On: Flipboard releases React Canvas

[_qc3o]

New job description for front-end web developers: 5+ years of designing game engines and optimizing rendering pipelines.

If the joke is lost please go read about the similarities between react and immediate mode rendering systems.

[JoshMilo → _qc3o]

Honest question, would studying immediate mode rendering systems improve my understanding of React's system of doing things? If so, do you have a resource I could use?

[stoikerty → JoshMilo]

There is a video that describes "Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces" really well, see: https://twitter.com/stoikerty/status/467047333453381632

There is also a lengthy and insightful blog-post about the subject where I found the video: http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...

[jt2190 → stoikerty]

Video is here: http://mollyrocket.com/861

[JoshMilo → stoikerty]

ah! Awesome, thanks

[rpedela → JoshMilo]

The first half of my career was in graphics and games. I think at a high-level, React is similar to a rendering engine and React + Flux is similar to a game engine.

[greggman → JoshMilo]

The original talk?

http://mollyrocket.com/861

There's also a relatively recent library (C++)

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

[_qc3o → JoshMilo]

I don't know. Probably not but all abstractions leak so then again it might help if you have a second source on how things should work.

I don't have a list of resources.

[angersock → _qc3o]

It is kind of interesting watching yet another round of retained-vs-immediate mode play out.