july-21.md

July 21 (discuss)

Attendees

• Ben (React)
• Christopher (React)
• Dan (React)
• Keyan (React, intern)
• Paul (React)
• Sebastian (React)
• Tom (React)

Hackathon

• Team members worked on tangential/random projects last week.
• Sebastian showed a demo of text layout in JS.
• Dan and Christopher introduced Create React App.

Update on createClass Codemod

• We are continuing work on moving Facebook.com codebase away from createClass.
• Discovered an issue with automocking of bound functions working differently, fixing the internal tests manually.
• PureComponent didn’t quite work in Flow, fixed in 0.30.0.
• Plan to run the createClass codemod on Facebook.com codebase this weekend.
• It touches 1/7 of all files in the Facebook.com JS codebase!

Introducing Create React App

• Started at a hackathon last week.
• Ready to release tomorrow with a live stream.
• Using import for CSS is somewhat controversial.
• Ben is concerned that it is non-standard.
• Dan and Christopher think upsides of using one bundler for all assets outweigh the downsides.
• We’ll add a note to the howto explaining how this works, and that it is not required for React.
• We don’t have this problem at Facebook because we have a custom CSS pipeline, but we aren’t entirely happy with it either.

### React Release Manager

• Paul is getting close to finishing React Release Manager.
• The goal is to make it easy for anyone to release a new version of React.
• It automates all the steps we are doing before every release so React Native folks or community members can cut releases.
• It has a slick interactive CLI!
• If you’re curious, there’s a README here.

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