In the third Episode of Stack Stories, we sat down with Pete Hunt, one of the original creators of React, formerly of Facebook/Instagram, now CEO of Smyte. Hard to believe that one of the most popular JavaScript UI libraries on Earth got to be so popular all because Instagram needed a web presence to get SEO juice. Sound a bit far-fetched? Listen to the full story and get the details on why React was created at Facebook, how Facebook lost the mobile battle but won the war, and how React gained adoption within Facebook and eventually across the world. Transcript available on StackShare: stackshare.io/posts/the-react-story. Oh, and btw, we're hiring React Engineers ;) https://angel.co/stackshare/jobs

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Episode 3: The React Story

In the fourth episode of Stack Stories, we sat down with Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times, to discuss how technology has evolved at NYT. In the few years he’s been there, Nick has brought the paper from managing their own data centers and using a LAMP stack, to the “modern age” - using React and GraphQL and migrating to Google Cloud. Full transcript available on StackShare: https://stackshare.io/posts/evolution-of-new-york-times-tech-stack.

Episode 4: The New York Times

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Episode 3: The React Story

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