File:Pete Hunt - React, Rethinking Best Practices

Description
Pete Hunt, React Core Team member at Facebook and also the sole engineer on Instagram.com, walks the audience at JSConf Asia 2013 through the concepts behind React and the vision that brought the team at Facebook to challenge established best practices for Frontend development.

Summary
The talk focuses on explaining the controversy around some of the design decisions behind React highlighting the strengths of the library and giving insights on how it changes the way the view layer can be implemented in modern JavaScript applications.