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didact
JavaScript2017–2024
pomber / didact

didact

A DIY guide to build your own React

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6.8KGitHub stars
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A DIY guide to build your own React

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Observed mentions: 2017-05-25 14:05:05 UTC to 2024-11-01 19:06:13 UTC.

0123452017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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It's a bit older (and focused on web), but you can try this https://github.com/pomber/didact At a high level though, you create a tree of nested objects. Each has a handful of special properties (children which contains an array of child objects being the most interesting to users). The rest of the properties are used to interface with the rendering engine by passing it configuration and (usually) event functions it can call when something happens. That tree of objects gets passed to the rendering engine which turns the tree into some kind of output (DOM, Canvas, WebGL, Ink, etc)[0]. When something happens (an external event, a timer, event from the render engine, etc), your code potentially changes the object tree. React then walks that tree and uses a few shortcuts to quickly detect what has changed. Instead of re-rendering everything,
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it can give a list of things that have changed and what the new values are. The render engine then decides how to make those changes happen and the cycle repeats. It's really pretty simple. [0] https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-react-renderer
In Ink: React for interactive CLI apps
I gotcha covered there :) See my "Idiomatic Redux" blog post series [0] for info on how Redux was designed, why it works the way it does, and the implementation details of both the Redux core, React-Redux, and our new Redux Toolkit package. I also recommend the post "Build Yourself a Redux" [1] as the best "build a mini Redux" post I've seen. Rodrigo Pombo's "Didact" series [2] does the same process but for React, showing how to build a miniature reconciler that even includes hooks. I also have links to further articles about React's implementation [3] as well. Finally, I specifically recommend reading my post "A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior [4] and Dan Abramov's extensive article "A Complete Guide to `useEffect`" to better understand how React behaves and how to use it correctly. [0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.c
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