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Jan 16, 2020 1 hr 4 min

77: Lee Byron — From PHP to React and GraphQL

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We're kicking off a new decade by going back in time time to 1999, just 10 years after the birth of the internet. Our guest today is Lee Byron. He takes us on a tour of the early web and personal home pages. And connects the dots between PHP and technologies like React and GraphQL. His work — inside Facebook during a critical pivot to mobile — provides a unique vantage point on the progress of web technologies over the past 20 years. Featuring Lee Byron — Twitter, Website, GitHub chantastic — Twitter, Website, GitHub JS and React Discover the 5 overlooked JavaScript features that separate good and great React developers. Learn these 5 JavaScript patterns for React developers at jsandreact.com Links Let's Program Like It's 1999 | Lee Byron — from React Conf 2019 Links (web browser) on Wikipedia PHP on Wikipedia LAMP stack on Wikipedia Tim Berners-Lee on w3.org 30 years on, what’s next #ForTheWeb? on webfoundatios.org myspace Internet: A First Discovery Book Hoodie Vaporwave on Wikipedia Hack/XHP JSX Source-to-source compiler on Wikipedia Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke: JS Apps at Facebook — React and JSX's public announcement at JSConf US 2013 Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices — defending JSX at JSConf EU GraphQL: The Documentary — by Honeypot on YouTube honeypot.originals on YouTube graphql.org relay.dev graphql/graphql-js graphql-ruby.org reactjs/react-rails 64: Chris Toomey on TypeScript, GraphQL, and Product Thinking — on React Podcast Robinhood — commission-free investing Robinhood careers GraphQL Foundation The Linux Foundation — Supporting Open Source Ecosystems GraphQL org on Github

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We're kicking off a new decade by going back in time time to 1999, just 10 years after the birth of the internet. Our guest today is Lee Byron. He takes us on a tour of the early web and personal home pages. And connects the dots between PHP and technologies like React and GraphQL. His work — inside Facebook during a critical pivot to mobile — provides a unique vantage point on the progress of web technologies over the past 20 years.

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