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S13:E7 - What it’s like to build React (Sophie Alpert)
Sep 14, 2020
Sophie Alpert, former manager of the React core team at Facebook, talks about dropping out of college to work full-time at Kahn Academy, her favorite things about React, and the journey to building React on the core team. She also discusses the benefits of contributing to open-source projects and shares the worst and best advice she received in her career.
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- Sophie Alpert dropped out of college to work at Khan Academy and believes it was the right choice for her career and personal fulfillment.
- React's component-based approach and architecture rewrite in version 16 make it a valuable tool for building maintainable applications.
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Sophie's coding journey and dropping out of college
Sophie Alpert, engineering manager at Hoomoo and former manager of the React core team at Facebook, discusses her decision to drop out of college and work full-time at Khan Academy. She talks about her fascination with computers from a young age and how she started coding and building websites using Dreamweaver. Sophie also shares her experience working as an intern at Khan Academy, where she worked on interactive math questions and frameworks for the education platform.
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