Nick rewrote our JS Danger game board app from Dojo to React for his talk at React Global Online Summit about componentizing application state with React and XState.

On this episode Jerod, KBall, and Feross chat with Nick about the entire process and what he learned along the way. Oh, we also play an epic round of Pro Tip Time!

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Featuring:

Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Nick’s talk at React Global Online Summit
Our Quiz Game repo on GitHub
JS Party #191 on XState
Don’t check in broken code
Conventional Comments
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Elon Musk is buying Twitter. I’m buying JavaScript.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

INTERVIEW - Marco Lupi - 28.03.2024