Submitted Nov 10, 2017

Deep Dive into React Portals

Section: Crisp talk on comparative advantages of React and React Native; success and failure stories with React. Technical level: Beginner

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React Portal is a new feature of React 16. Although it’s quite a handy way to show Modals and toast message, there are concerns around if it’s really a good practice to use portals and jump your code out of the Component heirarchy. We will explore how using React Portals will actually make you a better programmer.

Outline

What is React Portal
Use cases of its advantages
Concerns around usage of React Portal
Clean design using Portals

Requirements

an exploratory mind :)

Speaker bio

Souvik is a JS enthusiasts with 14 years experience in the industry. His day job is to set up a team on React project in Tesco Bengaluru. He loves to code equally well in React as well as in Angular. Currently he is spending a lot of time exploring Conversational UI.

Slides

https://github.com/souvikbasu/react-portal-samples/blob/master/React%20Portals.pptx

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