DrupalEasy Podcast 199 - David Rogers - What's up with React?

David Rogers, Senior Front End Engineer at [Pendo.io](https://www.pendo.io/), joins Mike Anello to discuss from a Drupal-specific standpoint. They discuss the road to the Drupal community selecting React for use in Drupal core, when a typical Drupal developer should start thinking about React, and what the best first steps are for learning it.

Interview

• [Drupal looking to adopt React](https://www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-looking-to-adopt-react).
• [Proposal to use React for building Drupal’s administrative UIs](https://www.drupal.org/node/2913321).
• [Medium post on the original React license](https://medium.com/@raulk/if-youre-a-startup-you-should-not-use-react-reflecting-on-the-bsd-patents-license-b049d4a67dd2).
  [Official Documentation](https://reactjs.org/docs/installation.html).
• [How to Learn React - A Five Step Plan](https://www.lullabot.com/articles/how-to-learn-react) blog post from Lullabot.
• [Learn React.js in 8 minutes](https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/learn-react-js-in-7-min-92a1ef023003).
• [Codeschool Try React course](https://www.codeschool.com/courses/powering-up-with-react).
• [Create-react-app](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app).

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