How React got Traction [Pete Hunt]

<p>Listen to the Future of Coding Podcast: <a href="https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/011">https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/011</a> (30ish mins in)</p><p>3 Lessons Learned:</p><ul> <li> <strong>Features over Benefits</strong><br>- original was a tutorial <br>- second time: here's why react is different. Focus on the implementation rather than how to use it<br>- Sophie Alpert, Dan Abramov, Cheng Lou<p></p> </li> <li> <strong>Support everybody</strong>: IRC, Stackoverflow, Reddit<br>Influencers - David Nolen<br>Bigger conferences, F8, ReactConf<br>Public user Wiki<br>Haters - view every hater comment was your fault<p></p> </li> <li> <strong>Table stakes</strong><br>Documentation<br>Inclusive communication<br>Three single sentences to communicate why your project is different and worthy of someone's attention - real reasons with tradeoffs, not "faster, smaller, lightweight"<p><br></p> </li> </ul><p><br><strong>Transcript</strong><br> </p><p>[00:00:00] <strong>swyx:</strong> Hey everyone. I'm coming to you today from the Infoship shift conference where I just gave a talk on the third is your JavaScript. And it's got me in a mood to look back a little bit on the history of some of the JavaScript frameworks and what better history to cover it, then react, which is something I know. </p><p>[00:00:17] Well, but I think the history of react is not that well-documented and people. Should hear it from people who are there. The central question, which occupies a lot of my waking thought is how to get developer tools adopted. And there's no better case study than most, no more successful case study than react and how it overcame its initial difficulty. </p><p>[00:00:38] Here's original reactive team member, Pete hunt on the future of coding podcast.  </p><p>[00:00:43] <strong>Pete Hunt:</strong> It took a lot of time to figure out how to message this. Because he can't just come in and say like, everybody's wrong and we're right. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's not that's not really, you did that a lit