Understanding Frontend Frameworks – Dirk P. Janssen

How do Angular, React, Vue and other frontend frameworks work? Because they are so large, these framework are hard to understand. But the essentials of a frontend framework are elegant and simple, as shown by HyperApp, a 400-line javascript framework.

In this talk, Dirk takes you on a tour through the hyperapp source code. He skips over the edge cases but tries to convey a nuts and bolts understanding of how a javascript framework can render JSX content and only update what changed.

Speaker: Dirk P. Janssen, Sr Software Engineer at Pivotal Santa Monica
Source code: HyperApp: github.com/jorgebucaran/hyperapp