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Sunil Pai - PartyKit

Feb 17, 2023
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ANECDOTE

Early React Native Adoption

  • Sunil Pai and a friend faked a React Native app based on a blog post.
  • Vijaya Christopher Cheeda gave them repo access, making theirs potentially the first production deployment in India.
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Joining the React Team

  • Sunil Pai frequently visited the React team's floor during lunch breaks at Oculus.
  • This led to discussions about React's performance in VR, eventually resulting in him joining the team.
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React Contributions

  • Sunil Pai helped ship React 16.9 and created a one-liner codemod to fix unsafe method name prefixes.
  • He also developed the testing API 'act' for hooks and researched image and stylesheet suspense.
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