tl;dr I’m overwhelmed and out of time so I’m turning everything over to Dias Bruno as I step away from React Modal.
React Modal has been a major part of my life for the past little while. When I first started working at Instructure, one of my first tasks was to work on a new UI for the Files portion of the Canvas LMS. It was the first thing that Canvas had that was written in React. It was definitely an exciting time to be there and to work on things. We were early users of React Router, especially because Ryan Florence was working with us at the time. There came a point when we needed an accessible modal component for a file preview feature I was working on. Ryan hacked away and came up with the first iteration of React Modal. It fit our use case perfectly and worked out really well. We worked on it and made it great. Eventually, Ryan left Instructure to start his own company and he focused less of his time on React Modal. …
I was really excited to have the opportunity to attend React Rally this year. My employer, Instructure, was super awesome, not only did the sponsor a portion of the conference, but they also sent me to it :).
This was my first year attending and the second year of the conference. I’ve been to other tech conferences and I’ve never been as impressed as with this one. The speakers, venue, swag, and evening activities were all stellar. I’ll break down my review into each of those categories.
Speakers
As a single track conference you always run the risk of being in the room for a presentation you didn’t care for. I’ll be honest there were a couple that I zoned out during, but for the most park speaker selection was awesome. There were several Facebook employees (mostly from the React team) that spoke and gave great insight into React. There was extreme diversity in speaking. I was impressed with the number of presentations that came from women in tech. I especially enjoyed Marcy Sutton’s presentation about accessibility, Ryan Florence’s presentation about rethinking things, and many many more. …
Maybe it’s more of a resolution…
During 2014, I accomplished a lot of things in my life that were goals I have had for quite sometime. Some of these were becoming a father, obtaining my undergraduate degree, and starting my career as a software engineer at a company in the education industry. 2014 was an amazing year. I would like to make 2015 even more amazing. I’ve been thinking of ways to do this because honestly, 2014 was pretty amazing. …
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