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Welcome to John Maeda's Blog: maeda.pm. Sharing a passion for product and data, grounded in technology / business / design curiosities with a dash of leadership reflections.

  • How To Speak Machine
  • The Useful MBA
  • Resilience Books List
    • Laws of Simplicity
    • Redesigning Leadership
    • Resilience Tech Report
  • Occasional Newsletter
  • ↓ ✭ Leadership
    • » Creative Leadership (2009-15)
    • » Traditional vs Creative Leadership (2009)
    • » Start-ups vs End-ups (2013)
    • » My Four Rules (1999)
    • » Managing Through Change (2009-2020)
  • ↓ ✭ Maeda Blogs
    • Fifty-New
    • Aji AI
    • Maedastudio (pre-2000)
    • Maeda.Dev
    • Design Co
    • Laws of Resilience
  • youtube
  • Pinterest
  • @johnmaeda

Welcome to John Maeda's Blog: maeda.pm. Sharing a passion for product and data, grounded in technology / business / design curiosities with a dash of leadership reflections.

  • How To Speak Machine
  • The Useful MBA
  • Resilience Books List
    • Laws of Simplicity
    • Redesigning Leadership
    • Resilience Tech Report
  • Occasional Newsletter
  • ↓ ✭ Leadership
    • » Creative Leadership (2009-15)
    • » Traditional vs Creative Leadership (2009)
    • » Start-ups vs End-ups (2013)
    • » My Four Rules (1999)
    • » Managing Through Change (2009-2020)
  • ↓ ✭ Maeda Blogs
    • Fifty-New
    • Aji AI
    • Maedastudio (pre-2000)
    • Maeda.Dev
    • Design Co
    • Laws of Resilience
  • youtube
  • Pinterest
  • @johnmaeda

What is React?

This is my new fav definition of React as a “what it is” versus “how to use it”:

“React helps you write a program that predictably manipulates a complex host tree in response to external events like interactions, network responses, timers, and so on.” —Dan Abramov

  • Post date
    February 7, 2019
Previous post: HBR Idea in Brief Summary Content Slots (Product Thinking) Next post: Does it bring you Joy?

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