Nick's big rewrite

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 – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

• 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!

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