Episode 36 - Is React a Rails Competitor Yet with Michael Chan

Michael Chan is the host of React Podcast, creator of lunch.dev, and maintainer of the React Podcast Discord.

In this episode we discuss the importance of online learning communities, when to pivot away from React, the long awaited Concurrent Mode, shortcomings of Create React App, the challenges of learning React in a post-hooks world, and why you should build a hundred components.

Michael Chan

• Twitter
• GitHub
• React Podcast
• Blog
• YouTube

lunch.dev

• Discord
• Home Page
• events.lunch.dev
• Lunch.dev Community
• YouTube

Links

• React Is Not a Rails Competitor
• Tom Preston-Werner on RedwoodJS

Note: In the time since this episode was recorded Michael has joined the newly formed React 18 Working Group.

Creators & Guests

Host

Anthony Campolo

Developer Advocate

Host

Christopher Burns

Lover of TypeScript

Guest

Michael Chan

DX Community Eng

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Conversations about the emerging world of Fullstack Jamstack applications. Anthony Campolo and Christopher Burns explore the development practices of the frameworks, libraries, and services enabling this new paradigm.