The Reification Retaliation

Presented at ReactJS Oslo in February 2016, the talk runs through some of the decisions and thinking behind the refactor of Music Glue's platform to React and Node.

Transcript

1. T H E R E I F I C AT I O N R E TA L I AT I O N
2. @ J G W M A X W E L L S H O U L D W E B O T H E R L I S T E N I N G T O T H I S G U Y ?
3. M U S I C G L U E W H A T D O W E D O ?
4. A B O U T
5. “ B U T ”
6. C H A N G I N G T H E C O N V E R S AT I O N S
7. I F Y O U WA N T T O G O FA R , G O T O G E T H E R . I F Y O U WA N T T O G O Q U I C K LY, G O A L O N E .
8. J O U R N E Y, O R D E S T I N AT I O N ?
9. RED GREEN REFACTOR LOOP
10. R G R eally et easoning
11. T H E A C T U A L S O U N D V I N Y L R E P R E S E N T S
12. P U R E C R A F T S P E O P L E S O O B V I O U S LY, L E T S M A K E S O F T WA R E A S W E A R E …
13. F U L L S TA C K D E V E L O P M E N T O U R O L D A P P R O A C H
14. F U L L S TA C K R E U S A B L E , C O M P O S A B L E , D I S P O S A B L E ,
15. W H O D E C I D E S ?
16. B U I L D T H E S H E L L F I R S T
17. B E C O N C R E T E L I T E R A L LY
18. N O T K N O W I N G , S U C K S
19. P I C K T H E R I G H T S TA C K
20. R E Q U I R E M E N T S • Vinyl, but not clay-forming • Concrete • Commodity engineering
21. U S E T H E R I G H T T O O L T RY T O
22. F O R U S - S I M P L E • React - (yay!) • GraphQL • Relay • Dataloader • Express/Node/Knex/PostgreSQL
23. U N D E R P I N W I T H O N E S H A R E D T E C H
24. T H I N K D I F F E R E N T LY
25. < P re s s u re G a u g e h o s e = { i n p u t } / > E X C E L L E N C E I S :
26. P R I N T O N D E M A N D A N E X A M P L E
27. “ M A G I C ” S T R I N G S A R E A C O D E S M E L L .
28. F O T L 1 2 3 A N A C T U A L T H I N G
29. C O N S I S T E N T I N T E R FA C E S T H E R E A R E H U G E B E N E F I T S T O
30. <Head /> < A r m / ><Shoulders /> <Torso /> < A r m / > <Neck />
31. A R E Y O U D R I N K I N G E N O U G H K O O L - A I D ?
32. S O A P E V E RY T H I N G O L D I S N E W A G A I N
33. R U L E S O F B U I L D I N G S T U F F • If it isn’t fun, you aren’t doing it right. • If it isn’t inspiring, the challenge is wrong. • If the question isn’t “what?”, the conversation is wrong.
34. T H A N K Y O U .