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The inside story on React’s all new docs

Nov 12, 2021

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Reactox - The Best React Education in the Industry

02:42

What's Your Inspiration for Batasite?

02:57

The Docks Aren't Teaching React, You Know?

01:55

Introduction

3min

React Cor - A New React Documentation Site

2min

Working on the React Team

3min

How's Your Relationship With You Act?

2min

The Render and Commit Process Behind React

3min

Are You Going to Com Dout?

2min

Is It Intentional for You to Do the Lake All That?

2min

Streaming Lives on You Two

2min

Interactive Examples for Reactnative Docks

3min

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Reactox - The Best React Education in the Industry

3min

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Are You on Track to Achieve These Goals?

2min

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Is There a Lot of New Ants?

2min

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How to Give Feedback on the Doks?

5min

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The Emperor Has No New Cloth

2min

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Getting Early Feedback on Interactive Examples

2min

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Is There a Metric to Measure the Quality of Your Documentation?

5min

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What Was It Like to Work in the Open?

2min

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The Rhetorical Question, I Haven't Finished

3min

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Reacthed Is React Hed?

4min

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The Docks Aren't Teaching React, You Know?

2min

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I'm So Glad You're So Good About Giving Pete Back to Educators

4min

22.

What's Your Favorite Part?

4min

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The Red Thread, You Know?

2min

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Is There a Recency Bias?

2min

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Is This the First Domino in the Developer Tolling Community?

2min

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What's Your Inspiration for Batasite?

3min

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Technical Docks - I'm Inspired

3min

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J S, Party Dot F M, Slash 200

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Rachel Nabors –beloved educator, animator, & documentation engineer at Meta– joins Amal and Amelia for a first look at the brand new React docs!

This massive overhaul to the React website (which supports 2 million+ developers around the world) was no easy feat! We dive into all the behind the scenes coordination, as well as the goals, wins, and intended outcomes of this new way of approaching educational content and API reference material for open source projects.

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Rachel Nabors – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X

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