Episode 13 - Scaling React Applications with Morten Barklund

20minJS

What does "Scaling a React application" even mean?
We have a very interesting conversation with Morten about what scaling means in the context of a front-end application. He also shares some details about his book "React Quickly" published with Manning.
Interesting links:

• Morten's Twitter: @barklund
• useContext Selector NPM page

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Chapters

1. Episode 13 - Scaling React Applications with Morten Barklund (00:00:00)

2. Meet Morten (00:01:05)

3. What does scaling the front-end means? (00:02:36)

4. On Remix (00:06:04)

5. What are the most common problems that can prevent scaling a React app? (00:07:15)

6. Best practices when it comes to scaling a react app (00:10:58)

7. How to build an app that can scale, considerations to have (00:13:28)

8. Handling state at scale (00:15:44)

9. A little bit about the book, "React Quickly" (00:17:22)

10. What's the best advice ever received? (00:18:45)

11. The most exciting project he worked on (00:19:35)

12. One thing he regrets not knowing before starting to code (00:20:54)