podcasts Technology React Podcast 96: Pete Hunt on Seven Years of Reconsidering Best Practices

96: Pete Hunt on Seven Years of Reconsidering Best Practices

Published: May 28, 2020, noon

To celebrate 7 years of React, we have a very special guest: Pete Hunt.\n\nHe\u2019s the one who asked us to give React just 5 minutes, to reconsider our established frontend practices, and see if separation of technologies was serving us as well as we thought. \n\nPete tells us about the early days of React \u2014 it\u2019s rocky community reception, Facebook\u2019s struggle to create meaningful open source, and betting big on CommonJS and a little-known bundler named Webpack.