React.js Meetup

Sometimes it's fun being a n00b. I've been writing Javascript off and on since '98, but I'm new to Facebook's React.js library. The whole jsx thing is a little weird to get used to - HTML in your Javascript instead of the Javscript in your HTML of yesteryear. React uses Node so Javascript is used on the back end as well as the front end. The ecosystem is growing fast, so most of what I did tonight was to write down things to look up later:

I'm an not a fan of Facebook the website, because it is a horrible time sink and the curated nature of the home feed leads me to miss the interesting things in favor of clickbait. I am, however, a big fan of Facebook the member of the developer community. That have opensourced some really great things that are changing the way all of us build webpages.