Christopher’s take on React license issue and more…
in an exclusive AMA with Hashnode
Christopher Chedeau (Vjeux) is an Open source contributor and a front-end engineer at Facebook. He works with React, React Native, Yoga, nuclide and other important projects.
He was the host for the AMA with Hashnode where he discussed about important topics like React license issue and contributing to Open source software.
Here are excerpts of few of the important questions Christopher answered.
Do you think Facebook’s BSD + Patent theory for React will help community?
Christopher: The reality is that the cost of patent-related lawsuits is very real for Facebook. So real that it was put as a “risk factor” in the IPO document: “We are currently, and expect to be in the future, party to patent lawsuits and other intellectual property rights… Read more
What are your thoughts on CSS in JavaScript?
Christopher: What drove me crazy is that for the longest time, people dismissed the fact that there were issues when using CSS at scale. The response was along the lines of “look, I’m using Sass and now everything is magically working great”. What I wanted from… Read more
Opinions on Expo vs. ignite vs. create-react-native-app?
Facebook is in a very interesting position regarding React, React Native… because we have very few “apps” and largely operate (or at least try to) as monorepo. This means that we invest in the… Read more
As an open source contributor, what are the main challenges you face?
Christopher: The best advice I ever got was from my wife when she said “is what you are doing is useful for Facebook or are you just playing around?”. I feel like this sums up my view of… Read more
Have you tried flutter? What they have got right and what wrong?
Christopher: I haven’t tried flutter yet myself but I’ve watched all their external presentations since they started the project and spent a lot of time on their mailing list. The super short take… Read more
Some other questions answered
Can you tell us about your journey to Front-end Engineer working on many great projects?
What according to you is the best tech stack to develop a webapp in 2017?
What do you think about ReasonML?
What made you pick up prettier as a project worth your time?
The complete AMA with Christopher 👇
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