Why React is Declarative?
Diving into the declarative vs imperative in context of React. Why React is declarative? Does it make it better than the alternatives?
⚛️ This Week in React:
https://thisweekinreact.com/
⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 - What else is declarative?
00:27 - List of Contents
00:43 - Chapter I: The False Battle of Declarative vs Imperative
01:20 - Language Classification vs Programming Style
01:35 - Natural Language
02:11 - for() vs map()
02:47 - 1 level lower
03:24 - 1 level higher
03:58 - Visualized: Declarative vs Imperative
04:06 - Chapter II: The Marketing Promise of Declarative Views
04:29 - Syntax difference
04:52 - Chapter III: Why State is The Root of All Evil
05:26 - How FE was written before Declarative Libs
06:35 - The Problem with Imperative DOM
07:09 - Facebook's problem with Complexity
08:56 - What Dijkstra Understood About The Human Brain
09:39 - Benefits of Declarative
10:13 - Dijkstra key insight for React
10:48 - FINALE: What Seniors Know That Juniors Don't?
11:31 - The Cost of Declarative
12:31 - TWIR
📖 Acknowledgments & Further Reading:
F8 Conference, Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook: • Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development...
Rethinking Best Practices (JSConf.Asia 2013): • Pete Hunt: React - Rethinking Best Practic...
Frans Coenen, University of Liverpool: https://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frans...
Old React Docs: https://legacy.reactjs.org/
🌐 Other Resources:
https://webperso.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/languag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declara...